What is the difference between God and Man?
COUNSELLING:
“Kailash Sen” asked like this:
“hi prabhu, hare krishna. Iam in india now and i have attend a class of .................... (He has mentioned a popular yoga guru’s name that has been hidden by me). But the strange thing was tht they were preaching tht we all are lord hum sab bhagwan hai.. I was shocked to hear this as Krishna says i am suprene personality of Godhead only and we all r his parts hum bhagwan k ansh hai bhagwan nahi.. Kindly tellme wht shd i reply next time..”
REPLY:
First I advise you not to attend such mayavadic lectures. You will end upin confusion as you got confused now. Follow a single path that will be good for you.
It is the mayavadic concept. Mayavadis feel happy in equalising man with Krishna. They say: “You are god; I am god; And everyone is god”. They also say that one can mingle with god after this life time.
So, if we consider the mayavadi concepts, there are 110 crores of gods in India; 160ncrores of gods in China; Totally, 700 crores of gods in this planet.
That is why, so many bogus gurujis exist in this world. Such bogus gurujis claim that they are god and you are also god. So, they receive the treatment and respects meant for god.
But, Krishna came as Sri Caitanya Maha Prabhu and showed us how a devotee should be! Srimad Bhagavatham establishes that we are the parts and parcels of Lord. This does not mean that we are equal to Lord.
Light emanates from sun. So, can we say that a sun ray is equal to the sun? It is equal in nature, but, different in magnitude.
Similarly, man is equal to god in quality, as he comes from God. But, man differs in the magnitude, ie, power. Man’s capacity is limited. Very small.
Krishna can remember all the births of ours; We can not remember even a single birth.
Krishna can lift a hill with His finger tip. We can lift to the maximum of 20-25 kilograms.
Krishna can dance with 1000 girls by expanding as 1000 Krishnas. But, we can never multiply even once.
So, whatever you take, we have very negligible power compared with Krishna.
So, how can we and Lord be equal?
In another angle, we have an origin; But, God has no origin.
Those who have origin is man; The one who has no origin is god.
Let us read the Room Conversation between devotees and Srila Prabhupada in Paris on 11.8.73:
“Prabhupada: But you are saying... Was this tape recorder was existing, or somebody has prepared?
Yogesvara: A man has prepared it.
Prabhupada: Man has prepared it. Then somebody must prepare.
Yogesvara: But it's man's intelligence that has created that machine.
Prabhupada: Well, man or somebody, but try to understand generally: Anything that you see, that is created by man or beast or somebody. It is created. So this cosmic manifestation, why do you say that it is not created? It is created. You do not know who has created. That is your ignorance. But as I have no experience, in this material world, which is not created... It is created. You are created. Still. How can you say it is not created?
Guru-gauranga: But then the profane, Prabhupada, they say that: "Let us carry that logic to the very end, that even God is created. Then why... You say God is having no..."
Prabhupada: No. No. God is created, you can say. But when a created thing is, then he's not God. Our, our proposition is that everything is created, but finally if we find somebody, he's not created, then he's God.
Yogesvara: They would say: our conclusion was just now that everything has to have been created.
Prabhupada: Eh?
Yogesvara: Everything has some source of origin.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Yogesvara: So if everything has some source of origin, how can there be something that does not have a source of origin?
Prabhupada: No, when there is no source of origin, that is God.
Bhagavan: Just like Krsna showed Arjuna His universal form. So He established that He was the origin of everything, and He had no cause.
Prabhupada: Yes. Cause of all causes. Sarva-karana-karanam [Bs. 5.1]. Everything has some cause, but when you finally come to a thing who has no cause, then He's God.
Bhagavan: The rascals...
Prabhupada: Vedanta-sutra: janmadyasya yatah. The origin of everything. But He's not originated from something else. And that is God. Therefore He's called Absolute. Everything here is relative. And God is Absolute. That is the difference between Absolute and relative.”
So, reject if anyone says that we and god are equal. A product can never e equal to the source. This is a very basic understanding. They differ in this very basic point.
CONCLUSION:
We have similar qualities of god; But, we quantitatively differ from Him. Then, how can we equal the God?
