Pursuit of Fulfiller the Best of the Age(Yuga-Purushottam)
For this, steady adherence to an Ideal who represents the urge of upholding and protecting all, is necessary. Because we cannot properly conceive a disembodied upholding and protecting urge. So a relationship of real love cannot grow there. An embodied Ideal representing the upholding and protecting urge is called the incarnation, fulfiller the best (Purushottam), the prophet, the Ideal, the master etc. The latest incarnation is the object of our worship. It is best if he can be had when he is alive. He may be said to be a living manifestation of God. All the past prophets are alive in him. To follow him is to follow all the past prophets. If we want to follow any past incarnation it is desirable to follow him in and through the present One. Because the present incarnation is just a new form of the past One. All the past Ones can be found in him more fully, because in the fulfiller the best of the present age, all the previous prophets can be felt fully, moreover we get in him a further fulfillment of them according to the evolutionary process.
If we seek for highest development, it is indispensable to accept him. We can constantly sense the material and live stimulus of the divine attributes of loving service and the upholding and protecting urge in his direct contact through all his conducts and minute strokes of behaviour.
It we have unexpectant and sincere love for him then his living example stirs the inmost depths of our soul and inspires in us an urge to do as he does and there can be no doubt about the fact that by so doing our perceptions also become finer, keener and richer.
The Way to Highest Evolution
In fact “God is one, Dharma is one and Prophets are messengers of the same truth.” And, unrepelling active adherence and attachment to the present fulfiller the best (Purushottam) who is a nurturer of individual distinctiveness and a fulfiller of all, is the fundamental spine of self-development. He is a living embodiment of the essential truth. We cannot reach the culminating point of truth by excluding him.
If we do not accept him we cannot fully realize God or any of the Past Prophets. He is indispensable to everyone. As a fish cannot live an easy, normal, healthy life without water so also we cannot have an unhampered meaningful complete existential life without availing ourselves of fulfiller the best of the age who symbolizes the very source of the stream of our eternal life. Our life becomes dynamic and fruitful in so far as we live in communion with Him. When we sever our connection with him we gradually become dried up, weakened and shattered. The highest objective of life remains unachieved. Our spiritual pursuit cease at a much lower stage in comparison with the highest possibilities of our becoming.
Prophets are One
In this context it is necessary to say that prophets or incarnations reveal the science of being and becoming. There is no difference among them so far as fundamental and universal truths and principles are concerned. The particular instructions they impart suiting the needs of time, clime and individuality may show some apparent differences but it is discernible that those instructions are strung on the thread of principles of existence. So, it is not at all proper to create any difference among prophets. If we obey one of them and disobey another or if we all the past prophets without caring for the present one or if we obey the present one and disown the past ones then we shall be infected by the spirit of communalism and deviate from proper Dharma.
As we should recognize sequence of prophets so also we should respect the hereditary clan of every individual. To disown forefathers and their existential tradition and culture for the sake of following Dharma is a veritable form of ignoring Dharma. If we develop an unerring conception about the oneness and scientific universality of Dharma then despite the existence of lacs of communities all the people of the world can be unified around the fulfiller the best of the age maintaining the distinctiveness of every individual. We have already stated that Sri Sri Thakur has expressed these supreme truths in all brevity—
(a) “All live and grow through Dharma, sectarianism is not
Dharma.”
(b) “Dharma makes life glowing and it is always one.”
(c) “Those, who do not obey past prophets, are to be
certainly known as heathens.”
(d) “He who differentiates among prophets, brings about
destruction by causing blinding darkness.”
(e) “Non-acceptance of the present prophet leads to
extinction in the midst of blinding darkness.”
The Way to God-realization
So if we come to know about the embodied fulfiller the best, we should by all means avail ourselves of this presence. It is a great fortune to have him. Those who cannot accept him owing to their obsession of ignorant instincts are really very unlucky. They keep themselves far away from the fundamental purpose of life which lies in God-realization. They may endeavour much in the spiritual domain according to their own likes and dislikes but those endeavours which owe their origin to their imperfect mind can never produce the desired result. In fact, those attempts are not in tune with God. When the fulfiller the best is present in flesh and blood it is he who is to be accepted and followed. Because he is the living altar of God and previous prophets. Moreover, he is the the-then supreme evolving agent of the whole human race. To ignore him is to ignore God and the past prophets. All gods and goddesses are also ignored thereby. A God means a deity who glows in the heart of people by accentuating life and growth in them through service and inspiration. If we become averse to fulfiller the best and continue spiritual practice according to our own passionate choice we become deprived of worthwhile realization.
