Vijnana Yoga

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THE BLESSED LORD SAID:

 

1. With the mind intent on me, O Partha, practising Yoga and finding refuge in

Me, how in full without doubt thou shalt know Me, that do thou hear.

 

2. I shall fully teach thee this knowledge combined with experience, which being

known, nothing more besides here remains to be known.

 

3. Among thousands of men, one perchance strives for perfection; even among

those who strive and are perfect, only one perchance knows me in truth.

 

4. Earth, water, fire, air, ether, thought (Manas) and reason (Buddhi), egoism

(Ahamkara) - thus is My Prakriti divided eight-fold.

 

5. This is the inferior (Prakriti); but distinct from this know thou My superior

Prakriti, the very life, O mighty-armed, by which this universe is upheld.

 

6. Know that all beings have their birth in these. So, I am the source and

dissolution of the whole universe.

 

7. There is naught else higher than I, O Dhananjaya; in Me all this is woven as

clusters of gems on a string.

 

8. I am the sapidity in water, O son of Kunti. I am the light in the moon and

the sun. I am the syllable Om in all the Vedas, sound in ether, humanity in men.

 

9. And I am the agreeable odour in the earth and the brilliance in the fire, the

vitality in all beings and I am the austerity in ascetics.

 

10. Know Me, O Partha, as the eternal seed of all beings; I am the intelligence

of the intelligent , the bravery of the brave.

 

to be continued...