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The approach used for this translation is simple. I have chosen those English
words which sounded “close enough” to me for conveying the intended
meaning. The places where I didn’t find “close enough” English words, I
have taken the Hindi words directly. The words chosen thus have been
defined according to Madhyasth Darshan. The original Hindi text is
provided alongside for ready reference.
This book is based on the transcript of Baba ji’s address to a small gathering
in Anwari Ashram, Bastar (Chhatisgarh) in 1997.
Rakesh Gupta
5 Aug 2012
Bangalore
Email: rakesh2715@gmail.com
Blog: http://madhyasth-darshan.blogspot.com
One more person got ready in this endeavour along with me and
that was my wife. We used to hear about Amarkantak as a sacred
place, the place from which the Narmada River originates. Why
not give one last attempt after going there; thinking thus we came
to Amarkantak. After coming here, I started my sadhana by
agam-tantra-upasana method. This is a method prescribed in
scriptures for attaining Samadhi, where in the aspirant is to
visualize gods and goddesses in every part of his body. It is seeing
from one’s own imagination and doing their worship, chanting
etc. This activity of trying to see gods and goddesses is called
“nyas”. The formula given in the scripture for this is – “You
worship the gods by yourself becoming in the form of gods.” All
this was told to me and I prepared myself to do the same with
complete honesty. I did whatever I could do. In due course, one
day I became liberated from the proximity of gods and goddesses.
“I am” – that was the only thing left. I had no other thought with
me.
Starting from an atom till this huge Earth, what all procedures
transpired, I have seen that sequence, methodically, and I can
make you understand that. I got established in this state. Along
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with this, in the line of all atoms, I saw the ‘jeevan atom’. That
‘jeevan atom’ which is there in the same way in me, in you, in the
one who was born today, and in the state of having left the body.
I understood that jeevan lives with body, and it lives on after
leaving the body also. Why does jeevan live with body? I will
answer this question with the context later. Here I saw that
jeevan wants to evidence itself through body. That is all is there
to it. What is it that jeevan wants to evidence? The answer that I
got was – jeevan first wants to live, and then along with living, it
wants to become happy. Along with being happy, jeevan wants to
evidence its being.
These are the three states. In which the first state, of wanting to
live – that becomes complete in animal category itself. The stages
of wanting to be happy and produce evidence of its being can be
achieved only in human category and nowhere else. I have seen
this very thoroughly. This was a point of huge satisfaction which I
found. After this, in the same way I saw the essence of becoming
happy as ‘living in orderliness’.
When I myself used to be in the stage of sadhana, that time all the
people kept saying about me that I live with lot of discipline,
restraint and precision. Crowds used throng to see me. But here
I am testifying that during sadhana there was no restraint in my
mindset. Until I achieved samadhi, there was no restraint in my
mind. The only thought that remained with me was that I have to
do sadhana, and I cannot do anything foolish. But it was not the
case that foolish thoughts did not at all come to my mind. On this
basis I can guarantee that until one attains samadhi, there is no
law in existence by which one would not get any foolish thoughts.
No human wants anything foolish to happen, and the one who is
doing sadhana definitely does not. I also did not want those
thoughts, still these kept coming. This difficulty is confronted by
all aspirants. Till the time one can bear it, one bears it, when one
cannot bear it, one does not – that is all I can say, that alone is
assessment of this situation.
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Now, here I got the answer of what is bondage and what is
salvation? Bondage is ignorance or delusion. Ignorance is our
living like animals, assuming animals to be our role models. If we
assume such animal-like living itself as evidence then naturally it
would be delusion for we humans. The prevalent tradition forces
us to live in ignorance. Its evidence is seen in present day
education content having psychology that is maniacal for sex,
sociology that is maniacal for consuming and economics that is
maniacal for profit. People going through all this bless their
children for becoming good, cultured, affable and refined. Where
is the correlation between we teach our children and what we
wish for them?
This way the answer about bondage and salvation that I found
was as follows: - “When a human being achieves understanding
then he attains liberation from bondage.” Now how to achieve
understanding? For this, I did scrutiny of myself to find if
delusion is there in me? When I examined and scrutinized myself
then I found that there is no cause left in me for delusion. Then I
thought – why not generate this status in everyone? If this state
of liberation is generated in all, then how would it get manifested?
Then the vision emerges of what I had told you earlier – that
Earth will become heaven, Humans will become divine, Religion
(universal orderliness) will get realized, and only good will
happen eternally. Eternal goodness will get established in the
This is the way – Darshan, Vaad, Shastra, and Yojana have been
enacted.
Jeevan neither gets born nor does it die. Body gets formed and it
gets deformed. Jeevan wants to control body according to itself,
i.e. it wants to use body for its program for becoming happy. All
animals only evidence want to be alive by hereditary
conformance. While human being wants to live with happiness,
but when a human being goes about living by conforming to
heredity then he gets distressed. That’s all is there to it. We need
to understand it thoroughly and we need to evidence it
thoroughly.
