At present we are primarily concerned with two things. The one is about ourselves and the other is about the place where we live in. In other words we are concerned with two objectives namely everything that is related with our gross and subtle bodies and the world at large with all its paraphernalia. But there are others who are above us i.e. the transcendentalists are concerned not only with their body and mind and the world at large but also with the transcendental subject which is above all of these, the body, mind, and the world at large. The transcendentalists are very much concerned with the Absolute Truth and much less with the relative truths.
These transcendentalists ordinarily known as the saints, philosophers, reformers, messengers, etc., occasionally do appear in all places of the world at all times and they render transcendental service to the Absolute Truth and to humanity also, by preaching the message of the transcendental world. According to them, even the lower animals like the cats and dogs, are concerned with primarily two things namely themselves and the world at large. The living entities other than the human being, have no capacity to understand the transcendental subject. The human being is considered to be the highest of all creations. But we must find out as to where we stand as the highest of all created beings.
The man who is the highest of all the created beings when fully developed in consciousness, does not only concerns himself with his ownself or the world where he lives, but, he tries to understand the Absolute Knowledge Who regulates his own self as well as the world and knowing Him, the transcendentalist regulates his activities in the right path. This regulating process is commonly known as a system of faith or religion. All over the civilized world there is some process or form of religion without any denial. When man is devoid of any such religion or transcendental characteristics he is nothing but beast. The subject matter which the religionists delinated according to different country, time and people, is more-or-less aimed at this objective of Absolute Knowledge. Absolute Knowledge or the Absolute Truth is one without a second but he is viewed with different angles of vision by different religionists or transcendentalists under different circumstances. Some of them views the Absolute Truth as the impersonal force generally known as the Formless Brahman while others view Him as the all pervading localised aspect dwelling within all living entities generally known as Paramatma or the Supersoul. But there is another important section of transcendentalists who can understand the Absolute Truth as the 'Absolute Personality of Godhead' Who has the potentialities of being impersonal and all pervasive simultaneously in concurrence with His Absolute Personality.
At the present moment the word 'religion' is going to be sacrificed at the altar of materialistic tendency. The human race is more concerned now with the objects of eating. sleeping, fearing and sense gratifying similar to the lower animals and the general tendency is to avoid transcendental matter as far as possible without going into the details. Even the biggest political leaders have been heard to say that the hungry man or woman has no meaning for God and Religion(?) People in general under the leadership of such materialistic men, are gradually degrading to the stage of lower animals devoid of all transcendental knowledge except himself and the world. The human race has come down to the qualitative status of the dogs who are habituated to barking as soon as they findout another set of dogs who happen to belong to other quarters. We cannot conceive of a greater degradation of the human being, when he is apt to raise hue and cry as soon as he sees another human being who does not happen to belong to his quarter or to his religious formalities. He raises the hue and cry as if he has been forced by a tiger or a bear. Human race without transcendental knowledge has actually become more than the tigers and the wolves.
It is therefore necessary at the present moment to understand something about the Absolute knowledge if we want to bring back the human race to sanity and as such intelligent persons or leaders of men should not devote their energies only for worldlyness in the matter of eating, sleeping, fearing, and sense gratifying. The leaders of men who think that the hungry men or woman has no meaning for God and religion may be replied with all emphasis that there is no man or woman in the world who is not hungry and it is the hungry man or woman only who has to understand the meaning of God and religion now, more than ever. In this connection, we would like to quote the substance of the speech of Sri Radhakrishnan, delivered at a recent meeting of Unesco in Paris. He said that when a nation ostentationally turns away from God and concentrates on worldly success and prosperity, it meets with its doom. What is essential today is not as much the rehabilitation of schools and libraries or shops and factories as the rehabilitation of man; we must recreate man if we are to recreate a new world community. It is therefore more necessary now to find out the most important relation of man with God, if we want at all to rehabilitate the human race which is already shattered more than ever.
The philosophers and the logicians have tried to establish the intrinsic relation of living entities with God by different conceptions & methods on the strength of their mundane education of scholastic research. But the Absolute Truth being above the philosophers and their acquired knowledge, the conception of the Absolute is never perfectly attained by such ascending process because of its being born with imperfect material senses. The empiric philosophers and logicians cannot realise there imperfectness by the vanity of material knowledge and the ultimate conclusion of such materialistic philosophers is aetheism manifested in the denial of the existence of God who is the Supreme Person different from all other persons. Under such vague assumption, we remain in the same darkness as before and are content with the conception of Godhead according to one's individual idea without knowing the real relation of Godhead and ourselves. The transcendentalists therefore do not recognise such process of generalisation but tries to rise up from direct perception to the knowledge of deduction in its various stages, from authorities who have actual revelation of the transcendental knowledge. This revelation is made possible from the deeper aspect of human personality.
The real knowledge of Godhead and his relation with us can only be revealed by this transcendental method. Godhead being Absolute, He reserves the right of not being exposed to the mundaners. He can be known by one Absolute process and relativity of sense persception cannot reach Him for ever. If Godhead would have been the subject of being revealed by our relative sense perception, then instead of Godhead, our sense-perceptions would have been Absolute. The process is therefore fallacious in all its manifold stages. We cannot approach the Absolute by poor fund of knowledge but the Absolute out of His own unbiased mercy becomes revealed by His own appearance. In the darkness of night the sun cannot be obliged to appear by the process of our highest scientific method but the sun out of its own way reveals itself in the morning without the help of our materialistic any enterprise. When the sun appears, the darkness of the night automatically disappears. It is therefore a truth that Godhead Himself or His confidential servants descend themselves by their own potency and without any help from this material world, out of their causeless mercy, just in order to do favour to the fallen souls who are apt to be illusioned by the material energy of Godhead, called the modes of nature. If we shut up our doors & windows, however, when the sun rises in the morning, surely the rays of the sun will not enter into our solemn room. In the same way when Godhead or His confidential servants do appeared themselves and preach the message of Godhead, we must not shut up the doors & windows of our body, otherwise the light emanated from them shall not enter into us. The lights that emanate from such transcendental sources general enter into us by our aural reception. If we are therefore ready to offer a submissive aural reception to the message of Godhead we can then & then only know Godhead as He is and our relationship with Him as it is. 'Message of Godhead' presented herewith in that transcendental spirit for the benefit of all generally and for the real searchers of Truth specially. We do not know how far we shall be successful in are tiny attempt but we must always apologise for all our defects in this respect.
——The Author.