Sri Krishna as Revealed in All Our Levels of Reality-5. Swami Krishnananda

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16/02/2019
(Spoken on May 1, 1983)
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Thus, there is a level in our own being which is not merely political, social or even that which is related to our community existence—not merely the physical or the psychic, but there is a rational element in us, and the importance of the reason in us is well known to every one of us. If the reason fails, we know what will happen to us. There is no greater treasure in life then a well-balanced reason which can think correctly, logically, systematically, precisely. If there is a confusion of the working of the reason, all the apparatus of the psyche will topple down and we shall cease to be human beings for any practical purpose, though we may be physically alive.


So we can very well understand that the so-called ‘I’ or ‘we’ to which reference is made again and again is not a simple thing which can be swallowed like a pill. It is a highly complicated structure. And in the same way as we do not seem to be exhausted merely by the physical body and we have inner levels of personality, there is a co-relation established between these inner layers of our personality with the corresponding layers of the cosmos.

There is not much difficulty in realising that there seems to be a basic connectedness between ourselves and the stuff of which the world is made. The human individual is supposed to be a specimen of what the universe is constituted. This is perhaps the reason why it is said that if one knows one’s own self, one can know the whole universe at one stroke because the human individual is a specimen of the cosmos, a sample of the universal structure. The sample that we are demonstrates the levels and layers beyond and beneath the physical and the social. Likewise, we may infer the presence of such corresponding levels in the universe with which our internal layers are related, so that in every level of our being we are cosmically obliged to perform a duty, which is the ringing tone of the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.

To be continued ..



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