Pujya Ramsukhdasji Maharaj

[Guest guest]

God is Concealed due to God's Divine Potency and Man's Delusion

 

Veiled, by My divine potency (Yoga Maya), I am not manifest to all.

Hence ignorant folk do not recognize Me, as one unborn and

imperishable Supreme. " (Gita 7:25)

 

" Naaham Prakaasah sarvasya yogamaayaasamaavrtah

moodhoyam naabhijaanaati loko maamajamavyayam. " (Gita 7:25)

 

When God talks about " Moodhoyam, " He says - " He is unborn and

imperishable, free from birth and death. " But, in spite of being

unborn and imperishable, he appears (incarnates) and disappears by

staging a divine play, in the same way as the Sun rises and appears

before us and later sets and disappears from our sight. Thus, those

who know Bhagavan as beyond birth and death are undeluded (Gita

10:3, 15:19). Whereas, those who regard Him as an ordinary mortal,

subject to birth and death, are deluded fools (Gita 9:11).

 

The reason why a man does not regard Bhagavan (God) as unborn and

imperishable, is that man by forgetting his real affinity with

Bhagavan, erroneously accept his affinity with this body, " I am

this body and this body is mine. " It is because of this body

consciousness that there is a veil in front of man, due to which he

regards Bhagavan (God) as perishable, one who is born and later

dies.

 

The points brought out in this verse is that the reason men do not

regard God as unborn and imperishable, is because of two factors -

 

1) Bhagavan is concealed in His divine potency and

2) Bhagavan is concealed due to man's own folly.

 

Let us use this illustration. A man remains confined to his house

which is shut by the gates of the house. He is able to go out of

his own house, but the city is also gated and he is unable to cross

the city gates, as the City gates are shut. But the King in that

area, can open the gate of the City as well as, force the sentry to

open the gates of the man's house. Similarly a man can get rid of

his folly and realize his true nature. But God Realization, is only

possible by God's grace. Only those who Bhagavan (God) enables to

know Him, can truly know Him. Those who surrender themselves to

Bhagavan (God), for them, Bhagavan removes their ignorance, as well

as, gets rid of God's deluding (maya) potency.