Pujya Ramsukhdasji Maharaj

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God is Concealed by His own Divine Potency

 

Veiled by My divine potency (Yog Maya), I am not manifest to all.

Hence ignorant folks do not recognize Me as One unborn and

imperishable Supreme. " (Gita 7:25)

 

" Naaham Prakaasah sarvasya yogamaayaasamaacrta h

Moodhoyam naabhijanaati loko maamajamavyayam. " (Gita 7:25)

 

Here the Lord says - I am unborn and imperishable i.e. free from

birth and death. But I stage a play of my revelation and

disappearance. In spite of being unborn, I incarnate and in spite of

being imperishable I disappear in the same way that a Sun rises and

sets. Thus those who know me without birth and death are undeluded

(Gita 10:3, 15:19). But those who regard Me as the Lord of creation,

yet an ordinary mortal, subject to birth and death are fools (Gita

9:11).

 

The reason that man does not regard God as unborn and imperishable,

is that man by forgetting his real affinity with God, by error man

has accepted his affinity with this body. " I am this body and this

body is mine. " It is because of this veil that man regards the Lord,

as one with birth and death.

 

The two factors that prevent men from regarding God as unborn and

imperishable are

 

1) God is concealed by His own divine potency and

2) This happens due to their own follies

 

Let us say a man is confined to his house whose doors are shut. He is

free to leave his house, but he is unable to leave the city, which is

surrounded by walls and enclosed with a gate. The king can open the

gate to the city and even force the man out of his house. Similarly a

man can get rid of his folly, but he can realize God only by God's

grace. Only he whom God enables to realize Him can know Him. If a man

surrenders himself to God, then God Himself removes his ignorance, as

well as, His deluding potency.