Liberation facilitated through the seva of parents

The following is a transliteration of excerpts from Brahma-Atma Vidya (Volume 2, pages 17-18) by Sri Ramen Basu

 

 

  

LIBERATION (MUKTI) IS FACILITATED THROUGH THE SEVA OF ONE'S PARENTS   

1. Man is the highest God and your Self is the greatest God.

2. If you want to worship, worship the man-god, god-man, you will get the highest benefit. If human cannot love the human, how is it possible for peace to come into this human-life?

3. The divinity is dead to the person who has not learn to respect humans. Human has to be loved as your own Self and not like any other, only then the Super-humanity will dawn in humans. The divinity will grow in the super-man, afterwards the nature of Ishwara will dawn in that super-man.  Finally, Para Brahman and the Supreme Reality will reveal on one’s Own in Revered Him.

4. If the mind respects others, then it is respectful. If you honor others, then the mind is not conceited.  If the mind is devoted to the others, then then Self is devout. If the mind has faith in others, then the mind is faithful. If everything is accepted in Ishwara-Consciousness, then the life is abounding in Ishwara.

5. Do no longer look for Guru anywhere. Guru dwells in your home as parents. The mother and the father are the Maha-Guru

6. No matter how great a Guru under Whom you take shelter, disrespecting this Maha-Guru you will not attain righteousness (dharma). None can repay the debt of their parents. Bhagavan dwells as parents in each home of the world.

7. Human being loves to run after sadhu-mahanta, disregarding parents. This results in a delay in attaining perfection. Caring for those at home needs to be prioritized over everything else.

8. Without the grace of parents, a child no matter how intelligent or meritorious he or she may be, won’t be able to do anything.   

9. One who bows to his/her parents at both evening and morning times for twelve years, then he/she will not be a failure in any matter on life at any time.  ‘This one’ (pointing to himself) will be responsible if it is otherwise (if the failure happens).

10. Since the parents love the off-spring as one’s Own Self, enormous is the glory of the parents throughout the world.   Can any child remain alive if the parents would have throttled and choked the child to death after birth?  Such is the godly nature in parents that they nourish and raise the child; is it not the duty of the off-spring then to look after the parents later in life?

11. Verily the Gods are the revered persons who are superior to you. You offer to the Gods, and the Gods will look after you. If I do not pay any respect to my parents, my children will not respect me. So be cautious, what a beautiful tradition!

12. Who is more noble than a person who can accept their own child in God-Consciousness; and who is nobler than the child who can accept the parents as Bhagavan?

13. But does that mean the parents will not chastise the children? For sure, they will. Embedded in the background of parents’ discipline is the desire for the well-being of the off-spring. But no doubt, not all have such parents.

14. Your parents have the right to chastise you, but not the right to strike you.

15. The parents and Guru always want their child or refugee disciples to be greater than them. If the child proves to be great, then the parents feel proud and joyous. Likewise, when the Guru sees that His disciple as having been rightly groomed, then the Revered He is also delighted.  Such joy cannot be tolerated by others.

16. He who carries on in life with the Consciousness that verily the father is Siva and verily the mother is Parvati, gets Brahman-Knowledge easily and attains perfection. In spite of not performing puja to other Gods, the performance of puja and waiting on Pitri-deva and Matri-devi are utmost needed.

17. The key to the Truth lies with the parents. The devoted off-spring to the parents is the rightful claimant thereof.

18. If the parents are not accepted as direct Gods, then the sadhana is merely amorous sports. If your parents had not given you a body, then where would you as a child be other than in the unmanifested realm.  Parents are continually sacrificing for the offspring.  Without assuming a body, no other way exists to reach the Age of Enlightenment (Satya Yug) from this Iron Age (Koli Yug). If you accept the parents with the idea/sentiment of divinity, then the Absolute could be reached.

 

Submitted at the lotus feet of Sri Sri Babathakur