The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavad gita : Ch-10. Part-1.

Chapter 10: The Imperishable Among All that is Perishable :



Part-1.



The seventh chapter of the Bhagavadgita concludes with a message that leads on gradually to the commencement of the eighth chapter.

This message is that in our devotion to God we have to so tune our consciousness that the various aspects in which God manifests Himself are taken into consideration at one stroke, and God is not conceived partially.

Many of the religious attitudes of the devout take God as a transcendent, other-worldly Being, and religion has often been identified with a kind of neglect of the world and apathy towards human society.

A religious attitude is made synonymous with an ascetic attitude of a denial of worldly values and all social significance, amounting to the conclusion, almost, that God is not in this world, and to attain God one must reject this world, reject any social concourse.

This is the feature into which religions get driven, almost as a universal characteristic.

A religious man is not a man of this world; he belongs to another world altogether.

This is a commonly accepted definition of a religious devotee, a hermit, a mendicant, etc.


Swami Krishnananda

To be continued  ....