On Attitude toward People and Environment

Bhagavad Gita with Commentaries / On Attitude toward People and Environment

On Attitude toward People and Environment

Krishna suggests regarding everything existing in the universe as a manifestation of God in the aspect of the Absolute. Love for God in this aspect implies love for the Creation as for His integral part:

7:8. I am the taste of water, O Kaunteya. I am the shining of the Moon and the light of the Sun, and Pranava, and Universal Knowledge, and Cosmic Voice, and humanity in people.

7:9. I am the pure scent of earth and the warmth of fire. I am the life of all the living and exploits of spiritual warriors.

7:10. I am the Consciousness of all who developed the consciousness, I am the splendor of all the beautiful!

7:11. I am the strength of the strong who is devoid of attachments and sexual passions. I am the sexual power in all beings that does not contradict dharma.

7:12. Know that sattva, rajas, and tamas originate from Me. But understand that they are in Me, not I am in them.

12:15. He who does not injure people… — such one is dear to Me.

16:2-3. … Compassion for living beings, … — the one of Divine nature possesses this quality.

17:15. Speech causing no dislike, … pleasant… — such is the asceticism of the speech.

17:16 … Amicability toward everyone, … — such is the asceticism of the mind.

6:9. He possesses a developed consciousness and is advanced spiritually who is well-disposed both to friends and to foes, to neutrals, to strangers, to the envious, to relatives, to the pious, to the vicious.