IMPORTANT SELECTED SLOKAS FROM BHAGAWAT GITA FOR SELF-REALISATION – Part II

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172 IMPORTANT SELECTED SLOKAS FROM BHAGAWAT GITA

FOR SELF-REALISATION – Part II

CHAPTER IV – THE YOGA OF WISDOM

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Whenever there is decay of DHARMA, and the rise of a-dharma, then I Embody

MYSELF, O Bharata! For the protection of the Good, For the destruction of the

wicked, And for the establishment of DHARMA, I am born from Yuga to Yuga.

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Freed from Attachment, Fear and Anger, Filled with ME, Purified by the Fire of

Jnana MANY HAVE ENTERED INTO MY BEING.

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Whose doings are all devoid of design And DESIRE for results, and whose Actions

are burnt in the Fire of Jnana, Him, the Sages call Wise.

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Having abandoned Attachment to the Fruits of Action, Ever content, depending on

nothing, though engaged in Karma, Verily he does not do anything.

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Hoping for naught, his Mind and self controlled, having abandoned all

possessions, Performing Karma by the Body alone, He incurs no sin.

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Content with what he obtains without effort, Free from the pairs of opposites,

Without Envy, balanced in success and failure, although acting, he is not

bound.

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Of one Unattached, Liberated, With Mind absorbed in Jnana, Performing work for

YAJNA alone, His entire Karma melts away.

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The Oblation is Brahman, The clarified Butter is Brahman, Offered by Brahman

into the Fire of Brahman, UNTO BRAHMAN VERILY HE GOES who cognizes Brahman

alone in his action.

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Knowing this, O Pandava! You will not again fall into confusion. By this you

will see the whole of Creation in your SELF and in ME.

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As the blazing fire reduces all fuel to ashes, O Arjuna! So does the Fire of

JNANA reduce all KARMA to ashes.

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Verily there is no purifier in this world Like JNANA. He that is perfected in

Yoga Realises it in his own HEART in due time.

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The man of SRADDHA, the Devoted, The master of his Senses Obtains JNANA.  Having

obtained JNANA HE PROMPTLY GOES TO THE PEACE SUPREME.

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With work absolved in Yoga, with doubts rent asunder by Jnana, O Dhananjaya!

Actions do not bind him who is poised in the SELF?

CHAPTER V – THE YOGA OF RENUNCIATION OF ACTION

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He should be known as a permanent Ascetic who neither Hates nor Desires. Free

from the pair of opposites, O mighty armed! HE IS EASILY SET FREE FROM BONDAGE.

 

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The state reached by Jnanis is also reached by nish-kama-Karma Yogis He SEES who

sees both Jnana and Nish-kama-Karma Yoga as ONE.

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Renunciation, O mighty armed! Is hard to attain without nish-kama-Karma. The man

of Meditation, Purified by nish-kama-Karma QUICKLY GOES TO BRAHMAN.

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With Mind purified by nish-kama-Karma And the self disciplined, And the Senses

subdued, One who realises one’s SELF As the SELF in all beings, Though acting,

is not tainted.

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He, who acts, Abandoning Attachment, Dedicating his deeds to Brahman, Is

untainted by sin, As a lotus leaf by water.

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The Yogi, abandoning Attachment, Performs work with the Body, the Senses, the

Mind and the Intellect only, For Self-purification.

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Abandoning the Fruit of Action, the Yogi attains Peace born of Steadfastness.

Impelled by DESIRE, The non-yogi is bound, Attached to the Fruit.

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Those who think on THAT, MERGE IN THAT, Get fixed in THAT, Have THAT as the

Goal, Their taints being dispelled by Jnana. (THAT = SELF)

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Sages look with an equal eye On a Brahmana imbued with learning and humility, A

cow, an elephant, a dog and an outcaste.

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Transitory existence is overcome even here by them whose Mind rests on Equality.

Brahman is flawless, and is the same in all. THEREFORE, THEY ARE ESTABLISHED IN

BRAHMAN.

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With the self unattached to External Contacts He realises the BLISS in the SELF.

Devoted as he is to the meditation of Brahman, HE ENJOYS IMPERISHABLE BLISS.

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The delights that are contact-born are verily the wombs of pain. They have, O

son of Kunti! A beginning and an end. No wise man rejoices in them.

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He who is able to resist the impulse of DESIRE and ANGER (Kama – Krodha) Even

before he quits the Body, He is a happy man.

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He, whose Happiness is within, Whose Delight is within, Whose Illumination is

within, that yogi attains Brahma Nirvanam, HIMSELF BECOMING BRAHMAN.

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THE RSHIS ATTAIN BRAHMA NIRVANAM whose sins have been destroyed, Whose dualities

are torn asunder, Who are self-controlled, And intent on the welfare of all

beings.

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BRAHMA NIRVANAM IS BOTH HERE AND HEREAFTER for those Sannyasins who have shed

Lust and Anger, Subdued their Minds And realised the SELF.

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Shutting out external Objects, Fixing the gaze between the eye-brows, Equalizing

the Outward and Inward breaths Moving in the nostrils, The Sage who has

controlled The Senses, the Mind and the Intellect, Who is solely pursuing

Liberation, Who has cast away DESIRE, FEAR and ANGER, HE VERILY IS LIBERATED.

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Having known ME as the Enjoyer of Yajnas and Austerities, As the Supreme Lord of

all the Worlds, and the Friend of all Beings, HE ATTAINS PEACE.

