The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita- 3.5 -Swami Krishnananda.
-------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, November 18,, 2020. 07 : 21. AM. Chapter-3. The World is the Face of God - 5. --------------------------------------------- So, there is some mystery in this world. We can call God only as a mystery, and nothing else; and we are involved in this world of appearances. We are a part of this world; therefore it is not given to us to completely reject the law of the world. A complete carelessness towards the rules that are prevailing in the cosmos would be to the doom of the individual, and that foolhardy aspiration for God would be paid back in its own coin as sorrow. Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa used to say that the devotee of God is not a foolish man; he is a devotee, but he is not foolish—he is wise. What is wisdom? Wisdom is nothing but an understanding of the nature of life. To understand what life is would be wisdom, and to mistake life for what it is not would be unwisdom. ----------------------- Religions often have ma