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Chapter 12
Link:- In response to Arjuna's question, the Lord in the second verse, declared devotees who worship the Lord, with attributes the most perfect in Yoga, while in the third and the fourth verses, He declared, "The devotees who worship attribureless God attain, Me." The Lord in the next three verses, describes the difficulty and ease. of the two kinds of worship.
kleso'dhikatarastesamavyaktasaktacetasam
avyakta hi gatirduhkham dehavadbhiravapyate
The difficulty in following their discipline of those whose minds are attached to the Unmanifest is greater, for the Unmanifest is hard to reach, by the body-conscious beings. 5
Comment:- 'Kledo'dhikatarasteg5mavyaktasaktacetasam' - Strivers whose thoughts are set on the Unmanifest, are those who regard the worship of the attributeless Absolute as superior but whose minds have not entered the attributeless Absolute. In order to enter the Absolute, a striver should possess three qualities - interest (inclination), faith and qualification. Such strivers, having heard the glory of the Absolute, develop a bit of inclination and having faith, start the spiritual discipline; but because of identification of the self, with the body and because of lack of dispassion, their minds, do not comprehend the Absolute.
The Lord, in the twenty-seventh and the twenty-eighth verses of the sixth chapter, explains that a Yogi who has become one with God, experiences easily infinite bliss, viz., the Eternal (Brahma). But here, by the terms 'greater difficulty' He explains, that the minds of these strivers, unlike those, who have become one with God, have not got absorbed, in the Eternal. Their minds, are only attached to the Absolute. It means, that these remain attached to the bodies, but having heard the glory of worship of the Unmanifest, and regarding this worship as superior to others, they get attached to it. But attachment is always to the body not to the Unmanifest. It is atonement with the manifest or absorption in which involvements strain for such body-centred people.
In the fifth verse of the thirteenth chapter, as well as, in several other verses, the term 'Avyaktam' (unmanifest), has been used for _ Prakrti (nature), while here in this verse, it stands for Brahma (the Eternal or the Absolute) Who is attributeless and formless. The reason is, that Arjuna, in the first verse of this chapter, put the question pertaining to the worship of God with attributes and form and also of Brahma the Imperishable and the Unmanifest. So here, it stands for the Eternal or the Absolute, rather than nature, because object of worship is God, not Nature.
In the fourth verse of the ninth chapter, the expression 'Avyaktamurtina, has been used, for the unmanifested form with attributes. So, a question may arise, that in this verse also, the expression 'Avyaktasaktacetasam may stand, for those whose minds are set on God, Who is unmanifest and endowed with attributes.
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