Being called
an Enlightened being is not adequate and does not alone justify being claimed
an Enlightened being. An Enlightened being should be able to stand for and
justify being called and claimed an Enlightened being. The genuine and
authentic nature of the individual soul nature is awakened when one gets
spiritually elevated. When the individual soul nature gets awakened secondary
human nature gets diminished and one starts awaking to God nature. The elevated soul then stops being
attentive to object-referral and starts more and more getting identified with self-referral. The
human soul after being awake stops seeking happiness from external means
and is independently and abundantly happy without a cause or reason, all by
oneself . What then should be the two among the most prime qualities of a fully
awake soul? Who are the people that can
be called authentically achieved souls and genuinely Enlightened beings? Two among
the most important qualities that develops after one gets Self-Realised are, one does not get driven by ones ego and
one starts being genuine. Humility and authenticity are two signs of greatness
and superhuman qualities that develops after one is awakened. We can gauge the
depths of a so-called Self-Realised being by evaluating
his so-called egoless state and the roots of hypocrisy in him/her.The Divine
Mother does not appreciate to see an egoistic and a hypocritical blend of
nature in so-called evolved souls who are claimed to be Self-Realized or Enlightened.
Being an
egoist and a hypocrite are two human
qualities that dissolves after one gets Self-Realized. A truly Self-Realised
being is not an egoist to begin with. The Self-Realized state dissolves the
human ego. So the next time you come across a so-called Self-Realized being who
wants to get noticed by publishing news in the daily paper that he has become
Self-Realized or some so-called Enlightened being who is so caught up with the idea of being the
chairman of a particular commune that he has a heated verbal dispute with one
of his associates, know and realize that
these so-called spiritually achieved beings are not genuinely, spiritually
evolved at all. A genuine God and a
truly Enlightened being is someone like J.Krishnamurti who had no problems at
all even if one of his close disciples fleed with his fund of close to one
billilon dollars. This incident really happened and J.Krishnamurti did not even
object to the happening in any manner. He
never said a word against the act. So the next time you come across spiritual
con-men who get driven by their ego realize that these so-called achieved beings are
not achieved at all.
According
to Mr. Dipak Chopra a Self-Realized person is totally self-referred and not object-referred. What
does it mean to be object-referred? Object-referral
means one depending on external things, situations, opinions, judgements, circumstances
and the views of others to understand oneself. So know that when a so-called
Self-Realized being wants to get noticed
and cling on to power he has not been able to justify the claims of being called a
Self-Realized being, let alone Enlightened.
The
second most significant quality that develops after the state of Self-Realization
is the quality of being an authentic and
a genuine person. So naturally a Self-Realized person is not someone who wears
tattered clothes, acts like a Sadhu or an Ascetic and when the opportune moment
strikes puts half of the funds meant for his naturopathy hospital for the
future welfare fund of his unemployed, insecure and spiritually inclined son and
for his wife’s makeover expenses. A phony is someone who run’s a Pathik Foundation and makes his disciples call him a “Baba”. The amazing point is, he has
no superhuman qualities to justify his claims that he should be called a
“Baba”. In my perspective, one should have the necessary qualities to be called a “Baba”. A Baba is someone like
the Sri Sathya Sai Baba and Meher Baba who have no identity crisis and still the whole world, by their own
calling, adore and refer to them as a Baba. A spiritual con-man is a coward someone who fears for his Masters identity
and misuses the powers of his siddhis, someone like the chairman of Pathik Foundation, to try to obstruct devotees of God from
carving themselves a niche in a
spiritual career and from serving God wholeheartedly.
Spiritual
con-men are easily noticeable from the rare crowd of the cream of the crop, the
truly Enlightened beings. We as God loving and God-inclined beings should look
up with great awe and respect at great
and genuine yogis and trample the usual crowd of hypocritical spiritual
charmers. Dont get swayed by the usual spiritual charmers and the next time you
hear one of their pleasing and soothing discourses blow them right out through
the other ear. So the next time you come across a so-called yogi who wants to get noticed and cling on to power don’t
spend the next one hour offering a one thousand and eight
padnamashkars (prostrations) at their
worthless feet. If you really want to offer your heartfelt prostrations, prostrate
before a Sri Sri Ravishanker or a Paramhansa Yogananda.
The two dud
qualities of being an egoist and a hypocrite dissolves after one gets
Self-Realized. These two humanistic qualities no longer remain after one is spiritually evolved and is fully
overpowered by the overpowering features of a fully evolved soul. Coercing
oneself to be humble and genuine is the wrong method but rather exploring the depths of
your human soul and making it fully awake is the right method to develop
the seeds of humility and originality. Being a truly Self-Realized human being develops
these two superhuman qualities and not by being someone who stands on the steps
of his Pathik Foundation, distributing blankets to people who have enough winterwear to last a lifetime.
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