God's Presence Everywhere: What Does It Really Mean? || Acharya Prashant (2024)
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Video Information: 11.05.2022, VBC, Greater Noida
Context:
Making Sense of God Everywhere: A Simple Guide
Finding Narayan Everywhere: How Does It Work?
God's Presence Everywhere: What Does It Really Mean?
God Everywhere: Understanding the Concept in Everyday Life
God in Every Particle: Decoding the Idea for Everyone
Music Credits: Milind Date
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#acharyaprashant
Video Information: 11.05.2022, VBC, Greater Noida
Context:
Making Sense of God Everywhere: A Simple Guide
Finding Narayan Everywhere: How Does It Work?
God's Presence Everywhere: What Does It Really Mean?
God Everywhere: Understanding the Concept in Everyday Life
God in Every Particle: Decoding the Idea for Everyone
Music Credits: Milind Date
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#acharyaprashant
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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 Karan Karan Narayan. So how we can correlate this what we have learned
00:38today and if this teaching is correct that Karan Karan Narayan.
00:46First of all, Gita and philosophy and Vedanta have nothing to do with God. They are in
00:58search of truth, not God. These are different things, truth and God. Secondly, all the objects
01:12that you look at, you look at them in search of something. In search of the truth, you
01:25look at 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 folk
02:03wisdom. Nothing to do with philosophy. When you say there is God in every speck and particle,
02:13to whom are these particles? To you. You are the perceiver of these particles. Your consciousness
02:20changes. Those particles disappear. So by honouring those particles as the absolute,
02:30you are in fact honouring your own deluded consciousness as the absolute.
02:35So all that makes no sense. Had Arjun used that argument, Arjun would have said,
02:49there is the absolute in all these people I am seeing in front of me. How will I fight them?
02:57I cannot fight them. A great problem presented itself to a simpleton disciple. His teacher
03:14told him, Kan Kan Mein Narayan. It is something Ramkrishna Paramhansa used to narrate. So the
03:28teacher gave him this sutra, Kan Kan Mein Narayan, there is God in everything that you see. So the
03:36next day he is standing and a mad elephant comes rushing at him. And there are people around who
03:49are telling him, just get away. Make way. Leave the way. And he is not listening to them. And he
04:01is saying, my teacher has told me that God is omnipresent. God is there in everything. So this
04:08elephant is nothing but God. So the elephant does what elephants do. Barely spared his life. He was
04:20lucky he was only thrown away, not trampled. With broken bones when he was brought to his teacher,
04:28he complained, you were the one who told me, Kan Kan Mein Narayan. Now see what has happened.
04:34Now how does the teacher save his face? So teacher said, but Narayan is also there in all the people
04:42who were telling you to get aside. Why didn't you listen to those Narayans? Therefore you have been
04:50punished. Now, all this amounts to nothing.
04:57All this amounts to nothing. But yes, such a saying is not without utility. The utility is that you develop a certain respect
05:10for the Prakriti. That is the universal set of all the Kan Kan. If you say that there is godliness in every little thing around me,
05:27then you cannot misbehave with Prakriti. Can you? So that has been the practical advantage.
05:34Otherwise, in terms of philosophy, in terms of truth, such a thing means nothing.
05:40So, would it be right to say that Kan Kan Mein Maya or Kan Kan Mein Prakriti? Because from the philosophy of Neti Neti, which we have learned in Vedanta,
06:01we should see whatever we 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 past you?
06:14Can you tell me how to transcend you, how to go beyond you? Because there is no other medium or help.
06:25And 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.
06:38India has done a fabulous thing. It has respected Prakriti like no other people.
06:45But respecting Prakriti is one thing and getting attached to particular objects in Prakriti and 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, just
07:43go to that place, work there and then from there reach to the highest. For you, the highest available
07:51to you is Brahm. So, can you just correlate this as well? Yeah, but then every Kanha is not the highest.
08:02Yes, that is correct. So, call the highest Kanha as Brahm. At least keep that much of sanctity.
08:11Or are you hell bent on calling everything as highest?
08:15Acharya ji said that the highest even in the earthly plane is Brahm. Therefore, Kanha is Brahm.
08:25What kind of equation is this?
08:27At least take the trouble to find the highest, to approach the highest and pay the price.
08:33The highest is a singularity. The highest is a rarity. The highest is not Kankan.
08:40Kankan refers to all the things under your feet. Are they the highest?
08:50Thank you. Thank you, Saheb.
08:56Thank you, Saheb.