Sree Krishna, the Lord of LovePremananda Bharati, Baba
Religion
Sree Krishna, the Lord of Love
Premananda Bharati, Baba
Krishna (Hindu deity)
Now then, it being established that God has a mind, the question may be
asked: Is that mind encased in a body? If so, what sort of a body is it?
Is it physical; that is to say, is it formed of the same material of
which the human body is made? Or is it a body made of abstract spirit?
This is not possible, for mind is defined by the Vedas to be that
principle within us which has the power of willing and non-willing.
Scientists and modern philosophers define mind with practically the same
purport. This vibration of the mind, willing and non-willing, is brought
about or induced by the reflections cast upon if by external or internal
objects, through its channels of communication, the five cognizing
senses, the physical counterparts of which are the Eye, the Ear, the
Nose, the Palate and the Skin, which cognize respectively Form, Sound,
Smell, Taste and Touch, under which five heads the Vedas have classified
all forms of matter or objects. A mind without these five channels
cannot exist, for, having no channels, it receives no impressions of
objects, and has therefore no chance of either willing or non-willing,
which is its attribute and its only substance and composition.
Once we acknowledge that God has a mind, we cannot help acknowledging
these channels of that mind, the five senses. God has therefore not only
a mind, but the Power of Seeing (eye), the Power of Hearing (ear), the
Power of Smelling (nose), the Power of Tasting (palate), and the Power
of Feeling (skin). The mind has also five other powers called its
working senses; viz., the Power of Speaking, the Power of Holding, the
Power of Moving, the Power of Excreting and the Power of Generating,
otherwise called the vocal organs, the hands, the feet, the excretory
organ and the generating organ. Thus God, possessing a mind, is bound to
possess the ten senses, without which the mind cannot act, and inaction
of the mind is its destruction or non-existence. God, having a mind, has
to have an Ego, too, for mind is but a product or channel of the Ego,
which means I-ness or Self-Consciousness. So that God has all the
principles of which man is formed, once it is admitted that God has a
mind. And there is no sane man who can deny to God the possession of a
mind of which the universe is the design and creation of which man is
but a tiny part.
The Christian Bible says that God has made man in His own image, which
means that man is the reflection, more or less imperfect, of God. Is it
then possible that what is not in the original is present in the
reflection? If the human soul, according to this scriptural saying, is a
reflection (image) of the Deity, has not that Deity a mind and body, as
Its reflection, the human soul, has?
The answer is: It has, only the Divine Mind, being consummately pure in
its state and perfect in its working, is absolutely powerful to create,
preserve and destroy; and the Body in which the Divine Mind is encased
is composed of a substance not of any material make.
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