The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavad gita : Ch-10. Part-5.

Chapter 10: The Imperishable Among All that is Perishable :


Part-5.



The answer is again a concise statement of cosmology, the whole structure of the universe in its relationship to God.

We have been discussing it in some detail in connection with a few of the verses of the seventh chapter.

The Supreme Being is the indestructible Absolute; It is the eternal.

The language of the Bhagavadgita introduces these technical terms.

The supreme Brahman or the Absolute is called the aksharam.

It is the imperishable amidst all that is perishable, the eternal among the transient, the changeless among all things that change in this world and the perpetual witness of the varying phenomena of nature.

It continuously maintains the awareness of creation, preservation and dissolution of the whole cosmos, and nothing else anywhere can be regarded as eternal or imperishable.



Nowhere in this world do we see anything or come across anything that is imperishable.

Whatever we see with our eyes, hear with our ears, or think with our minds is subject to destruction.

But there is something on the basis of which even this consciousness of change and destruction can be possible.

The very possibility and awareness of change and transience posits a non-transient, imperishable Absolute.

The supreme Brahman is the Absolute—that is the imperishable Eternal.

The terms that are used further on refer to the other manifestations, or we may say appearances, of the supreme Absolute.

The one all-comprehensive Being appears to our visualisation or vision as an objective universe, as subjective individuality, as the cosmic Absolute, and as the force behind the ejection of creation.

All these, whatever we can think of in our mind, is the drama played by the Absolute within Its own bosom.



Swami Krishnananda

To be continued  ....