Krishn says,’Seeing me in human form, ignorant people, who are unable to grasp my true divine nature, think that I am an ordinary material person.’ because ‘Mind is beyond the reach of senses. Intellect is beyond the reach mind. Soul is beyond the reach of intellect’. Further Maya is beyond soul and God is beyond Maya. Thus intellect is in no way capable of reaching God.

Mind and intellect work with the power of soul. Soul governs them.

Take an example of a string puppet. We know that human controls string puppet. They work with power of human. Human is beyond the reach of a puppet. Puppets have no capability to understand human. Human has vitality while puppet is dull matter.

Similarly soul has vitality while mind and intellect are dull matter. Hence the mind cannot perceive soul and the intellect cannot understand soul. Further Maya, which is empowered by God, is beyond soul. And then God is beyond Maya.

Thus there is no way that we can understand Soul, Maya and God. Because everyone relies on intellect to know anything and everything but in the case of God, the most trusted instrument – the intellect – has failed .

Thus God cannot be understood by intellect nor he can be perceived by mind. Similarly soul cannot be known to us. We are unsuccessful in knowing God since time infinite. God is eternal bliss. This explains why we do not have any single experience of divine bliss up till now though we have lived infinite lives.

God is at the top.

The link is God→Maya→Soul→Intellect→Mind