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Chapter 12
An Important Fact
In order to explain the existence of God, two kinds of adjectives - in the negative and in the positive, have been given. The negative adjectives, imperishable, indefinable, unmanifest, unthinkable, immovable, unlimited, show that God is different from prakrti (nature), while the positive adjectives, such as omnipresent, uniform, eternal, and nouns—truth, consciousness and bliss, show the Lord's, independent existence.
Innate, Inactive, Absolute, beyond the states of activity and non-activity, is the illuminator, of activity and non-activity. The different adjectives, have been used, so that the intellect may have-a conception about Him, and so it may reflect upon, that Absolute.
In the Gita, the description of God and the soul (sell), is almost the same. The adjectives, which have been used here, for God have been used for the soul - as in the twenty-fourth and the twenty-fifth verses of the second chapter, 'omnipresent', 'immovable', 'unmanifest' and 'unthinkable' etc., and in the sixteenth verse of the fifteenth chapter, 'unchangeable' and 'imperishable' have also been used, for the soul. Similarly, in the twenty-fifth verse of the seventh chapter, the adjective imperishable has been used for God, while in the fifth verse of the fourteenth chapter, it has been used for soul.
Both God and the soul, pervade everywhere. 'The whole world is pervaded by God (The Supreme Person)' (8/22, 18/46) and 'all this world is pervaded by Me' (9/4). Similarly, in the seventeenth verse of the second chapter, it is said about the soul also, "All this is pervaded by the soul."
As the sight of two eyes does not clash nor sounds in spite of being wide-spread do not conflict with the ears, so does (according to the dualistic principle) the all-pervasiveness of God, not strike against the all-pervasiveness of the soul, both being without form or shape.
Sarvabhatahite rash :- In the Discipline of Action, renouncement of attachment, a sense of mine, desire and selfishness, is very important. When a person, uses objects such as the body, riches and property, in rendering service to others,without regarding them as his and for him, his attachment, a sense of mine, desire and selfishness, are naturally renounced. When a body is used, in rendering service to others, egoism is renounced, and when objects are used for others, a sense of mine, is renounced.
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