The Bhagavad Gita Date: Thu, 2013-07-18 Inspired Talks : 18 July 1895 Shankara says, knowledge is not a bondage, because it is the nature of God. The world ever is, whether manifested or unmanifested; so an eternal object exists. Jnâna-bala-kriyâ (knowledge, power, activity) is God. Nor does He need form, because the finite only needs form to interpose as an obstruction to catch and hold infinite knowledge; but God really needs no such help. There is no "moving soul", there is only one Atman. Jiva (individual soul) is the conscious ruler of this body, in whom the five life principles come into unity, and yet that very Jiva is the Atman, because all is Atman. What you think about it is your delusion and not in the Jiva. You are God, and whatever else you may think is wrong. You must worship the Self in Krishna, not Krishna as Krishna. Only by worshipping the Self can freedom be won. Even personal God is but the Self objectified. "Intense search after my own reality is Bhakti", says Shankara. All the means we take to reach God are true; it is only like trying to find the pole-star by locating it through the stars that are around it. * * * The Bhagavad-Gita is the best authority on Vedanta. Letter to Mrs Ole Bull : 18 July 1896 I can give ideas--that is all; let people work them out any way they like, and Godspeed to all. "He who works unattached to persons and giving up the fruits of work is a genuine worker"--Gita. vivekananda150jayanti.org/vivekvani/todays-special/18-july/The-Bhagavad-Gita
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