Why don’t you declare Yourself clearly as the present human incarnation?

[dattaswami]

[Just before departing for Mumbai, Mr. Antony asked Swami “Why don’t you declare Yourself clearly as the present human incarnation?”]


Swami replied “Buddha did not even speak about God and hence there is no question of the topic of the human incarnation in His regard. Therefore, Buddha was safe. Mohammed denied the concept of human incarnation and declared Himself as only the Messenger of God. Anybody can be become a Messenger and therefore, Mohammed was also safe. Lord Krishna emphasized on the concept of human incarnation throughout the Gita, but Krishna told that He was the human incarnation only to Arjuna and not to any other person. Therefore, Krishna was also safe. Jesus told that He was the human incarnation by telling that He and His Father were one and the same. He told this to many people and the news spread everywhere. This statement is in Bible and the Bible is His message given to the public. For this statement He was brutally killed.

Now, if I state the same in the present time, crucifixion may not happen due to the improved legal system, but people will laugh at Me and say that I am mad and that I should be admitted into a mental hospital. Of course this does not mean that I have accepted and stated that I am the human incarnation. However for now, let us assume that I am the human incarnation. Let this not be taken as My declaration. This only means that no human incarnation will declare Himself as God after the crucifixion of Jesus. Since that incident, God is terribly afraid of making such a declaration. Therefore, even if I am the real human incarnation I will not declare it. If I am not the human incarnation I should not declare it in any case. Therefore, in any case I cannot declare this.

The identification of human incarnation is the most complicated subject because of several hurdles in it. The first hurdle is that people are generally affected by egoism and jealousy. A human being never likes to accept another human form as God. Even if some human being conquers his egoism and jealousy and accepts it, it is only temporary. It is impossible to completely smash one’s egoism and jealousy. You can only reduce them temporarily. When Krishna taught the Gita, Arjuna accepted Lord Krishna as the Lord, but just after eighteen days, Krishna asked Arjuna to get down from the chariot. Arjuna was reluctant because he expected Krishna, the driver, to first get down and then only would Arjuna the owner of the chariot get down. It was the question of the prestige of the owner of a chariot in the presence of his soldiers.

 Just within eighteen days, egoism and jealousy grew in Arjuna and he forgot that Krishna was the Lord. By the eighteenth day he treated Krishna as a mere chariot driver. Therefore, only one in thousands will even accept the concept of human incarnation. Even if one accepts this concept, he likes to limit it to the past dead human incarnations only. Unless one conquers his egoism and jealousy completely, one cannot accept the present human incarnation standing before his naked eyes. Therefore, only one in thousands accepts this concept of present human incarnation and starts to search for the address of the present human incarnation. This is told in the Gita as “Manushyanaam Sahasreshu….” Thus this verse refers to the devotees who are searching for the human incarnation in their time. This verse does not refer to all devotees who search for God because there are many people who are theists and seek God. This verse says further “Kaschit Maam Vetti….” This means that only one in such devotees can identify the present human incarnation. This means that although you have conquered your jealousy and egoism and although you are searching for the living human incarnation, there are several hurdles before you can identify Him. What are these hurdles?

As I told you the first hurdle is your own egoism and jealousy. You may say that you have conquered them and therefore you are searching for the present human form of Lord. Although you have conquered your ego and jealousy, your victory is only temporary. Ego and jealousy are the two sleeping snakes in your heart. They will rise at any time and bite you. Therefore, you must try for a permanent conquest and destroy them forever. Then only is the first hurdle removed. Assuming that you have destroyed them, before you reach Him, there are still several hurdles to be crossed. These hurdles are the priests of the temples, the preachers of ethics and puranas and scholars, who preach the philosophy. They will not allow you to proceed on your path and brainwash you on your way. These people are against the present human incarnation.

If you reach the present human incarnation, they will loose their income and fame from the devotees. They are earning money and fame by singing the glory of the past human incarnations. In fact, while Jesus was alive, these people were His main enemies and the reason is very very clear. People started following Jesus, who opposed the collection of money in the church. These people killed Jesus, who was obstructing their income and fame. Even after the death of Jesus these people misinterpreted the statement of Jesus that He will come again. Jesus meant that He would come again and again in every human generation to give the same divine opportunity to every generation because He was the impartial God.

If this meaning is accepted the income and fame of the priests, preachers and scholars will be obstructed in every generation. Therefore, these people misinterpreted the meaning of this statement by saying that Jesus will come only at the end of the world. When the world is destroyed even if Jesus comes, there will no problem. By this interpretation they have cleared their way of business till the end of the world. This interpretation is convenient even for the followers of these priests and scholars because of their inherent egoism and jealousy which prevents them from accepting the living human incarnation. Therefore, there was cooperation from both sides.

Assume that you have passed this hurdle also. The next hurdle is false human incarnations that will trap you for the same reason of their own income and fame. Of course these false incarnations are based on the will of God only. He tests your scriptural knowledge by which alone you have to identify the real human incarnation. They are just like the wrong answers present in a multiple-choice question. The same examiner, who gives the right answer, creates the wrong answers also to test the power of your discrimination. Proper discrimination results only if you digest scriptural knowledge with perfect logical analysis. Only then can you eliminate the fraud incarnations like wrong answers. Poundraka Vasudeva was such a false incarnation, who looked like Narayana, wearing the same dress and bearing the same weapons. Krishna did not have the same dress since He wore His own special peacock feather on His head. Instead of weapons He carried a flute. Both these are not worn by Lord Narayana. The main identification of Lord Krishna is only the Gita. The Veda says that the Lord is characterized by His own special divine knowledge, which cannot be preached by any other human being in that generation (Satyam, Jnanam…, Prajnanam Brahma). The fraud incarnations are like artificial diamonds, which resemble the original diamond in many properties. The artificial diamonds glitter with seven colors just like the original diamond. But, the refractive index of the original diamond is very high and a scientist alone can identify it. The false incarnations also preach knowledge. But the power of the knowledge of the real incarnation is very very high. You, aided with your intellectual logical faculty (Buddhi), can only be convinced and freed from all doubts by such special divine knowledge (Prajnanam…).

A person who was very close to Me posed a big problem through a question. He told Me “I have analyzed your divine knowledge after hearing the knowledge of several divine preachers. My inner self is completely convinced by only your knowledge. This means you are the human incarnation. But my doubt is that this procedure of identifying the human incarnation was given by You and the result of the identification also points to You”. Then I replied “I have given you the procedure as given by the sacred scripture, Veda. I have also given equal position to your logical analysis before you accept that procedure. The scripture along with your logical analysis gives the correct result. If the result points to Me, what can I do? Should I change the scripture? Or should I say that there should be no logical analysis? Just to avoid the result from pointing to Me, should I say that the person who does not convince your inner self is the human incarnation? You can apply your logic and if there is a logical question during the analysis of the scripture, I can answer that. If you are convinced by all means, I cannot help it”.

If the scripture and the logical analysis had led to identifying that person himself as the human incarnation, he would have jumped with joy. If some other human being had turned out to be the human incarnation, at least he would have been silent. But, since the result happens to be Me, whom he is seeing everyday, the problem came. Therefore, the repulsion caused by jealousy and egoism will always follow you in your spiritual journey and you can be trapped by it at any time.