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has not seen there is disbelief -- how can god exist? Impossible! How can there be faith without experience? And when the experience of god happens then one cannot believe that so much bliss is possible! So much light! So much nectar! It still seems impossible. When it hasn't happened it seems impossible, and when it happens it seems even more absurd."
Janak is in exactly the same state:
"Amazing! Everything is just imagined. Only I am true, only the witness is true everything else is illusory, everything else is maya?"
THE UNIVERSE WHICH HAS EMANATED FROM ME WILL DISSOLVE INTO ME, JUST AS A POT DISSOLVES INTO CLAY, A WAVE INTO WATER, OR A BRACELET INTO GOLD.
Do you see the transformation? Janak's human form is disappearing and his existential form is manifesting.
Swami Ramteerth went to America. He was an ecstatic person. Someone asked him who created the universe? He must have been in ecstasy, it must have been a moment of samadhi -- he said, "I did." In America no one is going to listen to such a thing. Here it is alright, in India it's accepted, even this kind of expression is accepted. It became a great sensation there.
People asked, "Are you in your senses? You made the moon and stars?"
Ram said, "I made them. I set them in motion, and they have been moving ever since."
To understand this statement is difficult. And it is not surprising if his American listeners couldn't understand. It is natural. This statement is not Ram's or if it is it is the real Rama's -- not Ramteerth's. At this moment Ramteerth is not speaking as a wave, he is speaking as the ocean. He is peaking as the eternal, the immortal, not speaking as the momentary. Not speaking as a man limited and defined by body and mind -- speaking as the one beyond body and mind, undefinable, unknown. It is Rama speaking through Ram, not Ramteerth himself. This declaration is from existence itself.
But it is very difficult, very hard to accept it.
Ram returned to India... he had gone on a pilgrimage to the source of the Ganges. He had been bathing in the Ganges and he jumped into it from a mountain. He left behind a short note that said,
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