Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand 636

Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand Ji

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CHAPTER 11
Revelation of The Omnipresent

भक्त्या त्वनन्यया शक्य अहमेवं विधोऽर्जुन।
ज्ञातु द्रष्टुं च तत्त्वेन प्रवेष्टुं च परंतप ॥54॥

[ “O Arjun, a man of great penance, a worshipper can know this form of mine directly, acquire its essence, and even become one with it by a total and unswerving dedication.” ]

The one way to attain to Supreme Spirit is perfect intentness, the state in which a worshipper remembers nothing besides the adored goal. As we have seen in Chapter 7, even knowledge is finally transformed into total devotion. Krishn said a little while earlier that no one besides Arjun had seen him before and no one would ever see him in the future. But he now reveals that by such single minded devotion worshippers can not only see him, but also realize him directly and become one with him. So Arjun is the name of such a wholly dedicated worshipper: the name of a state of mind and heart rather than of a person. All-absorbing love itself is Arjun. So Yogeshwar Krishn says at last:

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