--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "BillyG" <wg...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: <snip> > > There's nothing in the Gita text as translated that > > suggests Krishna "wants" devotion (let alone that he's > > "jealous"). It simply says, This is the way it works. > > He may not want it, or need it, but, it's required!! :-)
Yup, according to the Bhakti interpretation of the text, at least. > Although, I think he wants it, as he is constantly seeking > us through the still small voice of conscience, guiding us, > back to him: It's a glorious poem, but I can't get into anthropomorphizing deity. I think Thompson was projecting his own fear of surrender onto a manufactured image of a Divine Pursuer. Or he may have been very well aware of what he was afraid of and created a metaphor to describe the self fleeing from the Self. > I FLED Him, down the nights and down the days; > I fled Him, down the arches of the years; > I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways > Of my own mind; and in the mist of tears > I hid from Him, and under running laughter. > Up vistaed hopes I sped; > And shot, precipitated, > Adown Titanic glooms of chasmèd fears, > From those strong Feet that followed, followed after. > But with unhurrying chase, > And unperturbèd pace, > Deliberate speed, majestic instancy, > They beatand a Voice beat > More instant than the Feet > `All things betray thee, who betrayest Me.' (Thompson) > > By devotion is meant (to my understanding), regularity of the practice and > the other principles espoused by one's particular path. >
