The Incarnation of God
Divine Life
Society Publication: The Doctrine of the Bhagavad Gita – To Thine
Own Self Be True by Swami Krishnananda
There is a guiding hand
always; there is a leading angel sitting on our very shoulders. Every person is
carrying within himself or herself a guiding power, a divinity. There is a
divinity that is aware of what is happening. With millions of eyes it looks at
us and sees us and notices what is happening to us. Our hairs are counted. The
number of our breaths is known and whatever we think, feel and do is
reverberating through the cosmos. There is one who knows the most secret deeds
of our private personality and the whispers that we do in the ears of people in
the remotest corner of the world. The little whisper that we make in the
remotest corner of the world reaches the heavens like a thunder. Therefore, do
not be under the impression that you are unguarded.
"Why are you afraid? I am
here with you. When you are in danger, I shall come." The guiding hand of
the Almighty is perpetually operating, not after some time, not tomorrow; it is
just at this moment operating, whether we feel it or not. As it is well said, a
sparrow cannot fall on your head without the will of the central power.
The fourth chapter of the Gita
describes the operation of an avatara, the incarnation of God, in an
assurance given to us, a promise made by God Himself: "I shall not desert
you. My devotee cannot perish." Our hearts should jump with joy by
listening to such a promise. "My devotee cannot perish." Are you a
devotee? Then you will not perish; you will never be let down at any moment of
time. But be sure that you are a devotee. God has never deserted His devotees.
"Proclaim, my dear friend, to everybody, through the newspapers, the radio
and television that I shall not desert my devotees. I am there, ready at hand
to protect them. I shall save them from the ocean of samsara."
When this assurance enters our
heart, together with the understanding that we have developed as has been given
to us in the previous chapters, we rise to some extent above the turmoil of
life which was presented in the first chapter, and we have now developed a
positive type of the spirit of renunciation, which is what we feel and find
enunciated in the fifth chapter.
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