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Chapter 10
While talking about knowledge (wisdom), in the thirteenth chapter, He continues the same topic, in the fourteenth chapter; similarly explaining the topic of knowledge with realization, in the seventh and ninth chapters, He continues, it in the tenth chapter. At the beginning of the fourteenth chapter He declares, that He shall impart to him once more, supreme knowledge, the best of all forms of knowledge, while at the beginning of the tenth chapter here, He says to Arjuna to listen to His supreme word, which means that in the Discipline of Knowledge, there is Predominance of discrimination, while in the Discipline 'of Devotion, there is predominance, of reverence and faith.
Yatte'ham priyamanaya vaksyami hitakamyaya:- If a listener has reverence and faith, in the speaker and the speaker has a feeling for the welfare of the listener, whatever he says, sinks down in, the mind of the listener. Thus, the listener's devotion to the Lord, grows.
Now, a doubt arises, that the Lord, again and again, has laid emphasis on rooting out desires, but here, He Himself has a desire. The clarification is, that when a person has desire for his pleasures and prosperity etc., that is called a desire and is harmful. But when there is a desire to do good to others, that is not desire, that is renunciation (i.e.,) the means, to root out a desire. Therefore, the Lord, teaches a lesson to the beings, that as He is engrossed, in the welfare of all beings, they should also have dealings with others, for their welfare. By doing so, their desires are easily wiped out, and they attain Him. "Those who are engaged in the welfare of all beings, come unto Me (Who is endowed with attributes)" (Gita 12/4). "Those who are actively engaged in the welfare of all beings, attain the Beatitude of Brahma" (Gita 5/25).
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