Srimad Bhagavadgita Sadhaka Sanjivani -Swami Ramsukhdas
Chapter 15
Appendix:- The world, the Soul and the Supreme Soul - all the three are only God- 'Vasudevah sarvam'. It has been described here in the form of a tree.
In spite of being kaleidoscopic, the purpose of calling the world 'avyaya' (imperishable) is that though the world undergoes changes constantly, yet nothing is spent out of it viz., it does not know any diminution. As in the sea, several waves appear to rise and there are tides also, but water of the sea remains the same, it neither decreases nor increases. Similarly though it appears that the world constantly undergoes changes, yet it remain. 'avyaya' (unspent). The reason is that the kaleidoscopic world also being the evolute of God's power 'apara prakrti' is the manifestation of God—'sadasaccahamarjana' (Gita 9/19). Both—the kaleidoscopic 'apara prakrti' (lower nature) as well as the unchangeable 'para prakrti' (higher nature) is God's manifestation. This world is in t. the form of waves in God-ocean. As in the ocean, the waves appear rising outwardly only; inside the ocean, there are no waves, the ocean remains calm and uniform, similarly outwardly the world appears to be kaleidoscopic, yet within it, there is God Who is ever calm and uniform (Gita 13/27). It means that the world as the world is not imperishable but it is imperishable as the manifestation of God. A glimpse of God appears in the form of the world. A striver instead of catching that glimpse (world), should be inclined to God. To cognise the reality of that glimpse, to value it and to be attached to it lead to bondage. |