Abhyasa Yoga

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ARJUNA SAID:

 

1-2. What is that Brahman ? What about the Individual Self (Adhyatma) ? What is

action (Karma), O Purushottama ? And what is declared to be the physical region

(Adhibhuta) ? And what is the divine region (Adhidaiva) said to be ? And how and

who is Adhiyajna (the Entity concerned with Sacrifice) here in this body, O

Madhusudana, and how at the time of death art Thou to be known by the

self-controlled ?

 

THE BLESSED LORD SAID:

 

3. Brahman is the Imperishable (Akshara), the Supreme. The Ego is said to be the

Individual Self (Adhyatma, He who dwells in the body). The offering which causes

the origin of physical beings is called action (Karma).

 

4. The physical region (Adhibhuta) is the perishable existence and Purusha or

the Soul is the divine region (Adhidaivata). The Adhiyajna (Entity concerned

with Sacrifice) is Myself, here in the body, O best of the embodied.

 

5. And whoso, at the time of death, thinking of Me alone, leaves the body and

goes forth, he reaches My being; there is no doubt in this.

 

6. Of whatever Being thinking at the end a man leaves the body, Him alone, O son

of Kunti, reaches he by whom the thought of that Being has been constantly dwelt

upon.

 

7. Therefore at all times do thou meditate on Me and fight; with mind and reason

fixed on Me thou shalt doubtless come to Me alone.

 

8. Meditating with the mind engaged in the Yoga of constant practice, not

passing over to any thing else, one goes to the Supreme Purusha, the

Resplendent, O son of Pritha.

 

9-10. Whose meditates on the Sage, the Ancient, the Ruler, smaller than an atom,

the Dispenser of all, of unthinkable nature, glorious like the Sun, beyond the

darkness, (whoso meditates on such a Being) at the time of death, with a steady

mind endued with devotion and strength of Yoga, well fixing the life-breath

betwixt the eye-brows, he reaches that Supreme Purusha Resplendent.

 

to be continued...