Tuesday, October 14, 2008

LOTUS GITA- A PATH TO SALVATION CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER-IX-COMBINATION OF SUPREME SCIENCE WITH SUPREME SECRET (1-34)
1-6 Knowledge and its impactShri bhagavan uvacha
9.1. idam tu te guhyatamam
pravakshyami unsayava
gyanam vigyanasahitam yat
gyatva mokshyase ashubhat

Sri Bhagavan said:
I shall now describe properly the extremely secret science of faultless knowledge for you, knowing which you will attain salvation.
9.2. rajavidya rajaguhyam
pavitram idam uttamam
pratakshavagamam dharmamya
susukham kartum avyayam

This science of knowledge is best of all teachings and a most secret of all the confidential. This is sacred, most excellent and its results are obvious. It is religious, imperishable and very easy to practice.
9.3. ashraddhanah purushah
dharmasya asya paramtap
aprapya mama vivartanta
mritya sansarvartmani

Arjuna! Persons having no faith in this religious duty, without attaining get repeated births and deaths in this world.
9,.4. maya tatam idam sarvam
jagat avayktamurtina
matsthani sarvabhutani na
cha aham tesu avasthitah
9.5. na cha matsthani bhutani
pashya me yogani aishwaram
bhootbhrit na cha bhutasthah
mama atma bhutbhawanah

Whole of this universe is within my indescribable shape. All the creatures are situated within Me, still I am not within them. And those creatures are not situated even within Me but look towards my divine Yoga capability. Though the creator of all the beings and sustainer of them but in fact I do not dwell in those creatures.
9.6. yatha akashsthitah nityam
vayuh sarvatragah mohan
tatha sarvani bhutani
matsthani iti updharaya
Just like air always remain in sky similarly all beings abide in Me.
7-10 Origin and end of Universe
9.7. sarvabhutani kaunteya
prakritim yanti mamikam
kalpakshaya punah tani
kalpadau visrijam aham

Arjuna! At the end of age of universe (a Kalpa) all beings attain My nature, and at the beginning of this universe, I create them again.
9.8. prakritim svam avastabhyah
visrijama punah punah
bhutagramam imam kritsnam
avastam prakriteh vashata
Controlling My Nature, I create them repeatedly at the beginning of the Universe this whole multitude of beings who are slave to the influence of their own nature.
9.9. na cha mama tani karmani
nibadhananti dhamamjaya
udaseenavat asinam
asaktam tesu karmasu
Arjuna! For those actions of creations, I remain un attached and indifferent. Therefore they do no bind me.
9.10. maya adhyakshena prakritih
suyate sacharacharam
hetuna anena kaunteya
jagat viparivartate
Arjuna! Nature under my superintendence creates whole universe and all beings and this is the reason the whole world transforms.
11-15 Demoniacal divine nature among human beings9.11. avajananti mama mudhah
manushim tanum ashritam
param bhavam ajanantah
mama bhutama heshwaram
Unwise people identifying Me as ordinary human being avoid Me, without knowing My supreme Godly nature.
9.12. moghashah moghakarmavah
moghagyanah vichetasah
Rakshasim asurima cha eva
prakritim mohinima shritah
The people who take refuge under fiendish, demoniacal, and attractive natures such unwise persons have vain hopes, futile actions and fruitless knowledge.
9.13. mahtmahah tumama partha
daivim prakritim ashritah
bhajanti ananya manasah
gyatva bhutadin avyayam
Arjun! The great souls who are dependents with undivided mind on divine nature worship Me knowing as the prime cause of all creations and imperishable.
9.14. satatam kirtiyantah mama
yatantah cha dhridhavratah
namaschyantaschya mama
bhaktya nityayuktah upasate
They regularly bowing and chanting My names with firm resolution worship Me through meditation.
9.15. gyanayagyena cha api anya
yajantah mama upasate
ekatvena prithaktvena
bahudha vishva tomukham
Other devotees (Jnanayogis) be take themselves concentrating on Me worship through their offering of knowledge, while still others worship Me in My Universal image of face all-around in many ways.
16- 19 God as soul of everything
9.16. aham kratah aham yagyah
svadha aham aham ausadham
mamtrah aham aham eva
ajyam aham agnih dhamhutam

I am the Vedic ritual, I am the sacrifice, I am the offering to the departed, I am the herbage; I am the sacred formula, I am the refined butter, I am the fire, and I am verily the set of offering oblations into the fire.
9.17. pita ahamasya jagatah
mata dhata pitamahah
vedhyam pavitram omkarah
rik, sama, yajuh eva cha

I am father, mother and grandfather of this universe, also knowledgeable and pious the sacred syllable Om, and the three Vedas - Rig,Saam and Yajuh.
9.18.. gatih bharta prabhuh sakshi
nivasah sharanam suhrita
prabhavah pralayah sthanam
nidhanam bijamavyayam
I am speed, sustainer, lord, witness, abode, refuge, good at heart, origin and end, place, store and also the imperishable seed.
9.19. tapami aham aham varsham
nigrihanami utsrijami cha
amritam cha eva rurituh cha
sat asat cha aham arjuna.

