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31.07.2022

Section 7/7

Shloka 87/100

7. The Quintessence – Internalising Krishna’s Gitopadesha

Are you the Doer of all your actions? Can you attain the Divine Nature of Krishna?

नान्यं गुणेभ्यः कर्तारं यदा द्रष्टानुपश्यति |
गुणेभ्यश्च परं वेत्ति मद्भावं सोऽधिगच्छति || १४ १९ ||
naanyam guNe-bhyaha kartaaram
yadaa drashtaanupashyati
guNebhyash-cha param vaytti
madbhaavam so’dhigacchati (SBG 14:19)
A person who treats the Self as above the Gunas and recognises the Gunas alone as the cause in all actions, reaches My Divine Nature.

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26.07.2022

Section 7/7

Shloka 86/100

7. The Quintessence – Internalising Krishna’s Gitopadesha

THE SUPREME ABODE – MOKSHA OR TOTAL DISSOLUTION

न तद्भासयते सूर्यो न शशाङ्को न पावकः |
यद्गत्वा न निवर्तन्ते तद्धाम परमं मम || १५ ६ ||
na tad-bhaa-sayate sooryo
na shashaangko na paavakaha
yad-gatvaa na nivartante
taddhaama paramam mama (SBG 15:06)

Neither does the sun, the moon nor fire shine there, where those who reach do not return to material existence. That is My Supreme Abode. (SBG 15:06)

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25.07.2022

Section 7/7

Shloka 85/100

7. The Quintessence – Internalising Krishna’s Gitopadesha

DO NOT BE A ‘MUSK DEER’

बहिरन्तश्च भूतानामचरं चरमेव च |
सूक्ष्मत्वात्तदविज्ञेयं दूरस्थं चान्तिके च तत् || १३ १५ ||
bahirantash cha bhootaanaam-
acharam charameva cha
sookshmatvaat-tada-vijneyam
doorastham chaantike cha tat
(SBG 13:15 or 13:16 in some editions)

The Supreme Truth exists inside and outside of all living beings including all those that move and do not move. Because of its subtlety, it is incomprehensible, far away and yet very near. (SBG 13:15 or 13:16 in some editions)

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22.07.2022

Section 7/7

Shloka 84/100

7. The Quintessence – Internalising Krishna’s Gitopadesha

UNDERSTANDING VISHVAROOPA DARSHANA

द्यावापृथिव्योरिदमन्तरं हि
व्याप्तं त्वयैकेन दिशश्च सर्वाः |
दृष्ट्वाद्भुतं रूपमुग्रं तवेदं
लोकत्रयं प्रव्यथितं महात्मन् || ११ २० ||
dyaavaa-pruthi-vyorida-mantaram hi
vyaaptam tva-yaikena dishash-cha sarvaaha
drishtvaa’dbhutam roopam-ugram tavedam
lokatrayam prav-yathitam mahaatman (SBG 11:20)
The entire space between the earth and all the worlds and all the directions are pervaded by You alone. O Mahatma, having seen Your marvellous and fierce form, the three worlds are trembling in awe. (SBG 11:20)

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21.07.2022

Section 7/7

Shloka 83/100

7. The Quintessence – Internalising Krishna’s Gitopadesha

CLARITY AND FOCUS IN DEVOTION

यान्ति देवव्रता देवान्पितॄन्यान्ति पितृव्रताः |
भूतानि यान्ति भूतेज्या यान्ति मद्याजिनोऽपि माम् || ९ २५ ||
yaanti deva-vrataa devaan
pitrn yaanti pitru-vrataaha
bhutaani yaanti bhutejyaa
yaanti madyaa-jino’pi maam (SBG 9:25)
Those who worship deities, attain deities; those who worship ancestors, go to their ancestors; people who worship spirits, reach spirits; and My devotees, surely attain Me. (SBG 9:25)

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20.07.2022

Section 7/7

Shloka 82/100

7. The Quintessence – Internalising Krishna’s Gitopadesha

Not only all humans, but all beings are equally Divine.

विद्याविनयसंपन्ने ब्राह्मणे गवि हस्तिनि |
शुनि चैव श्वपाके च पण्डिताः समदर्शिनः || ५ १८ ||
vidyaa-vinaya-sampanne
braahmaNe gavi hastini
shuni chaiva shvapaake cha
panditaaha samadarshinaha (SBG 5:18)
People of wisdom, treat equally, a learned and humble Brahmana, a cow, an elephant, and even a person who cooks and eats dog meat. (SBG 5:18)

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19.07.2022

Section 7/7

Shloka 81/100

7. The Quintessence – Internalising Krishna’s Gitopadesha

The Purifying Power of True Knowledge

न हि ज्ञानेन सदृशं पवित्रमिह विद्यते |
तत्स्वयं योगसंसिद्धः कालेनात्मनि विन्दति || ४ ३८ ||
na hi gnyaanena sadrisham
pavitram-iha vidhyate
tat-svayam yoga-samsiddhah
kaalen-aatmani vindati (SBG 4:38)
There is certainly nothing more purifying than knowledge in this world. He who is perfect in Yoga finds it in the Self in due course of time. (SBG 4:38)

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18.07.2022

Section 7/7

Shloka 80/100

7. The Quintessence – Internalising Krishna’s Gitopadesha

BURN KARMA WITH TRUE KNOWLEDGE

यथैधांसि समिद्धोऽग्निर्भस्मसात्कुरुतेऽर्जुन |
ज्ञानाग्निः सर्वकर्माणि भस्मसात्कुरुते तथा || ४ ३७ ||
yathaidhaamsi samiddho’gnir-
bhasmasaath-kurute’rjuna
gnyaanaagnih sarvakarmaaNi
bhasmasaath-kurute tathaa (SBG 4:37)
Just as a blazing fire burns wood used as fuel into ashes, O Arjuna, the fire of knowledge burns all actions and reactions or Karma into ashes. (SBG 4:37)

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05.07.2022

Section 6/7

Shloka 79/100

6. Overcoming the Fear of Death

Paramdhaama – Krishna’s Highest Abode

गुणानेतानतीत्य त्रीन्देही देहसमुद्भवान् |
जन्ममृत्युजरादुःखैर्विमुक्तोऽमृतमश्नुते || १४ २० ||
guNaa-netaa-nateetya treen-
dehee deha-samudbhavaan
janma-mrutyu-jaraa-duhkhair-
vimukto-’mrita-mashnute (SBG 14:20)
When the one that dwells in the body, transcends the three Gunas, out of which the body evolved, he is freed from birth, disease, death, old age and misery; and attains immortality. (SBG 14:20)

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04.07.2022

Section 6/7

Shloka 78/100

6. Overcoming the Fear of Death

Paramdhaama – Krishna’s Highest Abode

अव्यक्तोऽक्षर इत्युक्तस्तमाहुः परमां गतिम् |
यं प्राप्य न निवर्तन्ते तद्धाम परमं मम || ८ २१ ||
avyakto’kshara ityukta-
stamaahuh paramaam gatim
yam praapya na nivartante
taddhaama paramam mama (SBG 8:21)
What is called the Unmanifest and the Imperishable, is said to be the highest goal. Those who reach it do not return to this cycle of births and deaths. That is My highest abode. (8:21)

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