The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavad gita-21-9.
11/04/2018 21.The Lord Dwells in the Hearts of All Beings- 9. The crux of spiritual knowledge and tapas or sadhana is reached when we come to our own selves from the outward panorama of things. Everything looks successful and grand and practicable when the dealings are only with external objects, with the vast cosmos. We may handle the whole world with great success and victory, but when it comes to a question of handling our own selves, we are an utter failure, because the most difficult thing is one’s own self and not the world outside, though it appears many a time that the world is a terrible thing before us. But we are the terrible things, and not the world. Hence this great terror is our own ego which has to be offered on the altar of sharanagati. “Come to Me alone and I will free you from all sins,” is the last message of the Bhagavadgita. It is wonderful indeed that all our sins will be pardoned and will be extinguished as if they had never been there. How could that