The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita : Ch-12-22.

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

Part-22.

This point will be taken up for consideration in the coming chapters—ninth, tenth and eleventh.

In the eighth chapter we are only taken up to the level of the transcendence of God and the possibility of the departure of the soul in the fields to come, above the earth. It is only in the ninth chapter that we will receive a greater consolation by being told that God is not so far away as we were told earlier.

His hands operate in this world just now, and devotion becomes an immediate activity of our day-to-day existence, and not merely a performance in a temple or church.

Our whole life gets transformed into religion and spirituality when we are told that the law of God rules even this material earth.

Towards this end we shall be taken in the coming chapters.

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

Next : Chapter 13: Centring the Mind in the Heart

Swami Krishnananda
To be continued  ..


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