Acharya Shree, what are your thoughts on masters like Krishna, Buddha, Jesus, and Yogananda that promise that they will come back to help the world again?
It is also a very very good question because it will give people good information. Plus also it will straighten them out too.
First of all masters like Krishna, masters like Buddha, masters like Jesus, or other kind of yogi like Yogananda. Many people consider him master. Or Babaji.
They consider him master, many people. If they promise they are coming back, first thing you need to know they never got enlightenment in their life.
The very first place if somebody promise you that they are coming back to teach you again, it means they are not liberated.
Buddhists are very honest people. They talk about Buddha, they talk about Buddha. "Buddha was enlightened." But they are very truthful too about his liberation.
If you have heard that story that Buddha almost entered into the Heaven but he looked back to the people, "Oh, the world is still suffering. The world is still in pain. Till everybody get liberated I wont go to the liberation. And Buddha came back.
That is the story in Buddhist texts. The Buddhists are truthful at least that he never entered into liberation, in moksha, or in nirvana. They are truthful. I like truthful people.
But the Buddhists they are all in illusion. They think Buddha is God. It means they think Buddha entered into liberation. But on the other hand they say he never entered because he's still wandering here.
And he's still helping us. But Buddha never claimed that he will come back though. But their followers they claim that Buddha will come back.
So is followers of Krishna. They are thinking Krishna will come back. It means he never entered into the liberation then.
It's very difficult to understand people. They are still waiting for Krishna. And the Christianity is so crazy for Jesus that Jesus will come back. And every year they think he is coming back, he is coming back, he is coming back.
It means when they think he will come back, Jesus will come back, he never entered into the liberation either.
Yogananda. If they claim, or Yogananda told the people that he is coming back, he never got enlightenment.
Let me tell you one thing. That once you achieve enlightenment, it is not in your hands to come back from the liberation because you don't have any choice. That is your last body. Once the last body finishes, you merge with the godly light...
And with the God. And light cannot be form again, cannot be in the shape of the body again. Let me give an example.
Once you achieve the enlightenment you become like a gold. All the other metals - steel, iron, by chemicals, by some kind of formula, we can make them gold. But once the metal becomes gold there is no way that the gold can be iron again.
Gold is gold. Once you achieve the highest state of the metal, highest state of the iron, then it is hard to make them again iron, because it is polluted again.
And gold is purified. And gold never get destroyed after that. You put in the fire it will be even purified more, but it will not lose the weight. It will stay in the same shape as gold.
That's why if you have gold you are rich because you bury into the ground you find after 100,000 years later it will be same weight, you don't lose anything. Silver doesn't have that, iron doesn't have that quality. Gold has it.
So the enlightenment is like a gold. Once you achieve it you cannot come back same way. It is not in your hand. Once you become gold, that is it. There is no further goal.
So liberation is once you achieve the enlightenment it means you become like a gold already. And then you cannot come back again into this same way; suffering, pain, get the body again.
So if Krishna's followers they claiming Krishna will come back, they need to understand Krishna never got enlightened, neither Buddha, if their followers are claiming.
And Yogananda is nothing in front of them. He just was a yogi kind of. And whoever make popular this, Yogananda made popular about Babaji Avatar that he's still helping people. It means he never got enlightenment either - Babaji.
So what you will think about those. Hey, if Babaji is still wandering around, he never entered into the moksha. It means he never got enlightened in his life.
Why to make that kind of people so low? Maybe they have lack of knowing who are making them that Babaji is still wandering around.
They need to...those people or those yogis...they had no right knowing about Babaji. Maybe Babaji already entered into the liberation.
He never comes back. And the people who are seeing Babaji they are fully in illusion. So remember, get rid of that illusion.
As soon as you get rid of that illusion, enlightenment is not far from you. It is just waiting to you right away. And don't get trapped into those claims that they will come back or they are coming back.
If you get trapped into that, also make yourself clear that they never got enlightened first place. And then they never entered into the liberation.
So, it will be very difficult to accept what I am suggesting to you. But you have to accept sooner or later.
You want to get that right things to know, you have to make your mind fully clear about them. Jaya Siddhatma