The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita : Ch-12. Part-5.

Chapter 12: The Entry of the Soul into the Supreme Being

Part-5.

It is true that God exists and the universe is a vast field of completion, but this cannot be told at a wrong moment when there is no receptive capacity in the individual.

Now the individual will be ready to receive the lesson on account of the collectedness of the various ingredients of the personality, which has been effected by the practice of yoga, known as dhyana, meditation, that has been propounded, elucidated in the sixth chapter.

The cosmological principles, the creational process are discussed in the seventh chapter.

The very idea of creation implies the idea of a Creator.

There cannot be a creation without a maker of the creation, and therefore we are told that the Creator projected the universe of the five elements by the power of His own Being.

The idea of the Creator is the beginning of religion.

Devotion to God is the immediate consequence of the very recognition of the existence of a Creator above the whole of creation.

While up to this time it was all psychology and psychoanalysis, if we would like to call it so, now we are entering into cosmology and the deeper implications of philosophy, metaphysics, or what nowadays people call ontology, etc.

The Creator cannot be regarded as identical with creation, on account of the concept involved in the confrontation of the universe by the individual.

We always imagine that the cause is different from the effect.

The very term ‘cause’ implies its distinctiveness from the effect which it produces.

Swami Krishnananda
To be continued  ....