Bhagvad Gita Rahasya or Karmayoga Shastra VOL 02

SR No.: 011090
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

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CONTINUITY OF CHAPTERS OF THE GĪTĀ
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way that Equable Reason can be acquired by which one can obtain success in the practice of Karma-Yoga. In the very first stanza, the Blessed Lord has expressed His firm opinion that the man who performs all Actions which fall to his share, as duties, and without entertaining the Hope of Fruit, is the true Yogin, or the true Samnyāsin; and that the man who sits quiet giving up the worship of the Fire (agni-hotra) etc. is not the true Samnyāsin. HE then goes on to explain the principle of the Independence of the Ātman by saying that whatever Action has to be performed in the shape of the control of the organs for steadying the Mind, according to the philosophy of Karma-Yoga, must be performed by oneself; and that if one does not do so, one cannot properly blame anybody else; and after this, there is in this chapter principally a description of how Yoga in the shape of the control of the organs can be acquired according to the Pātañjala-Yoga-Šāstra. It is further stated in this chapter that it is nevertheless not enough to merely control the organs by means of religious observance (jama) restraint of the Mind (niyama), physical postures (āsana), control of the breath (prāņāyāma), etc.; and the necessity of the Realisation of the universality of the Ātman has been emphasised in this chapter by saying that the frame of mind of the man must become Equable towards all created beings as described in the words “sarvabhūtastham ātmānam sarvabhūtāni cātmani" (6.29), (i. e., "all created beings are located in one's Self and one's Self is located in all created beings''-Trans.), or, in the words "yo māṁ paśyati sarvatra sarvain ca mayi paśyati" (6. 30), (i. e., she who sees that I the Parameśvara am everywhere, and that everything is located in me"-Trans.). At this juncture, Arjuna experiences the doubt that if this Yoga of Equability of Reason is not acquired in one life, it will become necessary to begin the whole thing over again in the next life, and the story will be repeated in every birth; and that on account of this recurrence in every life, it will not be possible to ever attain Release by this means. In order to remove this doubt, the Blessed Lord has explained, that nothing is wasted in the path of KarmaYoga, that the impressions received in the previous birth are carried forward into the next birth in which the practice of Karma-Yoga can be carried on further, and that Release is