Srimad Bhagavadgita Sadhaka Sanjivani -Swami Ramsukhdas
Chapter 15
Appendix:—The world is perishing every moment, therefore it is renounced - 'asangaiastrena drdhena chittva', and God is ever-attained, so He is to be sought for (discovered)- `tatah padam tatparimargitavyam'. There is a difference between 'production' and 'discovery'. The thing which does not exist, is produced, while the thing, which already exists, is discovered. God is ever-attained and self-evident, so He is searched out, He is not produced. When a striver accepts the existence of God, he discovers Him. There are two ways of discovery—the first one is that as we forget a necklace by placing it somewhere and then we search it here and there; and the second is that the necklace is worn round the neck but we have the false notion that the necklace is lost, we search it here and there. The discovery of God is like the discovery of the necklace worn round the neck. In fact God is not lost. But because of attachment to the world, we have not an eye on Him, so He appears to be lost to us. It means that God, Whom we want to attain and Whom we seek, is constantly present in us. So He is discovered on being sought. But the world can never be gained, because it is not in us, as actually it does not exist.
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