Posted on: 15 Mar 2023
[Ms. Thrylokya asked: Paadanamaskaram Swami! You told that God merges with both the body and soul of a selected-devotee while forming human incarnation. The answers given by You to the questions of Shri G Lakshman in yesterday’s satsanga in the context of deep sleep, show that God merges with the soul only and not the body.]
Swami replied: When we are talking about deep sleep, it pertains only to the soul (loosely meaning individual soul that stands for awareness) and not to the body. Hence, the context of merge of God with the body is completely irrelevant to the present context. What I mean is that the present discussion about the soul in deep sleep is not disturbed whether God merged with the soul only or with the soul and the body. However, I am giving the total picture of God merging with the body. When God merges, He merges with both body and soul as told in the Veda (Antarbahiśca…). But, God can conveniently withdraw from the body to allow the body to perform its natural properties so that other human beings can freely mix with the incarnation. But, whenever necessary, God can extend into the body from the soul for performing a specific miracle that needs the divinity of the body. When Krishna wanted to lift the hill on His tender little finger, the body needs divinity thereby, possessing supernatural strength so that the little finger can lift and also maintain the huge hill on it for seven days continuously. In this context, God extended into the body from the soul. There is no difficulty in the extension of God from the soul into the body because body and soul are made of the same causal material, called energy. Matter and energy are physically distinct phases of the same component, called energy.