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      Life is beautiful—that is how God created. Man is the “supreme being,” at least in the solar system, but selfishness makes us narrow and squeezed, lowly and worm-like. You can be compassionate to a worm but you cannot accept that situation. You may forgive untruth but you cannot accept it. You can forgive the sinner but you cannot accept the sin. Use the most modern, scientific language as well as the most orthodox—it will be the same truth. You can respect your mother and father, your elders or your neighbors, but if they are on the untruth, you cannot accept that untruth.
      Nature is clean but if we misuse or spoil it, that very nature will be unnatural. The opposite of creation is destruction. The absence of light is darkness. The absence of truth is untruth. The absence of beauty is ugliness. Ugliness and darkness are not existences in their own right. Any such opposites are created by misuse, under-use or abuse. If you worship in a superfluous, showy manner, it is irreligion. Atheism is a negation of God, not an existence. We talk about such negations only because of the dualism of language and intellect. That which is Real, which is Light, which is tangible and creative will be flowing in tune and rhythm with the cosmos without being a victim of illusory creation. In other words, it will give you satisfaction and fulfillment. How do we apply this in relationships? If you want to flow in tune with creation, then make God your number one relationship. You cannot serve both God and mammon.

     There is a story about Shiva and Parvati, the Vedic embodiment of Heavenly Father and Divine Mother. One day Parvati told Shiva, “Lord, you are always thinking you are real and I am unreal”—Divine Mother is also called Maya. “You have been downgrading woman and saying that You, the Spirit, are real and Maya is illusory. Why is it then that you can’t live without me? These are modern times and we want equal freedom. You declare me before your progeny on all the planets as Divine Mother and here you are saying I am illusion! What do you mean?” Divine Father kind of scratched His head. Then He said, “Now Honey, since you mean business I’ll tell you straight. Preaching is for those who are ignorant, not for those who know. Thou, Parvati, knoweth. Thou should not ask this question. It is for those who are clinging to the un-divine, to the illusion, to the darkness. For them I preach this distinction, this discrimination. It is for those to realize the Real from the unreal, not for those who already see the Divine everywhere. Thou, Parvati, are always in my tune, perfectly one with me. This preaching is not for you but for those who still do not see the Light.”
      There are two kinds of maya, not that they are two separate things. Ramakrishna called them vidyamaya and avidyamaya. Vidya is enlightened maya; avidya is ignorant maya. Normal relationships are in the domain of avidyamaya—naturally, they cannot give salvation. It has to be in tune, flowing into each other. That is the law of nature. Any discordant note, any movement out of tune in nature is rejected. Whenever movements are disturbed in the earth atmosphere or the cosmos, nature begins to bring them back into rhythm. Human clashes, whether in battles and wars or even two individuals fighting, are not what nature is supposed to be. Nature reacts to such disturbance by creating earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, storms and even disease. When your health and body and life are out of tune, then disease begins. Ayurveda, the Vedic system of health, teaches that disharmonies in the body create dis-ease. Any mental disturbance or tension is simply being out of tune with your Spirit, your God or your Guru.



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