The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita : Ch-8. Part-14.





8. In Harmony with the Whole Universe  :


Part-14.


They are arranged in such a pattern in the cosmic set-up that there seems to be the sattvica, rajasa and tamasa, as they appear before our eyes.

This is another great revelation here.

Before the eyes of God the world stands transfigured, and it does not stand as it stands before us. Before God, the world does not exist as an object to be confronted every day, as it does with people.

We have to confront the world; we have to face it; we have to attack it.



Sometimes we are subjugated by it, and those are our sorrows, because our minds accept certain characteristics of the world according to the capacities of comprehension with which the mind is endowed, and what it cannot accept is rejected by the mind, just as a certain spectrum of colour in the leaves of a tree absorb a particular ray of the sun, and appear to us as green color.

The green colour of the leaf, for instance, is the effect of an abstraction. All colours have this feature—everything is of this character.

Swami Krishnananda

To be continued   ....


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