Ninth
Discourse – The Yoga of the Kingly Science and Kingly Secret
Observing
that Arjuna was a qualified aspirant endowed with faith, Lord Krishna declares
to him the sovereign knowledge and sovereign secret that is to be known by
direct experience. He adds that without faith in this knowledge, man fails to
reach God and is reborn to suffer.
Now,
the Lord proceeds to describe His Nature as the all-comprehensive Truth. He
pervades, creates and sustains everything that exists and when final
dissolution takes place, absorbs everything into Himself.
He
manifests then again when the next creation begins. All beings who are ignorant
of this knowledge are caught helplessly in this cycle of birth and death.
Throughout this state of creation, preservation and dissolution of the
universe, the Lord stands as a witness, unaffected and unattached.
The
God realised saint, a man of spiritual knowledge, perceives Him indwelling all
beings and creatures. He beholds the underlying unity of existence in all names
and forms. The Lord emphasises that devotion is the essence of all spiritual
discipline. The essential thing is to fix the entire mind on the Lord and
dedicate everything unto Him – one's body, mind, action, will and emotion.
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