We witness miracles of the Lord everywhere within creation. We don't even realize that everything we see is inconceivable. The miracle of how we are conceived itself is inconceivable. Great scientists cannot do it. The most progress they have achieved are test tube babies, where they take a seed that God created and plant it in a womb that He created. All the materials that are absolutely necessary for creation are already created by God. They just use some scientific technology to put it all together.
What is it that God cannot do? The sun which is millions of times bigger than our earth, is a ball of blazing fire that always stays in the same place. Just to reach the planets we know about will take light years, which are millions of human life times, in our modern spacecrafts. The seasons come and go in order. How can we even propose to understand these inconceivable creations with our limited brains and our limited technologies? Can we even count the number of hairs, or the number of atoms and molecules in our body? Does an ant have the capacity to understand Mount Everest? We are at best like little ants trying to measure our little anthills, when everything else outside our horizon is inconceivable. The conditioned soul is just trying to challenge the Lord that "I will figure out what You have done." But that is not possible.
If we have to understand God, we should crush our empirical attachment to our mind and senses. Without that, there is no possibility of understanding Him, as we will then try to impose our own limitations of mind and body on God, considering His miraculous feats as mythology.
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God cannot be understood by our contaminated senses anyway. Foolish people think god does not exist just because he is not visible. But what can we say about our senses which are so incomplete that we cannot see unless there is presence of light. Without light even these eyes are not useful. So how can we see God who is the source of all LIGHT.
ReplyDeleteDoes an ant have the capacity to understand the Mount Everest? Doesn't this question by Radhanath Swami paraphrase all the human attempts? But the influence of scientists is so great that it takes repeated hearing of Radhanath Swami's lectures to understand that we are just ants in front of the universe and the Supreme person behind it.
ReplyDeleteWhen you really think about the inteligence that is behind all around us you can understand that it is difficult to understand.
ReplyDeleteThere are so many atheists who can't understand this simple and logical truth. Because they are going wrong way.
ReplyDeleteRadhanath Swami is making clear that God cannot be understood by any amount of endeavor by our blunt senses. It is only by surrender unto the Supreme God that he empowers the living entity to perform great deeds which appear superhuman in nature...
ReplyDeleteFantastic
ReplyDeleteRadhanath Swami explains very nicely how inconceivable the potency of Krishna is. We generally say, God is great, but to what extent (inconceivably) great He is, is very nicely explained by Radhanath Swami. Also Radhanath Swami crushes our false ego by saying that we are all insignificant. Our real ego and happiness lies in serving the Absolute Personality of Godhead, Sri Krishna
ReplyDeleteSuch eye opening statements about God.
ReplyDeleteIts simply amazing Radhanath Swami through so many examples is trying to make us realize how Supreme Lord's potency is inconceivable...
ReplyDeletewhatever so called intelligence we have is also borrowed from our scriptures and other holy books , there is nothing we own per se ... thanks very much for Maharajas nice instructions
ReplyDeleteRadhanath Swami maharaj is showing the path to understand god : "we should crush our empirical attachment to our mind and senses"
ReplyDeleteIts a very simple concept which many of us dont understand...More advancement scientifically...will create more bewilderment..Hope our great atheist scientist understand this.such great is the almighty's creation.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it proof enough that God actually exists !! Who dare says that "There is no God.". Thank you Radhanath Maharaj for these realizations.
ReplyDeleteWonderful article.very true.God cannot be understood if we have a ego.ego will be like a wall.
ReplyDeleteWe have been programmed not to think ... so all miracles around us we take for granted
ReplyDeleteGod is inconceivable and his mercy is inconceivable and his devotees are more than inconceivable.
ReplyDeleteMy sincere thanks to HH Radhanath swami maharaj for explaining about god's inconceivable potency.
I agree totally with HH Radhanath Swami's views.To understand Lord's inconceivable potencies is not for materially conditioned souls like us.That entails Lord's special mercy and that mercy comes upon Lord's pure devotees who are in the line of disciplic succession. That is why we have to simply follow Guru, Sadhu and shastra.It is enough if we follow a bonafide Guru's teachings like HH Radhanath Swami's and seek his mercy for attaining spiritual perfection.
ReplyDeleteThe hidden hand of God is not seen easily by an ordinary person. Radhanath Swami is so much devoted to God and hence out of compassion is showing the way to see the hidden hand of God. All glories to Radhanath Swami
ReplyDeleteVery inspiring :)
ReplyDeleteVery nice article & i express my sincere gratitude..
ReplyDeleteIt is so important to have a spiritual preceptor who would share his vision with us… only then can we see things as they are.
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