A Study of the Bhagavadgita -7. 9. Swami Krishnananda.

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Tuesday, September 07, 2021. 7:30.PM.
Chapter 7:The Entry of the Absolute into the Relative - 9.
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It was Buddha who had the same experiences of this kind. The great master was meditating on the possibility of attaining nirvana, and something came and told him, “Get up from this work.” All kinds of things were told to him: 

“This world is not so bad as you are imagining. What is wrong with this world? You have a beautiful palace. Have you not lived cosily? 

Your subjects are pleading to have your grace. All the gold and silver is with you. Also, you have a long life, which is a blessing. Here is the beauty, here is the grandeur, here is the taste. 

Do you think the world is bitter always? There is also honey. Don’t you think the world is beautiful and it can grant you what you want? 

Is it so bad? 

Read human history. Great masters worked for erecting empires. How gloriously they lived! If you don’t listen to this advice, beware! I will thrash you and break your head.”

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And something else came and told Buddha, “Useless man, get up.” There was a hailstorm and big demon-like faces arose and told him, “Now you are on the last day of your life. Useless man, get up from this place. 

What are you thinking? 

All this world is wonderful. You have a wrong notion. You have an illusory perception that there is something beyond this. There is no ‘beyond’. This is everything. You are a foolish man. Get up!” Buddha would not listen to that advice either. Then it said, “You are a master already. You have already attained what you want to attain. Get up! Work for the world.” 

There are people who sometimes think they have already attained the goal, and the only thing left is to serve and uplift humanity, and bring heaven to the earth. This is also a temptation.

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All these stages one has to pass through. Difficulties of this kind will harass you and you will “I don’t know. I can’t understand all these things. I am drooping. Twenty years of meditation have brought nothing.”

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The Fourth Chapter begins with a great consolation to you. God is not so blind as not to understand your predicament. Your complaints are known to Him. Omniscience is the nature of God. Everything is known. Even the movement of a cat in a the jungle, God knows. If a leaf moves, God is aware of it. 

Does He not know your difficulties? 

He incarnates Himself as a redemptive God at every crucial moment, if only your heart is for Him.

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Again the point comes: to the extent you are united with this adhidaiva prapancha, or the Supreme Transcendant Principle, if you cling to it honestly, the adhidaiva is your support. Go on surrendering yourself to it, and it will communicate your message to the higher cause. Instantaneous action will take place. 

God incarnating Himself is actually the descent of a higher measure of force of divinity to the level in which you are, to the level in which the crisis has arisen; and timeless being the nature of God, instantaneous also is His action. God does not come tomorrow, because there is no time for God.

 He does not take time to travel because He is not in space. 

Infinite power from a spaceless existence will act timelessly, instantaneously, at every crucial moment.

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To be continued ....


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