What does the Gita 4.11 – everyone is on my path – mean?
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thank you what does everybody’s on my path mean actually in multiple levels we can understand first level is that everybody has some conception of absolute truth even for materialists who may not believe in God for them money is the absolute truth for politicians political power may be their absolute truth so everybody has their conception of the absolute truth and that attractiveness of that absolute truth Krishna explains in the Bhagavad Gita in 10.41 that everything attractive gets its attractiveness from a spark of my spender yad yad vibhuti matsakvam shrimadurjita mevava tattva devavah gacchattvam mamatey yom shasambhava so money gets its potential to attract from Krishna everything the attractiveness it comes from Krishna suppose a cricketer bats very well and so many people are fans of their cricketer but then one day that same cricketer for no reason goes out of form when they go out of form they can’t do anything its not just their own talent their talent is gifted by Krishna so as devotees if we see that whatever it is that people are attracted to they are attracted ultimately to Krishna then we see that everybody is in that sense on Krishna’s path but then its like one express way is there and whatever is there is the manifestation of Krishna but not everyone is actually moving closer to Krishna somebody may be on that path but somebody is attracted to alcohol and in that alcohol they are infatuated then the attractiveness of alcohol also comes from Krishna only but that is an attractiveness that doesn’t take one towards Krishna so there is everything so say for a beautiful sense object the beauty is real and beauty comes from Krishna but does remembering that beauty take me towards Krishna or does it take me away from Krishna so in that sense whatever people are attracted to its like a path on which whatever is attractive is there its all a manifestation of Krishna only but does that attractive manifestation remind us of Krishna and inspire us to move towards him or does it make us forget Krishna and go away from him that is the difference so in that sense everybody is on his path they are moving towards him moving away from him based on their conceptions of attractiveness which come from a spark a spark of his all attractiveness