The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavad gita : Ch-9. Part-14.

9: The Unity of the Lover and the Beloved :


Part-14.



But if the world has been created out of God Himself, then also a similar conclusion follows—we are not seeing the world in front of us, we are seeing only God.

We may say that the world does not exist, or that only God exists; both mean the same thing.

So to say that God created the world out of nothing, or to say that God created everything out of Himself are two ways of stating one reality, one fact, one conclusion that there cannot be anything external to God—vasudevah sarvam.



This is the height of devotion, which the mind cannot ordinarily contain, because devotion here melts into experience.

Where there is a lover and a beloved, there can be love, devotion, affection and longing.

There can be yearning and an agony and anguish within because of the consciousness of having lost the beloved, being in a state of bereavement of the beloved, and longing for proximity to the beloved, the devotion getting intensified as the devotee moves nearer and nearer to the great object of his devotion.


Swami Krishnananda

To be continued  ....