The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavad gita-21-5.

26/02/2018

21.The Lord Dwells in the Hearts of All Beings- 5.

5.1
But the higher understanding knows that such a thing is impossible on the very face of it. We cannot love something to the exclusion of something else, because there is an inward relationship of things by a prehensive activity, so that when we touch something, we touch something else also, at the same time, without knowing what we are doing.

Any kind of relationship with any particular object or situation at once implies a sort of interference with the positive or the negative prehensions of that particular object with other things in the world. Everything is somehow or other related to everything, whether mediately or immediately.

Thus the genius of logical knowledge appreciates the presence of an interrelationship of all things. This is rajasic knowledge, where we maintain the diversity of objects as a reality in itself and yet accede or concede there being an inward collaborative activity going on along the various particulars of this organism of things.

GITOPADESAM BY LORD KRISHNA

5.2
The highest knowledge is that intuition by which one enters into the soul of all bodies and realises, by a total grasp of instantaneous experience, the indivisibility of what we may call a universal subjectivity, atmatattva, which is independent of any kind of externalisation in perception, and which is inseparable from brahmatattva or Absoluteness.

We have been told that Atman is Brahman, which means to say that the Universal is the same as the Self, and the Self is the same as the Universal. The two are two terms referring to one and the same context—reality and existence. This is sattvic wisdom, the highest that one can have.

To be continued ...