So, we have discussed where one should seek God: one should not seek Him somewhere up in the sky at all, but deep inside the multidimensional Universe. And one should begin searching for Him not far in cosmos but in one’s own chest — in one’s spiritual heart (the anahata chakra or the middle Dantian).
We have also agreed that the word God (with capital G) in the first place should be interpreted as Primordial Consciousness that dwells in the deepest and the subtlest primary plane of the multidimensional Universe. This Primordial Consciousness is One for the whole Universe and therefore for all living beings, including people who live on our planet. And the fact that the word God sounds differently in various languages does not mean that there are multiple Gods or that various nations that inhabit Earth have their own God. Words “sun” and “Earth” too sound quite differently — when spoken by people of various nationalities in their native languages, but it does not mean that people of each country have their own sun or that each nation lives on its own planet.
But still we have not discussed all aspects of the definition of the word “God”. One may ask: “But what is the meaning of the thesis that God is All, which was proposed by Vedanta philosophy?”. Or other questions may arise, like “What is Christian Trinity?”, “What is Brahman?”, “Are there planetary Gods-Demiurgs?”, “How should I understand the assertion that Jesus, Babaji, Sathya Sai — each of Them is also God?”, “How can I combine the Vedantic thesis that Brahman is Absolutely All with Krishna’s assertion that there is a yet higher level of Divine Consciousness — Ishvara or God-the-Father?”... Let us make it perfectly clear.
First of all we should eliminate various pagan deities as having nothing to do with the ideology of a serious seeker of God. Those deities are what people were fantasizing about before they were given the knowledge about One Universal God. There was plenty of those pseudo-religious fairy-tales in ancient Greece, Rome, India, Arabian countries and Russia. Let us leave those characters to folklorists to study and continue with serious scientific approach based on experimental study of Truth and information provided directly by God.
So, what is the Absolute? This word means “absolutely everything that exists in the universe”. And what exists in the multidimensional universe? First of all — it is the Creator Himself. Material constituent of the Creation and the aggregate consciousness of all levels, other than that of the Creator, are just a small part of the Absolute. Furthermore, the Creator pervades the whole Creation with Himself. The Creation, consisting of manifestations of divine energy in various eons, is like a multidimensional layered pie, in which the primary layer dominates the rest of them. At the same time this “pie” is a single whole.
“There exists only All, Single Whole Multidimensional All” — this is not only one of the most important themes for meditation, but also an undoubted truth that reflects the Absolute on the macro level.
But us, people, — are we integral parts of the Absolute?
The answer is yes and no.
On one hand we are like blood-cells in the multidimensional Body of the Absolute: we are negligibly small compared to Him, incapable of separate existence and dependent on Him in everything, although having a certain freedom of movement within His Body.
Bu on the other hand, from the standpoint of these “cells” as opposed to the Body of the Absolute as Macro-Organism we, as souls, are undoubtedly separate from Him. Moreover, we possess a significant amount of free will, which He granted to us.
The point is that we, having come into existence as separate souls have to return to the state of non-separateness, or “non-duality”, with God in His “basic” eon.
The thesis that we are originally identical to God and do not have any free will at all, proposed by some, can serve only as a theme for meditation, though quite effective one, that calls upon us to merge with Him.
In reality the free will is the mechanism of natural “sorting” of people by the ethical criterion: do we observe the rules of life given by God, do we aspire towards mergence with Him in Love? Our destinies form depending on our decisions in this respect.
The level of our philosophic and religious knowledge and the intensity of our efforts on transforming ourselves in accordance with the Desire of God determine our moving from one eon to another, in particular. As it should be clear from everything said above it depends not on our actions, but on our prevailing emotional status: whether we accustomed ourselves to living in coarse or in subtle emotional states.
If we accustom ourselves to living in the “heavy”, coarse states of malice and hate we are going to share the diabolic “abode” with those who feel the same way.
But if we lived in the subtle and tender states of love — we naturally get into the harmony and purity of paradise.
If we lived a dull life without falling into particularly coarse emotional states but without pronounced subtlety of consciousness, after the death of the body we find ourselves in the “gray” eons.
