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Chapter 15
As God pervades everywhere, He is also here. As He existed in the past, exists at present and will also exist in future, He is also, now. As He pervades all, He also pervades me, and as He is everyone's, He is also, mine. From these facts it is very obvious
- As God is here, we need not go anywhere, to realize Him.
- As God is present now, we need not wait, for future.
- As He is in me, I need not search Him, anywhere outside.
- As He is mine, I need not regard, others as mine. He is also very loving to me, because He is mine.
These four points are very significant and useful, for all strivers. This realization is the quintessence of all spiritual practices. It needs no qualification, no practice, no ability and no virtue. Everyone is qualified, deserving and able, in believing it. The only condition is, that he should have only the desire for God-realization.
Yatanto'pyakrtatmano nainam padyantyacetasah:- 'Akrtatmanah' are those unrefined people, who have not purified their mind, they have been called 'Acetasah' (unintelligent), because they do not discriminate, the real from the unreal.
Those, who regard mundane objects, such as the body and also persons as theirs, and expect to derive pleasure, out of them, by attaching importance to them, are unintelligent and unrefined. Such people, also want to realize God, but they want to realize Him, with the help of insentient objects, such as body, mind and intellect etc. As He cannot be realized with their help, He can be realized, by renouncing attachment, to them.
In this verse the term 'Yatantah', has been used twice, in order to explain that the wise perceive Him by striving, while the unintelligent do not behold Him, even by striving. It means, that so long as, a man is attached to worldly objects, he cannot realize God, with body, senses, mind and intellect, though these
are useful, in making effort to attain Him. How can those, who have an eye on the unreal (mundane pleasures and prosperity), behold Him?
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