Isvara satya hai – God is Truth. Then will not the things made by Him be satya – real?



1. Isvara satya hai – God is Truth. Then will not the things made by Him be satya – real?


Yes. But do we call things made by God as ‘His’? No. We call them ‘our’ things. When we bring in ‘me’ and ‘mine’ and ‘you’ and ‘yours’ in His creation, then such a world is called samsara – fleeting and unreal. If we see the Lord as satya – real and the entire world (and oneself) as His, then everything is real. In fact, if we see all as His or all as Him alone, then all is real. What therefore is asat (unreal) is only our wrong notions, which have to be dispelled.


As long as we quote from Vedanta, as someone else’s statements – be it of the Guru or the scriptures – knowledge remains vicarious. When we assimilate them and make them our own, then they become clear and meaningful. Realize that ‘God is Truth’ then we will see the world made by Him also as real.


2. Is the Lord’s justice really just?

How can we ever know the justice of the Lord? Most of the time, we do not even know whether what we do is right or wrong! Also we are totally incapable of knowing what the results of any of our actions will be (though we are free to hope). He alone knows. Fortunately for us, He is as compassionate as He is just. If He were merely just, we would have had a much harder time!


3. After total surrender, what does one do?


If we can truly and totally surrender, then it is left to God to  do what He has to do, not us.

The problem is that we do not totally surrender.

The greatest purushartha (act of free will) of a sadhaka (seeker) is true and total surrender.

If that is done, the individual’s purushartha ends and God’s will takes over.

Swami Chinmayananda

Chinmaya Mission

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