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Chapter 13
mayi cananyayogena bhaktiravyabhicarini
viviktadedasevitvamaratirjairasamsadi
Unswerving devotion to Me with sole dependence on God, inclination for solitary places, and dislike for the worldly people. 10
Comment:-
Mayi cananyayogena bhaktiravyabhicarini:- Having dependence, on the world a striver's body-consciousness, remains intact. This 'ego' is the main hurdle to Self-realization. To remove this hurdle the Lord, declares that exclusive devotion is a means to Self-realization. In simple words it means, that through devotion, ego is easily wiped out. Total dependence only on Him and His grace, is called wholehearted discipline.
Having consummate and unadulterated love for God, is unswerving devotion to Him. It means, that He is both the means and the end. This is unswerving devotion with whole-hearted, devotion.
A striver, following the discipline of Knowledge also, having an aptitude for devotion, by depending on the Lord, attains, Self-realization. The Lord, mentioned this unswerving devotion, as a means to transcend the three Gunas—(qualities) (Gita 14/26).
Doubt:- Here, the Lord has mentioned devotion, as a means for Self-realization, while in the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth verses of the eighteenth chapter, He refers to knowledge, as a means to attain devotion, why?
Answer:- Devotion, is of two kinds - as a means, and as an end; so is knowledge of two kinds - as a means and as an end. Both, in the end, are one and the some, like the two faces of the same coin. In the end, both (as means) are methods to attain devotion and knowledge, (as an end). Therefore, both the statements - devotion, as the means for Self-realization and knowledge, as the means to attain devotion, are justified. Therefore, a striver, according to his past and present propensities, should follow anyone of the Discipline of Action, Knowledge or Devotion. He, should be very cautious, that His only aim is God-realization, not the world. With this aim, he attains God, with his own discipline.
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