![]() ![]() ![]() Lord Krishna’s life demonstrates the ideal not of renunciation of action-which is a conflicting doctrine for man circumscribed by a world whose life breath is activity-but rather the renunciation of earth-binding desires for the fruits of action.… Man should so train his mind by constant meditation that he can perform the necessary dutiful actions of his daily life and still maintain the consciousness of God within…. In the hard shell of symbology, he hid the deepest spiritual meanings to protect them from the devastation of the ignorance of the Dark Ages toward which civilization was descending concurrent with the end of Sri Krishna’s incarnation on earth. ![]() Thus, in a language of simile, metaphor, and allegory, the Bhagavad Gita was very cleverly written by Sage Vyasa by interweaving historical facts with psychological and spiritual truths, presenting a word-painting of the tumultuous inner battles that must be waged by both the material and the spiritual man. When, as they often did, scriptural prophets wrote in more recondite metaphors and allegories, it was to conceal from ignorant, spiritually unprepared minds the deepest revelations of Spirit. Divine profundities would not otherwise be conceivable by the ordinary man unless defined in common terms. Prophets would pick up instances of the everyday life and events of their times and from them draw similes to express subtle spiritual truths. The ancient sacred writings do not clearly distinguish history from symbology rather, they often intermix the two in the tradition of scriptural revelation. ![]()
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