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Chapter 9
2. A man, by identifying himself with a body and the world; cannot know the reality, about them. If he as a spectator, by isolating himself from them, beholds them, he comes to know the reality, that he, as a portion of the Lord is eternal, while they are perishable. But, those who surrender themselves to God and become one with Him, without having any separate entity of their own, know the Lord. In them, not only 'I'ness and 'mineness' are gone, but also there should be left not even a trace of these.
When, a man identifies himself with a body, he feels the pleasure and pain of the body as his own, and cannot realize, that he is different from the body. Similarly, when a man realizes, that being a portion of the Lord, he is one with Him, he is not, at all affected, by any change, which happens either, in the body or the world. His actions, are automatically performed by God's will. He becomes one with the Lord. As Radhaji, is one with Lord Krsna, both of them are one and the same, but to exchange love, the Lord has manifested Himself, in two forms. This is His sport of union and disunion. In their union, there is a feeling of disunion and in their disunion, there is a feeling for union. Thus, union and disunion strengthen each other, and in this process there is enhancement of spiritual love, which cannot be, expressed in words. This state of enhancement, of indescribable spiritual love, is God-realization.
Harmony of the Topic, in the Seventh and the Ninth Chapters—
At the beginning of the seventh chapter, Lord Krsna declared, that He would teach Arjuna, knowledge (wisdom) with realization (real knowledge of manifest Divinity) (712). The flow of the Lord's gospel, was interrupted when Arjuna, put questions at the beginning of the eighth chapter.
So, when the eighth chapter was over, Lord Krsna, at the beginning of the ninth chapter, restarted the same topic, of the seventh chapter Himself, by declaring, "To you, who do not cavil, I shall now unfold the most profound Knowledge with Realization" (Gita 911). The topic, which was explained, in thirty verses in the seventh chapter, continued in thirty-four verses of the ninth chapter, and first eleven verses of the tenth chapter. Arjuna was very much influenced by Lord Krsna 's gospel, and so he recalls the Lord's glories, from the twelfth to the eighteenth verses, of the tenth chapter. It means, that the topic mentioned in the seventh chapter, has also been explained in the ninth chapter.
The topic, which was explained in the first verse of the seventh chapter by the terms, 'With the mind attached to Me' in brief, has been explained in detail, in the thirty-fourth verse of the ninth chapter by the terms, 'Fix your mind on Me' etc.
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