The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita - 3.9. Swami Krishnananda

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#CORD - Chinmaya Organisation for Rural Development

#CORD is a bond of love and understanding encouraging a process of sharing which enriches both the giver and the receiver. In this process of giving and serving, the giver grows spiritually and the receiver is blessed with the power of transformation.
 – Swami Tejomayananda (World wide Head of Chinmaya Mission)

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06/02/2020.

Chapter 3: The Spirit of True Renunciation -9.

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1.

What gives us pain and sorrow, and that which appears to be not in consonance with our idea at any particular moment of time of what we call the spiritual ideal, may be regarded as worth renouncing. Persons and things are abandoned, and the world is regarded as the field of bondage. 

We dub it as a factory in which Satan works, from which we have to extricate ourselves at the earliest moment. Our idea of God is sensory. If we would deeply consider this theme, we may realise that we are unable to dissociate the God-ideal from sense-perception, boiled down to its essentiality. 

#We may not conceive the God-ideal or the spiritual ideal in a physical or material form, but the sensory atmosphere does not necessarily mean a material atmosphere. It is a peculiar organisation of consciousness that we call the field of sense-activity.

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2.

When I speak of the sense-world, I do not mean the physical world necessarily or the material objects with which the senses come in contact. It is, rather, an arrangement of consciousness by which it bifurcates subjectivity from objectivity, cuts the object of perception from the subject that perceives or cognises, and refuses to see any kind of vital relationship between itself and its object. 

The field of sense activity is such that the object of sense perception does not appear to have of any kind of organic connection or real meaning in respect of the subject, so that we can wholeheartedly love something and wholeheartedly hate something also, without any impact of it upon our own selves. 

#This is how the senses work. But every love and hatred has some kind of impact upon the subject, because it is not true that the world is made up of isolated subjects and objects, finally.

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3.

#So, the war of the Mahabharata, in which Arjuna was engaged, was not a war against some people, merely. 

##He was engaged in a vast atmosphere from which he could not extricate himself psychologically, a point which was driven into his mind by Sri Krishna, as explained in the Second and Third Chapters.

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Chapter-3. ENDS.

NEXT- Chapter-4. he Struggle for the Infinite

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