Srimad Bhagavadgita Sadhaka Sanjivani -Swami Ramsukhdas
Chapter 18
INTRODUCTION
Lord Krsna, at the end of the seventh chapter, while describing His entire form, used the terms Brahma and Adhyatma etc. So at the beginning of the eighth chapter, Arjuna put seven questions for the clarification, of those terms. The Lord, answered the first six questions in brief, while He explained the seventh question—how He is to be realized at the time of death, in detail. Then He described the topic, which was left, in the seventh chapter, in the ninth chapter and upto the eleventh verse of the tenth chapter. Arjuna, was very much pleased,when he heard in the ninth, tenth and eleventh verses of the tenth chapter, of the devotees and the Lord's compassion to them. So Arjuna, from the twelfth to the eighteenth verses, praised Him and prayed to Him to tell him in detail about His power of Yoga and His glories. Having described His important glories, at the end of the tenth chapter, He declares,"What need is there, 0 Arjuna, for the detailed knowledge ? I stand, supporting the whole universe, with a single fragment of Myself."Hearing these words Arjuna, prayed to Him to reveal to him His cosmic form. Having revealed His cosmic form, the Lord declared, that by unswerving devotion He can be seen and known and even merged into.
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References
- ↑ 4/34—37; 5/13—26; 6/24—28 and 8/11—13
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