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)
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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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