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Chapter 15
Maya uktam:- The Lord declares, that this most secret teachings has been taught out of His special grace by Him, the Supreme Person, Who is the illuminator and base of the entire world, Who is seated in the hearts of all, Who is to be known by the Vedas and Who is higher, than the perishable and the imperishable. No one, can describe Him, in the way He has described Himself, because first anyone can know Him by His special grace only, and then he can describe Him to some extent, while, He can give a real description of Himself, as His knowledge is perfect.
In fact, no one else, except God can know Him perfectly, (Gita 10/2, 15). In the thirty-ninth verse of the sixth chapter, Arjuna said to Lord Krsna, "No one else than Thyself, can dispel my doubt" Here the Lord, seems to declare, that there is no question of doubt, about the, teaching which He has taught to him.
Etadbuddhva buddhlmansyatkrtakrtyaiea bharata:- In the whole of this chapter, the Lord has described the reality about the world, the nature of the soul and the matchless influence, and secrecy about Himself. So the term 'Etat', denotes all this (or specially what has been described in the nineteenth verse). He, who knows this most secret, teaching, is wise i.e., for him nothing remains to be known, because he has known the Supreme Person, Who is worth knowing.
Having known God, a man's delusion is destroyed.Without knowing Him, even having known, all arts, scripts, sciences and languages etc., a man remains deluded, because all mundane knowledge is perishable and imperfect. All arise from God. So how can they illumine their source, God? Even if a person ignorant of worldly knowledge as described above, realizes God, then he is really, a man of knowledge. The devotee, who is undeluded, who worships Him, with all his being, and who is a knower of all, as described, in the nineteenth verse, has been called wise.
Here, the term 'Ca' denotes, that nothing remains to be gained (acquired) by the devotee who worships God with all his being i.e., with unswerving devotion, as described in the preceding verse. "There is no gain, equal to devotion" (Manasa 7/112/4). Therefore, nothing remains to be gained by a devotee, who has attained devotion. For him who knows God, either through the path of action, of knowledge or of devotion, nothing remains to be done, to be known and to be gained by him, and his human life truly is successful.
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