Spiritual Evolution According to the Bhagavadgita: 1.3. Swami Krishnananda.

 

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Srimad Bhagavad Gita Spiritual Import of Religious Festivals: 1.3 
1.Introduction-2. Swami Krishnananda.

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The Svetasvatara Upanishad says, “Thou art the Woman”, “Thou art the Man”, “Thou art Girl”, “Thou art Boy”, “Thou deceiveth us as the old man tottering with the stick”, “Thou moveth everywhere, in the form of everything, in all directions”, “Thou art the dark-blue Butterfly, and the Green Parrot with red eyes”, “Thou art the Thunder Cloud, the Seasons and the Oceans”, “Thou art without beginning and beyond all Time and Space”, “Thou art That from which all the Universes are born”. “That alone is Fire. That is the Sun. That is Air. That is the Moon. That is also the Starry Firmament. That is the Waters. That is Prajapati. That is Brahman.”

That Divine Being who, though Himself formless, gives rise to various forms in different ways with the help of His Supreme Power for His own inscrutable purpose, and Who dissolves the whole Universe in Himself in the end—may He endow us with pure understanding.

He is the Great Being who shines effulgent like the Sun, beyond all darkness. Knowing Him alone one crosses beyond death. There is no other way of going over there.

The One God, Creator of the heaven and earth, is possessed of all eyes, all faces, all hands, and all feet in this Universe. It is He who inspires all to do their respective functions, as if fanning their fire into flames of movement.

Manu says, in his Smriti, that in the beginning, all this existence was one Undifferentiated Mass of Unmanifestedness, indefinable, unarguable and unknown in every way. From this Supreme Condition arose the Universe of names and forms, through the medium of the Self-existent Creator, Swayambhu.

The Mahabharata says that Narayana alone was in the beginning—the primus of the creative, preservative, and destructive principles, the Trinity known as Brahma, Vishnu and Siva—the Supreme Hari, multi-headed, multi-eyed, multi-footed, multi-armed, multi-limbed. This was the Supreme Seed of all Creation, subtler than the subtlest, greater than the greatest, larger than the largest, and more magnificent than even the best of all things, more powerful than even the wind and all the gods, more resplendent than the Sun and the Moon, and more internal than even the mind and the intellect. He is the Creator, the Father Supreme.

The Bhagavadgita in the Mahabharata says that the Supreme Brahman is beyond existence and non-existence. It has hands and feet everywhere, heads, mouths, eyes everywhere, ears everywhere, and it exists enveloping everything. Undivided, it appears as divided among beings; attributeless, it appears to have attributes in association with things. It is the Light of all lights, beyond all darkness, and is situated in the hearts of all beings.

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