Sri Bhagavan said:
O Arjuna, with the mind completely devoted to me, practicing Yoga and depending on me, here how you will know me and without any doubt, to the best of your capacity.
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I shall describe to you in outline as well as in detail knowledge of my glory in full, by knowing which there remains nothing else in this world further to be known.
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Among thousands of men only one strives for knowledge and adept ship; even among those adepts who strive for it, there is but one who knows me really.
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Earth, water, air, fire, ether, mind, Intelligence, egoism, are the eight forms of Nature controlled by Me.
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This prakrti (nature) just described is the unintelligent Prakrti, but O Mighty armed know that other than and over and above this, there is Cit Prakrti i.e Sri Mahalakshmi, who is also under my control and is the life of all souls by being immanent in their bodies and supporting this world as well.
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Know that all souls with the bodies have their origin in the intelligent and non-intelligent Prakrti and I am the original cause or prime mover of the entire creation and dissolution of the whole universe.
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There is nothing whatsoever higher than myself O Dhananjaya. All this is strung as it were on me as rows of pearls on a string.
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I am the cohesive essence in water and radiance in Sun and Moon, Pranava (Om) in all the Vedas, sound ether and manliness in men.
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I am pure fragrance in earth and heat in fire; I am life in all beings and austerity in ascetics.
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O Partha, know me the eternal as the seed of all things; I am the wisdom in the wise and splendor in the splendid.
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O foremost of the Bharata race, I am strength of the strong devoid of desire and passion. In beings, I am the desire not conflicting with Dharma.
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Know that, whatever be the products of Satva, Rajas and Tamas, all of them have originated only from Me and are, resting wholly on me. Know that they are in me but not I in them.
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The whole world, deluded by objects constituted by these three fold qualities, does not understand or recognize me to be different from them and imperishable.
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This divine Maya of mine, presiding over the qualities is difficult to overcome. But those who take refuge in Me alone get over it.
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The evil doers, the foolish and the vilest, whose minds are carried away by Maya and who are of demoniac nature do not come to me at all.
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O Arjuna, the righteous ones who worship me are of four kinds the afflicted, the seekers of knowledge, the seekers of wealth and the seekers of enlightened realization.
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Of these four, the Wiseman who ever contemplates me through Yoga, single mindedly alone is the best, I am supremely dear to him and he to me.
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Estimable are they all. Noble is the wise man who knows me well and is my own as he is so dear to me. This is my conclusion. That he surely attains salvation, blessed as he is with Yoga, attaining me as the incomparable Goal.
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At the end of many lives, one attains wisdom and he reaches me knowing that Vasudeva (Krishna) is all supreme, the Absolute perfect being; such a great soul is very rare to find.
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They whose wisdom is carried away by very many desires, obvious of my supremacy resort to their gods, observing various rites and vows in accordance with their own nature.
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Of him, who, with devotion and perfect faith desires to worship this or that particular form, I stabilize his faith in that particular form. Endowed with that faith, he worships that deity and obtains his desire which, I alone in fact am bestowing on him.
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But temporary is the benefit gained by them who are of little knowledge and understanding. The worshippers of Gods go to those gods; but My devotees however, gain not merely the favor of the other gods but ultimately reach me also.
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The unwise regard, Me the unmanifest, as having physical manifestation like souls, not knowing my unique nature, which is changeless and unsurpassed.
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I am not revealed to any as I am hidden by Yoga Maya. This deluded world does not know Me, the unborn and the imperishable.
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O Arjuna, I know the beings that have vanished into past, that are now present and that are to come hereafter, but no one knows Me.
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O Bharata, by the delusion of the pairs of opposites which arise from desire and hate, all beings lapse into perverse knowledge from the time of creation.
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Those men of virtuous deeds, whose sin has come to an end, being freed from the delusion of the pairs of opposites, worship Me, steadfast in resolve.
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Those who take refuge in Me and strive for release from old age and death, know the Brahman, the Adhyatma and all Karmas.
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Those who know me together with Adhibhuta, Adhidaivata and Adhiyajna and who likewise think of me at the time of departing from this life are the persons who have devoted their minds to me.
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Thus ends the seventh Chapter of the Upanishads of Bhagavad Gita "The Jnana Vijnana Yoga" ( The Yoga of Discriminative knowledge).
