30 Sep 2024
[Ms. Bhanu Samykya asked:]
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Aavarana |
not seeing rope as rope |
unable to have right understanding |
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Vikhsepa |
misunderstanding rope as snake |
having wrong knowledge/ understanding |
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Mala |
long standing misunderstanding of rope as snake |
long standing wrong understanding gained more strength compared to right knowledge |
To apply in real life- if I take the topic of ignorance of closeness with God-
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If soul is ignorant of real nature of God, which is omnipotent and omniscient |
It is Avarana |
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Confining God to only physical body of human incarnation |
It is Vikshepa |
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Forgetting the truth that God is omnipotent and omniscient and always close to all devotees irrespective of physical bodily closeness and long-standing misunderstanding of physical closeness as real closeness to God |
It is Mala |
Is this understanding of the concept correct Swami? At Your Divine Lotus Feet, Bhanu Samykya.]
Swami replied:- Your understanding of the concept is perfectly correct. Chemical closeness (mental attachment) is more important than physical closeness (external attachment). The first concept is attached to the weight of sugar in a sweet and the second concept is attached to the form of sweet. Draupadi as a sister was not having any physical closeness with God Krishna and the wives were having constant physical closeness with God Krishna. When the test of true love was conducted by God Krishna, Draupadi defeated all the wives by tearing her new sari for the bandage of God Krishna while all the wives ran in all the directions for a small piece of cloth. Hence, it is the practical devotion expressed to God, which is really important and not the theoretical devotion having any extent of depth. God is omniscient and knows the reality of the devotion of the devotee when it comes into the field of practical expression. All the tests conducted by God Datta are only about the true love that can be proved practically only. God Krishna became red hot when Radha drank hot milk. He did not become red hot when Rukmini was drinking the same hot milk every day. He said that this happened since Radha was contacting God Krishna now and then whereas Rukmini was in constant physical association with God Krishna. Constant association brings negligence not only in the case of humans but also in the case of angels (Parokṣa priyā iva hi devāḥ pratyakṣa dviṣaḥ - Veda).
God Datta takes energetic incarnations and human incarnations as per the requirement. The external body of the incarnation masks the internal body of God Datta. You can take God Datta as the rope and the external Krishna as the serpent. The existence of the rope became the existence of the serpent. You have to say that the serpent is rope and you should not say that the serpent is non-existent. If you say that the serpent is non-existent, the rope must also be non-existent because the existence of the serpent is the existence of rope. Even though the world is unreal by itself, it becomes real since the absolute reality of God is gifted to the unreal world so that the unreal world also becomes absolutely real. For a soul, this world is completely real. The soul cannot say that the world is unreal since the soul itself is unreal being a part of this world. God Datta can say that the world is unreal, but, no soul can say this since soul is also a part of the creation of God. Hence, a soul cannot say that Krishna is unreal serpent and Datta is the real rope. The soul should say that Krishna is Datta.
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