Arjuna! I radiate heat as the sun. I draw water and send in the shape of rains and showers. I am immortality as well as death; I am also true as well as an untrue.
20-25 consequences of worship with or without motive
9.20. traividhya mam somapah putapapa
yagyaih istva svargatim prarthayante
te punyam asadhya surendra lokam
ashranti divyan divi devbhogana
Those who perform action as per all the three Vedas with some motive, drinking the juice of Soma without any evil, worshipping Me through sacrifices seek access to heaven; they consequent to their good deeds attain Indra's place and enjoy the divine pleasures available to the Gods of heaven.
9.21. te tam bhuktva svargalokam vishalam
kshine punye martyalokam vishanti
evam traividharmam anuprapannah
atagatama kamakamah labhante
They after having enjoyed the pleasures of that extensive heaven world, return to this world of mortals on exhausting the stock of their good deeds. Thus adopting recourse to action with some motive as per the three Vedas, and seeking worldly enjoyments attain the repeated births and deaths.
9.22. ananyah chintayatah mama
yejanah paryupasate
tesam nityabhiyuktanama
yogkshemam nahayamyama
Those exclusive devotees constantly keeping Me in mind, worship me, I take care for protection of their yoga in securing that which could not be obtained and protect that has been obtained.
9.23. ye api anyadevatah bhaktah
yagante shradhaya abuitah
te up mama eva kaunteya
yajanti avidhipurvakam
Arjuna! Even the devotees who worship other Gods, endowed with faith, they too worship Me, though not in accordance with prescribed procedure (i.e. they understand me different).
9.24. aham hih sarvayagyanama
bhokta cha prabhuh eva cha
natu mama abhijananti
tatlvena atah chavantiche
Because I am the enjoyer and also the Lord of all the sacrifices; but they do not know Me in substance and that is the reason of their fall.
9.25. yanti devavrata devan
pritanyanti pritavratah
bhutani yanti bhutejyah
yanti maddhajinah api mama
Whoever worship of Gods with motive attain the Gods; those who worship the spirits of forefathers attain them; those who adore the spirits reach the spirits but those whomever worship Me attain Me.
26-34 Devotion, Persons entitled for devotion
9.26. patram pushpam phalam toyam
yah me bhaktya prayachhati
tat aham bhaktyuphritam
ashnami prayatamanah
. Whosoever offers Me leaves, flowers, fruits or even water etc. with love, I accept that substance given by such concentrated devotee.
9.27. yat karoshi yat ashnasi
yat juhosi dadasi yat
yat tapasyasi kaunteya
tatkurusva madarpanam.
Arjuna! Whatever you do, eat, sacrifice, donate and, whatever you do by way of penance, offer it all for Me.
9.28. shubhashubh phalaih evam
mokshashe karmabandhanaih
sanyasyogayuktatma
vimuktah mama upaishyasi
Offering thus all the action for Me you will be released from the consequences of the Karma. Thus offering all actions including yourself for Me you will be freed and attain salvation.
9.29. samah ahavi sarvabhutesu na
me dveshyah asti na priyah
ye bhajanti tu mama bhaktya
mayi te su cha api aham
I am equal for all beings; No one is either My enemy or a dear to Me. But those who devoutly worship Me abide in Me, and I also live in them.
9.30. api cheta suducharah
bhajate mama ananyabhak
sadhuh eva sah mantavyah
samyak vyvasitah hi sah
Even the most delinquent worships Me with exclusive devotion, he too should be considered a saint; for he has rightly transformed himself.
9.31. kshipram bhavati dharmatma
shashvat shantim nigachhati
kaunteya prati janihi na me
bhaktah pranashyati
Arjun! He at once becomes virtuous and gets perpetual peace. Know it for certain that My devotee never falls.
9.32. mama hi partha vyapashritya
ye api shyuh papayonayah
striyo vaishyastatha shudrah
te apai yanti param gatim.
Arjuna! Women, Trading community, Shudras (those belonging to the service class), and even those born out of sinful acts exclusively taking refuge in Me, undoubtedly they too attain the salvation.
9.33. kim punah brahmanah punyah
bhaktah rajarshayah tatha
anityam asukham lokam
imam prapya bhajasva mama
What if the Brahmans involved in holy activities and royal sages devoted to worship of Almighty should attain salvation. Therefore, having secured such joyless and transient human body, you should worship Me.
9.34. manmanah bhava madbhaktah
madhyaji mama namskuru
mama eva ashyasi yuktva
evam atmanam mat parayanam
Be My devotee, fix your mind in Me, worship Me and make obeisance to Me; thus attaching yourself with Me and entirely depending on Me, you shall attain Me.
The Ninth Chapter of the Science of Bramha and the scripture of yoga in the glorious Upnishad of Shree Mad Bhagvat Gita titled as "The Yoga of the Sovereign and the Sovereign Secret" A dialogue between Shri Krishna and Arjuna finishes here.

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