Bhagavat Gita - 57

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Bhagavat Gita - 57

 

Spiritual fulfillment through total abandonment (Chapter 18 verses 50-56)

 

For men who have grown mature through devotion and dedicated

work and attained to detachment and dispassion, there are

two courses open. Those who are favourably situated for it

may take to a pure ascetic life in solitude, and devote

themselves to the practice of pure introspection. Such

practice endows him with motiveless love of the Lord -

a love not influenced by any of the forces of Nature

(Nirguna Bhakti). By such love he attains to a comprehensive

and intuitive understanding of the Divine and realises

himself as a part and parcel of the Divine Life.

 

Spiritual fulfillment through resignation (Chapter 18 verses 56-66)

 

Those who have not that facility for complete withdrawal

from social life, can continue to do their swadharma with

complete dependence on Me, the Lord of all. Such a one

should mentally renounce all sense of agency for the works

that flow through him, and externally he should have no

longing or attachment for the fruits of his actions. One

who thus infills his mind with Me, overcomes all difficulties

and attains to the highest spiritual fulfillment. For the

truth is that all beings are like the objects placed on a

wheel and I alone turn the wheel. Those on the wheel, if they

think they are turning it, are in utter ignorance. Seek

shelter in Me with your whole being, and you shall attain

peace. This profoundest spiritual Gospel I reveal to you

now. Be filled with Me; worship Me; make prostrations to Me.

Abandoning dependence on every kind of ego-centered support,

seek Me alone as your refuge. I shall save you from the life

of ignorance and sin.

 

To whom the Gita is relevant (Chapter 18 verses 67-68)

 

This great spiritual doctrine is to be taught only to those

who are spiritually inclined. Such teaching is highly pleasing

to Me, as they are thereby worshipping Me with Jnana Yagna.

 

Conclusion: Wherever Krishna, the Lord of Yoga, and Arjuna,

the enforcer of Dharma, function unitedly, there will reign

both Prosperity and Spirituality.

 

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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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