In the same way, what is the ‘work’ that happens in the executive?
All that happens in the name of work is discovering mistakes,
discovering crimes and then stopping them by making further
mistakes and further crimes. All workers are deployed only for
this work in the executive.
The only path for becoming liberated from this difficulty is that
we understand jeevan and existence, and that we understand
conduct of humanness. Human being is the most evolved unit in
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existence – both in the form of body and in the form of jeevan.
Jeevan uses body to evidence its own existence and awakening.
At the time of using body it maintains the body alive and
afterwards it starts believing body itself to be conscious. As a
result jeevan becomes deluded and it lives in delusion. After one
bodily journey ends, it starts with another bodily journey for
realizing its existential purpose of getting evidence (of its own
existence and awakening). In this way, jeevan’s beginning and
ending many life journeys in delusion becomes the cause of its
sorrow. There is no such thing as sin or virtue in this. It is only
about understanding or lack of understanding. Understanding
comes only from the tradition. Understanding is to be achieved
only in the tradition. The salvation of the world is not possible
from one person’s liberation. Such imagination itself made us
fearful and helpless. With the conduct of humanness, every
human being becomes able to live in the form of righteous wealth,
righteous husband/wife relationship, and work-behaviour of
kindness. Such living realizes the good-use and protection of
one’s body, mind and wealth – and when these two aspects are
achieved, then relationships, values, appraisal and mutual
fulfilment become evident on their own. In this way – normal
conduct of human being gets described in terms of values,
morality and ethics. Good-use and protection of means in the
form of body, mind and wealth itself is ethics. Values are fulfilled
only in the course of recognition of relationships. For example,
when any human being recognizes his relationship with father,
his relationship with mother, his relationship with teacher – then
values (emotions) flow spontaneously. Where we don’t recognize
relationships there is no flow of emotions. In this way,
recognition of relationship is one big task. The study about
relationships happens on the basis of their purpose. For example,
the relationship of mother is (primarily) on the basis of
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nourishment purpose. The relationship of father is (primarily) on
the basis of protection purpose. After all these relationships have
been recognized then human being doesn’t make mistakes. In the
absence of recognizing relationships – the mistakes in human
behaviour are inevitable.
Every human being can realize his potential upon achieving the
understanding of existence. Understanding of existence can come
into every human being’s conduct and human being can realize
his potential. Humankind’s greatness is in successfully
evidencing the understanding of existence. It is with this richness
that humankind can achieve continuity of happiness in its
tradition. It is with this richness that humankind can realize
balance in its relationship with animal world, vegetation world
and material world, and can make their use, good-use while being
grateful for their complementariness. Humankind can live
purposefully.
1. Self confidence
2. Respect for Excellence
3. Balance in Talent and Personality
4. Sociability in Behaviour
5. Self reliance in Occupation
The need is definitely there to get rid of this difficulty, but that
would be possible only when human being achieves
understanding of coexistence, and that would also happen
through only one way – i.e. conduct of humanness.
Understanding of “values” and “appraisal” of the extent to which
it could be practiced is related with coexistence. We don’t need to
build a laboratory for understanding coexistence. Nor do we need
to raise any wars. Knowing and believing coexistence is necessary
for harmony in relationships. Knowing and believing entails
recognizing and responding. Knowing and believing is of
purposes only. Without knowing and believing, recognition and
response necessarily become listless. For example – humankind
has missed knowing its relationship with Earth and its purpose.
Humankind missed knowing the purpose of environment,
because of which we could not understand the wholeness of Earth
When pranic cells decompose into soil these turn into fertilizer
for plants. Food turns back into food – this is a natural cycle.
Decomposed pranic cells are natural fertilizers. Earth got
instilled with all necessary fertility before humankind could
emerge on it. As soon as humans emerged on Earth, they started
destroying jungles. While destruction of jungles was still going
on, the Science age came and human beings started exploitation
of minerals. Disproportionate exploitation of minerals and
vegetations led to depletion of fertility of Earth. Now the
scientists who think that they do such big service to the world by
making chemical fertilizers, about this my thinking is – the
natural cycle of fertilizer making alone can save this Earth’s
fertility. The rivers carry the things which are not necessary on
Earth’s surface to the oceans. The natural balance can continue
Thus far human being has realized four and a half activities of
jeevan in living. Evaluation activity happens in two ways. First is
- from the perspective of pleasant-unpleasant, healthy-unhealthy
and profitable-unprofitable and second - from the perspective of
justice-injustice, religious-irreligious, truth-untruth. Human
being could function on the basis of sensitivity with the
perspective of pleasant-healthy-profitability. Sensitivity is from
sensory activity and it is based on body, while it is jeevan that
keeps the senses alive. The root of delusion of jeevan is its belief
that body is the conscious being. When jeevan believes body to be
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self (conscious being) then living happens according to body.
