The Gita according to Gandhi 100

The Gita according to Gandhi -Mahadev Desai

BHAKHYOGA (Discourses 9-11) We have had an idea of Dhyanayoga and the Dhyana- yogi, the mystic who would devote his mind and soul to a contemplation of the impersonal Absolute. It is, as we have seen, a path of strenuous endeavour. We have now described to us the path of bhakti devotion to a Personal God. Bhaktiyoga is described as the supreme mystery, the king of sciences, purifying and of sovereign virtue, capable of direct comprehension, and easier to practise than the path we have had described. The basis of this Bhaktiyoga is the knowledge of the Lod as He is, and a discriminative knowledge of Him in His manifestations. Only men of faith take to this path, scoffers go and revolve through the cycle of birth and death over and over again (IX. 1-3). This background of knowledge is now presented to us in three discourses in various ways. Lord Krishna as the Imperishable Unmanifest becomes manifest as the world which rests in Him, but He as the Unmanifest is not in it, because He transcends it.