Brahma, Shiva, Vishnu and why it should matter to you

10 proposals for remembrance, 20 July 2008

1. We modern people, think obviously that we are smarter and know much more than our ancestors. This benign assumption of our superiority may be true for a specific type of mechanistic, science driven technical knowledge. It may however turn to be false for a more inward type of organic, psychological knowledge.

2. We have learnt how to do and how to own; we have forgotten how to be. The intuitive knowledge that was embedded in some earlier civilizations was transmitted orally only, through the communication of living states of experience. This is why it got lost when the times brought decay and it became necessary to mummify the figments of left knowledge in a wrapping of words, structures and institutions.

3. At this point all the great instructors of past religions that taught us how to reach states of being have been betrayed by well meaning but limited followers that reduced their message to a much lower understanding. After Buddha comes monastic ritualism. After Christ come Paul, Peter, the Vatican and the Inquisition. After Mohammed come the murder of Ali, Hassan and Hussein and the Caliphate.

4. Contemporaries tried their best: Carl Gustav Young discovered that some hidden codes of spiritual knowledge were embedded in ancient mythologies. The swiss psychologist coined a word for these foremost messages and milestone meanings; he called them archetypes.

5. Hence religion should help manifesting the archetypes within (achievement in the Inner World) rather than focusing on reflecting our partial perception of them in building of stones and institutions of wealth and power (pseudo achievements in the outer World)

6. These advantage of these archetypes is that they would help us to understand the universe and ourselves. Example: Hindu mythology has much to offer in this respect although Hinduism was equally degraded. Let us take the presentation of one basic trilogy: Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva. One may say perhaps that Lord Shiva is God as a state; lord Vishnu is God as process; lord Brahma is God as action. Shiva exists, Vishnu manages, Brahma creates.

7. The three aspects of God( Trimurti) are a continuum: the state is bliss; the process to access bliss is consciousness; consciousness manifests through action. This is very much relevant to the well being of human existence. The combined innocence of Shiva, Brahma Vishnu forms the personality of the master (guru). Absorbing their qualities represent the disciple (chela) principle; manifesting, them reveal the master principle. Hence one cannot be a master without being a disciple first because one cannot manifest what one does not imbibed.

8. Achieving true religion (religare in latin: to unite) is the actualization and purification of these aspects within us Here comes the trigger: the aspects are not activated in man unless and until the powers, feminine side of the deities (shaktis) combine their three energies (trigunatmika) to allow for a transcending surge of residual energy ( kundalini) that grants realization (sammadhi) through a transformational happening in the limbic area of the brain (sahasrara).

9. As revealed by HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, the Master of the Third Millenium, the entire happening within human beings rests on a pyscho somatic substratum (yantra) in the physical body. She also reveals in sahaja yoga the technique (tantra) for inviting this awakening. She thereby returns us to the state of pre-bookish comprehension, when knowledge is transferred through experience and not through words.

10. When the Trimurti continuum reaches full integration in the limbic area of the brain, each deity rewards with a specific gratification: atmananda is the joy of the divine Self in complete enjoyment; leelananda is the joy of witnessing the play in perfect freedom; kriyananda is the joy of the doer in total fulfillment. Like the interpenetrating colors of a subtle rainbow, these joys flow, melt and transfer into each others. Who would not wish to try?