218. Sanmaargaphalaaya vakravaak na paapaaya kramamukteh.
Translation: If the path and the fruit are true and not affected, a twist in preaching is not a sin since in course of time, the twist gets released.
Explanation: The practical spiritual effort is to worship God intensively to become God. By the worship of God, a soul gets liberated and enters the inner circle of God. When God wants to incarnate in human form in the world, He will select some liberated soul and enter it. That blessed liberated soul gets a human body and such a human being charged with God is the human incarnation. The human being along with its human body becomes God since God pervades all over the soul and body. We say that God pervaded all over the human body because the soul is a part of the human body. A metallic wire becomes electricity when the current pervades all over it. Now we can say that the soul becomes God. Hence, the chance of becoming God is open to every soul provided it becomes deserving for the entry of God. Advaita or monism is quite possible and any soul has the chance to become God. But, in basic reality, the current is not converted into the wire and the wire is not converted to current. Similarly the current is not wire already and the wire is not current already. But the electrified wire is electricity for all practical purposes. This is the true concept, which can be accepted by any non-egoistic and non-ambitious soul. But the atheist is highly egoistic and highly ambitious. He will never worship God because he does not even accept God. Hence Shankara modified the style of the concept without affecting the basic reality to suit the atheists for their upliftment. He told atheists that they are already God and worship of the mediated God is a relative truth only to achieve the ambition. The atheist now starts worshipping the mediated God, Ishwara, believing that such worship is not true in the absolute plane. Therefore, his worship of the Lord, Ishwara, is not sincere. However, during the course of his insincere worship, the kindest Lord will pity on him and change his mind so that even this atheist becomes sincere and an obedient servant without any trace of ambition. When the path and goal are not affected, a theoretical twist is not a sin to lead a foolish human being into the correct path. The mother says to the child that the moon will come down if the child eats the food. This twist of the fact is not a sin because it is for the welfare of the child.
219. Ahantaakaamau visham phalaaya tadarthamadvaitam.
Translation: The ego and desire to become God are the poison that hinders the soul becoming God through the human incarnation. The soul becomes God in the human incarnation only to fulfill the work of God and not to satisfy its ego and ambition.
Explanation: Neither the possibility of the above-explained monism nor the open chance for such monism to any soul is false. The twist that the soul is already God is for the sake of an atheist only. Such an atheist worships the Lord without true sincerity since he feels that the difference between the Lord and Himself is only relative and in the absolute plane, both the Lord and Himself are already one. Such defective worship is inevitable in the beginning because every beginning has to be associated with defects only as per the Gita (Sarvaarambhaahi doshena…). Such defects must be removed in course of time and the soul must feel that it is a part of the imaginable creation, whereas God is the Unimaginable Creator. The difference is eternal and hence, Dvaita or duality is the basic eternal truth. God grants the above explained monism when the soul gets a chance to become the human incarnation. The soul pervaded by God becomes God for all practical purposes and the monism is practically true. The duality in the human incarnation is only the theoretical truth. Before such a chance of human incarnation, duality is the practical truth and during the human incarnation, monism is the practical truth. Hence, both monism and duality are equally important and equally true in different contexts. In the same context of human incarnation, the monism is true in the view of devotee, whereas duality is true in the view of the liberated soul charged by God. This means simultaneously the liberated soul charged by God is treated as God by devotee, whereas the liberated soul charged by God treats Himself different from God. As long as the soul aspires to become God, it will never get this chance because this ambition is the greatest poison and sin. Once this ambition is totally eradicated from the soul during the long worship of the Lord, the soul deserves to become the human incarnation. The human incarnation is to fulfill the work of God and not to satisfy the ambition of the soul. Unless this ambition and ego are completely eradicated, the soul remains undeserving to become the human incarnation.
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