Passage 3

In English

is the second. The entire Creation represents the (play) of God. Not only that. Its maintenance () and dissolution () are also God's . How can anyone describe the manifold of God? They take diverse forms. As , one can imagine that the entire Universe can disappear! His (will) is all-powerful. Whatever happens, good or bad, is God's ! Unless one has cultivated an attitude of equanimity towards good and bad, one cannot claim to have understood God. The (spiritual aspirants) of today are happy when something good happens; when something bad comes about, they slide into contrary thoughts. When the entire Creation is the Cosmic of God, to demarcate a few and sing in terms of those few reveals only feebleness of vision. The third is . Devotees who are attached to this path of adoration adopt one or the other of six special () - approaches, attitudes or relationship to God - and attempt to derive consummation thereby. It must be said that all the six are deficient and based upon limited conception of Godhead. (1) the : This emphasises that the devotee endures whatever happens to him gladly as coming from His Grace. In the , is pictured as the supreme model of this type. But, he on his own volition, postponed the moment of his death in order to acquire the merit of having cast off the body on an auspicious day! He believed that the half of the year was more holy and that death before the Sun crosses the Tropic of Capricorn would result in an evil future! When God is both Time and beyond Time, who is man to divide Time into good and bad? The happiness or misery awaiting one cannot depend on the time of death. Believing so is a sign of weakness in the devotees of God.