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Radha’s Prem -Swami Sivananda
Scene 3
Act 1
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Murkha Raj: (Aside to his friends) I think he is mad. What’s he talking about—Philosophy or Utopia? (To Jnana Dev) Yes, it is true. Jnana Dev: When were you born? Murkha Raj: Why, are you going to start fortune-telling? I was born on 15th January, 1920. Jnana Dev: Was God existing before your birth? Murkha Raj: Yes Swamiji, certainly. Jnana Dev: How do you know? Are you talking of facts known to you or unknown to you? Murkha Raj: I am talking of facts known to me. Jnana Dev: When you were born on 15-1-1920, how do you know that God existed before you were born? Murkha Raj: Yes, Swamiji. Were you an Advocate-General before you came here? I know I am being paradoxical. I don’t help contradicting myself. But I feel certain that God existed before my birth. Jnana Dev: Very good. It is not so paradoxical as you think. I will explain to you. When you say you were born on 15-1-1920, you refer to the appearance of your physical body on the earth. When you feel, by a necessity of thought that God existed before that date, you are voicing out your inmost soul, which is birthless and deathless like God. Now you understand the limitations of the human mind, how it is unable to grasp the full import of Omniscience, Omnipotence, Omnipresence, etc., but they are merely sound-bubbles for all of us. Therefore, you will have to get your training on an image for a sufficiently long period before you can have actual and personal experience of God’s true nature and qualities such as Omnipresence, etc. |
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