14 Aug 2023
[Shri Anil asked: Padanamaskaram Swami, What is the meaning of the following statements of the Bible-At Your Divine Lotus Feet-anil
1. Matthew 11:28–30: “Come unto me, all you that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. “Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. “For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light.”
2. (Exodus 33:18-20) Then Moses said, “Now, please show me Your glory.” The Lord answered, “I will cause all My goodness to pass in front of you, and I will announce My name, the Lord, so you can hear it. I will show ·kindness to anyone to whom I want to show ·kindness, and I will show ·mercy to anyone to whom I want to show ·mercy. But you cannot see My face, because no one can see Me and live.]
Swami Replied:-
1) God is inviting the devotee to participate in His work of propagation of true spiritual knowledge, which is the Yoke. Then, all the burden and misery of worldly bonds will disappear so that peace in the form of rest can be attained by the devotee.
2) Here, the unimaginable God is speaking to Moses. One cannot even imagine the unimaginable God, there is no question of seeing Him. If you take the first energetic incarnation of the unimaginable God here in the place of unimaginable God, even then, one cannot see Him since the energy is million times more than the energy of Sun (Divi Sūryasahasrasya…—Gita).
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