​Yoga Maya can cover Krishna – how is this different from the Mayavadi idea that we all are God covered by Maya?

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Thank you so much. So if we say by Yoga Maya Krishna can also be covered then how is this different from the Mayavadi argument that we are all gods in disguise but we are forgotten. So actually Krishna as I said he is the actor who is directed by the director.
Krishna is also a script writer. That means Krishna is being controlled not against his will. He is controlled by his own will.
And he can come out of that control at any moment. So for example in the Damodarilal which is going on. In the Damodarilal which we recited in Yamodarashtakam.
Krishna at one moment is helpless and he is bound by his mother. He is tied by his mother and he is not able to free himself. And the next moment he is thinking oh my devotee Narada promised that I will deliver these treats.
So how is that possible? Krishna when he wants he can just remove the covering. He can just come out of Yoga Maya spell and immediately act in his omnipotence. So the next moment what is it? Krishna doesn’t just remember what Narada Bhoomi has told but he actually has the strength to bring down those treats.
And that’s why The speciality of this meditation is that you are bound. But normally those who are unbound they free the bound. But you were bound and while staying bound you freed those who were bound in material existence.
You liberate yourself. So Krishna he is never under illusion. Even when he is under illusion that is by his will.
So personally some of the Mayavadis say that we are all under we are all gods in disguise. The problem is that we have to do a sadhana for enlightenment. We can’t just come out of ignorance by our will.
And so Leela is that which is voluntarily accepted for pleasure. It’s voluntarily accepted for pleasure and Krishna can just end it. Whatever role he has taken to Leela at any moment.
But what we are going in is natural mental existence is forcibly imposed for suffering. It’s not voluntarily accepted for pleasure. We grow old, we get diseased.
We suffer. To call this as Leela is actually to completely misunderstand and misrepresent what Leela is. This is what we are undergoing against our will.
And the very fact that we need a sadhana for enlightenment indicates that no, we are not God. We have to actually take the grace of God to overcome the illusory nature. And Yoga Maya is acting by Krishna’s will.
So it’s very difficult.