Bhagavad Gita -Srila Prabhupada 380

Shrimad Bhagavad Gita As It Is -Shri Shrimad A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

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The Most Confidential Knowledge
Chapter 9: Verse-1

sri-bhagavän uväca
idam tu te guhyatamam pravaksyämy anasüyave
jnänam vijnäna-sahitam yaj jnätvä moksyase ’subhät[1]

TRANSLATION

The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear Arjuna, because you are never envious of Me, I shall impart to you this most confidential knowledge and realization, knowing which you shall be relieved of the miseries of material existence.


PURPORT

As a devotee hears more and more about the Supreme Lord, he becomes enlightened. This hearing process is recommended in the Srimad-Bhägavatam: “The messages of the Supreme Personality of Godhead are full of potencies, and these potencies can be realized if topics regarding the Supreme Godhead are discussed amongst devotees. This cannot be achieved by the association of mental speculators or academic scholars, for it is realized knowledge.” The devotees are constantly engaged in the Supreme Lord’s service. The Lord understands the mentality and sincerity of a particular living entity who is engaged in krsna consciousness and gives him the intelligence to understand the science of krsna in the association of devotees. Discussion of Krsna is very potent, and if a fortunate person has such association and tries to assimilate the knowledge, then he will surely make advancement toward spiritual realization. Lord Krsna, in order to encourage Arjuna to higher and higher elevation in His potent service, describes in this Ninth Chapter matters more confidential than any He has already disclosed.

The very beginning of Bhagavad-gita, the First Chapter, is more or less an introduction to the rest of the book; and in the Second and Third chapters, the spiritual knowledge described is called confidential. Topics discussed in the Seventh and Eighth chapters are specifically related to devotional service, and because they bring enlightenment in krsna consciousness, they are called more confidential. But the matters which are described in the Ninth Chapter deal with unalloyed, pure devotion. Therefore this is called the most confidential. One who is situated in the most confidential knowledge of krsna is naturally transcendental; he therefore has no material pangs, although he is in the material world. In the Bhakti-rasämrta-sindhu it is said that although one who has a sincere desire to render loving service to the Supreme Lord is situated in the conditional state of material existence, he is to be considered liberated.

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References

  1. sri-bhagavän uväca=the Supreme Personality of Godhead said; idam=this;
    tu=but; te=unto you; guhya-tamam=the most confidential; pravaksyämi=I am speaking; anasüyave=to the nonenvious; jnänam=knowledge;
    vijnäna=realized knowledge; sahitam=with; yat=which; jnätvä=knowing; moksyas=you will be released; asubhät=from this miserable material
    existence.

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