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Ma Gurupriya
Lord Krishna said: Hear now, O Partha, how with your mind riveted to Me, pursuing Yoga taking refuge in Me wholesomely, you will know Me in entirety without doubt.
I am telling you in full, this knowledge along with its experiential dimension, knowing which, there will be nothing left here to be known further.
One in thousands takes up and pursues spiritual seeking. Amongst such striving seekers, very rare is the one who understands Me, the Supreme, in essence.
Earth, water, fire, air and space; and then mind, intelligence and ego – thus is divided My eight-fold nature.
This is My lower nature. The higher nature represents sentience, consciousness, the life element, by which this whole Universe is sustained.
All existence and forms are but emanations from this womb. Thus, I am the origin as well as the dissolution of the whole Universe.
There is nothing besides and superior to Me, O Dhananjaya (Arjuna). In Me, all this is interwoven, like beads in a thread.
O Kaunteya (Arjuna), I am the taste in waters, brilliance in the sun and the moon, the praṇava (Om) in all the Vedas, the primordial sound in space, and will power in humans.
I am the divine fragrance of the earth, brilliance of fire, life in all beings and austerity in ascetics.
Know Me, O Partha, as the eternal seed of all beings. I am the intelligence of the intelligent. I am the brilliance of the brilliant.
I am the vigour of the vigorous, devoid of greed and possessiveness. O bull among Bharatas, in all beings I am the desire that does not violate dharma.
Whatever features or expressions sattva (goodness and purity), rajas (activity and passion) or tamas (ignorance and inertia) arouse, know them all as having emerged from Me alone. However, I am not in them; they are in Me.
This whole world is deluded by the mystic potential and display of the three guṇas, and as a result, it does not know Me, the supreme Presence, which, transcending these guṇas, remains imperishable.
This, My divine illusion in the nature of the three guṇas, is hard to overcome. Those who take refuge in Me alone, cross over this illusion.
Fools, the lowly people, given to evil, with their discrimination stolen by Māyā, resorting to āsuric tendencies, do not seek refuge in Me.
Four kinds of virtuous people worship Me – the afflicted, the enquiring, the one yearning for some specific gain, and the Knower, O great amongst the Bharatas.
Of these four, the Knower with his singular devotion is unbrokenly united with Me. He verily excels. For the Knower I am extremely dear, and he too is extremely dear to Me.
All of them are noble indeed. I regard the Knower as my very Self. Remaining always integrated with the Soul, the Knower attains Me, the supreme state.
At the end of many lives, the man of knowledge attains Me. Extremely rare is the great soul who knows all that exists is Vāsudeva (Krishna).
Led by their own inherent nature, robbed of wisdom by their own various desires, men worship other divine agencies, observing the disciplines related to each.
Whoever, with assiduousness, desires to worship whichever form he relishes, I make that devotional affinity of his firm, unswerving.
Imbued with the śraddhā (faith) of his kind, he is engrossed in worshipping his choice deity. And he gets the desired objects, but ordained by Me.
The results these short-sighted, indiscriminate people attain are short-lived, fleeting. Those worshipping devas go to them, and those worshipping Me, the Supreme, come to Me.
Not knowing My imperishable transcendental nature, which is par supreme, unintelligent people consider Me, the invisible spiritual presence, as limited by the visible body.
Enveloped in my yoga-māyā (caused by the projection of Nature’s guṇas), I am not revealed to all. This deluded world does not rightly know Me, the unborn and the inexhaustible.
I know all beings that are gone, those that are present and those that will appear in future. But, none knows Me at all.
All beings in the world, O Bhārata, O Parantapa, are, at the very time of birth, subjected to the delusion of duality arising from likes and dislikes.
Those, who by virtuous deeds, get their sins attenuated, become freed from the delusion of duality and take to worshipping the Supreme with steadfastness.
Those who, taking refuge in Me, strive to be free of the torments of old age and death, come to know the Brahman, the supreme Reality, all about adhyātma (nature of spiritual Self), and the truth about cosmic activity in its entirety.
Those who know Me together with My extensive material and divine manifestation (ādhibhūtā and adhidaiva), and also as the Lord of sacrifices (adhiyajña), will know Me well even at the time of leaving the body, united as they are always with Me.
Om – the symbol of Brahman, tat – that singular Reality (Brahman), sat – the ever abiding presence (Brahman).
Thus ends the seventh chapter entitled Jñāna-vijñāna Yoga, during the Srikrishna-Arjuna dialogue in Śrīmad Bhagavad Gita, constituting Yoga-śāstra, which falls within Brahmavidya as presented in the Vedic Upanishads.
Ma Gurupriya
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