Chapter-X
The Yoga of the Sovereign Science and the Sovereign Secret
It discusses the subject of Jnana( Knowledge) and its glories. It also describes the origin of the world and condemns the men of devilish nature, who despise God, and the method of Bhajana of men of divine nature. This chapter also discusses God as the soul of evertything and describes His glories and the fruits of worship with a motive and without motive and the description of glory of Devotion that is practicsed disinterestedely.Shri Bhagwan begins by addressing Arjuna that for the benefit of the person who are dead of carping spirit He would unfold the most secret knowledge of Nirguna Brahma along with the knowledge of Saguna Brahma ( Manifest Divinity), knowing which you would be free from the evil of worldly existence.People having no faith in Dharma and failing to attain the almighty revolve inthe path of birth and death. The whole of the universe is permeated by God as unmanifest Divinity,and all beings rest in the idea within Him. So really speaking He is not present in them. Nay all these beings abide not in Him but behold the wonderful power of His divine Yoga through the sustainer and creator of beings. Just as the extensive air, which is moving everywhere ( born of ether) ever remains in other, likewise know that all beings who have originated from God’s thoughts abide in Him. During the final dissolution all beings enter Almighty’s Prakriti ( the prime cause) and at the beginning of creation God sends them forth again wielding His nature, He releases again and again ( according to their respective Karmas) all this multitude of beings subject to influence of their own nature. Those actions however do not bind God as He is unattached to such action and standing apart as it were. With God as supervisor, Nature brings forth the whole creation consisting both of sentient and insentient beings. It is due to this cause that the wheel of Samskara is moving around. Foolish people not knowing Almighty’s supreme nature think low of Him- the overlord of entire creation who have put on human semblance. They take Him ( who has appeared in human form through His Yogmaya for the deliverance of the world) an ordinary mortal. Those bewildered persons with vain hopes, futile actions, and fruitless knowledge have embraced a fiendish, demoniacal and delusive nature. On the other hand Arjuna great souls who have embraced divine nature, knowing Him as the prime source of all lives and the imperishable eternal, worship Almighty constantly with none else in mind. Constantly chanting God’s name and glories and striving for God realisation and bowing repeatedly to Him, those devotees of firm resolve remain ever united with Him through meditation, worship Him with single devotion. Others who take the path of knowledge betake themselves to Him through their offering of Knowledge, worshipping Almighty in in absolute formless aspect as one with themselves, while still others worship Him in His universal form in many ways taking God to be diverse in diverse celestial modes. God is the vedic ritual, He is the sacrifice, He is the offering to be departed, He is the herbage and food grains, He is the sacred formula, He is the clarified butter ( Ghee), He is the sacred fire, and He is verily the act of offering oblations into the fire. He is the sustainer and Father of this Universe, its father, mother and grandfather, the one worth knowing, the purifier, the sacred syllable OM and the three vedas- Rig Veda, Yajurveda and Samveda. He is the supreme goal, supporter, lord, witness, abode, refuge, well wisher seeking no return, origin and end, resting place, store house- to which all beings return at the fire of Pralaya ( Universal Destruction) and imperishable seed. He radiates the heat like the Sun, and hold back as well as send forth showers. He is immortality as well as death. Even so He is being and non-being both. Those who perform action with some interested motive as laid down in three Vedas and the sap of the Soma plant and thus have been purged of sin, worshipping God through sacrifices seek access to heaven attain Indra’s Paradise as the result of their virtuous deeds they enjoy the celestial pleasures of gods in Heaven. Having enjoyed the extensive heavenly world they return to this world of mortals on the extinction of the stock of their meritorious deeds. Thus devoted to the ritual with interested motive recommended by three Vedas as the means to attain Heavenly bliss and seeking worldly enjoyments they repeatedly come and go that is ascent to Heaven by virtue of their merits and return to Earth when their fruit has been enjoyed. The devotees who loving no one else constantly think of Almighty and worship Him in a disinterested spirit to those ever united in thought with God and He brings full security and personally attends to their needs. Even those devotees who endowed with faith worship other gods, with some interested motive, worship God alone, though with a mistaken approach for He is enjoyer and also the Lord of all sacrifices but they know God not in reality ( as the supreme deity) hence they fall and return to life on the Earth. Those who are vowed to Gods go to the gods and those who are vowed to manes reach the manes. Those who adore the spirits reach the spirits and those who worship God come to Him alone. That is why His devotees are not subject to birth and death. Whosoever offers Almighty with love a leaf, a flower, a fruit or even simple water,He appears in person before that disinterested devotee of sinless mind and delightfully partake of that article offered by him with love and devotion. Arjuna, whatever you do, whatever you eat, whatever you offer as oblation to the sacred fire, whatever you bestow as a gift whatever you do by way of penance, offer it all to God. With your mind thus established in the Yoga of renunciation (offering all actions to God0, you will be freed from the bonds of Karma in the shape of good and evil consequences and freed then you can attain god. He is equally present in all beings , there is none hateful or dear to Him. They, however, who devoutly worship God abide in Him and He too stands revealed in them. Even if a violent sinner worships God with exclusive devotion he will be accounted as saint for he has rightly resolved as he is positive in his belief that there is nothing like devoted worship of God. Speedily he becomes virtuous and secure lasting peace. It is certain that God’s devotees never falls. Women, Vaishyas, Shudras, as well as those of vile birth (Pariahs) whoever they may be if they take refuge in God they too attain Him. How much more than Brahmas and royal sages devoted to God. So having obtained this joyless and transient human life constantly worship Him. So fix your mind on God be devoted to Him, worship Him and make obesiance to Him thus linking oneself with God and entirely depending on Him, one shall come to Him.
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