Darshan with Sri Bhagavan: 22 February 2014

-London, Paris & Toronto-

(There is no video available for the remainder of the darshan after Question #3.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5S0bzvyxmA&feature=youtu.be

(** please scroll to the end of the transcript for the explanation of Sanskrit terms)

Q1. Please explain to us the meaning of this Mahavakaya**. "It is not enough to know that I exist. You must know me personally."

Sri Bhagavan: Let us say you go to the airport, you find somebody there and then it so happens in the plane you are sitting next to him. You do not know who he is. And then suddenly you come to know that he is your Prime Minister. But then that is not enough. You have to talk to him, get to know more about him, get to understand him. And there is so much more to relate to him. Only then we will say, you are beginning to realize who he is. Otherwise, the mere idea that he is the Prime Minister of your country is not going to help you.

Similarly in the Suvarnayuga Devalayams** where your God becomes physical to you, that is not sufficient. You must build up that bond with that God, you must relate to that God, you must express your desires to that God, you must talk about your problems to that God, and you must build up a relationship. Only then you will know who actually your God is.

That's why we are saying it is not enough if you just know God, but you have got to relate to God. So it has to be a life long relationship. So first of course your God must become physical and then you begin to interact. First, once in awhile, then on a daily basis and finally you must come to a point where your God is handling all your problems and all your desires. Once that happens, you begin to build up a strong bond or relationship with him. Then we can say you are beginning to know your God. Even then we cannot say you completely know about your God.

Because your God is omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient. So all that you have to discover only through continuously relating to him like you could continuously relate to the man who was Prime Minister, you'll know how powerful he is and what all he could do. Similarly you'll know more and more about your God. As you come to know more and more about your God, we call that God realization.

Q2. Sri AmmaBhagavan says "respect woman and you will get my grace immediately." Sri Bhagavan, can you please explain to us the connection if we respect woman how could it help in the upliftment of the nation?

Sri Bhagavan: A human being at any time could live in any one of 9 different levels of consciousness. So when you live in lower levels of consciousness, you have some kinds of problems. As you go up in your level of consciousness, those problems would disappear. So, the more you function from higher levels of consciousness you will naturally find your problems are getting solved or they're getting dissolved.

One of the easiest ways to move into higher levels of consciousness is to give significance to women and to respect them. When you do that in case you do not have it, it does not matter. You could start practicing it. As you start practicing it, it will become your natural quality. You'll actually begin to give them significance and respect and strangely you'll discover you're going up in your levels of consciousness. And as you go up in your levels of consciousness, those problems that have been troubling you will start disappearing and where there is failure earlier, you'll discover success. It comes very very easily though in the beginning, it could be difficult for people who cannot respect women, they could find it difficult. But if you can manage it, nothing like that. You'll get the benefits very very fast. You could try it and see.

Q3. In the Mahavakyas**, Sri Bhagavan says "when I do judge it is final." But Sri Bhagavan has told us that God is not judgmental. Please give us more clarity on this Bhagavan.

Sri Bhagavan: So first of all you must understand, it is not our statement. It is not the statement of AmmaBhagavan. We are only avatars, we are not God. Those are the Mahavakyas** of the Paramatma. For example, when your God becomes physical to you, in your Suvarnayuga Devalayam**, your God will give those Mahavakyas**. Those belong to the Paramatma, not to the Avatars. And what the Paramatma is saying here is when you are dying, you of course meet the Paramatma in form of light or in the form of God you are worshipping or sometimes your own ancestors, and your whole life is reviewed. As your life is being reviewed, you will be put in the shoes of others, to experience what they experienced. Let us say you're beating your wife or let us say that you killed somebody, that scene will you stop and you will move into the shoes of the other person and made to experience what that person experienced when you behaved like that. Every little scene will be covered. The whole thing takes about 3 minutes by your watch.

Afterwards, the Paramatma or God does not judge you, you judge yourself. And how do you judge yourself? The way you judged while on earth. Like Christ said, "Judge not, lest ye be judged." So, in a similar way, you will you judge yourself. God does not judge you. You judge yourself the way you judge others while you are on the planet and then you'll decide to which loka** you must go. Now, once you've learned your lessons, and the lessons are, you must discover unconditional love. If that lesson is learned, then the Paramatma gives a final judgment. And that is your either you're taken into Vaikunth** or Satyaloka or Bhuloka**, depending on the God you are worshiping. To get admission into those lokas, you will need the final judgment of your God and that will be based on whether you have discovered unconditional love or not.

**The Sanskrit words used in this darshan
Suvarna - Golden, Yuga - Age. Suvarna-Yuga is Golden Age. Devalayam - Temple.
Suvarnayuga Devalayam - Golden Age Temple
Vaikuntha - Abode of Lord Vishnu
Loka - the Plane or World
Bhuloka: Bhu - The Earth, Loka - World.
Satyaloka- where Paramatma - Sri Bhagvathi Bhagavan resides
Paramatma - God

In this darshan reference, Mahavakyas are revelations from Paramatma Bhagavathi Bhagavan
not from Upanishads

You will see some references on the internet to Sri Bhagavathi Bhagavan. This is referring to the male and female aspect of Paramatma
Paramatma speaks through Amma Bhagavan
Now Paramatma is becoming physical to most of the dasas and to thousands of people across the world

Gratitude to Laura Orozco Kiciri for the transcript

Editing by Noni Kaufman