The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita : Ch-11. Part-16.

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Chapter 11: God Present Within Us :

Part-16.

The perishable form of the world is called adhibhuta, the objectness that is present in objects.

Externality is the clothing in which the essence of the object is rooted.

Every object has an eternal element present in it.

But, when it is looked upon as something present somewhere as a name and a form, it becomes a temporal, perishable appearance.

There is a reality hidden in appearances, and the appearance aspect is called adhibhuta, while the reality that is responsible even for the appearance is the imperishable Brahman.

The transitoriness that is the characteristic of objects is not their essential nature.

Their essential nature is eternity and infinitude, but their name-form complex, which is in space and time, is the perishable aspect—this is called adhibhuta.
Adhibhutam ksaro bhavah purusas cadhidaivatam.

What we usually call today the Overself in man is the Atman in the individual—the kutastachaitanya that I referred to just now.

The adhidaiva is the presiding principle behind all individuals, the supreme consciousness that is at the base of all individualities—not the mind, but consciousness.

Swami Krishnananda
To be continued  ....




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