The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita : 15 -2.

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Chapter 15: The Rarest of Devotees-2.


Anything that is conceivable must exist, and therefore to think of the non-existent is an anomaly and a misnomer.

There is no such a thing as non-existence, because the moment we think it, it becomes existent.

Therefore the so-called ‘non-existent’ is also included in this existence.

The impure, ugly and what is usually considered as undesirable are not so in the eyes of God, because a relative judgment of things and a comparison and contrast of values is impossible in the all-inclusiveness of the indivisibility of Being.

The standards of reference with which we judge things, considering one or the other as of this character or the other, are themselves relative, and that which is relative cannot pass an absolute judgment.

Hence, our judgments are relative, and thus our ideas of even non-existence, ugliness and the like are not to be regarded as complete in themselves.


Having been given an outline of the idea of what God could be in His supra-essential, quintessential Being, we are admonished as to the path that leads to God. Usually the religious practicant worships and offers prayers with an ulterior motive.

The religious enthusiasts look for the delights of heaven and an everlasting existence as happy individuals, for which sake they perform virtuous deeds in this world, accumulate punya, merit and the effect of righteousness.

But all these meritorious acts—in fact every result that accrues to every act—have an end, and they have to go one day or the other, because nothing that we do in this relative world can touch the non-relative Absolute.

Swami Krishnananda
To be continued  ....



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