Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand 546

Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand Ji

CHAPTER 10 An Account of God’s Glory बुद्धिर्ज्ञानमसंमोह: क्षमा सत्यं दम: शम:। सुखं दु:खं भवोऽभावो भयं चाभयमेव च ॥4॥ अहिंसा समता तुष्टिस्तपो दानं यशोऽयश:। भवन्ति भावा भूतानां मत्त एव पृथग्विधा: ॥5॥ [ “All the manifold qualities with which beings are endowed: will, knowledge, freedom from delusion, forgiveness, truth, restraint of Senses and mind, happiness and unhappiness, creation and destruction, fear and fearlessness, as well as abstinence from the desire to harm, equanimity of mind, contentment, penance, charity, fame, and ignominyare provided by none but me.’’ ] Firmness of purpose, knowledge, dedication to the goal, suppression of the mind and senses, inner happiness, the pains of the spiritual way, awakening of God within the Self, total dissolution at the moment of realization, fear of the disciplining power of God, fearlessness of nature, conduct that does not degrade, equanimity in which there are no conflicts, contentment, penance in keeping with the needs of the goal, self-abnegation, and putting up equally with both honour and humiliation on God’s way-all these propensities are-of Krishn’s making. These are the qualities that characterize the way of divine contemplation. In their absence there remains only the ill-gotten hoard of devilish instincts.