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gachchhati”. i.e. One who strives for the spirtual welfare, never meets with ill fate. Such a person who fails to achieve Yoga takes rebirth in the higher strata of the society of enlightened Yogis. Such rebirth is difficult to be attained in normal course. Having obtained such birth, he on account of his past experience in the previous birth, is able to strive more to achieve perfection.. He then passes beyond Vedic rituals and easily as well as speedily achieves the Absolute. (Verses 40 to 45) The Lord then assures Arjuna that such a Yogi is superior in his spiritual attainments to those who stick merely to their austerities or knowledge or rituals. The Lord then calls upon him to be a real Yogi. (Verse 46).
This chapter ends by declaring that out of all Yogis, that Yogi is the best who, havin full faith in his own inner self, becomes one with the Universal Self. (Verse 47).
All these verses proceed with the recognition of the theory of Karma on which
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