Peace for the Soul

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Chapter 9, Verse 11

 

Fools pass blindly by the place of my dwelling

Here in the human form.

Of my majesty they know nothing at all,

Who am the Lord, their soul.

 

Father Bede Griffiths:

 

There is the scene in the Gospels when Jesus returns to Nazareth, his home town, and the people say, “Is not this the carpenter’s son?  Do we not know his brothers and sisters?”  They were unable to see behind that semblance of his human form.

 

Sri Aurobindo:

 

Mortal mind is bewildered by its ignorant reliance upon veils and appearances.  It catches no liberating glimpse of the divinity lodged in others.  It ignores the divinity within itself.  Even though the Divine manifests himself in humanity as Avatar, mortal mind ignores or even despises the veiled Lord.  It is blind to the vision by which all in the world becomes clothed in the Divine and by which the soul itself awakens to its own inherent divinity and becomes godlike.

 

What it does see readily and to what it attaches itself with passion is only the life of the ego stalking finite things for the satisfaction of the earthly hunger of the intellect, body and senses.  Those who have given themselves up too entirely to this outward drive fall into the hands of the lower nature, cling to it and make it their foundation.  They are hurried ever-onwards in a fruitless cycle, never satisfied by the insatiable appetite for enjoyment.

 

To live persistently in this separative ego-consciousness and to make it the center of all our activities is to miss altogether the true Self-awareness.  The charm it throws upon the misled instruments of spirit is an enchantment that chains life to a profitless circling.  All of its hopes, actions, and knowledge are vain things in the light of the eternal standard, for it excludes the liberating action and banishes the illuminating knowledge.  It is a false knowledge that sees the phenomenon but misses the truth of the phenomenon and a blind hope that chases after the transient but misses the Eternal.

Paramahansa Yogananda:

Prakriti (Nature) has three Gunas or manifesting qualities.  This verse and the one that follows refer to those with a predominance of Tamas or dullness and those with an overabundance of Rajas or activity with selfish intent.  Verse Thirteen will mention those filled with Sattva or wisdom.

 Swami Shivananda:

 

Krishna is saying in so many words, “I have taken this body to bless my students.  Others take me for an ordinary mortal.  I pervade, permeate, and interpenetrate the universe.  There is not a place anywhere where I am not, and yet so many sorry people are not able to see me.  Look at their misfortune.  Pitiable indeed is their lot.”

 

Eckhart Tolle:

 

Let your spiritual practice be this:  as you walk through life, don’t give one hundred percent of your attention to the external world and to your mind.  Keep some within.  Feel the stillness.  Feel it as a deep sense of peace somewhere in the background, a stillness that never leaves you, no matter what happens out there.  Then you become a bridge between the unmanifested and the manifested, between God and the world.  This is the state of connectedness with Source.

 

A portal into the unmanifested is created through the cessation of thinking.  This can start with a very simple thing, such as taking one conscious breath, or looking, in a state of intense alertness, at a flower, so that there is no mental commentary running at the same time.  There are many ways to create a gap in the incessant stream of thought.  This is what meditation is all about.

 

Thought is part of the realm of the manifested.  Continuous mind activity keeps you imprisoned in the world of form and becomes an opaque screen that prevents you from becoming conscious of the unmanifested, the formless and timeless God-essence in yourself and in all things and creatures.

 

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