Bhagavat Gita - 33

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Bhagavat Gita - 33

 

Devotion as the highest value (Chapter 9 verses 1-3)

 

Shri Krishna said: The doctrine of devotion is the noblest and the

profoundest of all sciences. Experience is its proof. It is easy

to practice and it is contributive to human welfare. Those who

neglect it will be subject to the cycle of births and deaths,

and will not attain to Me.

 

Devotion and understanding of the divine mystery (Chapter 9 verses 4-10)

 

Devotion is generated by the contemplation of My mystery and My

transcendent glory. See how I am the Indwelling Spirit in all; but

they do not contain Me; it is I who contain them. Yet in another

sense it is not true that they rest in Me, because I, the pure and

incorruptible Spirit, remain absolutely unaffected by their presence.

Contemplate on this divine mystery-to be the creator and the container

of this mighty universe and yet be not affected by it, as space is not

by the fast and powerful winds that blow through it. My Power projects

and withdraws into itself this extensive universe in Time's endless

cyclic process. I remain the unaffected Overseer and Witness of this

eternal process which my Prakruthi executes.

 

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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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