Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya 261

Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya

Chapter-8 Tāraka Brahma Yogaḥ

kaviṃ purāṇam anuśāsitāram aṇoraṇīyāṃsam anusmared yaḥ | sarvasya dhātāram acintya-rūpam āditya varṇaṃ tamasaḥ parastāt || 9 || 9. One who meditates upon the Omniscient, Primeval One, Ruler and Creator of all, who is more subtle than an atom, whose nature is inconceivable, who is as refulgent as the sun, and who is beyond Tamas (primordial state of undifferentiated matter) — prayāṇa-kāle manasācalena bhaktyā yukto yoga-balena caiva | bhāvor-madhye prāṇam-āveśya samyak sa taṃ paraṃ puruṣam upaiti divyam || 10 || 10. — at the time of death, with a mind unwavering by the power of Yoga, being possessed of devotion, having focused the Vital Force (Prāṇa) between the eyebrows — reaches that same Divine Supreme Being. Commentary One who focuses the Vital-Force [on the ajña cakra] between the eyebrows at the time of death with a mind made steady through [mental] purification achieved by the perpetual practice of Yoga together with Devotion (Bhakti); and who contemplates on the Kavi — ‘the One who knows everything’, Purāṇam — the ‘Primeval One’, i.e., One who has always existed; anuśāsitāram — ‘the Ruler’, i.e., ‘the One who governs the universe’; anoraniyan — ‘One who is more subtle than the most subtle’, ie., One who is more subtle than the individual Self; Dhataram — ‘the creator of all’; acintya-rūpam — ‘whose nature is inconceivable’, ie., whose nature is different to everything else [that can be known], āditya-varṇam tamasaḥ-parastāt — ‘who is as brilliant as the Sun and beyond darkness’, i.e., who possesses a unique divine form — one who meditates on the Divine Being described thus, focusing the mind between the eyebrows, attains Him alone. One attains His state and receives power and glory similar to His — such is the meaning. Next Sri Krishna describes the method of meditation to be adopted by the seeker of Kaivalya (ie., a state of Self-realisation in contrast to one whose object is God-realisation).