(Shri
Lakshminarayan Aithal has served for over 3 decades in Swami’s institution and
is the former Principal of the Sri Sathya Sai Loka Seva Institutions at
Muddenahalli. Inspired by Swami’s direct message to study the Upanishads, he
first learnt Sanskrit and then studied the direct works of Adi Shankaracharya
and Swami. Sincere perseverance led him to the reality of Aham Brahmasmi and He
realized and experienced Swami’s words: “I am God and so are you”. He shares
the import of the Upanishadic teachings with us in this series of articles.)
Now,
let us enquire
into the third
and the fourth
objections. A rope is different
from the snake. The latter object may be
imagined in the former one. But, does
the one self delude
that he is
of other form?
How do we believe that
many living beings
and inert objects
are imagined in
the Sole Auspicious
Form of the
Self? How do
we believe that,
in front of the Self,
the non-self-world is
imagined, apart from
Him? None of these two suitably
befit to the rope-snake-illustration.
This, in a
nutshell, is the
purport of the
two objections. If
the Self is
of the Form
of
Existence-Awareness-Bliss, how does
the
non-existent-inert-sorrowful-world
appear in Him?
This is also included in the doubt of the objector.
