The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity- 3.2. Swami Krishnananda
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29/01/2020.
Chapter 3: The Aranya Parvam of the Mahabharatam-2.
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In our transitional period of aspiration, which originally was a single beaten track of movement towards only God in the early age, we think,
#“Neither I want this, nor that. It is only the Father in heaven that I am after. Spiritual salvation is the goal of my soul, and I have no other aspiration.”
But with a little more growth into the final maturity of the adolescent and the earlier ages of being an adult in spiritual life, doubts arise in the mind. They are all accepted, logically feasible, valid doubts; and these doubts generally, most often, do not leave a person till the end of life.
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#What are these doubts?
They are the voices of the world speaking at the same time, simultaneously with the earlier voice which said that the aim of life is spiritual realisation, union with the Almighty. No wife of a husband will refuse to accept that God is the Ultimate Reality.
Everyone will say, “Yes, I understand.” But when the husband insists on these issues and becomes pronounced in his love for God in actual outward behaviour, the dear wife, who is the partner of this husband in the house, who cannot deny that God is the Supreme Being and the Ultimate Reality, will add,
#“You have to listen to my voice also a little bit. I understand, my dear husband, that God is to be pursued, but I am also here, and you cannot say that I am not here.”
This is what the world tells you when you say, “I shall pursue God.” The world replies that you have to consider that it is also existing there. “I have been with you,” says the wife, “and you cannot say that you have nothing to do with me.” Though religious life is highly praiseworthy and it is the aim of everybody, the world says, “I understand what you say, but you have to listen to what I say also.”
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This is a difficulty. You do not know what to do. The pulls of the earth reveal themselves in the forms of justifiable doubts, and you feel a duty towards the world. Mature minds begin to feel a difficulty of this kind – and highly mature minds, not ordinary mature ones.
Sometimes there are humanitarian pulls from the earthly side, social pulls, and we may not be far wrong if we think they can be even nationally motivated, political pulls which may look like spiritually motivated aspirations. But there are subtler calls of the earth, not so gross as the pulls of humanitarian outlook and social behaviour.
The subtler ones are called the instincts and the impulses of the lower nature, as we generally call them. They bring about a tussle in the personality.
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To be continued .....
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29/01/2020.
Chapter 3: The Aranya Parvam of the Mahabharatam-2.
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1.
In our transitional period of aspiration, which originally was a single beaten track of movement towards only God in the early age, we think,
#“Neither I want this, nor that. It is only the Father in heaven that I am after. Spiritual salvation is the goal of my soul, and I have no other aspiration.”
But with a little more growth into the final maturity of the adolescent and the earlier ages of being an adult in spiritual life, doubts arise in the mind. They are all accepted, logically feasible, valid doubts; and these doubts generally, most often, do not leave a person till the end of life.
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2.
#What are these doubts?
They are the voices of the world speaking at the same time, simultaneously with the earlier voice which said that the aim of life is spiritual realisation, union with the Almighty. No wife of a husband will refuse to accept that God is the Ultimate Reality.
Everyone will say, “Yes, I understand.” But when the husband insists on these issues and becomes pronounced in his love for God in actual outward behaviour, the dear wife, who is the partner of this husband in the house, who cannot deny that God is the Supreme Being and the Ultimate Reality, will add,
#“You have to listen to my voice also a little bit. I understand, my dear husband, that God is to be pursued, but I am also here, and you cannot say that I am not here.”
This is what the world tells you when you say, “I shall pursue God.” The world replies that you have to consider that it is also existing there. “I have been with you,” says the wife, “and you cannot say that you have nothing to do with me.” Though religious life is highly praiseworthy and it is the aim of everybody, the world says, “I understand what you say, but you have to listen to what I say also.”
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3.
This is a difficulty. You do not know what to do. The pulls of the earth reveal themselves in the forms of justifiable doubts, and you feel a duty towards the world. Mature minds begin to feel a difficulty of this kind – and highly mature minds, not ordinary mature ones.
Sometimes there are humanitarian pulls from the earthly side, social pulls, and we may not be far wrong if we think they can be even nationally motivated, political pulls which may look like spiritually motivated aspirations. But there are subtler calls of the earth, not so gross as the pulls of humanitarian outlook and social behaviour.
The subtler ones are called the instincts and the impulses of the lower nature, as we generally call them. They bring about a tussle in the personality.
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To be continued .....
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