The Total Solution to the Total Problem -4. Swami Krishnananda

Satsangam
(Spoken on September 26, 1983)
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Likewise, man being what he is, and as he cannot be anything else than what he is, he would understand everything that is told him only in the way in which he would like to understand it and in the manner he can apprehend, the only manner in which he can grasp the meaning of anything. No man who has the slightest imagination of the extended vastness of space ranging to infinitude can appreciate the modern doctrine that space can be curved. How can space be curved? It is an absurd statement for any person with common sense that everything is curved in space.

The great mathematician and physicist Newton advocated that all physical things are in space and in time, and therefore, every shape, every movement, every position and every relation has to be in space and in time. Therefore, space itself cannot be subjected to that characteristic either of location or shape. But when we are told that it is possible to subject space and time to the very features which characterise the so-called physical objects in the world, we do not know what the man is speaking.

In this way, we would find it very difficult to know how man can be an image of God. God does not seem to cast any reflection; therefore, there is no likelihood of there being an image of that which we say alone is. That which alone is, is a description of itself by itself, and it does not need a description by any kind of qualitative epitaph brought from an external source, because such a source does not exist in the kingdom of God.
Swami Krishnananda