BHAGAVAD-GITA 18:50

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BHAGAVAD-GITA 18:50

 

siddhim prapto yatha brahma

tathapnoti nibodha me

samasenaiva kaunteya

nistha jnanasya ya para

 

WORD FOR WORD

 

siddhim--perfection; praptah--achieving; yatha--as; brahma--the

Supreme; tatha--so; apnoti--one achieves; nibodha--try to understand;

me--from Me; samasena--summarily; eva--certainly; kaunteya--O son of

Kunti; nistha--the stage; jnanasya--of knowledge; ya--which;

para--transcendental.

 

TRANSLATION

 

O son of Kunti, learn from Me how one who has achieved this perfection

can attain to the supreme perfectional stage, Brahman, the stage of

highest knowledge, by acting in the way I shall now summarize.

 

PURPORT

 

The Lord describes for Arjuna how one can achieve the highest

perfectional stage simply by being engaged in his occupational duty,

performing that duty for the Supreme Personality of Godhead. One

attains the supreme stage of Brahman simply by renouncing the result

of his work for the satisfaction of the Supreme Lord. That is the

process of self-realization. The actual perfection of knowledge is in

attaining pure Krsna consciousness; that is described in the following

verses.

 

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