Bhagavadgita -Radhakrishnan 220

The Bhagavadgita -S. Radhakrishnan

CHAPTER 13 The Body called the Field, the Soul called the Knower of the Field and Discrimination between them Different Roads to Salvation 24. dhyanena 'tmam pasyanti kecid atmanam atmana anye samkhyena yogena karmayogena ca 'pare (24) By meditation some perceive the Self in the self by the self ; others by the path of knowledge and still others by the path of works. Samkhya here stands for jnana. 25. anye tv evam ajanantah srutva 'nyebhya upasate te 'pi ca 'titaranty eva mrtyum srutiparayanah (25) Yet others, ignorant of this (these paths of yoga) hearing from others worship; and they too cross beyond death by their devotion to what they have heard Even those who rely on the authority of teachers and worship according to their advice, have their hearts opened out to the grace of the Lord and thus reach life-eternal. 26. yavat sarimjayate kimcit sattvam sthavara) angamam ksetraksetrajnasamyogat tad viddhi bharatarsabha (26) Whatever being is born, moving or unmoving, know thou, O Best of the Bharatas (Arjuna), that it is (sprung) through the union of the field and the knower of the field All life is a commerce between self and not-self. According to S., the union of the two is of the nature of adhyasa, which consists in confounding the one with the other When the con-fusion is cleared, bondage terminates 27 samam sarvesu bhutesu tisthantam paramesvaram vinagyatsv avinasyantarn yati pagyati sa pasyati (27) He who secs the Supreme Lord abiding equally in all beings, never perishing when they perish, he, verily, sees He who sees the Universal Spirit in all things, sees and becomes himself universal. "Never perishing when they perish." If all things are in a continual state of evolutionary development, then there is no unchanging God Bergson, for example, makes God wholly immanent in the world, changing as it changes. An evolving God who is conceived as a part of the process of development of the world will cease to exist, when the universe ceases to move. The second law of Thermodynamics suggests a condition of eventless stagnation and perfect rest An evolving or emergent God cannot be either the creator or the saviour of the world. He is not an adequate object for the religious emotions. In this verse, the Gita assures us that God lives and endures even when the universe ceases to exist