Om-Tat-Sat; ‘Daata’ is in my remembrance!

It was very early in the morning, and you woke up feeling good as if peace was all around you. You could not stay in the bed any longer. So, you walked out of your house for a stroll along the river which was not far from your house. You were quiet, calm and peaceful and there was no particular thought in your mind.

The moon was still there in the sky. The sun had yet to arise and you were walking along the river side. You took out your shoes in your hand and continued your walk barefoot – just enjoying the peace surrounding you. You could observe that there was no one around you but just the blissful peace. The water was moving slowly in the river as if trying to match the speed of your stroll.  The stars were bright in the sky and the moonlight was good enough to show you the path along the river side.

After a short while, the sun started to arise.

There was more brightness now in the atmosphere, and you started to see tiny bushes of flowers tossing with the wind. This only added to your joy and peace as you were walking and constantly beholding the true beauty of nature with water in the river on your one side and dancing flower on the other. As the light in the atmosphere increased, you started noticing some of the flowers on the ground that were fallen from the branches of the bushes. You continued walking and kept looking at those withered flowers and their scattered petals on the ground but still with no particular thought in your mind.

Suddenly, a question came in your mind, as it may to anyone. You wondered, “What is life?” “Why are we born?”

Flowers were happy in the bushes. Why they had to separate from the branches? Why they had to fall on the ground? Are they dead now? Were they alive when they were on the branches? Your mind suddenly became completely involved in such thoughts. You were still walking but your attention now was away from the natural beauty you were enjoying a short while ago. As you were exploring life and death in your thoughts, suddenly your focus shifted to human life. You wondered what is the purpose of our life. Why do we take birth? What is the reason that we have to come into this life and then one day we have to die? Is our birth just an accident or there is a real purpose behind it? Is there an aim for which we take birth in this material nature?

And, your brain argued that nothing happens without a reason. So, there must be some purpose, some reason, some aim of the soul or ‘Daata’ behind our birth. Such a big thing cannot just be an accident. You kept walking, but your whole focus was on finding the purpose of life. And if there is a purpose behind our life, then whose purpose is this? Is it our own purpose to achieve something from our life on this earth or of someone else bigger than us? 

You thought that as human beings, we may have the highest level of consciousness among all living creatures including the flowers on the bushes you were enjoying watching a while ago. Do flowers or other living creatures also take birth to achieve some of their individual objectives? Perhaps not. There must be the purpose of the Supreme Soul, the ‘Daata’, behind life. Either ‘Daata’s’ own purpose or His objective to help us achieve our purpose from our life. As the highest level of consciousness, you ‘soul’ may have your own purpose to take birth in the material nature, but there certainly is a supreme power behind your birth who also has His objectives from your birth. He has sent you on this earth to achieve something by contributing to His desire and achieving His purpose.

Now the question is what could be His reason behind your birth.

There could be two possible purposes of the ‘Daata’ for sending us on this earth by taking birth through a body which is part of material nature. One purpose is that He wants you to make positive contributions to His creation. And the other purpose is that as ‘Daata’s’ part and parcel, He wants you to grow the level of your consciousness to the highest possible level so as to attain a near pure consciousness stage with all the qualities of the ‘Daata’ and be able to merge into Him and become ‘one’ with Him. You raise your consciousness and improve your qualities to the level where you are equal to ‘Daata’, and become one by merging into the Supreme Soul. As per Dwij philosophy, we believe in the ‘Oneness’ in everything – a seamless connection between everything, which is nothing else but the presence of ‘Daata’s’ energy.  You might feel yourself as a separate individual but are we really separated? Or do we have a connection?

For example, let’s say, you go to a sea, and from that sea, you take five different drops of water. Let us assume that these five different drops of tell you that they all come from five different rivers – one is from Ganges, the other one from Saraswati, the third drop says that it is from Yamuna, and so on. So, as individual drops, they are separated, and their origins are different, they come from different paths and from different backgrounds and origins but all of them have somewhat the same qualities of water. And when they merge into the sea, they are part of the sea, they are sea, with exactly the same qualities. As individuals, we are connected through ‘Daata’s’ energies, with His qualities which may be in minute quantities, which bind us together as ‘One’. And, when we raise the level of our consciousness to the stage that is capable of merging into God, we are nothing else but ‘One’.

