Commentary on the Bhagavadgita : 47-3. - Swami Krishnananda.
======================================================================= ======================================================================= Saturday, August 06, 2022. 07:30. Discourse 47: The Seventeenth Chapter Concludes – The Meaning of Om Tat Sat : 3. ========================================================================= Our difficulty in blending together the notions of distance and nearness arise on account of our thinking in terms of space. When we say God is far away, we think in terms of spatial distance. When we say that God is very near us, then also we think in terms of some location in space juxtaposed to our body, as it were. But, try to think a thing minus the measurable characteristic of space. The mind cannot perform this feat. Minus space, nothing can be thought and, therefore, an immeasurable thing, or non-measurable thing, cannot be conceived in the mind. This is why God cannot become an object of thought. Nobody can think God because thinking is a proces...