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Why did Shankara enter the dead body of the king to acquire the knowledge of sex?

[Shri Anil asked: Paadanamaskaaram Swami. Shankara being omnipotent God, why did He enter the dead body of the king to acquire the knowledge of sex? He could have known it anyway being omnipotent God? At Your Divine Lotus Feet-anil]

Swami replied:- When God enters the human medium, He will not use His special miraculous powers when there is an alternative worldly way to achieve a specific goal. He wanted to have the knowledge of the subject of sex since He was to be tested through questions asked by the better half (wife) of Mandanamishra. The test was only about the knowledge of the subject and not the practical knowledge of the subject. He did not want to use His body in the sex for this theoretical purpose. Hence, He entered the body of the king leaving His body at a safe place.

The king became alive and the individual soul of the king entered his body by the will of God. Leaving His body at a safe place and making the king alive are the miracles of God. This means that if necessary, God will use the miraculous powers. The individual soul of the king is enjoying the sex done by his body with his wives. There is no sin in this place. The individual soul of Shankara is associated with the individual soul of the king like an iron rod associated with another hot iron rod. The first hot iron rod (individual soul of king) is directly associated with the fire (wives of the king through the body of king) and the second iron rod (individual soul of Shankara) is not directly associated with the fire. Hence, sin did not touch either the body or the individual soul of Shankara. This explanation is given by Shankara to Goddesses Saravati, when she objected Shankara to climb the throne of Omniscience (Sarvajna peetham) saying that Shankara became impure due to the affair with the wives of the king.

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