Gadhada Last Section Vach. 37 Vachanamrut Rahasyarth Pradeepika Tika

Once a person has thoroughly attained the knowledge about the Murti of God, that knowledge does not diminish even slightly, irrespective of the adverse place, time, activity or association encountered. An example to explain this is that of a great king or an immensely wealthy person. He may lose his status and face poverty as a result of his destiny. Due to this, he may have to eat simple foods such as wild corn, coarse spinach, wild berries or boiled vegetable stalks. When he eats these, he remembers the lavish, extravagant and expensive dishes that he had previously ordered and eaten, which others would never have been able to eat. All these foods are recalled. Thoughts arise in his mind, ‘I used to dine on sumptuous feasts in the past, but now I have to eat this kind of simple, tasteless food.’ Whenever he eats, this thought comes to mind. However, a person who has always eaten simple foods may face even greater poverty, but he then eats the same kinds of food that he previously did. What would he remember? In the same manner, once someone has thoroughly established within his mind, the bliss of God’s Murti and the pleasure of His worship, even if he becomes unable to associate with the Satsang and has to leave, he remembers that bliss whilst experiencing the pleasures and miseries he is destined to. He does not forget the bliss. If someone has never known the happiness of God, or has never experienced His bliss, what would he be able to recall? He would be like an animal.