post 23

GURU VACHAKA KOVAI

1164. Know that the bodiless and indivisible great Mukta’s walking as if [he were] having a body, is as if the supreme space [of consciousness] were walking [on earth], just like Lord Vishnu, who paced [all] the worlds as His domain.

Michael James: Since the Jivan-mukta has realized that He is not the limited body, He shines devoid of the body as the indivisible and unlimited Self. However, in the outlook of ajnanis He seems to have a body and to be walking on earth. Since it is truly nothing but a formless space of Self which seems to be walking in the form of that body, it is as wonderful as Lord Vishnu, who assumed a vast form and covered all the worlds in three paces, thereby claiming them as His domain.