After narrating the story of the Quantum Onion, Maharshi with a resplendent smile looked
at me and said, “Lahiri, make a post analysis for the benefit of those
people, who could not understand the deeper meaning of this story.”
His radiant form disappeared slowly with these parting words. I was indeed surprised and was happy
after listening to the story of the Onions. The enlightened Seer explained
such a complex matter in a simple way. But yet, I do want to elucidate
the deeper meaning of the story for the benefit of those who did not comprehend
the essence of it.
Most of the human beings, who are
still in the 3rd dimension, never try to evolve spiritually. For them,
the purpose of life is earning money and to enjoy all the materialistic
pleasures and luxuries of this world like possessing beautiful houses,
farm houses, having wet parties regularly engrossing in sensual
pleasures etc.,. But outwardly, they pretend, as if they are highly
devotional and spiritual. In this process they visit Temples regularly,
donate huge amounts of money to the Temples and the deities and
perform ostensible spiritual rites.
People may think of them highly,
carried away by their so called pretentious spirituality, but in reality,
they earn money in wrong ways- cheating the public and the Government,
robbing the money from the poor and the weak people and then spend huge
amounts to perform various religious activities. Nevertheless, there
are few people who contemplate on the purpose of their life
differently and always look for a Guru who can steer them to evolve
to higher dimensions of consciousness and help them in ethereal elevation.
Indeed these people tend to have the spiritual urge of self-realization
i.e. to know about themselves, from the very birth itself.
But, unfortunately, they are
encompassed by thousands of layers of delusions just like an Onion and
at the center of these multiple layers exists the truth, the only truth
i.e., the higher self. These people try very hard to climb up the ladder
of higher dimension, but slip and fall down time and again because of
the maya, the delusion or the other conflicting forces that constantly try
to pull them down.
Unfortunately, in the present
day world, one can hardly find a genuine spiritual preceptor in
quantum state. All the so called Gurus and Sadgurus, of course the
titles conferred by their neophyte disciples, are in fact covered by
thousands of layers of ignorance, desires, ego, anger, false prestige,
and a host of other negative energies. If you are fortunate enough to
be associated with the company of a genuine Sadguru who can be compared
to an Onion in the quantum state, he definitely shall help you to shed off
these layers that encircled the truth in you. And this truth is
nothing but the Higher Self, the Atman or the Paramatman.
This Higher Self is referred to by
various names by the great seers and spiritual Masters. In our
quest to find a real Sadguru we shouldn't be misled, rather carefully
choose our Guru, the Sadguru who leads us into the righteous path.If you
are craving for materialistic gratification, then you can never find a
Sadguru; because you keep imploring Him to give a mantra or perform some
tantra for you to get a promotion, to have a palatial building or to get a
green card for your son, so on and so forth. Thus chasing a golden deer
or running after a mirage you end up with nothing both at mundane and
at the spiritual levels as well and will find none you are seeking for, as
there is very little chance of a Guru in the quantum state willing
to help you satiate your mundane
desires. Remember the Guru in the quantum state is an epitome of righteousness,
trillions of his bodily cells are charged with purity and his
consciousness eternally remains coalesced with the cosmic
consciousness.
He is one with everyone and everyone
is in himself. He is replete with love and compassion for all, thus representing
the Divine in human form. He is above & beyond Arishadvargas -the six
passions like lust, anger, greed, attachment, ego and jealousy.
He alone can guide you to overcome the delusions that envelope the
truth and help you to come safely out of the labyrinth of these multiple
layers of ignorance and other negative energies.
Kanvadha Maharshi also warns us to be
careful while choosing the Gurus or masters who are in the quantum state.
In Tripura Rahasya, Lord Dattatreya says to his disciple Parasuram that
the Guru who
evades answering the simple questions
of his disciples or who cannot clear their doubts is not worthy to be
called a Guru.
No matter how silly the questions may
sound the Guru must patiently answer the disciples and try to make
them understand adapting from normal to the simplest methods of
explanation. There's no hard and fast rule regarding the number
of Gurus one should have; it may vary from one to many. Adi Guru, the
primordial preceptor Lord Dattatreya had many Gurus who had imparted different
kinds of knowledge to him.
In the modern era, we should be very
scientific and logical while selecting a Guru and there is nothing
wrong to test whether he is really a Sadhguru or not. This is the
essence of the story of Onion and quantum Onion as explained by Kanvadha
Maharshi.
With these thoughts running across my
mind I got up mechanically and walked back towards my home.
