The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita : 13- 4. Swami Krishnananda.
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Be firmly established in sadhana. One does sadhana until such time that he comes to feel that he is not doing any more sadhana. The very sadhana becomes the routine of his daily living. In short, we continue sadhana until we live sadhana.
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The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita : 13- 4. Swami Krishnananda.
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Monday, November 1 2021. 4:19AM
Chapter -13. Cosmology and Eschatology- 4.
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Whatever we think deeply in our hearts and feel perpetually in our consciousness, throughout our life, as if it is a part of our very existence itself, that shall fructify itself into a form of experience after we leave this world. This is the basic psychology of rebirth, transmigration or metempsychosis. Rebirth is not a punishment that is meted out to a person by God, or the Creator. It is a natural law operating on account of the very finitude of the individual, and also on account of the inseparability of the finite from the Infinite. Transmigration is a blind groping, in darkness, by the individual, in the direction of the Supreme Reality. By fumbling and falling down and getting up several times, one learns by experience the way to God. Birth and death, as a series of experiences, constitute a kind of training given to us by the trial-and-error method, so that we do not immediately learn the wisdom of life even if we take millions of births and die several times, because the trial-and-error method is not always the way of knowledge proper; it is not the way of direct illumination. We fall down several times and then, somehow, gain some idea as to how we have fallen—that is a different matter. But knowledge is an inward enlightenment which prevents us from falling into the pit, rather than the strange thing which expects us to fall down and then learn that we should not fall again.
Whatever we entertain in our hearts, as the dearest of our objectives, that we shall become, that we shall contact, that we shall experience, and that we shall have. Every desire has to be fulfilled, for no desire can go unfulfilled in the inexhaustible scheme of God’s Kingdom. Therefore, every little desire, though it may look small and insignificant on the surface, has the support of the whole cosmos at its back, just as every little drop and ripple in the ocean has the force of the ocean at the base. That is why every desire gets fulfilled. It is connected finally with the Fulfiller of all desires. Whatever we ask shall be given to us in this infinite reservoir and resourceful treasury of God’s creation. And if we entertain the thought of the Supreme Absolute, God Himself, at the time of passing, we shall contact Him, and reach Him.
But we should also be careful to note that it is not given to every person to think of God at the time of death, because the last thought is the fruit of the tree of the life that we lived throughout this empirical sojourn. We cannot sow the seed of thistle and thorn and expect apples to come out from that shrub. Whatever we have sown, that we shall reap. This is the law of action and reaction. When we live a life of aspiration for God, we should not go by the theological dogma of it being possible for one to think of God at the time of death, while today one can think anything one likes.
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