The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita : Ch-8. Part-17.

8. In Harmony with the Whole Universe  :


Part-17.



All things are existent in some form or the other, ultimately, in their archetypal Creator, in God the Almighty.

This is the way in which we are introduced to teachings of the next six chapters of Bhagavadgita, from the seventh to the twelfth, for the purpose of giving us a complete knowledge of the cosmology of creation with the intention of introducing us into the Being of God Himself.




The terrible encounter had to be faced even by a great man like Buddha.

“You have chosen this path in error; you are wrong. Your sadhana, the meditation that you are attempting, are false attempts,” Mara says to Buddha.

 Christ’s temptations that are spoken of in the New Testament are the mystical stages through which everyone has to pass.

Everyone is a Buddha and everyone is a Christ, one day or the other—if not today, tomorrow. Everybody has to pass through the same series of stages, and all have to undergo the same torture of carrying the cross on our backs.

None can be exempted from this sorrow.

The sorrow of the ego, which is inflicted with pain of self-annihilation, is asking for God.

When we ask for God, we are asking for death, and who likes death?

There is a terror which makes the ego shudder at the very thought of the immersion of the soul in God.

These difficulties appear like mountains later on, and therefore, at the beginning, we have to go through all the various chapters of the Gita, and not suddenly jump to the later chapters.

Swami Krishnananda

To be continued  ....