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Chapter 15
Link:- In the preceding verse, the Lord declared, "That is My Supreme Abode, from which those who reach it, never return." In the next verse, He explains why the soul, Which is a fragment of God, and Which (like the Supreme Abode), has identity with Him, is unable to realize him.
mamaivamso jivaloke jivabhutah sanatanah
manahsasthanindriyani prakrtisthani karsati
An eternal fragment of My own self having become an embodied soul, in the world of life, draws to itself the (five) senses with the mind for the sixth, which are abiding in nature. 7
Comment:-
Mamaivamso jivaloke jivabhutah sanatanah:- The term, 'Loka' stands for Nature and its evolutes, which have no identity with the soul (self). The term 'Jivaloke', stands for all the bodies, in the three worlds and the entire universe, which the soul, acquires. The soul, is a fragment of God, but having assumed Its affinity for a body, senses, mind and life-breath etc., which are the evolutes of Nature, It has become an embodied-soul—'Iiivabhutah', which is artificial, not real, like an actor in a play.
The Lord in the seventh chapter declared, "This world is sustained by My higher Nature, which is the soul" (7/5) i.e., though the soul, has no real affmity for the lower Nature (world), yet It has assumed its affinity, for it.
As the soul is a fragment of God, so He always thinks of Its welfare. As a lion-cub having joined a flock of sheep, considers that he is a sheep and not a lion-cub, though even by mixing with them, he is not converted into a sheep, so does the soul, identifying Itself with the body etc., forget Its real identity. As a lion, makes the lion-cub aware of his identity by showing him that he is the same, in shape, nature and roar etc., as the former, so does the Lord, make the man (soul) aware, that he is His fragment, having no affinity for Nature. He had neither any affinity with Nature, in the past, nor will have in future, nor can he have it any time.
Out of all me means (disciplines) of God-realization, the means of changing 'egoism' ('I' ness) and 'sense of mineness' is, easy and good. A strivers egoism and sense of mineness determine his feelings and actions. A striver should believe that he is only God's and only God, is his.
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