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Chapter 7
Mind in God, gets absorbed through love. Love develops through affinity. Dependence is sought, upon the greatest and the most powerful, God is omnipotent. Therefore, a striver should rely on Him only, and remain happy in His dispensation. He needs nothing, such as, an individual, an object or any circumstance. Dependence on God, in this way is 'Madasmyah'.
Yogam yunjan:—A striver by accepting his true affinity for God, remaining equanimous in success and failure, adores Him. His performance of different activities either spiritual or mundane, is practice of Yoga. It means that he, depending on God with his mind attached to Him, accepts his union with Him, while discharging his duty. All his activities, are according to His will. He does not act in such a way, that he may suffer disunion from Him.
Asamsayam samagram mam:—He, whose mind is attached to the Lord, who depends on Him and who has accepted his true affinity for Him, knows Him in full, without any doubt viz., he knows that the Lord, manifests Himself in the form of Lord Siva, Ganesa, Surya (the Sun) and Visnu. He is known both with form and attributes; and without any form and attribute. He is also in the form of incarnations. A Jnanayogi,can know Him and realize Him. But a devotee, can know Him in full, and have His vision in the form of his favourite deity. The Lord does not stop thinking of the devotion of His devotees.
Yatha jnasyasi tacchrnu:—By the term 'Yath'[1], Lord Krsna says, that He will tell him how to know Him; and by the word 'tat'[2] He means, that He will tell him that, which he wants to know. In these words, Lord Krsna by using the second person for Arjuna, asks him to listen to Him, how he will know Him, in full.
In the forty-seventh verse of the sixth chapter, in the expression He who worships Me endowed with faith, is deemed by Me, to be the most devout', the Lord by using 'he' the third person, makes a general statement, while here in the expression 'Hear how you shall know Me' He uses the second person pointedly to address Arjuna, how he will know Him fully.
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