Gita satsanga

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" ... No greater statement has been made by Kant than when he says that

there is nothing more sublime in the world than the moral. This is, of

course in his early works, the three Critiques. But when we come to his Opus

Postumum, a posthumously published work*, we find comments which are

incomparably higher than what we find in the Critiques referred to. Here he

demolishes his old conceptions of the Summum Bonum and the Categorical

Imperative. The Summum Bonum, he tells us here, cannot lead us to God; it

remains only a conception. The Categorical Imperative instead of remaining a

nudity is here regarded as the Command of the Inner Being, the voice of the

Imperantis who holds universal sway. And finally, 'what is strangest of all'

he tells us in cryptic terms, 'I am myself this Being.' We thus see how the

ideas of the Sublime, the Moral, and the Divine may be connected together in

any great system of philosophy. We shall show how these are connected

together in the development of the doctrine of the Gita. "

General Introduction

The Bhagavadgita as a Philosophy of God-Realisation, R.D.Ranade

(Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 3rd ed, 1982)

 

* Opus Postumum,ed Eckart Forster;Cambridge Univ. Press, 1993.

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