God became many for His enjoyment because He is the enjoyer. We are not enjoyer; we are enjoyed. So we must know our constitutional position, that we are not enjoyer; we are enjoyed

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"God became many for His enjoyment, because He is the enjoyer. We are not enjoyer: we are enjoyed. So we must know our constitutional position, that we are not enjoyer: we are enjoyed"

Lectures

Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

Enjoyment means variety. Without variety, without many things, there is no question of enjoyment. That is the original idea of enjoyment. So God became many. God became many for His enjoyment because He is the enjoyer. We are not enjoyer; we are enjoyed. So we must know our constitutional position, that we are not enjoyer; we are enjoyed.

660325 - Lecture BG 02.44-45, 58 Excerpts - New York

God has expanded in many, and out of the many, we are. Out of the many, we are also. We are, you are, I am, you are—every one of us—we are all expansions of the Supreme Lord. Eko bahu syām. The God willed that "I shall become many. I shall become many." Now, why He becomes many? God is one without second, but He, out of His own sweet will, He becomes many. Now, why He becomes many? He becomes many to enjoy, because without becoming many, nobody can enjoy. Just, for example, I am speaking here. Now, you are five gentleman and ladies present here. So we are enjoying these topics. But if there would have been five hundred here, people assembled, the enjoyment would have been more. And if there would have been no persons sitting here, simply myself speaking, there would have been no enjoyment.

So enjoyment means variety. Without variety, without many things, there is no question of enjoyment. That is the original idea of enjoyment. So God became many. God became many for His enjoyment, because He is the enjoyer. We are not enjoyer: we are enjoyed. So we must know our constitutional position, that we are not enjoyer: we are enjoyed. As soon as we are convinced to this particular . . . now, enjoyer and the enjoyed, both of them have got consciousness. Just like the husband and the wife: the husband is the enjoyer, the wife is the enjoyed, but both of them are conscious. But the consciousness of the enjoyed is the subordinate to the consciousness of the enjoyer.

So although the Supreme Consciousness is the supreme enjoyer, and we are enjoyed, but the enjoyment can be equally participated when there is actual enjoyment. So our enjoyment can be perfected, our enjoyment can be perfected when we participate the enjoyment of God. Because He is the enjoyer. So the more we become engaged in . . .

(break) . . . matter of encouraging the enjoyment of the Supreme Lord, the more enjoyment we . . . that is the . . . separately we cannot enjoy. We have to cooperate. We have to cooperate with the supreme enjoyer: then our sense of enjoyment will be complete.