Different organised religions may see themselves as separated; they may see that their philosophies are different; they may see that their paths are different; they may even see each other as opponents, but that is not true, that is seriously not true. Every religion has one single objective and that is to find the Truth, to find the God, to realise the ‘Daata’. So, the philosophy and approach can differ, but the aim is the same. And when the aim is same, there is, in fact, no difference between them.

Different religions based on their individual beliefs may see the existence of God differently. Some may see God as a separate entity, separate from us, who control us and gives us rewards or punishment based on our actions. Some may believe in ‘Advait’ but ‘Advait’ also does not mean one. It means ‘not two’, but also not ‘one’. Whereas, others may see God in everything and everywhere.  

So, in one philosophy, we may see God as a separate entity.  We want to find Him, we want to see how He looks like. And, then we create our imaginations which over a period of time with the conditioning of society convert into strong beliefs. within ourselves, against which no argument stays. The fear of God becomes stronger than the feeling of His grace – fear of the unseen in this birth or future births. So, you have to believe in Him and serve Him. If you do not, you may get punished. As per ‘Advait’ philosophy, human beings can attain the stage that is so close to the God that you don’t feel as different to Him. He still remains separate from you but very close to you. Like two hearts in one.

Then, there is the Dwij philosophy of ‘Oneness’ in everything. Everything is connected to each other. Nothing is separate. And that connection is ‘Daata’s’ energies flowing in everything. Like I was saying that five drops of water come from different rivers, but when they merge into the sea, they become the sea. We are also part and parcel of ‘Daata’, and having the highest level of consciousness have the capacity to merge into Him like the drops of water into the sea. Just see yourself as a drop of water, with all the quality of water, and with the capacity to become one with the sea. Imagine the ‘Brahmand’ as a big sea and the soul of whole ‘Brahmand’ as the ‘Daata’. With the energies and qualities of the ‘Daata’, we are His part and parcel. We are all same, we are all connected with each other through the ‘Daata’s’ energies. For example, the air, the space, the sky etc. around you is the same as around me.

And similarly, all these things are connected to each other, whether they are trees, animals, birds, or insects and that is the feeling of ‘Oneness’. When we truly realise this through practice, we realise the existence of ‘Brahm’, the soul of ‘Brahmand’ – the ‘Daata’, the Supreme Consciousness, the Supreme Being, the Supreme Soul. The ‘Brahm’ gives energies to the ‘Brahmand’. In Dwij, we symbolise ‘Brahm’  as ‘Brahm–ling’, in the shape of ‘Brahmand’. The representation of ‘Brahm’ (the ‘Daata’), is ‘Brahm–ling’.

Different religions may have different beliefs but one thing that all religions believe is that there is God, like all rivers follow various different paths but flow towards the sea to merge into the sea, to become ‘one’ with the sea. Religions, in my view, are exactly like rivers. They are all flowing in the same direction but through different paths. In Dwij philosophy, we believe in the oneness of everything through the energies of ‘Daata’. We believe in the strong connection between everything that binds everything together. We believe that through the achievement of a higher level of consciousness, we can realise ‘Daata’ and merge into Him to become ‘One’.

If you wish to have this realisation, close your eyes for a minute and focus or your attention on that little connection. Practises it  for a minute while meditating. Slowly, you will start observing   the ‘Oneness’ in everything around us. And to realise God, what do we need to do? First of all, we have to have a clear knowledge that everything is due to Him and belong to Him. The aim of this life is to merge into Him, for never to come back on this earth, and to become ‘One’ with Him. And, for this we need to abandon all conditionings of the society, which may be an obstacle for you in your spiritual journey.

Dwij means that you are taking a second birth within the same birth. Having born in a particular caste, religion, and nationality was not your choice but taking birth as a Dwij is your decision, is your choice.  And, death is inevitable. Death is destiny of your birth and between birth and death there is a long life. You grow with the conditioning of the society, which you need to remove to realise the Truth. You need to remove all impressions (Samskaras) on your soul from your previous birth and this birth by abandoning all varieties of religions to progress in your own individual spiritual journey. You may continue performing rituals learned that you believe and are helpful to you in maintaining your faith and focus. Start performing ‘akarmas’ in ‘Daata’s’ remembrance. Akarma means no-action. Akarma means the action you perform without any desire of any fruits for personal gain from that action – no-action. Leave everything to Him.

I invite all of you to take rebirth as a Dwij within this birth with your choice and lead the rest of your life as a ‘Living Dwij’.

I wish you very-very good luck in your spiritual journey.

Om Tat-Sat!

… Param Dwij