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Shri Raajiva Gita: Chapter-2: The Association of Enquiry of the Difference Between God and Soul (Verses 1-9)

(Brahma Jiiva bheda Vicāra Yogaḥ)

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1-9 10-17    
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Shri Rājīva Uvaaca:-
[Shri Rajiiv Spoke]:-

Nāśabda mīkṣates sūtrāt,
Brahma cin niścitaṃ śrutam |
Hetunā kena nohyaṃ tat,
jagadūhyaṃ samantataḥ॥

[God is decided to be the awareness based on the Vedic statement (Tadaikṣata…) as stated in the Brahmasūtram (Īkṣater nā'śabdam), which says that God thought to create this world. Thinking is the quality of awareness. Therefore, God must be awareness so that He thought like this. On the other hand, you are saying that awareness is not God. By what reason is God unimaginable while the world all around is completely imaginable?]

 

Śrī Datta Bhagavān Uvāca:-
[God Śrī Datta Spoke]:-

Mumbā na ced dehalī kiṃ?,
Kālī kṣetra purī na kim? |
Sarva śakti matas cittvaṃ,
nāvaśyaṃ bhāva karmaṇi॥

[If a city is not Mumbai, does it mean that the city must be Delhi? The city can be Calcutta. Similarly, if God is not inert, does it mean that God is awareness? God can be an unimaginable item, which is beyond awareness and inertness. This third possibility exists, which is different from the two possibilities of awareness and inertness. Such unimaginable God is also omnipotent, which means that God can think even though He is not awareness, being omnipotent or capable of doing anything beyond our imagination. Being omnipotent, God thought like this.]

 

Alpaśakti jagadvastu,
cicce ccintayatīha tat |
Atītaṃ jagatas sarva —
śaktyā cintayati dhruvam॥

[Any item of the world, present in the world, has very little power and is almost impotent, which can think only if it contains awareness. God is beyond the world and is all-powerful (omnipotent). Due to His unimaginable power, God can certainly think even if the unimaginable God does not contain awareness.]

 

Ākāśa kāraṇamṃ Brahma,
tasminnākāśa vicyuteḥ |
Nohya mūhyaṃ jagat jīva —
vinode saha cātmanaḥ॥

[The space is generated from God. The effect cannot exist in its cause already before its generation. The shape of the pot does not exist in the lump of mud. Due to the absence of space, God has no spatial dimensions. Nobody can imagine an item not having spatial dimensions. Hence, God is unimaginable to the intelligence of soul. The world created by God is imaginable because along with the entertainment of God, the soul can also entertain itself in the world and such is the wish of God. Therefore, God created this world as an imaginable item.]

 

Sāmānyārthaṃ vetti bālaḥ,
kliṣṭārthaṃ vetti paṇḍitaḥ |
Ubhayo rekadā bodhe,
sāmānyaṃ hi prayujyate॥

[A normal boy can understand a simple explanation. An old scholar can understand even a complicated explanation. If you want both the normal person and scholar to understand simultaneously, you have to confine yourself to a simple explanation only.]

 

Gurucchidraṃ gurus sūkṣmaṃ,
laghur mārjāla eva hi |
Laghur guruṃ viśeccāpi,
nohyaṃ hyubhaya tārakam॥

[A big cat can enter only through a big hole, whereas a small cat can enter through both a big hole and a small hole. When God created this world along with souls for His entertainment, God can entertain with the world, whether it is unimaginable or imaginable. But the soul can entertain itself with the imaginable world only. Just like a great noble person invites other normal people to take meals, the noblest God wanted to provide entertainment even to the souls. Hence, God did not create an unimaginable world that can be enjoyed by Himself only.]

 

Vijñāna mata mālokyaṃ,
yat prayogair nirūpitam |
Ūhya viśleṣaṇe mānyaṃ,
anūhye tadapi cyutam॥

[We should depend on science when we are analyzing the imaginable items of the imaginable world because science is well established, which is based on repeated practical experiments on imaginable items. In the case of the unimaginable domain, every subject fails including science. This means that science is the authority in analyzing any item of the imaginable domain and in the case of God (unimaginable domain), science also fails since any subject fails to analyze God.]

 

Kaṇa vidyud gṛhe prāṇa —
poṣakācchakti vāhakaḥ |
Nāḍīvyavasthā saṃviṣṭaḥ,
sūte cit tāṃ nave mate॥

[As per science, the food digested in the stomach releases nutrients that enter the cells of the body with the help of blood, where materialized mitochondria, acting as power plants, oxidize (oxygen supplied by respiration) these nutrients, generating biological energy-carriers called ATP, which enter the brain, causing brain activity in which neurons are fired by ATP, generating awareness. All this complex process produces awareness or consciousness as per the modern science.]

 

Cit suṣupti mṛtā jātā,
suṣuptya nantarod bhavā |
Ajāmṛta Parabrahma,
kiṃ bhaved āśayā hataḥ!॥

[Such above said generated awareness also dies every day in deep sleep and is born every day after deep sleep (Atha cainan nitya jātaṃ…- Gita). Can such daily born and daily dying awareness be the eternal God, who has neither birth nor death? This idea of human awareness to be God is spreading in the brains of people since these souls are always dying with an unimaginable ambition to be God already!]

 

To be continued…


Chapters:

Chapter-1: The Association of Enquiry of Correlation of Three Vedantic Philosophies

Chapter-2: The Association of Enquiry of the Difference Between God and Soul

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