The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita : Ch - 17.7.16.



7.The Vision of God-16.

"Jnanasya anantyat jneyam alpam," says the sutra of Patanjali.

 Knowledge becomes all-inclusive, so that externality ceases totally, together with which the externality of the perceiving individual also goes.

Hence, human effort of any kind appears to be a semblance of a necessity at the earlier stages, but later on we are taken away by the current of a higher law which operates in a totally different manner altogether.

The gravitational pull of the Absolute takes up the whole matter in its hand, and as stones fall down to the earth automatically on account of the earth’s gravitational pull, we are rocketed up, as it were, to the Absolute, by the force with which it draws the soul when it crosses the barrier of the earth’s pull due to the melting away of human desires.

It is for this reason we are told that all human effort is only an apology finally—it is no more a reality.

The reality is Grace. Bhaktya tu ananyaya sakya :

Only by utter surrender and devotion can this attainment be possible, and not any kind of effort in the sense of a personal agency in action.

Swami Krishnananda
  To be continued  ....


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