Pujya Ramsukhdasji Maharaj

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Can All Devotees Have the Experience tht All are God?

 

Question: At the end, can all Devotees have the realization

that " All is only God " (Vasudeva Sarvam)?

 

Answer: All Devotees do not have this experience, only those

devotees that do not have any insistence of their own opinions,

feelings, doctrines related to devotion, have this experience. Only

those devotees that are not satisfied with their own beliefs have

this experience. If a devotee looks upon knowledge as inferior or

deficient (as compared to devotion), then they are not able to have

the experience of " All is God " (Vasudeva Sarvam).

 

Question: What is the difference between " Sarva Khalivadam Brahma "

(Chandogya Upanishad 3:14:1) and " Vasudeva Sarvam " (Gita 7:19)?

 

Answer: In " Sarva Khalivadam Brahma " there is pre-eminence of

formless, attributeless God and there is negation of what is not

real (i.e. temporary and moving towards destruction) . But in " All

is God " (Vasudeva Sarvam), there is pre-eminence of God with form

and attributes and there is no negation of the unreal (temporary and

changing).

 

God has called One with attributes as " Entirety, Complete "

(Samagrah), " Asashayam samagram maam, " (Gita 7:1). All are included

in " Vasudeva Sarvam " (All is God) in their entirety - with and

without attributes, with and without form, sentient and insentient,

real and unreal etc.

 

Question: One point is that " Everything is only God " and another

point is " I am God's and God is Mine " - of these two points, which

one should we accept?

 

Answer: At first accept that " I am God's and God is Mine " , on

accepting this point itself you will be able to realize that " I am

not, and only God is. "