Namokar Mahamantra Ek Anushilan

Author(s): Hukamchand Bharilla
Publisher: Todarmal Granthamala Jaipur

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GREAT HYMN OF OBEISANCE: A CONTEMPLATION
I AM MYSELF GOD
Now, I ask you all a question as to whether or not that rickshaw puller is a crorepati?
What did you say? No. Why?
Because crorepatis do not pull rickshaws and rickshaw pullers are not crorepatis.
Oh Brother! If the person, in whose name rupees one crore are deposited with a bank, is not a crorepati, then who else would be?
But Brother! The fact is that even though he is a crorepati, our mind is not prepared to accept him as a crorepati, because our mind does not easily accept the fact that a rickshaw puller could be a crorepati. Till now none of the persons whom we accepted as crorepati has been seen pulling a rickshaw and we would not also appreciate if a crorepati pulls a rickshaw, owing to the fact that such is our mindset.
To know, "Who is a crorepati and who is not?" nobody has ever gone to count notes in the safe, even if one goes, who would co-operate? Just by looking at external grandeur, we accept anybody as crorepati. Seeing five-ten servants, clerks and secretaries and bungalow, motor car, industries-factories, we accept anybody as crorepati; but no one knows that the person whom we are considering a crorepati may in fact be a debtor of crores of rupees. Industries are set-up by borrowing crores of rupees from banks and seeing external grandeur, other people also start depositing funds with Sethji. In this way, with the crores of deposits of poor, widows and bachelors, we accept him as a crorepati.
The possibility can not also be ruled out that the person whom we are considering as a crorepati capitalist may in fact be planning the declaration of bankruptcy by defrauding crores of rupees of the people.
Exactly the same thing is applicable in the context of accepting all souls as God. Our mind is not prepared to accept these conscious souls, that are moving to and fro, eating and drinking, singing and crying as God or Bhagwan. Our mind argues that if we were Bhagwan why we
would have been wandering as destitutes? Our inner-self, engrossed in ignorance, declares that we are not Bhagwan, we are poor-destitute people; because Bhagwan cannot be poor-destitute, and poor-destitute cannot be Bhagwan.
Till now we have seen Bhagwan in statues installed, in the name of Bhagwan, in temples, at whose feet thousands of people bow their heads, show devotion and worship them. For this reason, our mind is not prepared to accept an ordinary person who is being abused and scolded as Bhagwan. We wonder, can such a person also be Bhagwan? Bhagwan is the one who is worshipped and revered. The truth is that it is our mindset that does not accept that a poor-destitute can become Bhagwan. We would also not like to see our Bhagwan in poor and destitute condition.
Brother! Bhagwan is also of two types - one are those Arhant' and Siddha', whose statues are installed in temples and through the medium of these statues we pray these Bhagwan, worship and adore them. We dedicate ourselves to tread the path adopted by them and express such sentiments. These Arhant and Siddha are called Karya Parmatma (Functional Bhagwan).
The other, the soul Bhagwan, existing in one's own body temple, is also God, Bhagwan. This is called 'Karan Parmatma' (Rational Bhagwan).
Bhagwan that are installed in temples as statues are revered and most venerable; therefore, we worship them, adore them, praise their virtues. But, our own soul Bhagwan, that resides in the body temple, is venerable, ultimate goal, the most desirable object. Therefore, to know, to recognise and to concentrate on one's own soul Bhagwan is his adoration.
Right faith-knowledge-conduct originates under the shelter of one's own soul Bhagwan, because, from the nischaya (real) point of view, to know one's own soul Bhagwan as one's own is right knowledge. To accept 'this is, what I am' -such realisation - is right faith and to meditate on it, to get engrossed in it, to revel in it, to get immersed in it is right conduct.
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