Have You Realized Maha Bhava?

[An Advaita follower asked:]

Swami replied: The word Maha means God (Mahat Brahma iti proktam…). The word Bhava means realizing the existence of God. Every devotee gets this Maha Bhava. This word is also interpreted in a different way, according to which it means theoretically realizing yourself as God. Practically you can never realize yourself as God. A theoretical assumption is always possible in any case. You can theoretically assume yourself as the Prime Minister of this country. This assumption is not wrong as long as you recognize it as theoretical. But, sometimes you start behaving as God in practice also due to your overconfidence or over ambition. That is not correct. In the Bhagavatam, one Gopika declared herself as Krishna and lifted a cloth on the finger. This state was said as Maha Bhava because the Gopika knows that her finger was raising a piece of cloth only and not Govardhana Mountain. This theoretical assumption leads to several benefits like coming out of depression, changing the human behavior into divine behavior etc. For the sake of a good result, a lie is permitted, which is called as Artha Vada. The mother says the child that if it eats the food, the moon will come down. For the sake of feeding the child, this lie is not a sin. The Maha Bhava in reality is possible only in the case of contemporary human incarnation, which proves this state as a practical reality. No human soul can practically realize that it is God or even a part of God. God created this infinite universe of matter and energy. The human being cannot create a similar universe and hence, cannot be practically God. The human soul cannot create even an atom of matter or even a ray of energy and thus, cannot be even the minutest part of God. Therefore, in reality, it is impossible for any human soul except the human form of the Lord.