13 Aug 2014
Shri Durga Prasad asked “You told that the realisation of unreal world with respect to the real God gives detachment, which forms the basis for the enjoyment of misery. But, You said that the intensive enjoyment of misery comes only from ignorance as in the case of Human incarnation. How to reconcile these two in the case of the human being, wishing to enjoy the misery?”
Swami replied: If you take the case of Human incarnation, It is a two component system in which the unimaginable God and imaginable human being co-exist. The nature of the human being is always ignorance and the intensive experience of the misery can be attained by God when God identifies with such ignorant human being just like an iron rod associated with hot rod also becomes hot. The basic concept of the realisation of the unreal nature of the world with respect to God already exists with the unimaginable God, which gives the enjoyment of misery without attachment. Thus, both ignorance (Avidya) and realisation of knowledge (Vidya) co-exist with the unimaginable God and both these are used separately as per the requirement of the context. In the case of a wise human being also seeing the cinema, the enjoyment of misery is possible because the unreal nature of the cinema is already realised by the wise human being, which forms the basis of detachment. The scene of the cinema can influence the spectator and make him forget this realisation and detachment. The intensive effect of the scene can bring the ignorance even in the case of a wise man. Hence, the attachment to the scene due to the ignorance makes him enjoy it based on his earlier realisation. The enjoyment of misery is based on detachment and the depth of the experience is based on the ignorance. Thus, there is an altering shifts of ignorance and realisation. It is the state of a sort of mixture of both knowledge and ignorance present in Him causing the deep experience and enjoyment together. The ignorance gives deep experience of the misery. The realisation makes you enjoy the misery without attachment. In the case of an ordinary human being, only ignorance prevails giving the deep experience of misery and the enjoyment is absent due to lack of realisation. The realisation can come only by achieving nearness to God through devotion. Through mere knowledge, the realisation is only theoretical and cannot be experienced. The practical experience comes only by the grace of God. The followers of Advaita philosophy do not have this devotion since they feel themselves as God. Due to this, there is no grace of God on them. Since they are God, God cannot show grace on Himself. Due to this, even though theoretical realisation is there, they fail to enjoy the misery.
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