The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavad gita : Ch-10. Part-2.

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Chapter 10: The Imperishable Among All that is Perishable :



Part-2.


But this is an erroneous attitude, because it does not take God in His Truth.

There is a conceptual transcendence attributed to God by the religious devotion.

While the materialist denies God and affirms the world, religion affirms God but denies the world.

Anyhow there is a kind of denial, which is not the gospel of Bhagavadgita.

Any kind of extreme is cautiously avoided, because yoga is samatva, or balance of attitude.

It is not a swinging of the balance on one side exclusively.

So, towards this end, the last verse of the seventh chapter tells us—sadhibhutadhidaivam mam sadhiyajnam ca ye viduh, prayana-kale’pi ca mam te vidur yukta-cetasah.



The Lord of the Gita speaks: “I have to be known as adhibhuta, adhidaiva and adhiyajna, and not merely any one of these to the exclusion of the others.”

The whole universe is adhibhuta, and the directing principle hidden beneath all phenomena is adhidaiva.

The entire administration of the cosmos in its various facets may be regarded as adhiyajna.


Swami Krishnananda

To be continued  ....




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