Bhagavan Sri Krishna – The Divine Perfection : 8. Swami Krishnananda
08/05/2019 (Spoken on Sri Krishna Janmashtami, August 25, 1978) 8. We are all things at the same time. We are in the earth plane, we are in the astral plane, we are in the celestial plane, and we are also planted in the bosom of the Absolute, even at this very moment. We are not tiny toys pulled by the strings of nature, puppets which are dancing to the tune of forces over which we have no control. Not so is the truth. We have great profundities in us, and we are not such little things as we appear to be on our surface. There is in us that magnificence which can open up the gates of heaven itself, and raise us up to the status of a perfection which will drown us in the bliss unknowable. We are little physical bodies no doubt, we are social units living on this Earth no doubt, but that is not the whole truth of our life. We are simultaneously in all realms of being, even today. By the term ‘we’, I do not mean merely human beings. Everything that is created, right up to the ato...