Sree Krishna, the Lord of LovePremananda Bharati, Baba
Religion
Sree Krishna, the Lord of Love
Premananda Bharati, Baba
Krishna (Hindu deity)
If we can make the mind dwell upon some object which is eternally lovely
and lovable, nay, even if we can imagine such an object, mentally create
such an ideal object, and concentrate our mind exclusively upon it, then
we can have a taste of that unending happiness which we all are seeking
in vain to find in material objects. Then, dwelling on this Changeless
Idea, the restless mind becomes fixed and calm; and calmness of mind
being happiness, the mind is thus made happy by itself. Then it has
known that happiness lies within itself, and within means independent of
any concern with outside objects; then it finds that the coarsest meal
gives as much pleasure as the daintiest of dinners, and that Adam's Ale
is a more delicious drink than the highest-priced champagne. It has then
learned to drink the champagne of the soul, the least taste of which
makes one think the taste of the most delicious wine and food to be all
tasteless.
But from such transcendental nonsense, as the materialist would call it,
let us come down for awhile to analyze matter, the God of the
materialist. Let us for awhile examine the making and the mechanism of
the universe, and try to trace in the grossest matter the existence of
this Perfect Love or Happiness.
I have already told you of the making of the universe, that it is made
up of twenty-four principles; namely, Love, Universal Consciousness,
Ego, Mind, the Ten Senses, the Five Objects and the Five Elements. I
have also told you very briefly the process of creation from Love to
earth. I need now tell you that every succeeding principle, as it is
developed, contains the preceding principle or principles. A grain or
earth therefore is as good as the whole universe in regard to its
composition. There is but this difference between the universe and an
atom of it, that in the universe all the passages of its twenty-four
principles are fully opened, while in the atom all these passages are
closed. But motion is the principal law of creation, of all creation, as
every particle of it is ever moving in the form of change. The atom of
earth, which is the smallest form of moving manifestation of Love
through finer and grosser matter, moves backward now through grosser and
then through finer forms of love-manifestations into the Ocean of Love
again, from which it had originally started.
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