The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita : 16.7.



Chapter 16: The Essence of Creation is God's Glory - 7.

Our idea of creation is not like this, generally speaking. We have our own queer notions of the perfection of God’s creation. Every blessed thing—every Tom, Dick and Harry—cannot be included in this omnibus of God’s creation; that would be a pell-mell idea. We have a system of scientific thinking that acquiesces only to the acceptance of certain particulars which are regarded as necessary to form a perfection we regard as creation. But perfection is not necessarily what we regard as perfect.

Our idea of perfection is that which agrees with the present pattern of our mind’s thinking. Whatever we regard as good is that which has some relevance to the requirements of the human mind. If there is no relevance to the aegis of mental requirements of the present set-up of human thinking, then it cannot be regarded as good.

Therefore the ethical good or even the metaphysical good, for the matter of that, is a conditional good, and so we expect creation to be of a particular character in order that it may be the creation of God.

Swami Krishnananda
 To be continued  ....





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