--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jst...@...> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "BillyG" <wgm4u@> 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.
Yeah that's it! (the later) It is the 'ego' fleeing the higher Self or the
Soul. Conscience is the voice of that soul, hence MMY proclaims "Natural Law"
by which life is ordered according to law, natural law, or, Raj-Ram if you wish.
If you go further on in the poem it gives the reason the ego flees the
admonitions of the soul or conscience:
*For, though I knew His love Who followèd,
Yet was I sore adread
Lest, having Him, I must have naught beside.*
By naught beside would mean the pleasures of the ego, (i.e. all of the senses).
He would have to give up all the pleasures of the senses, (a lame argument of
the ego however)...................
