A Study of the Bhagavadgita -1.9 Swami Krishnananda

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12/01/2020.

Chapter 1: Introduction to the Bhagavadgita - 9.

Post-9.

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Many of us do not face the world properly because we are cosily placed, and are not being wrenched from all our pet relations. Some good karmas that we performed in the previous life seem to be keeping us satisfactorily happy.

# But the earth can shake one day, even for the best of men. 

##Even a king can become a pauper tomorrow. 

###Nations can perish. 

The Roman Empire can go to dust. 

This is not unthinkable. King and beggar make no difference when they are on their deathbed. They want a little glass of water. 

The king will say, “Give me a little sip of water. My throat is parched, and I am passing.” He will not think of his kingdom, his queen and his ministers. 

This will also be what the beggar will think: “Give me a little water. My tongue is drying up. I cannot speak.” 

#This is what you want finally, when the world tells you what it really is. 

##When it confronts you, it will tell you what it is.  It will stand before you as a destroying power.

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#You may ask, “Is the world so unkind to us? ##Is God so merciless?” 

It is nothing of the kind. These ethical and social rules do not obtain in a world which is wider than human society and family relation. ‘Mercy’, ‘goodness’, ‘kindness’, ‘affection’ are words which are meaningful to us human beings; but the cosmos God has created is not made up of human beings.

 God has not created human beings, actually. He has created forces, energies. As modern science will tell you, quanta of powers by a process of permutation and combination become larger by logical embodiments and may look like organisms, plants, animals, and human beings; but really, in God’s eye, or to the eye of the world itself, there may not be plants, animals and human beings. 

### There are only cosmic forces operating.

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Any kind of attachment or aversion, any emotion which is sunk in love and hatred, is not the way in which the world is working or, perhaps, God Himself is working. God does not love you or hate you. 

#Nadatte kasyacit papam na caiva sukrtam vibhuh (Srimad Bhagavad Gita- Ch-5.Slokam-15) : 

The Lord wants not your good deeds, nor does He care for your bad deeds. The actions that you perform are the dispensers of your own justice. The universe is more an embodied law than a field of force that looks like human beings.

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Perhaps many of you are scientists, or at least acquainted with the science of Newton, and so on. The classical science of Newton says that many things are in this world of space and time as things can be in a basket or glass balls can be in a soda bottle. 

In that way, the world of matter seems to be inside space and time. This is the classical picture that Newton and Laplace presented before us, making out thereby that there is no organic relationship between space and time and the world of matter, much less the relation between ourselves and space and time. 

#That would keep us away from the structure of the cosmos, vitally speaking. 

If Newton’s statement was entirely true, space and time would not be vitally connected with us. We would be like apples in a basket. A basket knows not that there are apples, and the apple does not know that it is inside a basket, though it is inside. 

##Such is the case that is made out by classical science, classical mathematics. 

###Two and two make four. 

They cannot make anything less or anything more.

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To be continued ...

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