God's Presence Everywhere: What Does It Really Mean? || Acharya Prashant (2024)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00Namaste HRG. My question is from today's session. As you said that the infinite, the absolute,

00:13it cannot be any object of this world, which is only Prakriti. So like since childhood

00:20we have been taught and we hear in religious teachings that the God is omnipresence, omnipotent

00:29or in Hindi we say Karna Karna Narayan. So how we can correlate this what we have learned

00:38today and if this teaching is correct that Karna Karna Narayan.

00:46First of all, Gita and philosophy and Vedanta have nothing to do with God. They are in search

00:59of truth, not God. These are different things, truth and God. Secondly, all the objects that

01:12you look at, you look at them in search of something. In search of the truth, you look

01:25at all these objects. In that sense you could say, I am looking at everything in search

01:35of the absolute. To the ego, everything carries a promise, a possibility of the absolute.

01:44Hence the ego keeps running from pillar to post in this world. That does not mean that

01:55all the objects that you look at contain the infinite or something. All that is just

02:03folk wisdom, nothing to do with philosophy. When you say there is God in every speck and

02:12particle, to whom are these particles? To you. You are the perceiver of these particles.

02:20When your consciousness changes, those particles disappear. So by honouring those particles

02:29as the absolute, you are in fact honouring your own deluded consciousness as the absolute.

02:39So all that makes no sense. Had Arjun used that argument, Arjun would have said, there

02:51is the absolute in all these people I am seeing in front of me. How will I fight them? I cannot

02:58fight them. A great problem presented itself to a simpleton disciple. His teacher told

03:15him, it is something Ramkrishna Paramhansa used to narrate. So the teacher gave him this

03:30sutra, there is God in everything that you see. So the next day he is standing and a

03:41mad elephant comes rushing at him. And there are people around who are telling him, just

03:52get away, make way, leave the way. And he is not listening to them. And he is saying,

04:02my teacher has told me that God is omnipresent. God is there in everything. So this elephant

04:09is nothing but God. So the elephant does what elephants do. Barely spared his life.

04:20He was lucky he was only thrown away, not trampled. With broken bones when he was brought

04:27to his teacher, he complained, you were the one who told me, Kankan mein Narayan, now

04:33see what has happened. Now how does the teacher save his face? So the teacher said, but Narayan

04:40is also there in all the people who were telling you to get aside. Why didn't you listen to

04:48those Narayans? Therefore you have been punished. Now all this amounts to nothing. All this

04:57amounts to nothing. But yes, such a saying is not without utility. The utility is that

05:09you develop a certain respect for the Prakriti. That is the universal set of all the Kankan.

05:21If you say that there is godliness in every little thing around me, then you cannot misbehave

05:29with Prakriti. Can you? So that has been the practical advantage. Otherwise, in terms of

05:36philosophy, in terms of truth, such a thing means nothing.

05:39So would it be right to say that Kankan mein Maya or Kankan mein Prakriti? Because from

05:57the philosophy of Neti Neti, which we have learned in Vedanta, like we should see whatever

06:03we are seeing, we can say that this is Maya, this is not.

06:07Whatever you are seeing, just fold your hands and ask it, can you show me the way to go

06:12past you? Can you tell me how to transcend you, how to go beyond you? Because there is

06:21no other medium or help. And in this sense, everything that you see has to be respected.

06:30It has to be respected, but still it cannot be considered as the highest or the absolute.

06:39India has done a fabulous thing. It has respected Prakriti like no other people.

06:46But respecting Prakriti is one thing and getting attached to particular objects in Prakriti

06:53and taking them as the end, the purpose of your life, the absolute itself is a totally different thing.

07:01Respect Prakriti because without her, you cannot transcend her.

07:07It is only with her own help that you can go beyond her.

07:17Okay, this much understood. So one more follow up question on this from your Vedanta teachings

07:26in other sessions. We have also learned recently that you said whatever is the highest

07:33which you see, the highest fight for truth or whatever the highest you can see and do,

07:42just go to that place, work there and then from there reach to the highest.

07:49For you, the highest available to you is Brahm. So, can you just correlate this as well?

07:58Yeah, but then every Kanha is not the highest.

08:02Yes, that is correct.

08:04So, call the highest Kanha as Brahm, at least keep that much of sanctity.

08:11Or are you hell bent on calling everything as highest?

08:14Acharya Ji said that the highest, even in the earthly plane is Brahm. Therefore, Kankan is Brahm.

08:24What kind of equation is this?

08:28At least take the trouble to find the highest, to approach the highest and pay the price.

08:34The highest is a singularity. The highest is a rarity. The highest is not Kankan.

08:40Kankan. Kankan refers to all the things under your feet. Are they the highest?

08:50Yes. Thank you. Thank you, Saheb.

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