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नवमोऽध्यायः ।
श्रीभगवानुवाच । $$ इदं तु ते गुह्यतमं प्रवक्ष्याम्यनसूयवे । ज्ञानं विज्ञानसहितं यज्ज्ञात्वा मोक्ष्यसेऽशुभात् ॥१॥
CHAPTER IX, [In order to show how a man, by practising the KarmaYoga, acquires peace of mind or Release as a result of his acquiring full Knowledge of the Parameśvara, an exposition of Jñāna (Spiritual Knowledge) and Vijñāna (empirical Knowledge) has been started in Chapter VII; and the form of the immutable and imperceptible Spirit has been described ; and the Blessed Lord has explained in the last chapter how the worship of the OM-kāra (omkāropāsanā). should be performed at the moment of the close of life, after entering into mental absorption according to the Patañjala-Yoga, in order that that form of the Parameśvara should remain fixed in the mind even at the moment of death. But, acquiring the Knowledge of the immutable Brahman is in itself difficult; and if, in addition to that, mental absorption is prescribed as an essential, this path of life will have to be given up by ordinary people ! Bearing this difficulty in mind, the Blessed Lord now explains a royal road, by following which the Knowledge of the Parameśvara will become easy for everybody. This path is called the Path of Devotion (bhaktinārga); and I have fully discussed that path in Chapter XIII of the Gītā-Rahasya. In this path, the form of the Parameśvara can be realised by means of love, and is vyakta, that is, actually perceptible; and the 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th chapters contain an exhaustive description of that perceptible form. Nevertheless, it must not be forgotten that this path of Devotion is not something independent, but a part of the Jñāna and Vijñāna necessary for acquiring the Karma-Yoga, of which a description was started in Chapter VII; and this chapter has been opened as being a part of the previous exposition of Jñāna and Vijñāna).
The Blessed Lord said :-(1) Now, as you are not a
| SR No. | 011090 |
| Book Title | Bhagvad Gita Rahasya or Karmayoga Shastra VOL 02 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Bhalchandra S Sukhtankar |
| Publisher | R B Tilak Puna |
| Publication Year | 1936 |
| Total Pages | 767 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 74 MB |