The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita : Ch-11. Part-3.

Chapter 11: God Present Within Us :


Part-3.


The important terms that we are referring to in this context in these verses are adhyatma, adhibuta, adhidaiva, and adhiyajna.
These four terms occur in these one and a half slokam-s :

"Te brahma tad viduh krtsnam adhyatmam karma cakhilam. Sadhibhutadhidaivam mam sadhiyajnam ca ye viduh."

We read the Gita, repeating these slokam-s and understanding their grammatical meaning, but grammar is not the only way of scriptural interpretation.

There is a philosophical and metaphysical aspect in the wisdom that the scripture gives us, apart from the linguistic surface in which it is cloaked, and to confine our knowledge of scripture only to its linguistic aspect or grammatical dictionary meaning would be to partially understand its profundity.

The thought of God is the most difficult thought.

As a matter of fact, any thought is difficult when it is attempted to be made comprehensive.

The difficulty is not in the fact that the object here is God—the difficulty is in the structure of the mind itself.

The defect of the mind is uniformly present as operative in the entire knowledge field—whether the object of the concept in the mind is a particle of sand or the supreme Absolute Itself, it makes no difference.

There is a common defect present in all perception.

The defect is that the mind works through certain blinkers, as it were, and it can look at the object from one point of view.

The object is looked upon as an object only and bereft of any other implication in its existence.


Swami Krishnananda

To be continued  ....