Re: A Question
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• April 14, 2000
Dear BhAgavatOttamas Re the seemingly unanswerable riddle posed by Sri L.kumar,the following information could perhaps be helpful. The immanence as well as transcendence of the Lord is undisputable,and is vouched for by all the PramANas. AzhwAr says in unmistakeable terms,"He is as comfortably inhabiting the most minute being as if it were as spacious as the Universe."(1.1.10); "He is inside my soul as well as my body"(8.8.2). The question is- how? Since the JIvAtma itself is ANu and by defenition the smallest particle and indivisible to boot-how could BhagavAn get in and out? The Sruti says again,"He created it and ENTERED it through the medium of the JIvAtmA." So He is somehow inside.But doesn't the Sruti itself call Him,"ANoraNIyAn mahato mahIyAn"? So notwithstanding the defenition of ANu,He is more subtle than that and hence can enter even the ANU. But this explanation doesn't satisfy us. The whole thing appears totally confusing and illogical. But does it really? In an absolutely magnificent passage brimming with humor in SrI VEdArtha Sangraha, Swami EmberumAnAr declares in the grand manner,"AsmAkam kim na sEtsyati?"- with the arsenal at our command,whom can we not conquer, what can we not prove? And the most potent weapon in the arsenal (in that passage as well for the present riddle) is our knowledge of the Nature of Brahman and Atman.The simple answer is that-both have GnAna as swarUpa as well as quality;except that for Brahma both are infinite,whereas for Atman(in his free state) only the quality is infinite.So since both swarUpas are constituted not of unbreakable physical matter but GnAna only and since the GnAna as quality is no different in texture there is no difficulty in perceiving that Brahma's entering the JIva to sustain him ;as well His control thro His Sankalpa; are all done by means of His Dharma-bhUta-GnAna only. It is something like light entering another light. What difficulty could there be in undertanding this phenomenon for the disciples (however far removed) of Sri BhAshyakArar? Sri EmberumAnar TiruvaDigaLE SaraNam! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get paid for the stuff you know! Get answers for the stuff you donÂ’t. And get $10 to spend on the site! http://click.egroups.com/1/2200/2/_/716111/_/955726682/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------- - SrImate rAmAnujAya namaH - To Post a message, send it to: bhakti-list@eGroups.com Visit http://www.ramanuja.org/sv/bhakti/ for more information
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