Essays on the Gita

The Supreme Word of the Gita 353the divine persistence of the Master of the Yoga and acts out ofa tranquil universality and oneness with all things and creatures.And this close contact with all things implies no involution ofsoul and mind in the separative lower nature, because his basisof spiritual experience is not the inferior phenomenal form andmovement but the inner All and the supreme Transcendence.He becomes of like nature and law of being with the Divine,sādharmyam āgataḥ, transcendent even in universality of spirit,universal even in the individuality of mind, life and body. By thisYoga once perfected, undeviating and fixed, avikampena yogenayujyate, he is able to take up whatever poise of nature, assumewhatever human condition, do whatever world-action withoutany fall from his oneness with the divine Self, without any lossof his constant communion with the Master of existence. 5This knowledge translated into the affective, emotional,temperamental plane becomes a calm love and intense adorationof the original and transcendental Godhead above us, the everpresentMaster of all things here, God in man, God in Nature.It is at first a wisdom of the intelligence, the buddhi; but thatis accompanied by a moved spiritualised state of the affectivenature, 6 bhāva. This change of the heart and mind is the beginningof a total change of all the nature. A new inner birthand becoming prepares us for oneness with the supreme objectof our love and adoration, madbhāvāya. There is an intensedelight of love in the greatness and beauty and perfection of thisdivine Being now seen everywhere in the world and above it,prīti. That deeper ecstasy assumes the place of the scattered andexternal pleasure of the mind in existence or rather it draws allother delight into it and transforms by a marvellous alchemythe mind’s and the heart’s feelings and all sense movements. Thewhole consciousness becomes full of the Godhead and repletewith his answering consciousness; the whole life flows into onesea of bliss-experience. All the speech and thought of such Godloversbecomes a mutual utterance and understanding of the5 sarvathā vartamāno’pi sa yogī mayi vartate.6 budhā bhāva-samanvitāḥ.