Alright, so the soul is not born. God is not born; He is unborn, but at the same time, the Lord says,
अजायमानो बहुधा विजायते |
Ajayamano bahudha vijayathe.
“I am unborn.”
In the Vedas the Lord also declares in the same mantra (and) says,
…बहुधा विजायते |
…bahudha vijayathe.
“I am unborn. I never take birth.”
Okay.
“Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I take not one or two births, but I have uncountable births”.
“You are saying You are unborn, and then You are saying You take millions and uncountable births!”
“Yes.”
So the (one who) reconciled all of these contradictory predicates is Jagadguru Shree Kripalu Ji Mahaprabhu. Divine are his Divine talks; profound is his explanation. In depth, we can listen to him, but in short, let me just tell you this.
The unborn, that the supreme Almighty Lord Krishna Himself declares in the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita (Song of the Lord),
बहूनि मे व्यतीतानि जन्मानि तव चार्जुन | …
Bahūni me vyatītāni janmāni tava chārjuna …
- Gita 4.5
“Oh Arjun, you and I, we both have taken millions of births, uncountable births. All of them, I know, but you know of none. You don’t have any memory of any birth, but I know.”
4th chapter/5th verse of the Bhagavad Gita, for your reference. (These are) the words of the supreme Almighty Lord Krishna Himself.
अजोऽपि सन्नव्ययात्मा भूतानामीश्वरोऽपि सन् |
प्रकृतिं स्वामधिष्ठाय सम्भवाम्यात्ममायया ||Ajo’pi sannavyayātmā bhūtānām īśhvaro ’pi san
Prakṛitiṁ svām adhiṣhṭhāya sambhavāmyātma-māyayā- Gita 4.6
Ajo’pi means ‘Though I am unborn’. Api means ‘although’. (Again) ‘ajo’pi’ means,
“Although I am unborn, the soul of all the infinite souls am I, the Lord of all the infinite souls am I and indestructible am I. Yet I cover My original nature as the supreme Divine Godhead personality, and through My own prakriti, through My own maya, through My own yogmaya shakti, swaroop shakti or My personal power, I take forth, and take form. I appear and take forth a form - I appear.”
4th chapter, 6th verse of the Bhagavad Gita, for your reference. And what’s the reason? One of the reasons out of thousands of reasons,
यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत |
अभ्युत्थानमधर्मस्य तदात्मानं सृजाम्यहम् ||Yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati bhārat.
Abhyutthānam adharmasya tadātmānaṁ sṛijāmyaham- Gita 4.7
परित्राणाय साधूनां विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम् |
धर्मसंस्थापनार्थाय सम्भवामि युगे युगे ||Paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ vināśhāya cha duṣhkṛitām.
Dharma-sansthāpanārthāya sambhavāmi yuge yuge.- Gita 4.8
जन्म कर्म च मे दिव्यमेवं यो वेत्ति तत्त्वत: |
त्यक्त्वा देहं पुनर्जन्म नैति मामेति सोऽर्जुन ||Janm karm cha me divyam evaṁ yo vetti tattvataḥ.
Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janm naiti māmeti so ’rjun.- Gita 4.9
The Lord is speaking about His birth, that is, about His Divine appearance through His yogmaya shakti, His personal power. He covers Himself, and that is why no one can know Him. And He takes forth a human form, an ordinary form, And the foolish-minded people, the deluded fools deluded in maya (illusion), start to think about God as an ordinary human being.
