The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavad gita-20.3
The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavad gita-20.3
Chapter 20: We are the Fruits and Leaves of the Cosmic Tree -3.
In this isolation of the individual, which is the consequence of the dividing work of rajahs, a great calamity befalls everyone. This is the origin of the story of the fall of the spirit from the angelic Garden of Eden in biblical mythology and in the mythologies of all Creation doctrines.
consciousness of personality consequent upon an unconsciousness of one’s relation to God’s universality is the beginning of the catastrophe of human suffering.
There is an unconsciousness preceding our present state of intellectual, rational, personal consciousness. We cannot be individually conscious unless we are at the same time unconscious of universality. There is a veiling power operating at the base of this multitudinous variety of creation.
We are very highly evolved intellectuals and rational individuals, as we imagine ourselves to be, but we are reflected intelligence, cut off from the source and divested of the consciousness of our universal relevance to God’s omnipotent and omnipresent Being.
In this isolation of the individual, which is the consequence of the dividing work of rajas, a great calamity befalls everyone. This is the origin of the story of the fall of the spirit from the angelic Garden of Eden in biblical mythology and in the mythologies of all Creation doctrines.
A consciousness of personality consequent upon an unconsciousness of one’s relation to God’s universality is the beginning of the catastrophe of human suffering.
There is an unconsciousness preceding our present state of intellectual, rational, personal consciousness. We cannot be individually conscious unless we are at the same time unconscious of universality. There is a veiling power operating at the base of this multitudinous variety of creation.
We are very highly evolved intellectuals and rational individuals, as we imagine ourselves to be, but we are reflected intelligence, cut off from the source and divested of the consciousness of our universal relevance to God’s omnipotent and omnipresent Being.
To be continued ...
Swami Krishnananda
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