--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" <jr_...@...> wrote: > > To All: > > Here's an excerpt of MMY's new book on the Gita: > > > "Bewildered by pairs of opposites arising from desire and aversion, O Bharat, > all beings are born deeply deluded, O Scorcher of the Enemy." > > Commentary: > > "People do not realize their absolute divine nature only because they are > always overtaken by the dualities of life, arising from the various desires > that always keep the mind engaged in the experience of the gross creation. > Right from birth, remaining all the time in the experience of the gross means > remaining all the time veiled in ignorance. But this does not in any way > mean that all people have to remain in this ignorance. A simple way to get > out of the field of ignorance has already been mentioned in Verse 45 of > Chapter 2."
"To be born in a physical body at all is a clue that man is in soul ignorance and has not realized his identity as formless Spirit. (The exceptions are masters who return here at God's command to guide their stumbling brothers.) To breath at all is the breath in 'maya'. Thus from their very birth children are exposed to cosmic delusion and grow up helplessly under it. God gives them delusion first, and not Himself, in order to carry on His dramatic scheme of creation. If He did not cover Himself with the veils of maya, there could be no Cosmic Game of creation, in which men play hide-and-seek with Him and try to find Him as the Grand Prize." Paramahansa Yogananda Gita CHVII vs27 (excerpt)
