Jnana-Vijnana Yoga
Jnana-Vijnana Yoga
Wisdom & Experience
Krishna conlinued—
“Dear one, through this process 1 am about to tell you you will perceive my power, splendor & love, as well as the very Self of all beings and he freed of all doubt everlasting. I am telling you that, the knowledge so great that knowing it nothing is left in the entire world worth knowing. You will know all then.
“Arjuna, among thousands of people only one takes the trouble to find Me. Among those rare ones who make hard efforts, some seleeted one understands me properly and wholly Arjuna, please meditate on this,-I have a two-dimensional nature: apara and para.
“Earth, water, fire, air, ether and mind, intellect & ego are my apara or unconscious nature. All forms of life seen or heard anywhere in -the world are combinations of these two. And I am the origin of both & beyond. Beyond and outside me there is nothing but me. The entire creation is woven in and through me like thread in beads. I am the taste in water, light in the sun & moon, Aum in the Vedas, sound in the ether and manliness in man. Sacred perfume in earth, light in fire, life in all forms and the very tapas in all who possess power. I am the intellect of the intellectuals, lustre of the illustrious; I am attachment & desire-free power of the powerful. And I am the desire that longing which is abiding by scriptures & dharma.
“All desires emanating from satva, rajas & tamas are oozing from me with the only difference that in them I do not exist and in me they do not exist. Because they arc far distant formations of furthest expressions of my power and have become perverted and deformed. Due to these desires arising from the gunas as well as attachment and exertion the whole world is deluded and hallucinated and thus their eyes though open wide, see me not, feel me not…
mohitam nabhi janati
mamebhyah paramavya yam
“My power, my three dimensional maya is impenetrable and unpiercible. Those who think of me always they alone cross beyond it.
“It is easy to think of me. Easy to think of me always. But because their minds are captivated and kidnapped by maya their faculty of understanding is obscured, clarity of vision is gone, therefore those performers of horrifying & terrible deeds do not know me so cannot think of me. How can a swine value a pearl?
“But, in course of time beginnings do happen. And they do realize the value of thinking of me. When they become pious and auspicious the action-performer’s thinking does enter their life. Then a miracle happens! And they rush! According to their way of thinking & remembering they are of four types:
- Those who remember me for wealth accumulation known as artharthi;
- Those who remember due to terrible affliction redemption, known as arta;
- Those who recall to understand more deeply their curiosities, known as jajnasu;
- Those who reminisce to attain the enlightenment; they arc the jnanis.
“It is the fourth whose love and devotion is most laudable and all embracing and that is why he is so dear to me. All these lour kinds of high aspiring souls are magnanimous by heart but the jnani is my own self. He is so wholly established in me that it’s beyond description. You can only know by experiencing it. After many lifetimes of constant, vigorous efforts at last that one attains the highest wisdom of the Ultimate Reality of which outer expression is
vasudevah sarvamiti…
“This whole entirety is vasudeva and nothing else… Such an evolved soul is a most valuable gem in the world. Seeing & serving him is a rare opportunity.
“But as long as your mind is tempted & captivated by sensational joys and you keep racing and chasing the goal of your each desire and cannot recognize such a jnani, great soul, then you adopt my ways and modes of life which will serve your purpose; which can make your desired object available. In this context you become interested in various forms of angels & shrines and saints and often devas too. When you assume the prescribed codes of conduct to receive the benediction of such angels & saints I strengthen your faith and devotion & homage into those beings. And upon fulfillment of your faith you attain whatever you expected. But that process and goal and fulfillment all are ordained & regulated by me. Whatever you attain is approved of by me. Nature provides you acording to the laws made by me. But those attainments and prosperity are too fickle and perishable. And even though you attain to the abodes of the angels after death in due course of time you return to the same problems. But those who think of me, no matter how they meditate, attain me, the imperishable one.
“But these pantheists these adorers of many gods and goddesses, and hostile bossy authorities of their daily life, are aspiring for very small things. In fact, in turn, they are worshipers of their own sex and bellies. And this joy is really quite insignificant; quite contrary to that which those who think of me no matter how, attain to… Yes me, the imperishable one. And I remember your offerings all those days beyond the life of earth sun and moon too.
“Even then, why people do not think of Me is only because they do not know that 1 am unborn, beyond physical appearance and deathless; I appear only through my illusory potency, the maya. Due to being programmed into the entirely different patterns of thinking, even though being owners of good logic and argument systems, they can only figure out as one of the good mythical philosopher warriors or social reformers obsessed with the idea of being smart & efficient; thus they prove to be efficient only in missing& avowed non-understanding.
“They’ve to pull out the electrode placed in their brains which has caused conditions of materialistic hypnosis by their own samskaras and vasanas contributed in piles after piles by non-inlergalactic systems of education, family, society, radio & tv shows and national customs.
“When the curtain of my maya is unveiled, this hypnosis will be gone and they will see me as I am. Just like a tycoon that hides behind security officers, President hides behind his inaccessibility & power, I too hide behind the curtain of my yogamaya. And thus he alone knows whom I let know.
“Dear Arjuna, whatever was, whoever lived in the past, who are living now and will come to pass, 1 know them all. All are in the present to me. Even though I am so near and clear, still no one knows me completely.
“Arjuna, all suffering and happiness are born of one’s liking and disliking, desire & aversion. Under this constant spell all these nice people are being driven all over helpless & blindfolded. But those who perform action efficiently on the line of their duty risking everything, expecting nothing, they become sinless and rise beyond likings & dislikings into quest for Truth, or in love of Me, who is none else but their very own Self. They become free and then they think of me. Then they come to know Bramha, Adhyatma and karma. Then, just like fog, cloud, vapor, ice, and water all are different water formations, the same way- adhibhuta, adhidaiva, and adhiyajna all are me– the Vasudeva. Thus they know who know and attain Me.”
Jnana-Vijnana Yoga, Song Of Enlightenment
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