The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavad gita : Ch-10. Part-3.

Chapter 10: The Imperishable Among All that is Perishable :



Part-3.


We are told in the Puranas that Narayana or Vishnu takes incarnations for the preservation of creation.

Vishnu is regarded as yajna itself.

It is the highest sacrifice—God sacrificing himself every moment of time for the sustenance of His creation.

As adhiyajna He is the administrative power and the methodology of the working of the cosmos.

All activity is comprehended under this yajna of the cosmos.

Therefore God is present in all activity when it is considered as a passage to God, when it is regarded as a manifestation of God as rays emanating from the sun.



Those wise souls who envisage God as adhibhuta, adhidaiva and adhiyajna, which means to say, who encounter God as a comprehensive Absolute and not merely existing only here or there, such devotees are true knowers.

They can entertain or maintain this consciousness even at the time of passing from this world—they are not deprived of this consciousness even when death overtakes them.

Generally when a person is at the point of passing away from this body, one is supposed to be in a state of delirium—a kind of swoon, unconscious and a loss of awareness of all things.

But those blessed ones who are devoted to this practice of the yoga of devotion to God as a completeness in itself maintain this awareness even at the point of doom, even when they are about to leave this body.

Prayana-kale’pi ca mam te vidur yukta-cetasah:

“They know Me because they are yukta-cetasah; they have been united with Me perpetually throughout their lives.”



Swami Krishnananda

To be continued  ....