— with Hima Sudha Gummadi and Samrat Saha.COUNSELLING:
“Kailash Sen” asked like this:
“hi prabhu, hare krishna. Iam in india now and i have attend a class of .................... (He has mentioned a popular yoga guru’s name that has been hidden by me). But the strange thing was tht they were preaching tht we all are lord hum sab bhagwan hai.. I was shocked to hear this as Krishna says i am suprene personality of Godhead only and we all r his parts hum bhagwan k ansh hai bhagwan nahi.. Kindly tellme wht shd i reply next time..”
REPLY:
First I advise you not to attend such mayavadic lectures. You will end upin confusion as you got confused now. Follow a single path that will be good for you.
It is the mayavadic concept. Mayavadis feel happy in equalising man with Krishna. They say: “You are god; I am god; And everyone is god”. They also say that one can mingle with god after this life time.
So, if we consider the mayavadi concepts, there are 110 crores of gods in India; 160ncrores of gods in China; Totally, 700 crores of gods in this planet.
That is why, so many bogus gurujis exist in this world. Such bogus gurujis claim that they are god and you are also god. So, they receive the treatment and respects meant for god.
But, Krishna came as Sri Caitanya Maha Prabhu and showed us how a devotee should be! Srimad Bhagavatham establishes that we are the parts and parcels of Lord. This does not mean that we are equal to Lord.
Light emanates from sun. So, can we say that a sun ray is equal to the sun? It is equal in nature, but, different in magnitude.
Similarly, man is equal to god in quality, as he comes from God. But, man differs in the magnitude, ie, power. Man’s capacity is limited. Very small.
Krishna can remember all the births of ours; We can not remember even a single birth.
Krishna can lift a hill with His finger tip. We can lift to the maximum of 20-25 kilograms.
Krishna can dance with 1000 girls by expanding as 1000 Krishnas. But, we can never multiply even once.
So, whatever you take, we have very negligible power compared with Krishna.
So, how can we and Lord be equal?
In another angle, we have an origin; But, God has no origin.
Those who have origin is man; The one who has no origin is god.
Let us read the Room Conversation between devotees and Srila Prabhupada in Paris on 11.8.73:
“Prabhupada: But you are saying... Was this tape recorder was existing, or somebody has prepared?
Yogesvara: A man has prepared it.
Prabhupada: Man has prepared it. Then somebody must prepare.
Yogesvara: But it's man's intelligence that has created that machine.
Prabhupada: Well, man or somebody, but try to understand generally: Anything that you see, that is created by man or beast or somebody. It is created. So this cosmic manifestation, why do you say that it is not created? It is created. You do not know who has created. That is your ignorance. But as I have no experience, in this material world, which is not created... It is created. You are created. Still. How can you say it is not created?
Guru-gauranga: But then the profane, Prabhupada, they say that: "Let us carry that logic to the very end, that even God is created. Then why... You say God is having no..."
Prabhupada: No. No. God is created, you can say. But when a created thing is, then he's not God. Our, our proposition is that everything is created, but finally if we find somebody, he's not created, then he's God.
Yogesvara: They would say: our conclusion was just now that everything has to have been created.
Prabhupada: Eh?
Yogesvara: Everything has some source of origin.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Yogesvara: So if everything has some source of origin, how can there be something that does not have a source of origin?
Prabhupada: No, when there is no source of origin, that is God.
Bhagavan: Just like Krsna showed Arjuna His universal form. So He established that He was the origin of everything, and He had no cause.
Prabhupada: Yes. Cause of all causes. Sarva-karana-karanam [Bs. 5.1]. Everything has some cause, but when you finally come to a thing who has no cause, then He's God.
Bhagavan: The rascals...
Prabhupada: Vedanta-sutra: janmadyasya yatah. The origin of everything. But He's not originated from something else. And that is God. Therefore He's called Absolute. Everything here is relative. And God is Absolute. That is the difference between Absolute and relative.”
So, reject if anyone says that we and god are equal. A product can never e equal to the source. This is a very basic understanding. They differ in this very basic point.
CONCLUSION:
We have similar qualities of god; But, we quantitatively differ from Him. Then, how can we equal the God?
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