Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand 443

Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand Ji

CHAPTER 7 Immaculate Knowledge नाहं प्रकाश: सर्वस्य योगमायासमावृत:। मूढ़ोऽयं नाभिजानाति लोको मामजमव्ययम् ॥25॥ [ “Hidden behind my yog-maya, I am not perceived by all and this ignorant man does not know me, the birthless and immutable God.” ] For an ordinary man, maya, the power by which God evolves the physical universe, is like a thick screen behind which God is completely hidden. Beyond this yog-maya, or the practice of yog, there is also another curtain. It is only by a constant and long practice of yog that the worshipper reaches the culminating point of yog where the hidden God is perceived. Yogeshwar Kirshn says that he is hidden by his yog-maya and only they who have secured yog can know him. Since he is not manifest to alll, the ignorant and unwise man does not know him the birthless (who is not going to be born again), eternal (who cannot be destroyed), and unmanifest (who is not going to be manifest again). Arjun initially regarded Krishn as just another mortal. But after he is enlightened and his vision is enlarged, he begins to plead and beg. By and large it is only too true that we are no better than blind men in the matter of recognizing the unmanifest Soul of sages and great men.