Bhagavat Gita - 46

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Bhagavat Gita - 46

 

Knowledge and its means (Chapter 13 verses 7-11)

 

The Seen and the Seer, the body and the Spirit, are inextricably

mixed up in man in the state of ignorance. To know them in their

distinctiveness is knowledge, and this knowledge grows by the

cultivation of the following disciplines: Absence of pride and

vanity, non-injury, patience, perseverance, service of the teacher,

self-control, revulsion of tempting objects of senses, reflection on

ephemerality of life, non-attachment, non-entanglement with the

family, imperturbability, intense devotion to Me, frequenting

solitude, steady pursuit of spiritual enquiry, and strong aspiration

for the Truth. These constitute knowledge or spirituality, and the

opposite is ignorance or unspirituality.

 

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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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