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Radha’s Prem -Swami Sivananda
Scene 3
Act 1
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Jnana Dev: And a cup of tea for you in the other! (Laughter.) Now, tell me was this Form of Krishna that you thought of when you couldn’t get your tea, an image or abstract quality of Omnipotence which could bestow on you the desired object? Murkha Raj: It was certainly an image. Jnana Dev: Why did you worship an image? Is an image different from the idol? Murkha Raj: (Aside to his friends) Heavens, the man is obviously trying to corner me! Anyway! (To Jnana Dev) An image is not, in its essentials, different from an idol. Jnana Dev: Do you like to think of God in the coffee-hotel? Murkha Raj: No, there are other things to think about there—the coffee and the cakes. Why for that matter, I can’t even think of the new designs I wish to introduce in my paintings inside a coffee-house. I shut myself up in a room and work late into the night at the canvas; only then can I hope to concentrate my mind on the work on hand. You see, modern psychology will tell you that you can concentrate your mind only in a peaceful atmosphere, when you are free from distractions. Naturally, we can think of God, Nature or Beauty only when we retire to a peaceful place. Jnana Dev: I too really think like that; but I wonder why we should do so. After all God is Omnipresent; he is everywhere. Why can’t we think of Him everywhere at all times? Murkha Raj: I told you; coffee goes with Coffee House, meditation on God with a peaceful atmosphere. Our minds cannot feel His presence everywhere; only in certain places are we in a mood to meditate. Jnana Dev: Then you admit that the human mind is conditioned by time and space! |
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