Bhagavat Gita - 27

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Bhagavat Gita - 27

 

Who transcends Maya: The four types of devotees (Chapter 7 verses 12-19)

 

All beings high and low have originated from Me and are contained in Me,

but they do not limit Me. No being subject to My Maya constituted of the

three gunas, can know Me, the immanent yet transcendent Being. For, this

Maya that obstructs their vision is My power, and only by surrendering to

Me with one's whole being can one get across its obstruction and know Me.

But so long as man is dominated by evil tendencies and is a slave of

demonic nature, he does not devote himself to Me. Four types of persons

become devoted to Me - the sufferer, the enquirer, the boon-seeker and

the knowing one. Though they are all to be considered noble and virtuous,

the knowing one is to Me like My very self. His love stems from his sense

of innate unity with Me, and is therefore unmotivated and constant. To him

I am dearer than anything else, and so is he to Me. It is only after many

births of spiritual striving that man is established in this form of

love based on the knowledge that it is Me alone who is seen as this

world of multiplicity.

 

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Based on " Srimad Bhagavat Gita - The Scripture of Mankind "

a translation by Rev Swami Tapasyanandaji, published by

Sri Ramakrishna Math - Chennai. http://www.sriramakrishnamath.org/

 

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