Sree Krishna, the Lord of LovePremananda Bharati, Baba
Religion
Sree Krishna, the Lord of Love
Premananda Bharati, Baba
Krishna (Hindu deity)
All through the Golden Age the mirror of the human mind is kept turned
inwards to the soul and reflects nothing but the soul of things. At the
end of that blessed period, the natural assertion of Rāja turns it
outwards to external objects which at once reflect themselves in it.
From this time people begin to take serious cognizance of their
surroundings and privileges, and to think of material enjoyment, to
taste material pleasures. Living the natural Love-Life of the Golden Age
is living on the fruit of the Tree of Life. Love alone is life; it is
the source of all life. The dawning of the knowledge of material
pleasure is eating for the first time of the fruit of the Tree of
Knowledge—material knowledge. The first hankering for it is the
persuasive voice of the Evil One, called in Sanscrit, Māyā. Māyā means
illusion, that which is unsubstantial to the inner sight yet seems and
looks substantial to our outer (material) sight. Good and evil may be
called the equivalents of the two Sanscrit words "Sat" and "Asat." Good
is "Sat" which means that which exists by itself, which has substance.
Evil is "Asat" which means non-existent, which has no existence
(substance) of its own. Good is God (Love). Evil is that which partakes
of, or is related to, the phases of unsubstantial (changeful)
manifestations which form the shroud of the only Reality—Love. To have
our minds vision turned from this Reality to its Unreal Shroud and
mistaking it as the Real, constitutes our fall—the Fall of Mankind
spoken of in the Bible. As long as we know nothing but the Truth and
live absolutely in that Truth, we have no idea of the False (evil), the
deceptive real-looking Unreal. But the moment we are attracted by the
Unreal and live in it, we begin to have knowledge of both Good (the
Real) and Evil (the Unreal). We become so attached to the Unreal that we
cannot leave it, although we know it to be Unreal (evil). Here is born
what is called "conscience," which is the Warner of sin—this living in
the Unreal though we know it is so and that we should not live in it.
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