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The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita : 14.5 - Swami Krishnananda.

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=============================================================== Wednesday, 22 Nov 2023 06:40.  Chapter 14: The Glory and Majesty of the Almighty-5. ================================================================ Here the perceptive faculties and the cognitive processes cease to function. It is not the intellect that understands or the feeling that feels God's presence, it is the bursting forth of the intuitional integrality, by which what is intended is a totality of grasp of the whole of the cosmos at one stroke and in simultaneity, and not as a succession of phenomena. We do not count one thing after another thing as we do here in this world when we try to see a series of objects. We cannot see with our eyes all things at once. Even when it appears that we are seeing many things at one time, we are really seeing one thing after another thing in a series, in a time process, as if they are extended in space. But, as we observed, God-vision is a timeless, spaceless experience. And,...