The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavad gita : Ch-9. Part-20.

9: The Unity of the Lover and the Beloved :


Part-20.



This is the divine madness of the great mystics, the sages and saints who were God-intoxicated.

We have words which demonstrate the incapacity to express the depth of this reality that we are trying to convey.

Otherwise, why do we say “God-mad”, “God-intoxicated”, etc? These words ‘intoxication’, ‘madness’, etc., have extreme meanings, which alone seem to be able to convey this extreme experience that is going to take place.



We will be surprised to read the expositions on the mystical revelations of saints and sages in mystical texts, in language which is not normal.

All these superb poets, who established themselves in God-experience, tried to express their feelings and experiences in terms which is not the ordinary language of the world, and that is why when we read this poetry we feel shaken up—we are disturbed in a very profound manner. The greatest art is that which disturbs our feelings the moment we look at it or hear it.



If we walk away unaffected after seeing a painting, it is not a good painting. But, if the moment we see it we are disturbed, transported and thrown out of our personality, and we have lost ourself in one second—that is art, that is poetry, that is mystical experience.

This is the great culmination, the apotheosis to which the Bhagavadgita will lead us from the seventh chapter, as we proceed further.


Chapter-9. ENDS.

Next : Chapter 10: The Imperishable Among All that is Perishable.

Swami Krishnananda

To be continued  ....