Today I stumbled across this old copy of Sir Edwin Arnold’s translation of the Bhagavad Gita, The Song Celestial. I found this copy tucked away safely in my tool box; I’d forgotten it was there!
I got this from ThriftBooks for probably 2 or 3 dollars, but on the cover page it looks like the original owner put their name down in 1941! So I added my name and the date…looks like I got this copy in the year J1018.
Anyway, oddly enough the book opened directly to a passage I must have outlined 3 or 4 years ago, so I thought, maybe I’ll start opening spiritual texts to random pages and sharing their contents. Today we will focus on that highlighted passage in particular.
And whoso loveth Me cometh to Me.
Whoso shall offer Me in faith and love
A leaf, a flower, a fruit, water poured forth, That offering I accept, lovingly made
With pious will. Whate’er thou doest, Prince! Eating or sacrificing, giving gifts,
Praying or fasting, let it all be done
For Me, as Mine.
I really love what Krishna says here, it takes out much of the complication associated with proper worship: if you do it, do it for me, whatever it is, and I will be happy with this…at least that’s how I read that.
What do you think family, is this how YWHW feels with regard to offerings?
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I read the opening scene a while later, the unfolding of the two great armies at the precipice of war and, just as the dialog between Krishna and Arjuna began to open, I flipped to another random page, landing on another of my highlighted quotes:
I love how these books are so well able to speak to us in myriad ways, to guide us to their own pages in times when the meaning of particular lines or parables might be of value for eyes that see. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how to live right spiritually, how to be a strong man of GOD. It was never really a thought for me in the past, but lately it feels like the only thing that matters.
Be well family!
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