CHAPTER VI – THE YOGA OF MEDITATION

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He who discharges his bounden Duty without seeking its FRUIT, He is the

Renouncer, He is the Yogi, Not he who is without Sacred fire and without rites.

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When a man is not attached to Sense-objects or to Actions, Having renounced all

THOUGHTS, Then he is said to have attained to Yoga.

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Let a man raise himself by his own Self alone. Let him not debase himself. For

the self alone is one’s friend, and the self alone is one’s enemy.

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The Supreme Self of him who is self-controlled and peaceful, is balanced in cold

and heat, pleasure and pain, As also in honour and dishonor.

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One who has attained contentment Through Knowledge and Wisdom, Who is

unperturbed, Who has subdued his Senses, To whom a clod of earth, a stone And

gold are the same, Such a Yogi is said to be harmonized.

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When the disciplined Mind rests in the SELF alone, Free from Desire for Objects,

then is one said to be established in Yoga.

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‘As a lamp in a windless place does not flicker’ –This is the simile used for

the disciplined Mind of a Yogi Practicing concentration on the SELF.

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With the Intellect set in firmness, let him attain quietude little by little.

With the Mind fixed on the SELF let him not think of anything.

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By whatsoever cause the restless and unsteady Mind Wanders away, let him curb it

from that, and subjugate it solely to the SELF.

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His Mind being harmonized by Yoga, He sees himself in all beings, and all beings

in himself. He sees the same in all.

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He who sees ME everywhere and sees all in ME, HE NEVER BECOMES LOST TO ME, Nor

do I become lost to him.

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He, who established in ONENESS, Worships ME abiding in all beings, THAT YOGI

LIVES IN ME, Whatever may be his mode of living.

(Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba has declared:

“There is nothing other than the SELF in the universe. All the things that you

see in the phenomenal world are but reflections of the ONE SELF. In the case of

mundane affairs, the subject, the object and the predicate are present. But in

spiritual matters relating to the ATMA or the SELF, there is only the subject,

but no separate object or predicate. The principle of the SELF pervades

everywhere as Chaitanya – Consciousness. There is no place where Consciousness

does not exist.”   SUMMER SHOWERS 1990 page 120

Arjuna said:

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The Mind verily is, O Krishna! Restless, turbulent, strong and

obstinate,(chanchalam, pramaathi, balavad, dridham) I deem it hard to control

as the wind.

The Blessed Lord said:

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Doubtless, O mighty armed! The Mind is restless and hard to control. But by

practice and by non-attachment, O son of Kunti! It can be controlled. Arjuna

said:

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He who is unable to control himself, though possessed of FAITH, Whose Mind

deviates from Yoga, What end does he meet with, O Krishna! Having failed to

attain perfection in Yoga?

The Blessed Lord said:

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O Partha! Neither in this world nor in the next is there destruction for him.

For the doer of good, O my son! NEVER COMES TO GRIEF.

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Having attained to the worlds of the Righteous, and having lived there for

countless years, He who falls from Yogis reborn in the house of the pure and

the prosperous.

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Or he is born in a family of wise Yogis only, A birth like this is verily

difficult To obtain in this world.

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There he regains the Knowledge Acquired in his former body and he strives more

than before For Perfection, O son of the Kurus!

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By that very former practice, He is led on, in spite of himself. Even he who

merely wishes to know of Yoga Rises superior to the performer of Vedic rites.

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The Yogi is deemed superior to Ascetics, Even superior to men of Knowledge. He

is also superior to Ritualists. Therefore, be thou a Yogi, O Arjuna!

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And among all Yogis, He who worships ME full of FAITH HIS INMOST SELF MERGED IN

ME, Him I hold to be the most devout.

CHAPTER VII – THE YOGA OF WISDOM AND REALISATION

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Four types of virtuous men worship ME, O Arjuna! The man in distress, The man

seeking knowledge, The man seeking wealth And the Jnani, O lord of the

Bharatas!

(aartha, artha-arthi, jijnaasu, jnani)

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Of these, the Jnani, Ever steadfast and devoted to the ONE, excels. For

supremely dear am I to the Jnani, AND THE JNANI IS DEAR TO ME.

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At the end of many births, THE MAN OF WISDOM (jnanavaan) SEEKS REFUGE IN ME,

Realising that ALL THIS IS Vasudeva. (the innermost SELF) Rare indeed is that

Mahatma.

CHAPTER VIII – THE YOGA OF THE IMPERISHABLE BRAHMAN

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And whosoever at the time of death, leaving the body, goes forth remembering ME

alone, HE ATTAINS MY BEING. There is no doubt about this.

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Whatever a man thinks of at the last moment when he leaves his Body, That alone

does he attain, O Kaunteya! Being ever absorbed in the thought thereof.

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Therefore, at all times, Think upon ME only and fight. With Mind and

Understanding set on ME, YOU WILL SURELY COME TO ME.

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I AM EASILY ATTAINABLE, O PARTHA! By that ever-steadfast Yogi, Who constantly

remembers ME daily, and thinks of none else. (This is Bhakti Yoga)

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HAVING COME TO ME, The great souls are no more subject to birth, Which is

transitory and the abode of pain, For they have reached the Highest Perfection.

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All the worlds, including that of Brahma are subject to return, O Arjuna! But on

reaching ME, O son of Kunti! THERE IS NO REBIRTH.

BHAGAVAN SRI KRISHNARPANAM

To be continued…

Source: http://www.sathyasaibaba19.org/Bhgita.htm

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