Pujya Ramsukhdasji Maharaj

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The Entire Universe is Paramatma's Manifestation - Gita 7:7 (Sep 4, 2008)

 

mattah parataram nânyatkincidasti dhananjaya

mayi sarvamidam protam sootre maniganâ iva (Gita 7:7)

 

O Arjuna ! for this world, there is no other cause (activity or

instrument of action) higher than Me. Just like beads made from yarn

are strung on a thread made of yarn, similarly, this entire Universe

is woven through and through (permeated) by Me. (Gita 7:7)

 

Comments: In the first sentence, " mattah parataram nânyatkincidasti

dhananjaya " - There is nothing else besides Me, the origin of the

Universe. As air is born in space (ether), resides in space and

merges into space, without having any independent existence of its

own, so is the Universe born of Paramatma (Supreme Consciousness),

remains established in Him and merges in Him i.e. the universe has no

independent existence of its own, besides Paramatma.

 

Here the term " Parataram " means that Paramatma is the root cause of

all things, persons, incidents, circumstances, and time etc., of the

world. He is the cause of all causes. There is no cause of Him. It

means that they all seem to exist, in His light, only He pervades, all

of them.

 

Bhagawaan Krsna announced in Gita 7:2, that He would unfold in full,

the knowledge (wisdom) along with real knowledge of the manifest

Divinity (Vijnaana), having known which, nothing else would remain to

be known. But here He declares, that there is no other origin of the

Universe, besides Him. In both the verses, by using the expression " Na

anyat " (no anything), He means that when there is nothing besides Him,

how can anything else remain, to be known after knowing Him?

Therefore Bhagwaan Shri Krsna says - " All this is strung (threaded)

on Me " , and further , He declares " All is God " (Gita 7:19 and " I am

being and non-being " both (Gita 9:19). the effect has no independent

entity, except it's cause. The cause only is manifest in its effect.

When the cause is realized (known), the effect merges in the cause.

It means that the effect has no separate identity from the cause.

Similarly it can be realized that Paramatma is the cause, and the

world is the effect. Hence the world has no separate entity from

Paramatma. This is God Realization. Actually, it is He alone, who

manifests in different forms i.e. this Universe is nothing besides,

Divine manifestation. Thus a sadhak, will come to know that the

entire Universe is His manifestation (to be continued)