Bhagavadgita -Radhakrishnan 194

The Bhagavadgita -S. Radhakrishnan

God is the Source of All; to Know Him is to Know All

10. tesayn satatayuktanam
bhayatam pritiparvakam
dadami buddhiyogarh tam
yena mam upayanti to
(10) To these who are constantly devoted and worship Me with love, I grant the concentration of understanding by which they come unto Me, buddhiyoga : the devotion of mind by which the disciple gains the wisdom which sees the one in all the forms which change and pass.

11. tesam eva 'nukampartharn
aham ajnanajam tamah
nã.sayãmy atmabhavastho
jnanadipena bhasvatd
(11) Out of compassion for those same ones, remaining within My own true state, I destroy the darkness born of ignorance by the shining lamp of wisdom. God affects the world for man's welfare, Himself remaining apart from it. Altmabhava is also interpreted as the inner sense of beings. Here the teacher makes out how bhakti or devotion leads to the destruction of ignorance and the rise of illumination. When ignorance is destroyed, God stands revealed in the human spirit. When love and wisdom arise, the eternal is fulfilled in the individual. Bhakti is also a means to jnana. Through it we obtain Divine grace and the power of understanding, buddhiyoga. Intellectual knowledge is rendered luminous and certain by the direct intuition of buddhi.

arjuna uvaca
12. param brahma param dhama
pavitram paramam bhavan
purusam sasvatam divvy
adidevam ajam vibhum
Arjuna said
(12) Thou art the Supreme Brahman, the Supreme Abode and the Supreme Purifier, the Eternal, Divine Person, the First of the gods, the Unborn, the All-pervading

13. ahus tvam rsayah sarve
devarsir nãradas tatha
asito devalo vyasah
svayam cai 'va bravisi me
(13) All the sages say this of Thee, as well as the divine seer Narada, so also Asita, Devala, Vyasa and Thou thyself declarest it to me
Arjuna accepts the truth of what has been declared and proclaims his conviction that Krsna who is speaking to him is the Supreme Godhead, the Absolute, the Ever-free to which we can rise by self-surrender. He gives utterance from his own experience to the truth revealed by the seers who have seen it and become one with it. The secret wisdom is revealed by God, the seers are witnesses to it and Arjuna himself verifies it from his own experience. Abstract truths uttered by the sages become now luminous intuitions, glowing experiences of one's whole being.

14. sarvam etad rtam manye
yan math vadasi kesava
na hi te bhagavan vyaktim
vidur deva na danavah
(14) I hold as true, all this that thou sayest to me, 0 Kesava (Krsna); neither the gods nor the demons, 0 Lord, know Thy manifestation.


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