Bhagavat Gita - 28

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Bhagavat Gita - 28

 

The One God forms the object of all worship (Chapter 7 verses 20-30)

 

In whatever aspect devotees adore Me, I strengthen their faith in that

aspect and approach them in that form. To those who worship Me in the

form of various deities for attaining worldly fulfillments, I who indwell

these deities, strengthen their faith in their objects of worship and

grant them their prayer; but they attain to only those deities, and the

fruit they get is of short duration. Not understanding Me as the

Universal Being, indwelling even the deities, they adore particularised

and limited deities. Due to the obstruction of My Maya, men do not

understand Me as the unborn and the undecaying. I know all beings, present

past and future, but none knows Me. For their body-consciousness and

passions based on it, obstruct men's understanding from the very start.

It is only those whose sinful tendencies have been counteracted by good

works, that worship Me with steadfastness of mind. Those who thus

worship Me for liberation from the cycle of births and deaths, come to

know that I am the sole existence, as also the sole doer and the

sole enjoyer.

 

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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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