THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE BHAGAVAD-GITA

66 is

the philosophy of the Logos.

In general, Christ or

Buddha might have used the same words as those of Krshna and what I have said about this mystery

only refers to some particular passages that seem to touch upon the nature of Krshna's divine individuality.

He himself seems to think there may see from the ninth verse.

is

a mystery, as you

In the tenth verse Madbhdva means the condition

Krshna says there have been several Mahatmas who have become Ishvaras, or have united

of the

Logos.

their souls completely with the Logos.

Turn now

to chapter v, verses 14

and 15

The Lord of the world does not bring about or create karma or the condition by which people attribute karma to themselves nor does he make people feel the effects of

It is the law of natural causation that works. He does not take upon himself the sin or the merit of anyone. Real knowledge is smothered by delusion, and hence created beings are misled.

their

karma.

Here he says that Ishvara does not create karma, in individuals any desire to do

nor does he create

karma. All karma, or impulse to do karma, emanates from Mulaprakrti and its vikarams, and not from the Logos or the light that emanates from the Logo*. look upon this light or Fohat, as a kind of energy eternally beneficent in its nature, as stated in The Idyll of the White Lotus. In itself it is not capable of generating any tendencies that lead to

You must

but ahankdra, and the desire to do karma,

bandham

and

karma with

all

its

various consequences

come