God as Mother : 16. Sri Swami Chidananda.
================================================================ ============================================================== Sunday, March 06, 2 10, 2022. 6:00. AM. Essence of Devi Mahatmyam 16. The Evolution of Man to Godhead ============================================================== But, as it has been said in the Gita: to the man of the spirit everything operates in exactly the opposite direction as it does to the man of the world who is immersed in matter. That which is day to the man of the world is night to the man of the spirit and to those things to which the man of the world is awake as it were in his perception the man of the spirit is asleep and does not recognise them. To those things to which the man of the world is asleep in his perception to all those higher things of the spirit, the man of God is fully awake. What the worldly man perceives the Yogi turns away from and does not perceive; what the worldly man fails to perceive the Yogi perceives in his state of