The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita : Ch-11. Part-7.

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Chapter 11: God Present Within Us :

Part-7.

There are two kinds of extremes in thinking—the empirical and the transcendent.

While we emphasise the transcendent aspect of God, we are likely to ignore the world and human society and become austere monks, desert fathers, cave dwellers and monastic hermits with an absorption of consciousness into a transcendence of values, which may border upon a complete bifurcation of oneself from the external experiences in the form of the world—adhibhuta, and society—adhiyajna.

This is something very important to remember.

The Supreme Being is no doubt the eternal object—adhibhuta, but inclusive of the thinker, the subject—adhyatma, inclusive also of the whole of society—adhiyajna, and inclusive of all the gods that one can imagine—adhidaiva.

All the gods of religion are included in this Supreme Godhead.

The angels and the divinities that we speak of in religious parlance, the dwellers in the higher heavens, paradise, the ethereal beings—all these angelic existences, the divinities and gods of religion—are also comprehended within this supreme God.

The concept of God is fairly difficult to entertain.

We cannot think God.

Our minds are not so made as to enable us to contemplate God as He is in Himself.

But the Bhagavadgita insists that liberation is impossible until and unless meditation becomes practicable on the true God.
And who is this true God?

Towards this end we are driven by the various chapters of the Gita, right from the seventh onwards.

Swami Krishnananda
To be continued  ....




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