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BHAGVAD-GITA
Chapter -15
"The Yoga of the Supreme
Person"
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In this chapter the qualities, attributes forms and the power of the supreme
Being is described. Thus also describes the field, the known of the field and
the supreme person and their subtle distinctions. This has laid special
emphasis on the supreme person, hence the chapter is entitled "The yoga of the
supreme person". |
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Shri bhagvan S
aid
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The imperishable peepal tree said to be in the likeness of the world has the
self as its roots, Brahma its branches and the vedas it leves, to know this is
to know truly. |
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2. This tree is
nourished by the qualities (gunas), wordly pleasures are its now leaves, worlds
are like its branches spreading above and below, the roots binding one in the
world are in the world. |
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3. The tree is not
as the ignorants know, it has no beginning and o end, it is not fixed (being
perishable). This tree having firm roots (of ego) attachements and desires)
should be sut with the weapon of renunciation.
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4. Then one should
seek the self, after finding it, there can be no returned to this world and
taking shelter in the primal being, who has spread the nature of this eternal
tree. |
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5. Who is tree
of attachment and pride, has conquered the weakness of desires, set firmly in
his self. Free of desires and dualities, such aseer reaches the perfection.
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6. And it
cannot be lighted by the sun, nor the moon, nor the fire can illumine it, from
where a person does not come back in this world that is my dwelling Place. |
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7. This
embodied soul in the body is only a fraction of my eternal self. It draws to
itself the five senses of which the sixth is the mind and the nature is the
place of its rest. |
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8. When the
self leaves a body, it collects the senses and the mind from that body, to the
new body it acquires, just like the wind carries the odour from their places. |
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9. The soul
enjoys the objects of desires through the ears, eyes, skin, tongue, nose and
also the mind. |
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10. While
leaving this body, while experiencing the objects of senses, touched by the
qualities, the ignorant are umaware of the soul, which can be seen by the seers
through their eyes of wisdom. |
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11. Even yogis
are able to perceive the self through great, sustained efforts and those whose
minds are not purified, such ignorants cannot perceive it despite all efforts
made by them. |
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12. The
spendour of the sun, which lightnes the entire universe, that is in the moon
and the fire, know that splendour to be of my form. |
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13. And it is
only me, who enters the earth and upholds all the living beings through my
power, becoming the nectar giving moon. I nourish all the plants and herbs. |
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14. I am the
fire of life, situated in the bodies of all the beings, mixed with the inreath
and out breath, I digest the four kinds of foods. |
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15. And it is
I who am situated within the heart of the creatures, by me alone , memory,
knowledge and also their loss or failure. Iam to be known through all the vedas
and I am the author of the vedanta and am the true knower of the vedas. |
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16. Perishable
and Imperishable are the two persons in the world, the world of being is
perishable but the self is imperishable it is said. |
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17. But the
perfect one is other than these called the supreme being, who enters all the
three worlds and sustains them, the Imperishable has been spoken of thus. |
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18. I am
beyond the perishable andIam also above the Imperishable even, Iam made
glorious in the world and in the vedas as the supreme person. |
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19. O Arjuna,
he who knows me thus being free from delusions, the supreme person, is the
knower of the all and knows truly, he worships me with all his being,
constantly O Bharata (Arjuna). |
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20. O
Blameless One (Arjuna) this most secret and mysterious doctrine has been
disclosed to you by me. By knowing its true elements the wise get all this
duties fulfilled (there remains nothings todo for him). |
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This is the fifteenth chapter entitled "The Yoga of the Supreme Person". |
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