Chapter
7 - Self Knowledge and Self Realization
The
Blessed Sri Krsn said:
Listen,
O Parth (Arjun), how, with your mind
attached to Me, and taking refuge in Me
and practicing yoga, you will without any
doubt know Me in full. (7.01)
I
shall unfold unto you in its entirety this
wisdom along with the real knowledge of
manifest Divinity, having known which
nothing else remains still to be know in
this world. (7.02)
Of
thousands of men some real soul strives to
realize Me; of those striving Yogis,
again, some rare one (devoting himself
exclusively to Me) knows Me in reality.
(7.03)
Earth,
water, fire, air, ether, mind, reason and
also the ego - these constitute My nature
eightfold divided. This is My lower
(insentient) nature; the other than this,
by which the whole universe is sustained,
know it is My higher (or sentient) nature
in the form of Jiva (the life-principle).
(7.04 - 05)
Arjun,
know that all beings have evolved from
this twofold Prakriti, and that I am the
source of the entire creation and in Me
again it dissolves. (7.06)
There
is nothing else beside Me, Arjun. Like
cluster of yarn-beads formed by knots on a
thread, all this is threaded by Me. (7.07)
Arjun,
O son of Kunti, I sapidity in the water,
radiance in the moon and the sun; I am
sacred syllable Om (Aum) in all the Vedas,
sound in the ether, and the manliness in
men. (7.08)
I
am the sweet fragrance in earth,
combustion in fire; I am life in all
beings and austerity in ascetics. (7.09)
O
Parth, know Me as the eternal seed of all
beings; I am the intelligence of the
intelligent, the glory (splendor) of the
glorious (splendid). (7.10)
Arjun,
I am the might of the mighty, free from
passion and desire; in beings I am the
sexual desire not in conflict with the
virtue or scriptural injunction. (7.11)
Whatever
other entities there are, born of Sattva
(the equality of goodness); and those that
are born of Rajas (the principle of
activity), and Tamas (the principle of
inertia), know them all as evolved from Me
alone. In reality, however, neither I
exist in them, nor they in Me. (7.12)
The
whole of this creation is deluded by
objects evolved from the three mode of
Nature - Sattva, Rajas and Tamas; hence it
does not know Me, who am above these and
imperishable. (7.13)
For
this wonderful illusion of Mine consisting
of the three Gunas (modes of Nature) is
extremely difficult to get over; those,
however, who take refuge in Me alone cross
it. (7.14)
Those
who have their wisdom carried away by
nescience, and who have embraced the
demoniac nature, such foolish and wretched
men of evil deeds do not worship Me.
(7.15)
Four
types of virtuous men worship Me, Arjun -
the seeker of worldly objects, the
sufferer, the seeker of knowledge, and the
man of wisdom. (7.16)
Of
these the best is the man of wisdom ever
steadfast and exclusively devoted to Me;
for extremely dear am I to the wise and he
is extremely dear to Me. (7.17)
All
these are noble, but the man of wisdom is
verily My own Self; this is My View. For
This devotee who is steadfast in mind, is
established in Me alone, as the Supreme
Goal. (7.18)
In
the very last of all births viz; in this
human birth, the man of wisdom takes
refuge in Me, realizing all this is God.
Such a great soul is very rare indeed.
(7.19)
Those,
whose discrimination has been lead astray
by various desires, constrained by their
very own nature, take refuge in other gods
undertaking vows relating to each. (7.20)
Whatever
celestial form a devotee seeks to worship
with faith. I make that faith of that
devotee in that form steady. (7.21)
Endowed
with such faith he worships that deity and
obtains through him without doubt his
desired enjoyment as ordained by Me.
(7.22)
The
fruit gained by these people of meagre
intelligence however, is perishable. The
worshippers of gods attain the gods;
whereas My devotees, however, they may
adore Me, in the end attain Me alone.
(7.23)
Not
knowing My unsurpassable and undecaying
supreme nature, the unintelligent think
Me, the supreme spirit beyond the reach of
mind and senses, the embodiment of Truth,
Knowledge and Bliss, to have assumed a
visible (human) form. (7.24)
Veiled
by My divine Yogamaya (divine potency), I
am not manifest to all. Hence, these
ignorant folk do not recognize Me as the
unborn and imperishable Supreme Spirit
(i.e., take Me to the subject to birth and
death). (7.25)
O
Arjun, I know all beings, past as well as
present, nay, even those that are yet to
come; but none devoid of faith and
reverence knows Me. (7.26)
By
the delusion of the pairs of opposites
arising from desire and aversion, all
beings, O scorcher of the foes in the
Bharat family, are subject to illusion
viz., birth and death. (7.27)
But
those men of virtuous deeds whose sins
have come to an end, being freed from
delusion of the pairs of opposites,
worship Me with a firm resolve in every
way. (7.28)
Those
who having taken refuge in Me, strive for
deliverance from old age and death, know
Brahma (the Infinite), the individual self
and entire field of action. (7.29)
Those,
who realize Me in the Adhibhuta (the field
of matter), in Adhidaiva (Brahma) and in
Adhiyajna (the unmanifest Divinity), they
of steadfast mind realize Me even at he
hour of death. (7.30)
Thus
with the utterance of Om, Tat, Sat, the
names of the Lord, in the Upanisad of the
Bhagawad Gita, the knowledge of Brahman,
the Supreme, the science of Yoga and the
dialogue between Sri Krsn and Arjun, this
is the seventh discourse designated:
"The Yoga of Knowledge and
Realization"
Swami Veet Chintan T'Zorba-Krsna
Jyotish
Shastracharya
& Vedic Astrologer of India
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