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Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya
Chapter-12 Bhakti Darśana Yogaḥ
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athaitad apyaśakto’si kartuṃ mad-yogam āśritaḥ | Commentary“If you are unable to do even this, then ‘having resorted to My Yoga,’ — that is, if you are unable even to do service to Me which is a component of Bhakti Yoga, whereby, I am regarded as the exclusive and sole objective of love through meditation — then you should resort to the Akṣara Yoga described in the first six chapters. This consists of contemplation on the nature of the Jīvatma. This [eventually] engenders devotion to Me and as a start to this practice (of Akṣara Yoga), practice disinterested action.” ‘With a controlled mind’ — means having subdued the thought processes. The intellectual conviction that Krishna is the only worthy objective of attainment and love arises only when all the Karmic reactions of an aspirant are completely destroyed. By the performance of works without attachment to their results and doing them only as service to the Lord, Self-realisation arises. From this realisation one ceases to identify the Self with the physical body, and with the removal of the veil of nescience one realises that one is a śeṣa (subsidiary/dependant) in relation to the Lord. It is then that consummate devotion to the Lord spontaneously arises. |
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