The eternal relationship🔗

What is a relationship?

Relationship is that which can reveal to you dimensions in you that you don’t even know exist inside you. It gives you the experience and proves to you that you are also capable of loving someone or something. It shows that you can also love and you can also sacrifice to an amazing extent for the sake of someone.

When we are born, we are born with completeness. But we are not aware of many of our dimensions and when we are not aware, the outer world too does not know of it. Relationships have the power to awaken our unknown dimensions and make us experience them and show the same to the outer world.

Relationship awakens the unknown dimensions in you.

A relationship with anyone or anything, no matter who or what, will lead you to the ultimate relationship with the master.

When you fall in love, whether it is with a man, woman or child, deity or master, you will see dimensions of you that you never knew existed inside you. With the flowering of such love, you become more responsible. You experience the very juice of life.

The relationship with the master, who is one with Existence, is deeper than any other relationship. It is a being level connection.

Generally all other relationships will create bondage but the relationship with the master has the power to lead you to freedom and finally to eternal bliss. Even if you try to create bondage in this relationship, it will only lead to eternal bliss! Bondage can never happen in this relationship.

The form of the master is the bridge between the Ultimate and you. Because the form is an embodiment of the Ultimate, it has both the dimensions, of man and god. When you relate with not only the form but the truth that the form stands for, you reach the knowledge of the Ultimate.

The master is all forms and no form. He refuses to be captured in a frame, to be turned into a stone or worshipped as an image. The master is beyond forms, beyond dimensions. He has infinite dimensions - infini-D!

Frozen into one frame, whether as mother or lover, he is easy for you to capture and retain. He becomes easier to market. But the master is not interested in business for him. He wants you to be confused so that you look in and become enlightened. He wants you to die so that you become awake.

Come to the master with your ignorance. He will show you the path. Don't hesitate to fall into his arms with love. You will soar with him into bliss.

The master relates to us on multiple frames and planes, each one of which unveils the beauty and intensity of the unique relation he has with every single being that has the fortune of entering his space.

Each one in the quest for the Truth traverses a uniquely beautiful path with the master as he leads from the darkness of ignorance to the light of knowledge. It is a delicate love affair. It is the merger of two beings in such deep trust and communion that the flame from the master just jumps from his being to the disciple's being. The spark of awareness is thus lit.

Different relationships unleash various dimensions in you. A lover unleashes the love feeling in you. Friends around you unleash the feeling of friendship in you. Your kids unleash the motherliness dimension in you. Your parents, grandparents unleash the childhood dimension in you. But only the master can unleash all the dimensions in you. Master is the person who awakens the unknown

enlightenment dimension in you. You cannot calculate the transformation the master-disciple relationship creates in you. The master reveals himself in various dimensions and makes you transcend those and lets you experience the Ultimate through communion.

The poet-mystic, Kabir sings beautifully,

‘Master and god both appear before me. To whom should I prostrate?

I bow before the master. He introduced god to me.’

Vivekananda, in one of his discussions with fellow disciples of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, referred to Ramakrishna as god. Another disciple objected saying, ‘Surely this is taking it to the extreme. I agree that the master is enlightened, but how can he be god?’

Vivekananda asked, ‘What do you mean by saying that god is omnipresent?’ The disciple said, ‘God is everywhere.’ Vivekananda said, ‘Surely, then you must be able to see him now.’ The disciple was confused and did not know what to say further.

Vivekananda told him, ‘To you god is a concept that you cannot see, a notion that you don’t even know or understand. But here is the master in front of you who is god in reality.’

Someone asked me, ‘What is the difference between god and master?’

I asked him, ‘What do you know about god? All you know is a bunch of words, concepts. You have no clue as to what you are talking about when you refer to god. To you he is just an idea, an imagination of what you believe to be the ultimate energy and universal consciousness, or whatever name you wish to give something you know nothing about!’

The Brahmanda Purana says,

Master is Shiva* sans his three eyes,

Vishnu* sans his four arms

Brahma* sans his four heads.

Kabir - Mystic devotional poet of India. Vivekananda – Disciple of enlightened master Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. Ramakrishna Paramahamsa – Enlightened master. Brahmanda Purana - A collection of 12,000 verses in what is usually considered the last and eighteenth Hindu purana or epic. This purana is the story of the creation of the universe by Brahma. Shiva - Rejuvenator in the Hindu Trinity of gods. Vishnu - Sustainer in the Hindu Trinity of gods. Brahma - Creator in the Hindu Trinity of gods.

He is Parama Shiva^\* himself in human form.

The master is real. He is the reality of the ultimate cosmic energy. He is here and now. He is in the present; He is the present. He is the bridge between you and the concept of god. In that sense he is greater than god.

People ask me, ‘Are you god?’ I tell them, if you do not know what or who god is, how can you ask me whether I am god? God cannot be defined. He can only be experienced.

Let me tell you one thing clearly, I am not here to prove that I am god. I am here to prove that you are god. I am not here to prove my divinity. I am here to prove your divinity.

The master is like a forest fire that is happening on one side of the river. The disciple is on the other side of the river. The river is the ‘samsara’, the river of births and rebirths. Between the master and disciple, if there can be a bridge made of any material, the fire can move, cross over the bridge and reach the disciple. The material of which the bridge is made is immaterial. It can be made of wood or with cement but the forest fire has the capacity to move over the bridge and reach the disciple. In the same way, irrespective of whatever relation you may have with the master, just get totally dissolved into that.

If you dissolve into that, it will simply fulfill your feelings and lead you to the ultimate state of eternal bliss. If you under-stand this truth deeply and try to practice this with the determination, ‘I will focus on my feeling and get dissolved into the master-disciple relation’, it will lead you to that state. Don’t think that you don’t know how to dissolve in that. The sheer determination is enough; it will happen automatically in you. Any hurdle between the master and disciple will dissolve just by focusing on the dissolution that happens between the master and disciple.