Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand Ji
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CHAPTER 3
Urging The Enemy’s Destruction
सहयज्ञा: प्रजा: सृष्ट्वा पुरोवाच प्रजापति:। [ “At the beginning of kalp-the course of self-realization[1] Prajapati Brahma shaped yagya along with mankind and enjoined on them to ascend by yagya which could give them what their hearts aspired to.’’ ] Prajapati [2] Brahma, the god presiding over creation, made mankind along with yagya at the beginning and told men to progress through yagya. This yagya, wholly propitious, was prescribed or ordained as the action which would satisfy their hunger for realization of the eternal God. |
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References and Context
- ↑ Usually meaning 1000 yug (ages), making up a period of 432 million years of mortals, kalp also signifies a process of treatment for restoration of health [kayakalp). So kalp here means the whole course of self-realization.
- ↑ Another epithet of the deity presiding over creation as well as of a true ascetic. He also is a pati, the lord and saviour. Like the deity he, too, prescribes a course of meditation. He is like a monarch and his disciples are his subjects. Thus prajapati here is the man of perfection who has become a transmitter of God’s essence.