Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand 211

Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand Ji

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CHAPTER 3
Urging The Enemy’s Destruction

Arjun is told to remember that this action is born from the Ved. The Ved is the voice of sages who live in God. The vivid perception, rather than cramming of certain verses, of the unmanifest essence is named Ved. The Ved is born from the imperishable God[1]. The truths of the Ved have been proclaimed by great souls, but, since they have become one with God, the imperishable God himself speaks through them.
It is for this that the Ved is said to be of divine origin. The Ved came from God. And the sages, being one with Him, are only instruments. It is he whose spokesmen they are. God manifests himself to them when they have restrained the desires of their mind by yagya. The omnipresent, ultimate, and imperishable God is, therefore, always present in yagya. So yagya is the only way to attain to him. This is what Krishn tells Arjun:

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References and Context

  1. Of the Brihadaranyak Upanishad : “All Knowledge and all wisdom, what we know as the Rig Ved, the Yajur Ved, and the rest, have all been breathed forth from the Eternal. They are the breath of the Eternal.”