Friday, August 30, 2024

Gita reflection Ch 11 verses 38 & 39

30th August 2024


Arjuna continued to praise Him as the ancient primal deity, the supreme support of the world, and the one who pervades the entire Universe.

According to the standpoint of Advaita Vedanta, God can be realized as one's own Self, wherein the knower and known become one. It is similar to the one who sleeps and the state of sleep becoming one, where there is no ego which distinguishes the sleep as an object of experience.

Overwhelmed by the divine emotion of devotion, Arjuna salutes the Lord again and again while praising Him as the deity of death, fire, air, waters, the moon, and the Lord of all creatures.

God is the great-grandfather of the Universe since nothing was there before Him. This echoes the Upanishad statement which said, 'In the beginning, there was only pure existence.'

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