Gita and philosophy and Vedanta have nothing to do with God. They are in search of Truth, not God. These are different things — Truth and God. Secondly, all the objects that you look at, you look at them in search of something. In search of the Truth, you look at all these objects. In that sense you could say, I am looking at everything in search of the absolute. To the ego, everything carries a promise, a possibility of the absolute. That does not mean that all the objects that you look at contain the infinite or something.
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Questioner: Namaste Acharya ji. My question is from today’s session. As you said that the infinite, the absolute, it cannot be any object of this world which is all Prakriti. So, like since childhood we have been taught and we hear in religious teachings that God is omnipresence, omnipotent, or in Hindi we say that 'kan kan mein Narayan hain.'
So how we can corelate this, what we have learnt today and if this teaching is correct that 'kan kan mein Narayan hain?'
Acharya Prashant: See, first of all, Gita and philosophy and Vedanta have nothing to do with God. They are in search of Truth, not God. These are different things — Truth and God. Secondly, all the objects that you look at, you look at them in search of something. In search of the Truth, you look at all these objects.
In that sense you could say, I am looking at everything in search of the absolute. To the ego, everything carries a promise, a possibility of the absolute. Hence, the ego keeps running from pillar to post in this world. That does not mean that all the objects that you look at contain the infinite or something. All that is just folk wisdom, nothing to do with philosophy.