This is the basis of believing without knowing. What should
happen instead? The body needs to be believed to be body
(physiochemical form) and jeevan needs to be believed to be
jeevan (conscious being). Jeevan and body need to be appraised
based on their purposes of being. If such an understanding is
accomplished then human being can live like a human being (a
unit of knowledge order). If these are not appraised then disorder
has to result. Orderly living of human being requires jeevan to be
appraised based on its purpose and body to be appraised based on
its utility. The utility of body is for evidencing jeevan’s awakening
in human tradition. Human body is not a product of human
imagination. When human body comes out as an infant, upon
getting formed in a womb, it is already conscious. Since we get a
conscious child from the moment of birth, we start believing that
body itself is conscious. After sometime the infant also starts
believing that way. This is the way entire human tradition is
stuck and to come out from this the parents and guardians will
need to understand this reality.
“Save the Nation” is the clarion call. What needs to be done for
saving the nation? The answer comes – struggle. Struggle is all
about conflict, revolt, exploitation and war. Who builds the
material for these four? Nature or Human being. Looking closely
we find it is human being who makes the material for all this,
because of being deluded.
The biggest human made institutions, that have all the power and
resources under their command, are only two – seat of religion
and seat of state. These two institutions have become hollow
because of their continuous engagement in conflicts, revolts,
exploitations and wars. There is no need to mention the seat of
business – which is by definition for exploitation. The seat of
education has no provision for giving guidance about definite
human purpose and direction. Now what should a common man
do? These four traditions (religion, state, business and
education) are not going to be able to provide any guidance.
Therefore a new path needs to be searched and paved – that
would be the only courageous thing to do. That path will be of
understanding, honesty, responsibility and participation.
Struggle cannot lead to a definite goal. Struggle can’t fulfil human
being’s needs. Still we have the tradition of struggle. This itself is
a very big delusion.
So far you must have got the indication that coexistence itself is
the ultimate truth. Living in coexistence (as universal
orderliness) itself is our religion. Entire understanding is about
this. This understanding is very simple. In my view the lies are
more difficult and living in truth is easier. I have experienced this
in my living. My living was so difficult when it was surrounded by
questions. When I achieved resolution then I became liberated
from all questions and my living became easy. If this proposal
seems acceptable to you then it will only increase my confidence.
Many of my companions have seen this and if you want then you
can verify it also.
1. Self confidence
2. Respect for Excellence
3. Balance in Talent and Personality
4. Sociability in Behaviour
5. Self Reliance in Occupation
Humankind has forever been trying very hard, but has remained
aimless and directionless. My endeavour was only for getting
answers to my questions. I had no such aim that I would get
heaven or some treasure. I was with only one resolve – if I have a
question then I have to get its answer.
Fortuitous unions take place when human beings meet for the
purpose of resolution, for the purpose of orderliness and for the
purpose of undivided society. Fortuitous union is not just from
meeting of two human beings who think alike. For example, the
If we can live with justice then our family would be the first place
where the evidence of our living with justice would be seen. We
gain acceptance in the eyes of our family. After having lived with
justice in family, we gain acceptance in all the families of our
friends. After justice becomes our capability thus, we become
able to evidence this capability with them.
The definition of human being is: - “Human being is the one who
materializes ideas and wants mental well being continuously.”
Human being gives physical form to whatever comes to his mind,
for example – making a house, making a machine etc. Human
being wants mental well being – which is, he keeps living in the
hope of happiness. Happiness is the religion of humankind. It is
on the basis of human religion of happiness that conduct of
humanness is understood in the form of values, morality and
ethics. The part of human being’s definition of “one who
materializes ideas” has been realized. Materialization of ideas
happens in two aspects: - first, materialization of common
aspirations (food, shelter and utilities); second, materialization of
higher aspirations (long distance travel and telecommunication).
The second part of human being’s definition of “one who wants
mental well being” – the realization of which would be in terms of
conduct of humanness, is not to be seen anywhere. It is neither in
education nor in legal frameworks. The legal frameworks have no
provision for appraising conduct of humanness. Any legal
framework based on the idea of “rule by power centre” has no
provision for evidencing conduct of humanness, because “rule by
power centre” is not humane. Legal framework based on power
centric ruling cannot provision conduct of humanness at all. This
is the reason, conduct of humanness could not be realized
anywhere. Nowhere could we gather the courage for appraising
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it, nowhere could we gather the understanding necessary for it.