Of course, if we continue spiritual practices according to the instructions of a realized Guru with all adherences to him it invariably produces its effect. We should again remember that on the advent of the supreme Guru, the Guruhood of all other Gurus devolves on him. God alone is attainable, so when He Himself appears in human form at that hour he is to be worshipped. If we accept him even after having accepted another Guru that does not involve desertion of the former Guru. Rather, by this new initiation the previous initiation finds further fulfillment. But if we do not accept him notwithstanding our having come in contact with him, that amounts to forsaking the real Guru. Moreover, there are different stages of spiritual pursuit and realization thereof. If we are to reach the highest possible stage of realization, unrepelling adherence to fulfiller the best of the age is an imperative easy. To know the fulfiller the best in his essence is God-realization.
Again, if the fulfiller the best of the age is not alive, if he is already gone, it is our paramount duty to follow him. And we can have the inspiration of following him truly through an ideal devotee who has unrepelling and passion-pervading attachment, it is all the better. In fact he continues to remain alive in the world in and through the chain of devotes that have passion-pervading attachment to him. Moreover, there remain his process of spiritual culture, the divine name given by him, his image, the history of his life, his messages and his holy dwelling. All these things serve as aids to God-realization till his next advent.
Divine Name, the Embodiment of Name and Creation
In order to know him in his essence it is needful to be initiated in the process introduced by him. Out of mercy he condescends to come down to earth in a human shape from his causal plane carrying the memory, consciousness and instinct of the Supreme Source in their pristine purity. He is the embodied form of the divine name and the seed of entire creation lies embedded in the divine name. The world has evolved out of it. Everything belonging to the world has organized from the prime sound, so it is called Brahman in the form of sound. Behind sound there is the vibration. And the mechanism of every kind of vibration is found in the supreme name. Originally there was a great void or vast expanse endowed with two opposite poles. One pole is the positive and the other negative. There are an eternal attraction and repulsion between these two poles. Motion and energy are the outcome of them. This constant dynamic force constitutes ‘Atma’ (soul). The word ‘Atma’ is derived from the Sanskrit root ‘At’ which means to go on incessantly. At the back of vibration there are also attraction and repulsion. Sound is generated by them and creation gradually evolves out of it. Sri Sri Thakur has proclaimed on the basis of his direct realization:-
“Vibration
comes from the conflict
of stato-dynamic urge
evolving into sound
in a periodic flow
of positive and negative motion
which creates
with every orientation
different devices and designs
of creation and dissolution
from the vibrating tremor
of tuning adjustment
and it runs on resonating
within and without
in the form of a thrill
of make and break;
discern,
know the clue and characteristics
of vibration,
apply it accordingly
to make and break
and to have the desired effect of
creation and dissolution.”
In fact, the original divine name or word constitutes the essence of all causes or in other words the cause of all causes i.e., the final cause. And the fulfiller the best (Purushottam) is the conscious embodied form of it. The divine name is said to be the symbol of the divine. Through name we can ascertain the Supreme Source, i.e., we can form an idea as to wherefrom he has condescended to descend and where he wants to lead us who are ignorant and erring. If we cannot establish ourselves steadily on the plane of the Supreme Source, our whole move of life turns to be meaningless and productive of ignorance. That only serves to multiply the fruits of futility.
We have already learnt that the way to God-realization or attainting a personality capable of upholding and protecting all, lies in active adherence to fulfiller the best or the divine master. Now we shall discuss how we can adequately develop our adherence to the Ideal. Here we shall discuss at length all that we have to do after being initiated and in the process we shall endeavour to show how attachment to the Ideal and self-adjustment inevitably flow from the observance of them. The first duty after initiation is self-culture. ▀
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