The human form of Lord has no obligation to see that every body recognizes Him      

The Lord comes in human form in every human generation.  All people may not recognize Him.  Only a few devotees can recognize Him and get the benefit of liberation form these worldly bonds.   The human form of Lord has no obligation to see that every body recognizes Him.  Of course, He will try the level best to give His identity and to reveal Himself slowly according to the speed of digestion of the devotees.  The teacher comes to the class and teaches the class impartially to His level best in view of the capacity of digestion of the sitting students in the class with equal approach.

Some attend the class very carefully and get first class.  Some attend with less care and just pass.  Some do not attend and fail.  The student is responsible about his final result. Similarly, some recognize the human incarnation as Lord.  Some recognize the human incarnation as a blessed devotee.  Some treat the human incarnation as an ordinary human being.  For this variation God is not at all responsible.


Suppose, the teacher comes to a class in one year and does not come to next batch of the same class, it is injustice on the part of the teacher to favor one batch and not the other batch.  Similarly, the human incarnation cannot favor one human generation only by direct contact.


At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness Sri Dattaswami

Anil Antony

According to Adi Shankara, God, the Supreme Cosmic Spirit or Brahman (pronounced as /brəh mən/; nominative singular Brahma, pronounced as /brəh mə/) is the One, the whole and the only reality. Other than Brahman, everything else, including the universe, material objects and individuals, are false. Brahman is at best described as that infinite, omnipresent, omnipotent, incorporeal, impersonal, transcendent reality that is the divine ground of all Being. Brahman is often described as neti neti meaning "not this, not this" because it cannot be correctly described as this or that. It is the origin of this and that, the origin of forces, substances, all of existence, the undefined, the basis of all, unborn, the essential truth, unchanging, eternal, the absolute. How can it be properly described as something in the material world when itself is the basis of reality? Brahman is also beyond the senses, it would be akin a blind man trying to correctly describe color. It (grammatically neutral, but exceptionally treated as masculine), though not a substance, is the basis of the material world, which in turn is its illusionary transformation. Brahman is not the effect of the world. Brahman is said to be the purest knowledge itself, and is illuminant like a source of infinite light.