How to understand self-imposed ignorance and Omniscience of Human Incarnation?

[Shri Balaji came from Bangalore exclusively to have Satsanga with Shri Datta Swami and other Devotees. Shri Balaji asked this question.]

How does one understand seemingly contradicting scenario of self-imposed ignorance & Omniscience with respect to the Human Incarnation?

[You have said that the Human Incarnation comes down to enjoy within the creation and hence due to self-imposed ignorance, He chooses to not know the future events in His life. But we see that He is simultaneously able to respond to devotees’ prayers (even those who don’t call over the phone) showing presence of Omniscience all the Time. How to understand the above seemingly contradicting scenario with respect to the Human Incarnation?]

Swami Replied: The Human Incarnation covers ignorance on personal life so that It can enjoy the thrill of personal life that gives maximum entertainment. Such ignorance is only self-imposed and can be also thrown away at any time because He always controls Maaya (Vaśī kṛta māyaḥ) unlike the soul, which is controlled by Maayaa (Māyā vaśī kṛtaḥ). He allows the control of Maaya on Him for the purpose of  personal entertainment. This cannot be extended to His devotees because if the incarnation is entertained by the sufferings of His devotees, He becomes a sadist. He is Omniscient in the case of all His real and closest devotees. But He appears as if He is an ignorant soul only since underserving devotees will pester Him for undue favours if they know that the incarnation is Omniscient. There are lots of complications in this topic and finally He saves the real devotees. The meaning of the word Emmanuel is that the Human Incarnation saves Its own people and not all. ‘Its own people’ means real deserving devotees. Preachers are telling a false meaning for the word Emmanuel that it means the incarnation comes to save all the people. This is a commercialised twist used for the propagation of their religion against other religions without the attitude of Universal Spirituality that is the underlying unity of all religions.

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