The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita : Ch-11. Part-5.

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Chapter 11: God Present Within Us :

Part-5.


The whole field of sociological relationships is comprehended within the Being of God, so that social existence in not outside God’s existence.

Many of us, theologians and spiritual seekers, are prone to commit the mistake that society is different from God, or at least isolated in its character from God-being, so that social workers, social welfare thinkers and humanists are likely to ignore the principle called ‘God’ as an irrelevant interference with the human concern called ‘social activity’ or ‘welfare’.

Not so is the truth.

The adhiyajna or the field of activity, service and relationship of any kind is one of the manifestations of God Himself, so that the concept of God includes the concept of human society, and it cannot exclude it.

So social welfare, social thinking, the humanistic approach is incomplete without the introduction of the divine element into it.

Also, vice versa—the concept of God in a purely theological form is also incomplete if it is to be divested from all empirical experience.

Swami Krishnananda

To be continued  ....




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