The Bhagavad-Gita as it is Ch 9 Text 1-6

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The Bhagavad-Gita as it is Ch 9 Text 1-6

 

The Most Confidential Knowledge

 

 

Text 1

 

The Supreme Lord said: Because you are never envious of Me, 0 Ar­juna,

I shall give you this most secret wisdom, knowing which you will be

relieved from the miseries of material existence.

 

PURPORT

As a devotee hears more and more about the Supreme Lord, he becomes

enlightened. This hearing process is recommended in the Srimad­

Bhagavatam: "The messages of the Supreme Personality of Godhead are

full of potencies, and these potencies can be realized if topics

regarding the Supreme Godhead are discussed among devotees. This

cannot be achieved by the association of mental speculators or

academic scholars; it is realized knowledge." The Lord understands

the mentality and sin­cerity of a particular living entity who is

engaged in Krsna consciousness, and lie gives him the intelligence to

understand the science of Krsna in the association of devotees.

Discussion of Krsna is very potent, and if a fortunate person has

such association and tries to assimilate the knowl­edge, then he will

surely make advancement toward spiritual realization. Lord Krsna, in

order to encourage Arjuna to be elevated higher and higher in His

potent service, is describing in this Ninth Chapter things more

confidential than He has already disclosed.

 

Text 2

 

This knowledge is the king of education, the most secret of all

secrets. It is the purest knowledge, and because it gives direct

perception of the self by realization, it is the perfection of

religion. It is everlasting and joyfully performed.

 

Text 3

 

Those who are not faithful on the path of devotional service, 0

killer of the enemies, cannot achieve Me. Therefore, they come back

to birth and death in this material world.

Text 4

 

In My unmanifested form I pervade all this creation. All things are

resting in Me, but I am not in them.

 

 

PURPORT

The Supreme Personality of Godhead is not perceivable through the

gross material senses. It is said that Lord Sri Krsna's name, fame

and pastimes cannot be understood by the material senses. Only to one

who is engaged in pure devotional service under proper guidance is He

revealed. In the Brahma-samihita it is stated that one can see the

Supreme Personality of Godhead, Govinda, always within himself and

outside if one has developed the transcendental loving attitude

toward Him. Thus for people in general He is not visible. Here it is

said that al­though He is all-pervading, everywhere present. still He

is not conceiv­able to our material senses. But actually although we

cannot see Him, everything is resting in Him. As we have discussed in

the Seventh Chapter, the whole material cosmic manifestation is only

a combination of His two different types of energies, the superior,

spiritual energy and the inferior, material energy.

Now, one should not have concluded that because He is spread all

over, the Lord has therefore lost His personal existence. To refute

such arguments by those with a poor fund of knowledge, the Lord

says, "I am everywhere, and everything is in Me, but still I am

aloof." A crude ex­ample can be given in this manner. A king has his

government, which is a manifestation of the king's energy. The

different departments are nothing but the energies of the king. and

each department is resting on the king's power, but still one cannot

expect the king to be present in every department personally.

Similarly, all the manifestations we see,and everything that exists

in both this material world and in the spiritual world, are resting

on the energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The creation

takes place by the diffusion of His different energies, and as stated

in Bhagavad-gita, He is everywhere present by His personal

representation, this diffusion of energies.

Text 5

 

Again, everything that is created does not rest on Me. Behold My

mystic opulence! Although I am the maintainer of all living entities

and although I am everywhere, still My Self is the very source of

creation.

Text 6

 

As in the great sky the wind is blowing everywhere, so all the cosmic

manifestation is situated in Me.

 

 

PURPORT

For the ordinary person it is almost inconceivable how the huge

material manifestation is resting in Him. But the Lord is giving an

example which may help us to understand. The sky (space) is the

biggest manifestation conceivable by us, and in that sky the air is

the greatest manifestation of the cosmic world. So although the air

is great, still it is situated within space; it is not beyond the

sky. Similarly, all the manifold manifestations of wonderful things

are going on by the simple supreme will of God, and all of them are

subordinate to that supreme will. By His will everything is being

created, everything is being maintained, and everything is being

annihilated. Still, He is aloof from everything, as the sky is always

aloof from the activities of the great air. In the Upanisads it is

stated, "It is out of the fear of the Supreme Lord that the air is

blowing." In the Garga Upanisads also it is stated, "By the supreme

order, under the superinten­dence of the Supreme Personality of

Godhead, the moon, the sun and other big planets are moving." In the

Brahma-samhita also this is stated. There is a description of the

movement of the sun, and it is said that the

sun is considered to be one of the eyes of the Supreme Lord and that

it has immense potency to diffuse heat and light.Still it is moving

in its presscibed orbit by the order,by the supreme will,of

Govinda.So from the Vedic Litature we find evidence that although

this material appears to us very wonderful and great,still it is

under the complete control of the Supreme Personality of Godhead,,as

will be explained in the later verses of this chapter.

 

 

All Texts and Purports are translated by His Divine Grace

A.C.Bhaktivadanta Swami Prabhupada!!

 

Chant Hare Krsna,and be Happy--Your Servant krsnajoe(Jaya

Kesava Dasa)