But not even paradise should be our goal, but the Abode of God-the-Father. He told us about that through Krishna, Jesus Christ, Muhammad, Babaji, Sathya Sai and many Others (see [5,7,10]).
In between paradise and the Supreme Abode there is the eon of the Holy Spirit. In order to settle in it, having become the Holy Spirit, one should possess not only subtlety of consciousness but also Wisdom. One can gain it through increasing the level of one’s erudition, intellectual work, active serving other people with good deeds and persistent aspiration towards cognition of God. (The way one can become one with the Holy Spirit (Brahman) was described in detail by Krishna in Bhagavad Gita [10]).
The souls that form the aggregate Consciousness of the Holy Spirit dwell in Him being merged in one — in the mutually pervasive state. One should master this state while still living in the human body, in the incarnate state. This is a far superior stage of development of Love, than just caress and tenderness. It also implies fusion of consciousness with the Object of one’s love — a merging of consciousness with Consciousness. People have a chance to learn this in a harmonious marriage, although the special techniques that assist in mastering the meditation of “total reciprocity” play the crucial role in attaining this state.
The embodied man who has learned to merge with the Holy Spirit receives the rank of the Holy Spirit (Brahman).
It should be emphasized, that love of a Brahmanic person is so powerful, that he is able to merge in love not only with a single person, but with all people who dwell in this eon.
The cosmic function of the Holy Spirit is to supervise the evolution of all souls of lower levels of development. It is the Holy Spirit Who organizes and supervises our destinies. He does it Himself directly or by calling to assistance numerous spirits that possess various qualities, either “paradisiacal” or “diabolic”.
When we perceive the waves of bliss coming from somewhere in response to our righteous thoughts or actions — this is the Holy Spirit manifesting Himself. In such instances people say that He is granting us His Blessing. Special meditative techniques allow one to get into frequent blissful contacts with the Holy Spirit quite easily.
...In order to clarify the meaning of the word “Brahman” we need to say a few words about the ancient Indian philosophical system of knowledge called Vedanta. This is important for us since Sathya Sai, the Avatar of modern age, addressing Hindus, educated within Vedanta tradition, often uses terminology of this particular philosophic school.
Vedanta philosophy originated in India even before Krishna and was based on the pagan teaching of the four Vedas. At that time Indian people did not know about existence of Ishvara — God-the-Father (i.e. the Creator Who dwells in His Abode). This was the reason why Brahman was considered by Vedanta philosophy as the Supreme Godhead and even as the Absolute.
It was Krishna Who told people of India about God-the-Father. Later God declared the same Truth through Jesus Christ and Muhammad to the people of Israel and of all modern Christian and Moslem worlds. But people of both India and the Christian world failed to preserve this knowledge about God-the-Father, which exceeded their ability to understand it. They almost completely forgot about His existence, having switched their attention to the ancient fabulous characters (in India) or to some deified persons (in Christian sectarian churches) (for more details see [7,9]).
...There is the last question out of those listed in the beginning of this chapter that we have not answered yet, and namely: who is the Son, as a member of the “Trinity”? To know what Jesus Christ Himself thinks of this the reader might want to be referred to “The Book Of Jesus” [21].
In short the answer sounds like this:
There exists God-the-Father — the Supreme Primordial Consciousness — Who dwells in the subtlest eon of the multidimensional universe, on the other side of the “Mirror” relatively to the multidimensional aggregate of the Creation. He is the Highest Goal for all people.
His primary Manifestation, the Representative, an active Manager and Supervisor of all life on any populated planed is the Holy Spirit.
Sometimes God-the-Father manifests Parts of Himself through a human body. Those Parts are people who attained Him in the past. In various languages They are called Messiahs, Christs, Avatars etc.
In other words the Trinity, in Bhagavad-Gita’s terms, is — Ishvara, Brahman and Avatar.
But, as Jesus Himself explains [21], the term “Son” is not at all felicitous, since everyone should learn to see God as their Father (Mother) and themselves as His Son or His Daughter.
This is what Jesus meant when He was referring to Himself as Son of His Father-God. But people did not understand Him then, neither do they now...
