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Chapter 7
3. Only God is mine, besides God none is mine and if there is anyone else, let him be, what have we to do with him? This is from a simple, straightforward, believer-devotee's point of view 'Vasudevah sarvam'. As in Vraja a sage was talking to some one near the well, "Brahma (the Supreme) is so and so and the soul is so etc." A cowherds woman came there to draw water from the well, she beard the conversation and asked the other cowherds woman, "What are these Brahma and the soul?" The other woman said, "They should be our beloved's kith and kin, therefore these sages are talking about them, otherwise what have they to do with anyone else besides our beloved Lab (Krsna)?
4. The striver who is restless at heart in order to know the Supreme Truth and so does not feel hungry in the day and whose sleep vanishes at night, he having listened to the discourse of a saint or having studied a book, firmly assumes that all is God. What is God? He does not know it but there is nothing else besides God—this is 'Vasudevah sarvam' from the view point of the belief in a saint's utterances. Having a firmer belief (faith) in saint's utterances than his own perception, he realizes that all is God.
If we reflect upon it from the philosophical point of view we come to know that there can be only one entity rather than two. From the faith-belief (devotion) point of view also all is God, there is no one else besides God. A devotee can't behold anyone else besides God and no one else besides God comes in his view.
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