Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand 449

Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand Ji

CHAPTER 7 Immaculate Knowledge He has four kinds of devotees, coveters of rewards, the distressed men who desire to know him and men of knowledge. The wise sage, who is at last blessed with perception after practising meditation over the span of many births, becomes one with Krishn. In other words, it is only contemplation through a number of lives that God can be attained. But men who are afflicted with attachment and aversion can never know him. On the other hand, they who perform the ordained action (which is worship) in a state of freedom from the delusions of worldly attraction and repulsion, and who are diligently engaged in contemplation to be liberated from mortality, know him perfectly. They know him along with the all- pervasive God, perfect action, adhyatm, adhidaiv, and yagya. They dwell in him and remember him at the end, so that they never lose his memory thereafter. The chapter may thus be summed up as a discourse on the perfect knowledge of God, or what we may call “immaculate knowledge.” Thus concludes the Seventh Chapter, in the Upanishad of the Shreemad Bhagwad Geeta, on the Knowledge of the Supreme Spirit, the Discipline of Yog, and the Dialogue between Krishn and Arjun, entitled: “Samagr Gyan’’, or ‘‘Immaculate Knowledge’’. Thus concludes Swami Adgadanand’s exposition of the Seventh Chapter of the Shreemad Bhagwad Geeta in “Yatharth Geeta”.