Krishna said that He knows all the births of Arjuna. Arjuna was the sage Nara who was associated with sage Narayana. The sage Narayana was a human form charged by god. But due to the repulsion between common media of human bodies and subsequent ego and jealousy, the sage Nara could not recognize fully the sage Narayana and the sage Nara was treating the sage Narayana as his friend only (Sakhya Bhakti). The same attitude continued when Narayana became Krishna and Nara became Arjuna. Arjuna worshipped Lord Shiva through penance to get the divine weapon called Pashupatastram to win the war and he was not having full confidence in Krishna since he was treating Krishna as a human being with some limited divine powers only. In those days divine power was not a big thing since even Arjuna had several divine weapons, which were having the miraculous super powers. For such incomplete faith of Arjuna, Krishna told Arjuna that he would not fight with any weapon in the war.
It is an indirect hint to Arjuna about his incomplete faith in Him since Arjuna tried for the grace of Lord Shiva while Lord Krishna was already present before his eyes. Krishna means that since Arjuna is having the divine weapon from Lord Shiva, there is no need for Him to participate in the war. Arjuna could not understand this sense in the statement of Krishna. Arjuna approached Krishna not as a devotee but as a student only treating Krishna as a human Guru but not as Satguru or God in human form (Shishyah teham…Gita). Further, Arjuna asked Krishna that how Krishna taught Yoga to god Sun because Krishna was recently born. Further, he asked for the proof of cosmic vision.
Even after all this, on the last day of the war he did not get down from the chariot before Krishna gets down and this shows the attitude of Arjuna to Krishna as a human being only. The result of all this incomplete faith was that Arjuna went to heaven for some time after death he returned back to the earth and was born as a hunter called as Kannappa. He continued with the same worship to Lord Shiva in that birth also. He sacrificed his eyes for the Lord in the test. This shows that he gives full value to God and the only problem is in finding out the correct address of the Lord due to repulsion between common media. Then he went to the abode of Lord Shiva and could not worship Shiva there also due to the same repulsion of common media because he was also in the same energetic body as that of Lord Shiva. Shiva in meditation gives an impression that he is meditating upon the formless God called Brahman.
All the devotees there are again misled by this Maya and neglect Shiva due to the repulsion of common media and meditate upon the formless Brahman only. These souls in the earth neglect the human form of God and worship the energetic form as greater than the human form. But the same souls in the upper world neglect the energetic form of God and meditate upon the formless God as greater than the energetic form. Hence, the disease of repulsion of common media is common to both earth and upper world. Even the souls in the divine energetic bodies called as Devas are subjected to this powerful illusion of neglecting the common form before eyes and loving the unavailable form which is not before eyes. This is stated in Veda (Paroksha Priyaa Ivahi Devah Pratyaksha Dvishah).
Veda also says that God is before the eyes of the souls existing either in the earth or in the upper world since God takes the same common form as His medium (Yat Sakshat Aparokshat Brahma). When divine bodies are not exceptions to this great illusion, what to speak of human beings? Indra neglected even Lord Shiva due to the same principle of repulsion between common energetic bodies and was made stand still by a single look of Shiva. If that is the case of Indra to the energetic incarnation, what about his attitude towards God in a lower human body like Krishna? Therefore, Arjuna also worshipped formless Brahman in the upper world and his devotion to Shiva was subsided completely by this new form of devotion. He was born as Swami Vivekananda on the earth with the formless devotion and his next birth will be an atheist.
A devotee of formless Brahman is easily trapped by misconceived Advaita and will conclude that the formless Brahman is his own self. Therefore, the next step will be only atheism. But the Lord wanted to save him because the Lord was very much pleased with his basic sacrifice for God in the previous birth. The Lord wanted that this soul should get the proper address of God since the value for God is there already in climax. He was then dragged to Shri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa who was a simultaneous human incarnation in the time of Sai Baba and Akkalkot Maharaj. Shri Paramahamsa praised him as Lord Narayana in the human form. This is the special style of Datta in preaching. When He wants to preach a fellow with ego, He will reverse the concept to Himself and the meaning of that statement is that Shri Paramahamsa was Lord Narayana in human form.
No body has understood the real sense of that statement including Narendra. Swami Vivekananda was called as Narandra, which means Nara (Arjuna) who is the son of Indra. He led all his life as an Advaita philosopher only. He treated Paramahamsa as his master or human guru only. The Advaita Philosophy can be used to develop confidence and to come out of stress for which the God is pleased like a father-Doctor seeing his child claiming as a doctor. One can feel that he is God and develop confidence in self. Krishna told that Arjuna is Himself i.e., God (Pandavanam Dhanamjayah). This statement aims at building up the self-confidence in Arjuna, which was lost by tension and grief. One can come out of stress feeling that this world is unreal and that he is God.
But one should not really believe this and practice it. If the child claiming as doctor starts performing surgery to a patient, the same father will become furious because the life of a human being is spoiled. Especially in the case of Advaita Philosopher, the other spoiled soul is another issue of God only because the advaita philosopher is misleading several innocent souls. Shri Paramahamsa told that He would open the brain of Narendra in the end only because such confidence and stress relief have to be given to the world through Narendra. At the end Shri Paramahamsa opened the brain of this soul. In the last days, Narendra sat near Him and thought whether his guru was really God. Shri Paramahamsa immediately looked at him and said, “I am the Rama and the Krishna”. Narendra realized that He was the human incarnation and fell on His feet. He became the liberated soul by attaining the full salvation from ego and jealousy rising due to repulsion between common media.
His Holiness Shri Dattaswami (Visit: www.universal-spirituality.org)
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