Bhagavad Gita -Srila Prabhupada 95

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

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Contents of the Gita Summarized
Chapter 2: Verse-46

yävän artha udapäne
sarvatah samplutodake
tävän sarvesu vedesu
brahmanasya vijänatah.[1]

TRANSLATION

All purposes served by a small well can at once be served by a great reservoir of water. Similarly, all the purposes of the Vedas can be served to one who knows the purpose behind them.

PURPORT

The rituals and sacrifices mentioned in the karma-käëòa division of the Vedic literature are meant to encourage gradual development of self-realization. And the purpose of self-realization is clearly stated in the Fifteenth Chapter of the Bhagavad-gita [2] the purpose of studying the Vedas is to know Lord Krsna, the primeval cause of everything. So, self-realization means understandingkrsnaand one’s eternal relationship with Him. The relationship of the living entities withkrsnais also mentioned in the Fifteenth Chapter of Bhagavad-gita[3]

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References

  1. yävän=all that; arthah=is meant; uda-päne=in a well of water; sarvatah=in all respects; sampluta-udake=in a great reservoir of water; tävän=similarly; sarvesu=in all; vedeñu=Vedic literatures; brahmanasya=of the man who knows the Supreme Brahman; vijänatah=who is in complete knowledge.
  2. 15.15
  3. 15.7

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