When people call themselves brahman then afterwards go far from dharma and karma too, in this way, that condition [of oneness with brahman] is not nourished but is destroyed.
Therefore until you shrink from love of worldly things, then for as long as you are not returning to brahman, you should do worship of Bhagavan. Keep doing bhakti and when he will very much be in desire of Bhagavan, then afterwards you shall be freed from janma-maraNa ke chakkara - the wheel of birth and death. ~~ Swami Brahmananda Saraswati [Shri Shankaracharya UpadeshAmrita kaNa 9 of 108] http://www.paulmason.info/gurudev/UA_Hindi.htm#kaNa_9 == A few people are getting up and having a big argument to measure and distinguish saakaara (with form) and niraakaara (formless) separately. If you accept paramaatmaa is all-powerful then how can you say afterwards that he is not with form or that he is really shapeless? If you have been accepting that paramaatmaa is all-powerful, it is improper to say that he is niraakaara (formless), that he is not having form. When he is said to be free and independent then what can he not be and what can he not do? Bhagavan is nirguNa (without qualities) and saguNa (endowed with qualities). ~~ Swami Brahmananda Saraswati [Shri Shankaracharya UpadeshAmrita kaNa 88 of 108] http://www.paulmason.info/gurudev/UA_Hindi.htm#kaNa_88 == The way of the group of those who believe in nirguNa [without qualities alone] spread more wickedness because these people do not accept the manifest form of Bhagavan [God] and suppose that the niraakaara [formless] cannot see or hear. So they do their mind's desires; they have no concern for what is wicked and what is sacred. == 'For the welfare of saadhu and for the destruction of the wicked I am manifest and for the estsablishment of dharma I am manifest.' ~Bhagavad Gita 4:8 By the word "saadhu" don't understand it to be the ones who have red-brown tilaka marking or maalaa of beads around the neck. The meaning of the word "saadhu" is 'good', the person who has a good disposition that man exists as a saadhu, that man accepts the code of conduct of the Veda shaastra, whose faith is in tending his own religion. Really for the welfare of them Bhagavan becomes the avataara (incarnation). ~~ Swami Brahmananda Saraswati - Guru Dev [Shri Shankaracharya UpadeshAmrita kaNa 88 of 108] http://www.paulmason.info/gurudev/UA_Hindi.htm#kaNa_88
