Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Bhagavad-Gita The Song Divine Chapter 7 (stanza 23-30)


The fruit gained by these people of small understanding, however, is perishable. The worshippers of Gods attain the Gods; whereas My devotees, howsoever they worship Me, eventually come to Me and Me alone. ………… (23)
Not knowing My supreme nature, unsurpassable and undeceiving, the ignorant persons regard Me, who am the supreme spirit beyond the reach of mind and senses, and the embodiment of Truth, knowledge and Bliss, to have assumed a finite form through birth as an ordinary human being. ……... (24)
Veiled by My Yoga Maya, My divine potency, I am not manifest to all, hence these ignorant folk fail to recognize Me, the birth less and imperishable Supreme Deity i.e.,  consider Me as subject to birth and death. ………….. (25)
Arjun, I know all beings, past as well as present, nay, even those that sre yet to come; but none, devoid of faith and devotion, knows Me.  ………………… (26)
O valiant Arjun, through delusion in the form of pairs opposites (such as pleasure and pain etc,) born of desire and aversion, all living creatures in this world are falling a prey to infatuation. ………………. (27)
But those men of virtuous deeds, whose sins have come to an end, being freed from delusion in the form of pairs of opposites born of attraction and repulsion, worship Me with a firm resolve in every way. ………….. (28)
They who, having taken refuge in Me, strive for deliverance from old age and death, know Brahma (the Absolute), the whole Adhyatma (the totality of Jivas or embodied souls), and the entire field of Karma (action) as well as My integral being, comprising Adhibhuta (the field of Matter), Adhidaiva (Brahma) and Adhiyajna (the unmanifest Divinity dwelling in the heart of all beings as their witness). And they who, possessed of a steadfast mind, know thus even at the hour of death, they too know Me alone. ……………. (29-30)

Thus, in the Upanishad sung by the Lord, the Science of Brahma, the scripture of Yoga, the dialogue between Sri Krishna and Arjun, ends the seventh chapter entitled "The Yoga of Jnana (knowledge of Nirguna Brahma) and Vijnana (knowledge of Manifest Divinity)."

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