April 24, 2025
na kartṛtvaṁ na karmāṇi lokasya sṛjati prabhuḥ
na karmaphalasaṁyogaṁ svabhāvas tu pravartate (V-14)
nā ’datte kasyacit pāpaṁ na cai ’va sukṛtaṁ vibhuḥ
ajñānenā ’vṛtaṁ jñānaṁ tena muhyanti jantavaḥ (V-15)
V/14. The Lord creates for the world neither agency nor
actions (egoistic action or ka karma as the law of causation),
nor union with the fruits of actions. But it is nature that prevails.
TV/15. he Lord takes neither the demerit nor even the merit of
any. Knowledge is enveloped by ignorance. Therefore beings
are deluded.
Swamiji's Commentary
There is plenty of work to do in the Lord’s good world – but it is his world, his body. His life, power, nature or śakti is the motive force. His consciousness or intelligence is the guiding force. His own body, the universe, is the field. The innumerable microcosmic beings are cells in that body, joyously and purposefully participating in his work, sharing his life, power and nature, and united with his consciousness or intelligence. The individualized fraction is not the whole; but it is non-different from the whole and when it realizes its true nature as such, it is indivisibly one with the whole.
Egoism is a mysterious deluding power. Individuation is inherent in the infinite as a potentiality all the time. Creation is the actualization of this potentiality. Like the un-perceivable dot on the circumference of a circle, like the raindrop which has not isolated itself from the rain-bearing cloud, it should be (and is) ever one with the infinite (though misunderstood to be only part of it). How this assumes independence of the infinite is a mystery! Is it ever independent of the infinite, in truth?
But, thank God, such division is a product of ignorance. When this ignorance is removed it will vanish. Even the law of cause and effect is based on this ignorant and egoistic idea of agency. In God, in his eyes, there is neither cause nor effect, neither merit nor demerit,
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