128. Every End is a Beginning
K rishna says, “I shall explain jnana (knowledge) and vijnana (wisdom) to you. When you realise them, nothing more here remains to be known” (7.2). This is the path for mind-oriented people through knowledge and wisdom. Earlier Krishna had given a path to heart-oriented ( bhakti ) people to ‘realise all beings in the self; self in all beings and see Him everywhere’ (6.29) and nothing more remains to be known once this is known. The current scientific conclusion is that something like ‘the universe evolves out of nothing’. Our expanding universe was created in the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago. Citing evidence from Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR), it is argued that there was a universe before the present one. It is estimated that the universe would spread very thin but ‘the energy of empty space’ would create another universe. It implies that it’s a cyclic process of creation and dissolution. This background helps us to understand when Krishna says...