Splendorous Manifestations – In Gita Verse 10.19 O The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Yes, I will tell you of My splendorous manifestations, but only of those which are prominent, O Arjuna, for My opulence is limitless.
Krishna says that – I will tell you of My splendorous manifestations, but only of those which are prominent, O Arjuna, for My opulence is limitless – he means life, existence, is limitless; hence there is no meaning in it at all. He who makes himself limitless by his merger with the meaningless, he who becomes meaningless in this vast meaninglessness, attains to ‘that which is’ – attains to existence.
When Krishna says only those are prominent means which we can experience but we cannot have any meaning, it’s meaningless. When we ask anything we want to know a certain meaning of it and existence is so vast that you cannot have any meaning. There is no meaning.
All meaning is petty and is of the petty. All meaning has been given by the ego. Ego is the center of all these meanings. The world that is seen through it is not the real world. Whatsoever is related to ‘I’ is not real.
Truth is an indivisible whole, it is not divided into ‘I’ and ‘not-I’. All meaning is from the ‘I’; hence the indivisible, the one which is beyond ‘I’ and ‘not-I’ is without meaning – it has neither meaning nor ‘no-meaning’. It is wrong to give it any name, even to call it God is wrong! God too is in reference to the ‘I’, God too is a concept of the I.
Let us say that whatever is meaningful is really meaningless. To go beyond the limit of meaningfulness is to become spiritual.
Someone asked Bodhidharma, “Please say something about the sacred nirvana.” Bodhidharma replied, “There is nothing sacred in it, just emptiness and only emptiness.”
We want to understand limitless opulence, with the limits of the mind.
Let’s do a small technique to understand our vastness.
Expanding into the Universe: Consider any area of your present form as limitlessly spacious. Mind creates limits. If you don’t think, you move into the unlimited. Or, from a different door, you can try with the unlimited and you will fall from the mind. The mind cannot co-exist with the unlimited, with the undefined, unbordered, infinite.
The mind cannot exist with the unbordered, so if you can try something limitless, the mind will disappear. This technique says: consider any area of your present form as limitlessly spacious. Any area. You can just close your eyes and imagine that your head has become infinite. Now there are no boundaries to it. It goes on and on and on and there is no boundary to it. Your head has become the whole cosmos, without any boundaries. If you can imagine this suddenly thoughts will stop. If you can imagine your head as infinite, thinking will not be there.
Thinking can exist only in a very narrow mind. The narrower it is, the better for thinking. The greater the mind, the less thinking, and when the mind becomes total space, there is no thinking at all.
Also understand when Krishna is saying – only of those which are prominent – look in our life when we are sharing any information we may have many things with us but we will share only that information which the other person can understand and put it in his action. Once he takes action from your information you give more input to him. Same difficulty Krishna is facing right now. He knows his opulence but he can pass on to us only that much which we can understand with our limited mind and try to practice it so that we can grow in consciousness. The person who has become totally empty and no-mind he will be so silent that he knows Krishna’s opulences but never asks, he understands Krishna and his opulence from no-mind and just remains silent, empty.
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