God,The Avathaars, Siddhas and Masts
YOGA SIDDHI
Elimination of mental activity in the individual forms the back bone of the ancient spiritual teachings of the Patanjali Yoga Sutras.
The very definition of Yoga according to Maharshi Patanjali is:
"Yoga is the cessation of all( forms of) activity of the mind".
The "Yoga Siddha", one who has achieved this feat, is the one who is named as a "Yogaaroodha", by Avataar Sri Krishna in the Bhagavad Geetha.
Such a one is totally free from the shakles of the human mind. His individual mind has been erazed by the bliss of Cosmic Consciousness.
But this perfection may not be reached, all at once, by all. There are stages in the evolutionary path of repeated human incarnations that leads to perfection.
MEHER BABA & THE MASTS:
Baba has divided into stages the progressive slowing down of the mind from its fastest activity up to the final stage of complete cessation which can occur in a single incarnation or after many:
(i) PSYCHO-PATHOLOGICALLY SPEEDED MENTAL ACTIVITY :
This is characteristic of the onset of various forms of insanity and their continuance in the individual. It can affect a whole society, a whole race or a whole culture depending on the numbers involved.
Human evolution can be retarded by psycho-pathological acceleration of mental activity in the world as a whole.
Endemic and epidedmic forms of addiction to mental retardants arrive in the wake of these impending catastrophies in civilization. These are safety valves to temporarily stave off the onset of the catastrophe or to mark time until an avathaar can come on the scene and take over anew.
The future of the world will ever be at stake if controlled by people affected by spiritual pathology. But these psycho-pathological human beings escape scrutiny and thrive because of Maaya.
Maya prevents identification of psycho-patholocial individuals as enemies of human evolution and prevents their elimination from seats of leadership and power.
This is because she creates a scene of excitement, exilaration, enjoyment, confusion and strife which results in a mad race for power and pelf, domination and punitive usury, pontification and permanence among the vested interests of competetive races of the world who refuse to accept that HUMANITY IS ONE and health and peace are for all and that evolution has laid down a common path for every pilgrim to progress.
Traces of the primitive scents of ecxclusive tribalism and racism, inherited during periods of slow and stagnant progress of human evolution,leads these leaders and confused men astray from the path of spiritual evolution.
2. NORMAL MENTAL ACTIVITY:
Healthy man is one in whom activity of the mind is maintained within NORMAL limits of intensity and speed as required for the progress of human evolution towards God Consiousness.
3. THE "MAST" MINDS:
As God gains the attention of man, the activity of the human mind, in relation to worldly activities, decreases in intensity and speed from the normal. The mind begins to SLOW down. It slows down more and more, as God penetrates more and more into man's consciousness. Beings in such predicaments find themselves in intermediate divine states of human consciousness which Avathaar Meher Baba has defined as the states of the MASTs.
The experiences of the ancient SIDDHAS of Tamilnaad (India) are also similar. According to them, there are as many different grades of these masts or apoorna siddhas, with corresponding characteristic patterns of abnormal human behaviour, as there are intermediate states of divine consciousness in the progressive spiritual evolution of man.
4. MINDLESSNESS & GODNESS :
When, in the finale, God's Consciousness takes full possession of man's consciousness, the task of the mind, in human evolution, is completed and mind ceases to exist in the individual.
A man of God has come into being.
Total Godness brings liberation from the mind. A being with God Consciousness has no need for any of the usual states of mental consciousness. He has dissolved himself in Absolute Being (SAT), established himself in total synchrony with Absolute Consciousness (CHIT), and rests joyously in an unimaginable state of Absolute Bliss (aananda).
Divine Consiousness now directly acts through him to further all his activities thus making an exclusive and individual human mind an obsolete organ of the psyche.
This crowning of evolution makes the human mind a redundant fossil in the fully evolved human being of the Poorna Siddha ( the perfect being ).
"GODNESS":
If we restrict the definition of man to "one who has a mind", the being, who has God Consciousness and has therefore lost his mind to God, cannot be defined as a man. He is a part of the Divine. He is full of GODNESS in him.
If such a person has to be defined at all, there is only one way in which he can be defined...GOD!
God in person! Man has now become God even if he were not born as one in the first place.
However, occasionally, in the spiritual history of humanity, individuals are born who are divinities by birth. They are the golden freaks of the Divine, descending on the world in the process of human evolution whenever God has to take temporary control from Maya to accelerate the slowed down evolutionary urge.
MEHER BABA IS GOD:
When Avathaar Meher Baba called himself GOD, he spoke the truth and nothing but the truth. There is much collateral evidence in the spiritual history of the world to corraborate the truth of this statement:
Buddha, for example, remained discretly silent when questioned on the issue of his divinity by his disciples who were not only intutively sure that he was an Avathar of God but had corroborative scriptural authority.