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Chapter 12
As food stuff, may be different according to the taste of hungry persons, but hunger before and satisfaction after, eating the food, are the same; so do strivers have different means according to their interests, beliefs and qualifications, but pain of non-realization of God, and the desire (hunger), for God-realization, are the same for all the strivers. Every striver, belonging to any class attains the same bliss (satisfaction), in the form of God-realization.
Here, the Lord has mentioned four means of God-realization by making Arjuna, a questioner:
- Path of Surrender
- Path of Practice
- Performance of Actions, for God
- Renunciation of fruit of Actions.
All the four paths, are equally independent and noble, and all of these, lead to God-realization. A striver, can adopt anyone of them, according to his inclination, faith and qualification, by regarding it, as the best.
He should never, consider the means (spiritual discipline), followed by him to be inferior to other paths and should never lose heart, so far as God-realization is concerned. If the only aim of a striver is God-realization, the means (spiritual discipline), followed is according to his inclination, faith and qualification, and it is practised to the best of his capacity and with promptness having a burning desire for God-realization, his path will lead him to that goal, without any doubt. The reason is, that God is omniscient; He having known the striver's intention and efforts etc., by His grace influences him towards God-realization.
Every human being has God-realization as its birth right because the Lord by His grace, has bestowed upon man this human body, so that he may realize Him. No two persons, can possess the worldly materials equally, because they acquire these according to their fate. But everyone, can realize God equally, because He is not realized only through actions.
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