But the fact is, all of us have seen God.
Really! When? In our past lives.
Does God possess senses like we do? Does He have eyes and ears? The
Vedas say ,...sanskrit verse...
God doesn't have any senses. He is not like us.
He is not limited by these five senses and the mind. But if he doesn't
have senses, then how does He se? if He doesn't have ears then how does He hear?
Well Swamiji, God is only light. This form is human creation. But tell me then
how is He seeing, hearing, tasting? We know that wherever any soul prays to God,
God is able to hear how does He manage to do that?
So the Vedas again give a contradictory answer. They say
sanskrite verse
Everywhere are God's ears, everywhere are God's eyes. Whatever you do He will see.
Whatever you say He will hear. Nothing is unknown to Him. Everywhere are His hands
and his feet. We'll say, I can't understand such a God. That is exactly
what I'm telling you. You can't understand a God who is so contradictory.
sanskrit verse
God is as hard as a thunderbolt. When mahapralay takes place, all the
souls are crying. But He does hardens Himself. You are crying, you are dying,
never mind. I don't care. He's that hard! and at the same time,
His heart is softer than a flower. Wherever any soul sincerely prays to him with a
selfless devotion, God melts and reaches there to Grace him. So He's hard, He is
also soft. Hence the atharvavediya Mundaka Upanishad
says that through lectures, through dissertations
you can neither explain God nor can anybody understand God.
Nor can you understand God through the width of your intellect. But Swamiji, I'm
a post graduate from UT Dallas. Why can't I understand God? I'm so intelligent. Tell
me, this intelligence of which you have such pride ultimately it is only two
fingers in length. Isn't it? That is our intellect and how big is God? He is infinite.
How will you fit that infinite in your tiny, little intellect? It is like
some people were desirous of measuring the depth of a lake. So one
person took a scale that was two feet long. He immersed the scale and said my
dear friends I have measured the depth of this lake.
Take a look, two feet. Everybody noted the lake is two feet deep.
Now the next person came, he had a scale that was five feet. He immersed his scale
and he said the first person was wrong look in front of you I'm measuring it.
It's five feet. Everybody noted five feet. Now one after the other people kept
covering to measure the depth of that lake. The extent of their scale, to that
extent they kept declaring its depth. In the same way, to the width of our
intellect we explain the personality of God. Our intellect is limited by its
own experience. The Nyay Darshan calls this the "Kupa Manduka Nyay."
Do you know what is "Kupa Manduka Nyay? The frog in the well logic. There was a frog who
used to peacefully live in a little well. It was very familiar with the periphery
of the well and it would cover the whole width in four jumps. One day a frog
came from the ocean. There is one breed of frog that lives in the ocean as well.
So the ocean frog came hopping along and jumped into the well. These two frogs
started doing a little chitchat. He said, where is this place you have come from.
The other frog said, I have come from the ocean. The ocean? how big is it?
is it as big as my well? No, it's very big! so the frog jumped four times. He said is
the ocean two times the width of my well? The ocean frog said, no much bigger!
He said 10 times? Even bigger! Hundred times? The ocean frog said even bigger than
that! The well Frog said you liar, how could anything be more than hundred
times the size of my well? The well Frog has lived its entire life in the well.
That is all it knows. That is the limit of its intellect. Similarly what you have
experienced, what you have understood that is the limit of the intellect. The
vedas are saying, God is beyond this. And even if you get the intellect
of Saraswathi or the intellect of Brihaspati, let us say it's available for
auction on eBay suppose. And you purchase the intellect of five, six Saraswathis,
even with that you cannot know the Lord, because that is still finite and the
Lord is infinite. So the mantra is saying,
Iif God Himself were to come here and explain His own
personality, even then you would not attain Him.
Why not Swamiji? If God comes here, I will see Him, I will become God realized.
It's not so simple. God is sitting in your heart. Are you becoming God realized?
God is pervading every pore of your body. Is it helping you in any way?
No, but Swamiji you know if the avatari Bhagvan, Krishna avatar, Ram avatar, if I
see Them, then I'll definitely become God realized. No you won't, because Their
divine form is beyond matter and your senses are material. With these senses
when you see Him, He will seem material to you.
That is why Shri Krishna says,
Arjun when I descend in this world as an
avata,r the materially conditioned Souls are unable to recognize me, because they
don't have divine eyes. Is it that we have never seen God? Sometimes we think
you know these Swami's and Mahatma's, they keep talking about God. Who has ever
seen God? Has anyone seen Him at all? But the fact is all of us have seen God.
Really! When? In our past lives. This is not our first life. We have come on this
planet innumerable times. When Lord Krishna was here five thousand years ago
and lived on this planet for 125 years, it's possible we were right here. It's
possible we saw Him. When Lord Rama was here for eleven thousand years, it is
possible that in our past life we were there in Ayodhya or Dandakaranya or Kiskindha
So it's quite likely we saw Him and
these avatars, Rama avatar, Krishna avatar, have taken place innumerable times.
And we have had innumerable
past births. So the probability is that in some past life or the other
we actually saw God. However we were not able to benefit, because His form was
divine and our eyes were material. So the Vedas say by none of these schemes and
none of these gimmicks can you ever reach God. You will say Swamiji, all right
you have told me in a hundred ways how I cannot know God. Now please tell me
how I can know God.