" ' I ' cannot go out of existence." ---- Sri Sri Babathakur

Submitted by santanu.das on Sat, 03/21/2009 - 14:46

Sri Sri Babathakur the Sadguru Himself for more than one half of a century is telling the mankind continuously that the ' I ' which is the substratum of their very existence is none else but the Lord Himself, the Great Itself, the Guru Itself, the Mother Herself, the Father Himself. The limitations of gender can not limit Him/Her/It. It is the Bhuma ( the Absolute, the unmeasurable, the infinite ). He/She/It can be referred to in any name like God, Allah, Bhagaban, Hari, Khuda, etc. etc. etc. Only for the convenience of expression the Absolute is referred to with a name, a honorable pronoun, depending on the place, time, language of the community, where the absolute takes a body ( an incarnation ). Thus all the incarnations of God, we know about or we do not know about are the manifestations of the Absolute only. Therefore, all of them are equally venerable. To teach this very simple but very often forgotten reality, Sri Sri Babathakur tells them who out of love for Him, goes to Him that when you go to any religious place and meet the person who is at the head of that place, you must accept Him to be identified with This (pointing towards Sri Sri Babathakur Himself, as He seldom refers to Himself as I, in contrast to a common man's practice ) and This to be identified with Him. Failing to do this you would surely disregard This (pointing to Himself ).
From the previous paragraph it should be clear that the Absolute, only existence which is ever present, is the subtlest, the most unavoidable and It symptomatizes as ' I '. How can this ' I ' which is the only existence ever go out of it? To do that the existence of a second ' I ' is required. This is not possible, as the Absolute ' I ' is eternally alone and existent.