Without filling these gaps, humankind will not be able to live with
happiness and it will continue fighting. Understanding is the only
way for coming out of this vicious cycle. Humanization of
Education is absolutely necessary for this. Humanization of
Education implies: - inclusion of “conscious nature” in the study
of Science, inclusion of “active participation” in the study of
Philosophy (Darshan), inclusion of “impressions” in the study of
Psychology, and inclusion of “humanness” in the study of History
and Geography. In this way by inclusion of humanness in
education, human beings will have natural tendency of living in
orderliness and of achieving self realization. Thereby human
beings will achieve the state of living with resolution, prosperity,
fearlessness and coexistence. Education achieves completeness
only with humanness, and in no other way. All the talk of
“values” thus far is based on our beliefs or faiths, which don’t
have universality.
Now the key issue is how to stop the extraction of coal and
petroleum? One way is – to generate electricity from the flow
energy of the rivers that flow on the surface of Earth. It can
generate 50 times more electricity than needed. We need to make
more effective electricity generators for that. There are some
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machines which can work only with oil, for those we need to make
engines which can work with vegetable oils. The oil giving
vegetations can be grown on Earth in large quantities. People are
paying attention to solar energy, which needs to be heeded more
closely. There is a need to deploy solar energy for more practical
machines and equipment. In this way, there is provision for more
energy than what is needed on the surface of this Earth. In this
way, when we stop the use of coal and petroleum and in its place
when we start the use of vegetable oils, flow power and solar
energy – then we can test how much this Earth is capable of
spontaneously filling the holes made by human beings. One more
sword that’s hanging on humankind’s head and that is the
situation of water. Whenever the event of water getting formed
on Earth happened, it happened with the union of cosmic rays.
Cosmic rays are the one and only source of this incident of
formation of water. Water cycle is now established as continuity.
With erosion in Earth’s environmental cover, if the same cosmic
rays affect in opposite way then water can disappear from Earth.
The Scientists have figured out the sources for depletion in
environmental cover. It is not enough to repair the damages just
by discovering the causes of damages. There is a need to take
constructive actions. We will need to stop the excesses that are
being done on Earth. We read in papers that the war materials
made from fossil fuels, coal and poisonous gases and liquids have
damaged the security cover of Earth’s environment. If these are
true, then we will need to stop all those activities which damage
Earth’s environment. It is human being, who thinks of repairing
the damages after having inflicted them. This trait is not found in
other living beings. Though humankind has not done anything
for repairing the damages yet. On the contrary, everyday more
and more damage is seen. How long can this go on? When will
we do anything to repair these damages?
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Earth has kept provisioning humankind’s secure living, while
humankind has kept revolting, attacking and exploiting Earth
with its deluded intellect. Humankind has been destroying
Earth’s environment ever since ancient age. With the advent of
Science the destructive activities increased, therefore we have
become stuck. When someone drowns in a river then possibility
remains of his emerging again. It depends on our thoughts,
whether we want to consider the possibility of saving the Earth or
not. Our thoughts build our circumstances. The circumstances
become conducive if we want. The circumstances become
inconducive if we don’t want. It is because of our own deluded
intellect that we missed understanding the greatness of nature’s
environment. As a result, we got damaged in many ways and we
damaged nature. We rejoice while destroying, while fearing the
possibility of getting destroyed. This is what we have been doing
until now.
Answer: The extent to which I live orderly today, I can live better
tomorrow – and always living happier than earlier itself is human
religion. It is not possible to be happy with problems. It is
possible to be happy only with understanding and resolution. It is
not possible to cultivate resolution and become happy out of
material objects. Resolution and understanding is integral to self.
It is on the basis of understanding that we can cultivate/build
material objects.
Thus far, the customs of any one community could not become
universal, nor will it happen in future. Universality can only be of
human being’s living in orderliness. Universality has to have
good of all, happiness for all. I have understood how a human
being lives in orderliness and participates in universal
orderliness. My living doesn’t cause trouble to anyone. In this
way I reach the conclusion that as a result of living in orderliness
we humans remain resolved continuously, and we remain happy
continuously. It is jeevan that becomes happy and then evidences
resolution in human behaviour. It is only after the evidence
comes in behaviour that we can accept that human being is
happy.
Third – We are Ethical only when we protect and make good use
of our means of living (body, mind and wealth).
Until now every human being believes that his own needs are
genuine and the needs of other human beings are fake. It is only
due to this reason – one human being exploits other human
being, one family exploits other family, one community exploits
other community, and one country exploits other country.
Therefore, there is an urgent need to recognize and understand
1. Self Confidence
2. Respect for Excellence
3. Balance in Talent
4. Balance in Personality
5. Sociability in Behaviour
6. Self Dependent in Occupation
First there are objects seen in the form of units. They occupy
Space to the extent of their area. The areas could be different for
different objects. It is not possible to tell the area of Space,
because it has no limits.
The means of economy are in the form of body, mind and wealth.
Body has to be. Mind has to be. Wealth has to be. Economics
cannot be envisaged while leaving out any of these three. While
the current theories call the currency to be the means of