SRI SRI THAKUR - On The Holy Name and Living Ideal

Holy name is the vibratory image of the causative being. This Holy Name is evolved into you, me and everything else in this world. He who is the causative Being is transformed into spiritual and material planes. We cannot but think of Purus and Prakriti while contemplating on the process of creation. Science describes it as ‘positive’ and ‘negative’. There is attraction and repulsion, expansion and contraction between positive and negative. Vibration springs out of it, followed by action and reaction. Thus out of mutual conflict, addition and alternation, creation moves on multiplying in a rhythmic manner. Each rhythm is unique in itself. So we see no two things are exactly similar, each is specific. Guild of such similar instincts is called ‘Varna’. Hence ‘Varna’ is not man-made. This is ingrained in the creation. On the whole, due to interaction within the vibration conflict and counter-conflict is going on throughout the universe. In this process creation is constantly moving ever renewing itself in up heaving shoot from causative plane to spiritual and thence to material. If one has to proceed to causative plane he has to pass through the material and spiritual planes and should follow the path of eternal vibration, which has reached its present state after passing through a series of vicissitudes and trekking a very long and arduous path. Holy Name is the élan vital of the vibration; Essence of any vibration is present in the Holy Name. So it is aptly called nameless Name. if you culture this Holy name properly with adherence to the Ideal then your past will be unfolded before you. You can go right up to the root. For instance, suppose a bunch of rope is lying before you, one end of the rope is tied with some tree; you do not know which tree it is tied with. If you wish to know as to which tree the rope is connected, then you have to go ahead holding the rope. Exactly in the same process the Holy Name (Nam) and the Nami, the personified Holy Name or a Living Ideal is our only guide along this unknown path.