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Chapter 10
Appendix:—Besides the divine glories already mentioned, if a striver is attracted towards any person or thing, there he should behold God viz., he should firmly hold that that speciality is not of a person or a thing but that is only God's. When he firmly believes that there is only God, the world will disappear in the same way as when we hold that in ornaments made of gold, there is nothing else besides gold, then existence of the ornaments is lost; when we think that in the toys made of sugar, there is nothing else besides sugar, then toys vanish. The reason is that in fact the world has no existence. Only the man (self) because of his attachment and aversion, has sustained the world 'yayedam dharyate jagat' (Gita 7/5). The gist of all this is that a striver has
to attain the goal—`Vasudevah sarvam' (all is God). Therefore the Lord according to `Arundhatunyaya' has described His divine glories so that strivers may realize 'Vasudevah sarvam' because when a striver beholds God in divine glories, then God will be seen everywhere viz., there will be no attraction for things, but there will be attraction for God only because God has manifested Himself as things.
Whatever speciality or remarkability is possessed by man, that is bestowed upon him only by God. If God had not possessed that speciality or remarkability, how would He have bestowed it upon the man? How can there he any speciality in the fragment (nutria) which is not in the whole (amsi)? A man commits an error that he, by regarding the speciality as his own, gets proud of it and does not pay attention to God, the origin (source) of the speciality.
All things, persons etc., of the creation are perishing every moment. The speciality in the form of beauty and power etc., which is perceived also vanishes. Therefore everything of the universe is preaching as the practical sermon, "Don't look at me, I'll not stay forever but look at my maker Who has manifested Himself in different forms and Who will stay forever.- Whatever beauty or power or remarkability is being perceived in me, that is not mine but that is only His" Having realized this fact, we shall have no attraction for things and persons etc., but we shall behold God in them. Thus there will not be 'Bhoga' viz., enjoyment of pleasures but naturally there will be `Yoga' (viz., natural eternal union with God).
God is the remarkable storehouse of all powers, arts and sciences etc. Powers can't stay in the inert Prakrti (matter) but can stay in divine Godhood only. How can the knowledge, by which all actions are being performed, stay in matter? If it is assumed that mere are all powers in Prakrti,.even then it will have to be accepted that Prakrti has no ability to reveal those powers and to use those powers (for the creation of the universe .etc.). As a compumer in spite of being inert, works wonders but it is made and conducted by me sentient viz., man. It can't work without being consructed, guided and conducted (directed) by man. A computer has no independent existence but it is man-made, while God exists by itself.
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