Gita Rahasya -Tilak
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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTORY
The Brahmagita is to be found in the first twelve chapters of the latter portion of the fourth i. e., the Yajna-vaibhava khanda of the Suta-Samhita included in the Skandapurana and the Sutagita is in the subsequent eight chapters. There is to be found a Brahmagita different from this Brahmagita of the Skandapurana, in the 173rd to 181st stanzas of the latter half of the chapter on " Nirvana ", in the Yogavasistha. The Yamagita is of three kinds. The first is to be found in the seventh chapter of the 3rd part ( amsa ) of the visnupurana, the second one in the 381st chapter of the 3rd division ( khanda ) of the Agnipurana and the third one in the 8th chapter of Nrsimhapurana. The same is the case with the Ramagita. The Ramagita which is in common acceptance in this part of the country is to be found in the fifth sarga of the Uttarakanda of the Adhyatma Ramayapa and this Adhyatma Ramayana is looked upon as a part of the Brahmandapurana. But there is also another Ramagita to be found in the work known as " Gurujana- vasistha-tattvasarayana " which is well-known on the Madras side. This book deals with Vedanta philosophy and is divided into three divisions ( kandas ) called the Jnana, Upasana, and Karma. In the first eighteen chapters of the second part {pada called the Upasanakanda, we find the Ramagita and in the first five chapters of the third part ( pada ) of the third kanda, called the Karmakanda, we find the Suryagita. The Sivagita is said to be in the Patalakhanda of the Padmapurana. But, in the edition of this purana which .has been printed in the Anandashrama Press in Poona, we do not find the Sivagita. Pandit Jwalaprasad has stated in his book called Astadasa- puranadarsana ( Survey of the eighteen Puranas ) that it is to be found in the Gaudiya Padmottarapurana, and in the table of contents of the Padmapurana which is given along with those of other Puranas in the Naradapurana, we find a reference to the Sivagita. Besides these, the Hamsagita is to be found in the 13th chapter of the 11th skandha of the Sri Bhagavatapurana and the Bhiksugita is to he found in the 23rd chapter of the same skandha, ; and the Kapiley opakhyana contained in the chapters 23 to 33 of the third skandha, is also known as Kapilagita. But I have seen an independent printed book by the name Kapilagita. This Kapilagita deals principally with the Hathayoga, and one finds it stated in it that it has been taken from the Padmapurana ; however, not only do we not find it in the Padmapurana, but as we find in it in one place (4. 7) such words as " Jaina " " Jangama " (lingaita), and "Sophi" (a Mahommedan saint), we have.to say that it must hare been written after the Mahommedan rule commenced.
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