DHARMA MARCH 14, 2000
by Sri Shyamji Bhatnagar


If you are a black hole, expel the universe (Uni-Verse, One Song). If you are a Uni-verse, sing and expand to your maximum capacity, just as the baby in the womb once expanded. Then contract to the smallest unit and return to the Source—the black hole. This is universal dharma. If you are dharma then uphold it which is your dharma, your duty, your religion, your law. Be conscious, be who you are. Everything in the universe is conscious, animate or inanimate. If you are a planet, keep evolving. Expand until you evolve into a being who is not only conscious but is self-conscious.

Human beings are self-conscious. The rest of the forms, from minerals to animals, are conscious. Until self-consciousness is realized, you remain bound by the laws of karma. By changing your form evolving as if changing clothes over the body of self-consciousness. This is your dharma, your religion, your law.

Accumulate good karma to find thoughtful and feelingful parents who are prepared to have your divine presence in the womb and will allow you to be born naturally— in the same bed in which you were conceived. You will be best helped by an experienced midwife who is sensitive with a kind and firm touch. Your birth should take place in a quiet environment with dim light. Drums should be beating outside in the courtyard reminding everyone that the universe is alive with its heart beating in countless forms.

Another divine form has appeared and just after birth is laid on the solar plexus of the mother in contact with the solar plexus of the baby. The mouth of the baby reaching the nipple of the full breast of the mother, oozing the life supporting nectar for not only one baby but for many more. Baby’s dharma is to cling to the bosom; mother’s dharma is to allow it. Father’s dharma is to provide everything for both the baby and the mother’s need.

If you are a mother, realize that the new life Divine depends on you. Baby’s survival, security, cleanliness, food, shelter, happiness and contentment are your dharma, your religion, the law supreme. It is your lifetime opportunity to feel that you are a selfless, Goddess providing all and realizing your unconditional loving nature—you are the Mother Universe. You learn this from your own nectar filled bosom that oozes with the first cry of the baby. You are a miracle and you take joy in the miracle growing under your shadow.
Bondage is to nature. You are in nature not of nature. Realization of this is your dharma, your goal. This is the real you, free of bondage from the nature. This is the real you, desireless, full of peace and contentment. This is truly you—the Divine. Destiny of each person is a result of the total karma from previous lives. In the final life one can be fully realized by putting an end to creating future karma and living in harmony as a fixed point around which a circle of cosmic energies swirl.

[Excerpt from “The Divine Play”]