211. Blueprint of Life.
C reation is said to be His Leela or divine drama and there is nothing to be taken seriously. This divine play follows certain rules. Krishna explains these rules and says, “A part of My eternal Self, manifests as a living soul in the world of beings and attracts five senses and the mind which are a part of prakriti (15.7). Presiding over the mind and the senses of hearing, sight, touch, taste and smell, he (the embodied soul) experiences the objects of the sensory world” (15.9). Krishna earlier talked about prakriti (nature) and purush (spirit) as beginningless. Gunas (qualities) and vikar (evolution or change) are born of prakriti (13.20). Prakriti is responsible for cause-and-effect; purush is responsible for experiencing the polarities of sukh (pleasure) and dukh (pain) (13.21). Together, these verses present a blueprint for life. Firstly, a part of Him is inside each living being which we call the soul, and in that sense, we are never...