Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand 665

Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand Ji

CHAPTER 12 The Yog of Devotion At the outset of the present chapter Arjun wished to know from Krishn which of the two kinds of devotees, they who worship him with single-minded dedication and they who contemplate the imperishable, unmanifest God, are superior. According to Krishn, he is realized by devotees of both kinds because he too is unmanifest. However, there are more painful hurdles in the path of seekers who are dedicated to the unmanifest God with a well-restrained mind. So long as the shell of the physical body remains, attainment of the formless God is painful, because this unmanifest form is attained only when the mind is thoroughly subdued and dissolved. Before that stage his body itself stands as an obstruction in the worshipper’s way. Saying time and again- “I am.”-“I am.”-“I have to attain.”-he at last turns to his body itself. There is thus a greater chance of his stumbling on the way.