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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