Pujya Ramsukhdasji Maharaj

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God Cannot be Known by one who is Deluded by Modes of Nature

 

II 7:12 II

 

ye caiva saattvikaa bhaavaa raajasaastaamasaasc a ye

matta eveti taanviddhi na tvaham tesu te mayi (Gita 7:12)

 

What else am I?

Whatever sentiments of the mode of purity or goodness there is, and

whatever inner sentiments of the mode of activity or passion or mode

of inertia or ignorance, they all evolve from Me alone - understand

it to be so. But they are not in Me, nor I in them.

 

Comments - Body, sense organs, mind, intellect, and those pure,

passionate or ignorant sentiments, actions, objects etc. that are

grasped, they are all only Bhagwaan (God). " I am not in them, and

they are not in Me " - by saying this the point is that a spiritual

aspirant's (sadhak) sight instead of drawing towards the sentiments

of purity, passion or ignorance, must go only towards Bhagwaan

(God). If his sight, goes towards sentiments and qualities, then

becoming entangled and captivated, he will go into the cycle of

birth and death (Gita 13:21).

 

All sentiments of purity, passion and ignorance are a form of God -

this is the view of perfected souls, whereas, God is not in them,

and they are not in God, is the view of spiritual aspirants.

 

II 7:13 II

 

tribhirgunamayairbh aavairebhih sarvamidam jagat

mohitam naabhijaanaati maamebhyah paramavyayam (Gita 7:13)

 

Beguiled by these threefold modes (gunas) of Nature (prakriti), this

world (embodied soul) does not know Me, who is imperishable and

beyond these modes.

 

Comments - He who not seeing God, instead sees the modes of nature,

i.e. he sees an independent existence of the modes, he becomes

infatuated and deluded. That man who is deluded by the modes,

cannot know Paramatma (God) who is beyond these threefold modes.

 

Although being a part of Paramatma, the embodied soul is also beyond

the threefold modes, however, on giving existence and importance to

the modes (qualities), he (world) becomes one with the modes. It is

for this reason that in this verse the embodied soul is

called " world " . The embodied soul who has become the world,

believes this body and this life it self is I, Mine and for Me.