The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita :13-19.

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Chapter 13: Centring the Mind in the Heart-19.

It is foolish to imagine this, because gaining God is not losing all things, but gaining all things.

The things of the world are reflections of reality—they are not originals.

God is the origin of all things.

The trees that we see, the mountains, the sun, moon, stars, you and I are all reflections.

And therefore one shadow is running after another shadow, as it were; there is no reality here in this world.

The originals are in a superior realm, and the highest original of all things that are reflected here in the form of perceptions and experiences is God the Absolute.

So it would be stupid on the part of anyone to imagine that to move towards God would be to lose things in this world. We are losing only stupidities, unreality, shadows, reflections, imaginations and chimeras.

But the mind is not tutored and educated properly in this manner, so it clings to phantoms in spite of instructions repeatedly given to it by the masters, sages and scriptures.


We have to instruct ourselves adequately into the great truth that the movement of our soul to God is our only duty in this world.

We have no other duty here. All our duties—family duties, national duties, public duties and private duties—are summed up in this all-consuming duty of the movement of the soul to God.

Swami Krishnananda
To be continued  ....

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