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Chapter 15
An Important Fact Pertaining to God
In fact, God is already attained to all human beings, as He dwells in their hearts, but they do not realize His existence, in their hearts because of their assumed affinity (attachment) for Matter, (the world). As soon as, there is total renouncement of this affinity for Matter, they automatically, realize Him.
When a person performs virtuous actions for Him, talks of Him and thinks of Him, he has to depend on Matter (the insentient and the unreal), because performance of actions or talking or thinking of Him is not possible, without depending on the insentient (gross, subtle and causal bodies). So these should induce a man, to renounce his affinity for the world, and that is possible only when these (virtuous actions, talking of God and thinking of Him) are done, for the welfare of the world only, rather than, for one's own self.
Those, who think that God can be realized, through spiritual practice or virtues or qualifications etc., are wrong. A thing, that is acquired hy making some payment, for it, is of lesser value, than that payment (price). So if God is attained by certain spiritual practice or virtues or qualifications etc., it means, that He is less valuable than those means, while there is none even equal to Him, so how can anyone or anything be superior (of more value) to Him, (Gita 11/43)? Moreover, if He is secured (realized) for some money (by any means), it means, that there is not much use in realizing Him, because we already possess something more valuable, than He.
As God-realization, is not the fruit of actions, so he cannot be achieved through actions like other objects. Every action, is born of egoistic notions while God is realized when egoism is renounced. So how can He, be realized through actions? It means that God cannot be realized, through actions.
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