05 Feb 2005
[In the verse “Manusheem Tanu Maashritam”, the Lord said that He was insulted while He was in human form. Does it mean that He comes only in human form?
In the above question I told you that the Lord could be a Guru only in human form and preach the divine knowledge. In the verse you mentioned, the human form was said to be the subject of insult. In the Gita it is said “Vasudevah Sarvam” which means that the son of Vasudeva (human form) is everything and the highest form. In the chapter, Vibhuthi Yoga, the Lord said that He would be in the highest form of any category. The whole essence of Vibhuthi Yoga is that He is in the highest form. Man is the highest form in this world. Therefore He comes in the form of a man to preach, or at least in the form of a living being to kill demons. If you say that He is the inert sun among the inert planets (Jyothishaam Ravih), the highest inert form among a category of the inert objects is only a representative model of the Lord. Otherwise the Veda would be contradicted since it is said in the Veda that the sun is not the Lord (Nedam tat) and that the Lord does not exist in inert objects (Natasya Pratima). You must interpret the Gita without contradicting the Veda. If the Gita opposes the Veda I do not mind refusing the verse in the Gita because some scholar in the Gita must have inserted such a contradictory verse in it. The Veda is the only final authority since it was preserved by recitation since a long time.