SEPTEMBER 6
Who sees Me in all,
And sees all in Me,
For him I am not lost,
And he is not lost for Me.
—BHAGAVAD GITAWhat we are grieved and sometimes terrified by is the sheer
fact of loss. The loss of the loved one’s presence, the loss of
his or her love, the loss of his or her Being. How can we be
content in a world from which our loved one is forever gone?
But the wisdom of this passage from the Bhagavad Gita,
and of passages from other sacred Scriptures, is that the
creation continues to embrace us and all those whom we
love. We are still somehow bound together in a giant con-
spiracy of love, mutual care, and ongoing life. As we are not
lost to creation, we are not lost to one another.
This is not to deny the pain of separation and the uncer-
tainty of Not Knowing. “Faith,” said the apostle Paul, “is
the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things
not seen.” What we can be fairly sure of, from our own ex-
perience and from the experiences of others, is that there is
more going on in the universe than we can detect with our
five senses. “Now,” Paul also said, “I see in a glass, darkly.
Then I shall see face to face.”
Creation holds us, one by one, and all together.