An Atheist Explores the Bhagavad Gita Part Eleven: Krishna is The Nose on The Great Durante (Chapter Ten: Yog through Appreciating the Infinite Opulences of God (Vibhūti Yog))
Chapter Ten: Yog through Appreciating the Infinite Opulences of God (Vibhūti Yog) Krishna is The Nose on The Great Durante. Welcome to the next instalment of An Atheist Explores Sacred Texts (Bhagavad Gita). In this series I work my way chapter-by-chapter through the Bhagavad Gita, commenting on it from the point of view of the text as literature and mythology. For more detail, see the introductory post https://bit.ly/2XAch2A For the online Bhagavad Gita that I use, see here https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/ And now: Vibhūti Yog “Neither celestial gods nor the great sages know my origin. I am the source from which the gods and great seers come.” Krishna reiterates what He told Arjun in the last few chapters, that by meditating upon Him a person can achieve a sense of union with the God, and decides to help Arjun by letting him know a bit more of the nature of Krishna. What follows is a tour-de-force that knocks Yahweh’s “ I am the Alpha and Omega ” i