Spiritual Import of Religious Festivals -14.1.10

31/12/2017.

Chapter :- 14.  The Gospel of the Bhagavadgita - 1.10

10.1
The war seen before you is nothing but the array of forces which God has unleashed to teach you a lesson. The whole world is up in arms against you, because you have set yourself against God.

Can you expect to have peace and happiness here when you wage a battle with God Himself? But this is the secret that man does not know because of an original sin of man, the fall of man, the fall of the soul from its Divine Status of Universality.

Unless you reconcile yourself with God, you are not going to reconcile yourself with Nature. Nature is nothing but the army of forces let loose by God against you, as a reaction to your rebellion against Him.

10.2
When there is a war between two countries, you cannot speak to the soldiers, "My dear friends, please do not fight," for they are not responsible for the battle.

They are released by some other force behind them. You must tackle that force which is the cause of the release of these forces. Why do you talk to the soldiers, poor fellows?

They know nothing except that they have been ordered, and they act. Thus, there is no use of speaking to the world: "My dear friend, wind, do not bite me; O water, do not drown me; O fire, do not burn me."

They will say: "We do not know; we are only ordered to act and we shall do according to the order. You speak to the Person, the Force who has ordered thus. Otherwise, we shall burn you down, cut you, blow you up, drown you and kill you."

So, there is no use trying to get rid of the troubles of life, because these are forces released by a higher Nature. Unless you reconcile yourself with God, you are not going to be friendly with Nature.

And unless you reconcile yourself with the Nature, the cosmos as a whole, your internal conflicts are not going to cease. And until the internal conflicts are solved, the external wars are not going to end.

The social peace which you are clamoring for, the national peace, the world peace, the Ramarajya as you call it – all these wonderful things that you are aspiring for in life – cannot be had on earth until you solve the causative conflict that is between you, Nature and God.

To be continued ...

Swami Krishnananda