Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand 422

Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand Ji

CHAPTER 7 Immaculate Knowledge But the difficulty was that he belonged to their lineage and was born only sometime before them; and it was a fact that the earth was never submerged and destroyed after his birth. With all this, how was it possible that he had beheld destruction of the earth? What kind of deluge was it? Sut Ji told them that, pleased with his prayers, God had manifested himself to Markandeya Ji, who had then expressed his wish to see God’s maya, drivn by which the Soul has to wander through endless births. God had granted his wish and one day, when the sage was sitting absorbed in comtemplation, he saw towering, furious waves of the sea hurtling on to him from all sides. Terrible fishes leapt from the waves. He scurried here and there to save himself. The sky, the sun, the moon, heaven itself, and all the constellations were drowned in the flood. In the meantime he saw a Banyan tree with an infant on one of its leaves.