The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita : Ch-9. Part-2.

9: The Unity of the Lover and the Beloved :


Part-2.


There is a connecting link even between apparently irreconcilable particulars, just as the initial bead is connected with a distant bead because of the uniformity of the thread that passes through all the beads in a necklace or garland.

This answer is good enough, because it establishes the internal connection of things amidst the apparent diversity of objects.

While bodies differ because of their placement in space and time, their souls are united because of the thread-soul that passes through all these beads of individuals—the sutratman, or the cosmic thread, which connects all these bodies, right from the angels in heaven down to the lowest atoms of inanimate nature.




The answer is good enough, but it raises questions of a philosophical nature.

For a devotee of faith or a practitioner of yoga the answer that God pervades all things is quite adequate, but the philosopher or the scientist questions that point of pervading everywhere and immanency.

When we dip a cloth in a bucketful of water and leave it there for some time, we find that water pervades the whole of the cloth.

Swami Krishnananda

To be continued  ....