The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita : 13- 5. Swami Krishnananda.

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Saturday, November 6, 2021. 6:00.PM

The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita : 13- 5. Swami Krishnananda.

Chapter -13. Cosmology and Eschatology- 5.

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We have to emphasise again that, just as the fruit of a tree is nothing but the essence of the whole tree, and it cannot be anything different from what the tree is in essence, our last thought is the cumulative force with which the whole personality rushes out like a rocket to its destination, as a consequence of what we have thought and felt and done throughout our life. We cannot think something there at the end which we have not at all thought when alive here in our normal life. Just as butter comes out of milk as its cream and essence, the last thought comes as the cream of what we have thought throughout our life. It cannot be entirely different.

So, the idea that we can think of God at the time of death, and Yoga is only for old people, is a stupid notion of those who do not know the law of things, because, firstly, one does not know when that last moment will come. It can be just now, it can be today, it can be tomorrow, and to imagine that it is to come after fifty years is obviously the greatest ignorance one can conceive. Secondly, how could we be sure that we would be thinking of the Absolute when we are passing? Mostly, one will be shocked, the nerves will appear to crack, the mind will become unconscious and the person will be taken unawares; at that time who can think of God?

The practice of Yoga is enjoined upon every seeker throughout his life, for the purpose of entertaining this supreme completeness, which is the cumulative outcome of the whole of thought, feeling and will, a veritable cosmic thought which one has to enshrine in one’s heart as the final goal. Here, again, we have a little philosophy behind the entertaining of thoughts and feelings in our lives, how they have a cosmical significance and decide our future because of their relationship with the total pattern of creation.

What happens to us after we die? Where do we go? To some extent, this question has been answered by what we have said already. Whatever we want, that we shall get; and where we wish to go, there we will be taken; and what we have done here, that will be repaid to us. It is a very terrible law, and yet deeply consoling. It is impartial like justice, and the law of gravitation, or the working of the universe. There are no friends and no foes for this law.

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