The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavad gita : Ch-9. Part-12.

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9: The Unity of the Lover and the Beloved :


Part-12.



He has become My Soul; he has become the Universal Soul.”

Vasudevah sarvam iti sa mahtma sudurlabhah:

Rare indeed is that soul, blessed indeed is that person who realises that God is all—not that God is merely pervading things or is immanent in a theoretical sense, not that God is merely a Creator as a carpenter who is a creator of a chair or table, but that He is the All. Such a great soul is rare to find.




We will find many devotees of God, perhaps, but we will not find many who are convinced, from the bottom of their hearts, that God alone is and nothing else can be.

The possibility of the existence of anything external to God creates an endless variety of questions and problems and sorrows.

We rush from one trouble to another trouble from the initial mistake of imagining even the least distinction between God and His created universe.

Swami Krishnananda

To be continued  ....




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