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Gita Madhurya -Swami Ramsukhdas
Chapter XVI
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INTRODUCTIONAfter the eleventh verse of the tenth chapter the Lord should have described the divine and Demoniac natures in detail but Arjuna having been influenced by his grace offered praises to him and prayed to him to tell him his divine glories. While explaning his divine glories the Lord in the last verse of the tenth chapter declared, "What need is there O Arjuna, for the detailed knowledge? I stand supporting the whole universe with a single fragment of myself." So Arjuna at the begning of the eleventh chapter out of curiosity prayad to the Lord to reveal to him that cosmic form. Having revealed to Arjuna his cosmic from, the Lord in the fifty-forth and the fifty-fifth verses of the eleventh chapter explaind the merits of exclusive devotion and the traits of such a devotee. So in the first verse of the twelth chapter Arjuna inquired; "Which is considered to be more perfect: those who are properly engaged in your devotional service or those who worship the imperishable and the unmanifested?" Therefore the Lord in the twelth chapter described the devotees who are properly engaged in his devotional service and described the attributeless supreme Brahman in the thirteenth chapter and upto the twentieth verse of the fourteenth chapter. In the twenty-first verse of the fourteenth chapter Arjuna asked, "What are the marks of him who has risen above the three Gunas (Modes)? What is his conduct? How does he transcend the three modes?" In response to his question the Lord explained exclusive devotion, the means to rise above the three modes i.e., He gave a hint of divine nature through exclusive devotion and of demoniac nature through adulterated devotion. He started the fifteenth chapter in order to explain how to develop exclusive devotion. |
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