Bhagavat Gita - 48

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Bhagavat Gita - 48

 

Knowledge as discovery of one's spiritual identity (Chapter 13 verses

16-34)

 

Thus there are two aspects in man - the body-mind which is a

part and parcel of Universal Nature, and the Spirit which is

ultimately one with Me, the Supreme Subject. Not aware of his

real nature, the Spirit identifies with the properties of

material nature and becomes embodiment to repeated embodiments

in Samsara. Identification makes him the enjoyer of what is

really of the body-mind. But there is present in the embodied

being another Purusha, the witness of all, the sanctioner of

all, the Lord and Support of all, the Master of Soul and Matter.

It is the Paramatman. Let the aspirant, overcoming the

identification of the Spirit with material Nature, find his

identity in Me, the Supreme Lord, who is always the nearest and

closest to him - who is, as it were, his matrix, who is the

One spiritual Sun reflecting all the individual Spirits in the

reflector of the body-mind, and then he shall instantly be

redeemed. Real Knowledge consists in understanding of this

distinction between Nature and Spirit, and the Spirit's

absolute freedom from Nature.

 

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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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