Gita Rahasya -Tilak 803

Srimad Bhagavadgita-Rahasya OR Karma-Yoga-Sastra -Bal Gangadhar Tilak

CHAPTER 7 SRIMAD BHAGAVADGITA   मनुष्‍याणां सहस्‍त्रेषु कश्चिद्यतति सिद्धये । यततामपि सिद्धानां कश्चिन्‍मां वेत्ति तत्‍वत: ।। 3 ।। Translation:- (3) Only some persons out of thousands make an attempt to attain Perfection; and out of these (numerous) Perfect Beings, who make the attempt, only some gain true Knowledge of Me. Description:-[Though the persons who are making the attempt, are referred to as 'siddha-purusa' in this place, yet, it must be borne in mind that they attain 'siddhi' (Perfection) only after having acquired the Knowledge of the Paramesvara. The Blessed Lord now starts the Consideration of the Mutable and the Immutable, being one of the two sub-divisions of this Knowledge of the Paramesvara, namely, the Consideration of the Mutable and the Immutable and the Consideration of the Body and the Atman — ]