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Sat Chit Anand (Lecture by Shri Maharaj Ji)
Length: 17.50 minutes

हरि सच्चिदानन्द गोविन्द राधे,
हरि जात जग क्यों ऊलटा बतादे.

hari Sachchidaanand Govind Raadhe,
hari Jaat Jag kyon UlaTaa Bataade.

English Translation of the lecture (by Didi Ji)

All our scriptures assert God is the father of the entire world. The best definition of God is Sacchidananda. Because rest of two entities i.e. Jeev and Maya can never be ‘Sacchidananda. He created the world and then he entered in each and every atom of the world. He does not sit in His Golok after creation. He kept creating and entering the entire world – both in sentient and insentient entities. God creates, sustains and eventually withdraws the world into His infinite belly. The Vedant asserts that he revealed himself as the world. And it is logical as well since He is omnipresent. Before total annihilation there were three entities. At the time of annihilation two of the merged into the Supreme Being and again at the time of creation there are all the three. He proved this fact that he is Omnipresent by appearing from the pillar of Hiranya Kashipu’s palace.

So God, who is ‘sat’ (eternal) created the world. Then why the world is transient? The cycle of annihilation and creation is unceasing.

There are 4 kinds of annihilation: Nitya, Neimittik, Prakrit and Atyantik. Sound sleep, when do not even dream, is Nitya Pralaya. It happens almost every day in our life. There is no feeling of happiness or suffering in this state. When we wake up after this type of sleep, we can just say I slept very peacefully. It is similar to the state when doctor gives us anesthesia before surgery. Nemittik Pralaya happens after a day of Brahma (creator). The length of Brahma’s one day is 4 billion, 29.408 million 80000 years. His night is also that long. So, after this annihilation Brahma go to sleep for his 12 hours.

The total age of Brahma is 100 celestial years, which is equivalent to our 3132 trillion and 40 billion years. Total annihilation after this period is called Mahapralaya or Prakrit Pralaya. Brahma also does not exist thereafter.

Liberation or God realization is called Atyantik Pralaya (final annihilation).

Thus the world is transient and it’s creator is eternal plus God is unlimitedly conscious and the world made of five gross elements(earth, water, ether, air and space) is inert. Even our body is inert. As soon the conscious soul leaves the body, it can not do anything at all. It will be rotten and frowzy very soon. On top of that God Himself is Bliss. How come the world created by Him has no trace of happiness? It is considerable now, why the creation of Permanent, ever conscious and veritable bliss God, is transient, inert and completely devoid of happiness? Why everything is so perverted? Some competent one answer this question. If anyone of you is genius, answer.

 
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