MESSAGE OF THE SUPREME SOUL AT
CONFLUENCE AGE.
SHIV BABA utilizes antithesis to identify pathos- persuading others to take a particular point of view, in
his Brahman students, followed by multiple cases of paradox to alter their
perspective. Ultimately, Baba’s rhetorical integration and application of both
paradox and antithesis stimulates the need for spiritual innovation around the
world especially in Bharat, which in turn implicitly reveals the exigency of
Spiritual transformation. The intrinsic and ambiguous style in which he
implements both rhetorical devices allows his words to resonate ambition at
that time and today, more than a quarter century later and allows his words to
be interpreted by almost any audience, regardless of time. Some of His classic quotes are quoted below
in bold for your assimilation.
I am a supreme soul, am bodiless but you are
bodily beings.
I am Highest on high always & you are lowest
on low just at this time.
This is a path of knowledge for such a short
period & that is path of devotion for such a long period of time.
Only a handful of you have faith, all others have
doubts.
Only you long lost & now found children go
around the full cycle of 84 births.
You have to go from the Ocean of poison to the
Ocean of milk.
Neutral actions are performed in Golden age &
sinful actions in Iron Age.
You are now coming out of the limited and going
into the unlimited.
It is the poor who have to become wealthy.
Baba efficiently uses antithesis and paradox to depict the immense
gravity of their circumstance. Both rhetorical devices effectively excite and
inspire necessary progression, for all world citizens as it is
televised/broadcast across the globe. Baba integrates conflicting, universal
truths with paradoxical insight to implicitly express the world’s current
status and potential, in the midst of the Confluence age.
Bharat was beautiful, & why it has now become
ugly.
This is the land of sorrow and you now know the
way to land of happiness.
You were ugly previously & now becoming
beautiful.
Those who emerged in the previous cycle will
emerge again in this cycle.
You were masters of the pure world, and will
again become masters of the pure world.
You are graduating from residents of hell to
residents of heaven.
Baba portrays the current, multifaceted condition of the world in
the form of a paradox. A paradox, itself,
is composed of two distinct, contradicting concepts that when fused together
hold a different kind of significance than when presented individually. It is a
statement that consists of the combination of an original thesis with its
antithesis to create one unified idea.
Baba scatters these self-contradictions throughout the Murli’s to
offer the Brahmans insight about the dual nature of aspects surrounding
spiritual pursuit. Similar to paradox,
antithesis is also comprised of distinct, contradicting concepts. However, when
the opposing concepts are combined, the overall significance of each concept
retains its original meaning, but instead is highlighted. The stark contrasts
of the opposing concepts complement each other and exemplify one vivid
circumstance. Baba demonstrates antithesis within parallelism, for its
various effects. However, it is primarily used to target common emotional
senses in the Brahmins. By unifying both rhetorical devices, Baba effectively
identifies intrinsic human emotions and prepares the mindset of the BK clan, to
inspire spiritual innovation.
Human beings change in this confluence age, they
change from most degraded to most elevated.
People with stone intellects worship stone Shiva lingams
without having any knowledge.
How could the Incorporeal One give it to you,
unless he came in the corporeal form?
A supreme soul cannot speak without a body or
mouth – hence an old chariot was chosen.
I don’t become a master of the world; I make you
into masters of the world.
He engages his audience with the words, “We meet at Madhuban a University
noted for knowledge, in a city noted for progress, in a State noted for
strength, and we stand in need of all three, for we connect in an hour of
change and challenge, in times of hope and fear, in the confluence age of both
knowledge and ignorance. The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our
ignorance unfolds.” Immediately, the
audience is subjected to uniform syntax that displays conflicting, yet mundane
characteristics, such as strength, change, challenge, hope, fear, knowledge and
ignorance that are ever-present in human nature. However, by presenting almost the entirety of
the statement as individual universal truths, each value remains undeniable to
any clan member that has experienced it, thus establishing the pathos of the audience. These distinct,
yet relate-able, values act as building blocks towards the final, seemingly
contradictory phrase. Like a traditional paradox, when the last line is
separated into the individual entities of “increasing knowledge” and “unfolding
ignorance,” each isolated phrase holds a unique and opposite meaning, similar
to that of the listed values preceding the final line.
