Sri
Bhagavan said: Arjun, now listen how with the mind attached to Me (through
exclusive love) and practicing Yoga with absolute dependence on Me, you will
know Me, the repository of all power, strength and glory and other attributes,
the Universal soul, in entirety and without any shadow of doubt. ……………… (1)
I
shall unfold to you in its entirety this wisdom (knowledge of God in His
absolute formless aspect) along with the Knowledge of the qualified aspect of God
(both with form and without form), having known which nothing else remains yet
to be known in this world. (2)
Hardly
one among thousands of men strives to realize Me; of those striving Yogis,
again some rare one, devoting himself exclusively to Me. knows Me in reality.
………… (3)
Earth,
water, fire, air, either, mind, reason and also ego - these constitute My
nature divided into eight parts. This indeed is My lower (material) nature; the
other than this, by which the whole universe is sustained, know it to be My
higher (or spiritual nature in the form of Jiva (the life-principle), O
Arjun. ………………. (4-5)
Arjun,
know that all beings have evolved from this twofold prakrti, and that I am the
source of the entire creation, and into Me again it dissolves. ….. (6)
There
is nothing else besides Me, Arjun. Like clusters of yarn-beads formed by knots
on a threat, all this is threaded on Me. ……………….. (7)
Arjun,
I am the sapidity in water and the radiance in the moon and the sun: I am the
sacred syllable OM in all the Vedas, the sound in either and virility in men.
……… (8)
I
am the pure odor (the subtle principle of smell) in the earth and the
brightness in fire; nay, I am the life in all beings and austerity in the
ascetic. …………………. (9)
Arjun,
know Me the eternal seed of all beings, I am the intelligence of the
intelligent; the glory of the glorious am I. ………………….. (10)
Arjun,
of the mighty, I am the might, free from passion and desire; in being I am the
sexual desire not conflicting with virtue or scriptural injunctions, …………… (11)
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