Friday, March 15, 2013

(March 15,2013) Atman is Brahman by Swami Krishnananda

The teachings of the Bhagavadgita Chapter 5: Life as a Yagna or Sacrifice
by Swami Krishnananda


The world of sense-perception is conditioned by space-time and the various categories of the psychological process; while the thing, the person, the being, the substance as it is in itself, is behind this curtain of space-time. Our real being also is behind this curtain of the psycho-physical individuality. Thus we are living in a phenomenal world, both subjectively and objectively. The thing-in-itself, as they say, the substance as such, eludes the grasp of this phenomenal process - thus no man can see God, and the intellect of man is not fit enough to contact reality. Unless we develop a mechanism within our own selves to go deeper into this large area of phenomenality – subjectively as well as objectively – the plumbing into one's own self is also the plumbing through space and time. Modern science says the inward, subjective, subatomic philosophy of quantum theory is identical with the spatio-temporal theory of relativity – Tat tvam asi: That is this and this is That. The inward depth is also the outward plumbing of the abyss of space and time. The deeper we go inwardly, simultaneously there is a going deep into the outer cosmos – and vice-versa, the plumbing into the cosmos objectively would also imply a going deep into one's own self. Knowledge of the self is the knowledge of the universe, and the knowledge of the universe is the knowledge of the self. Atman is Brahman. (From The teachings of the Bhagavad-Gita by Swami Krishnananda – Chapter5: Life as a Yagna or Sacrifice)

Continue to read:
The teachings of the Bhagavadgita Chapter 5: Life as a Yagna or Sacrifice by Swami Krishnananda
 inspiring messages from Swami Sivananda, Divine Life Society, Sivananda Ashram, Rishikesh, India

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