In a school there are many subjects &
students score number wise. Here in this spiritual university there is only one
subject – to become Lakshmi & Narayan.
He is the Ocean of Knowledge & it would
definitely trickle down from Him. We are the rivers of Knowledge emerged from
it.
Don’t have intoxication of perishable wealth;
rather maintain permanent intoxication of wealth of knowledge.
By
sitting on the pyre of Knowledge, you will become real gold & pure
All the souls are Shiv Baba’s children but not
all children are his helpers.
However, by describing the expansion of knowledge and ignorance as
both simultaneous and interdependent, Baba alters the perspective of the
listeners & readers. The paradoxical essence of the claim forces BK clan
members to recognize that as one learns something new, they are simultaneously
exploiting the fact that they once functioned without having the awareness that
such a thing existed, therefore increasing their previous ignorance. This
particular paradox also compels the Brahmans to question how much they truly
know of their current reality, thus unlocking the realization that there is
limitless, unknown potential in every circumstance.
Again, he reiterates the limitless potential of the unknown, except
this time his application is spiritual, rather than emotional like in the
opening lines. Baba speaks, “Despite the striking fact the most of the seniors
that the world has ever known are alive and working today, despite the fact
that our own spiritual manpower is multiplying exponentially, in a rate of
growth more than three times that of our population as a whole, despite that,
the vast stretches of the unknown and the unanswered and the unfinished still
far outstrip our collective comprehension.” In this paradoxical observation, Baba
simultaneously acknowledges the perpetual spiritual innovation of Madhuban and
the seemingly never-ending frontier of the silence & pure soul world. By
doing so, he indirectly informs the public that though the BK’s are making
rapid progress; it is still not substantial enough to break through the vast frontier
of Collective Consciousness. This show that time is not on their side;
therefore the BK organization cannot afford to remain idle in their spiritual development
& its spread. Baba uses this particular paradoxical observation to shift
the outlook of the members from previous accomplishments to the more pressing
matter of personal transformation as a means for rediscovering the unknown
forgotten self.
All your Sanskars for your future life begin in
this life.
In the future you will belong to the Royal
dynasty and have all the rights of the kingdom.
We are now going to such a place where there is
no name or trace of sorrow, which is called the land of happiness.
You children have now understood that the cycle
definitely has to turn. The impure world has to become pure.
You are now following Shrimat and claiming your
inheritance once again.
You know that the drama continues to move like a
louse. Whatever happens is fixed in the drama. There is nothing to worry about.
Each of you is an actor here.
This is a play of victory & defeat, based on
Maya.
In reference to the innovation of mankind, he states, “This is a
breathtaking pace, and such a pace cannot help but create new ills as it
dispels old, new ignorance, new problems, new dangers. Surely the opening
vistas of Silence & Remembrance promise high costs and hardships, as well
as high reward. This particular paradox is a culmination of the first two, in
which Baba indirectly applies the idea of unknown potential, when listing the
alternative products of mankind’s innovation, and spiritual progress, when
describing pace, to the tangible goal of
soul consciousness exploration.
Through your self-transformation, world
transformation will become easy.
Die alive and be dead to this world.
Those who know the secrets of knowledge can never
be upset. Continue to progress by playing with these secrets.
At some time you will even take this Trans-light
picture with a battery and go on a tour of the towns & villages & tell
everyone that you are establishing this Kingdom.
It forces the audience to recognize that they must use future
digital development as a means for breaking the unknown frontiers, like u-tube
interviews, email information exchange & outreach, video conferencing
instant meetings, thus sparking the current need for educational innovations.
The incentive revealed in the final paradox effectively translates the
cognition of the public into productive action.
However, Baba’s identification of universal qualities in human nature
and sequential use of paradox effectively shapes the perspective of the public
into a tangible objective. The first paradox targets the duality of relate-able
characteristics in human nature to exploit the limitless potential of the
unknown. The paradox immediately following it, targets the duality of spiritual
growth around the world, to exploit the lack of progress in discovering unknown
frontier. Through the culmination of all
three, Baba indirectly, but deliberately, forces the readers to recognize that
the world must use spiritual innovation as a means for the breaking the traditional
orthodox frontiers.
Rohit Khanna - BK Soul, IN-SIGHTED hence EX-CITED
