CH 7, Verse 25

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Chapter 7

Verse 25

 

N'aaham prakaashah sarvasya yoga-maayaa samaavritah /

muudho'yam n'aabhijaanaati loko maam ajam avyayam //

 

I am not manifest to all, being veiled by My Yoga Maya

(cosmic illusion.) This foolish world does not know

Me, the unborn and immutable.

 

LESSONS FROM BHAGAVAD GITA – 75

As taught by Parama Pujya Sri Swamiji

 

But, ordinary people, who are devoid of wisdom, are

unable to realize this truth. They take Sri Krishna,

or Rama, or any other incarnation as ordinary mortals.

They cannot see, in these incarnations, the highest

essence of the Lord, which is immutable and

transcendent. What is the cause of their ignorance?

Sri Krishna answers:

 

"I am not manifest to all, being veiled by My Yoga

Maya (cosmic illusion.) This foolish world does not

know Me, the unborn and immutable" (Chapter 7, Verse

25).

 

The Lord is omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient. He

is the one supreme that pervades the entire universe.

But all cannot see the Lord as He is veiled by His

power of Maya. There is a thick curtain between man

and God and that is the veil of cosmic illusion or

Yoga Maya, which is constituted by the fabrication of

Prakriti’s constituents i.e., Sattva, Rajas and Tamas.

Being veiled by that power, the whole world is

deluded, and no one is able to see the Lord, who is

present everywhere and in everything. As such the Lord

ever remains unmanifest and unrevealed to the whole

world.

 

But the devotee who has purified his mind through

intense spiritual discipline can easily tear away the

veil that stands between him and the Lord. He can then

have the vision of the omnipotent Lord in his own

heart. The Lord is seated in the heart of everyone as

the Eternal Conscious Principle.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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