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सप्तमोऽध्यायः CHAPTER VII.
[ After having proved that the Karma-Yoga is as much productive of Release as the Sāmkhya-mārga, and yet, independent and superior to it; and that even a little practice of this Yoga is not useless, the Blessed Lord has explained how to acquire the control of the senses necessary in that path of life. But, the control of the senses is a purely external Action, and the purpose for which this exercise of the senses is necessary, has not yet been considered. The Blessed Lord had already explained to Arjuna in the third chapter that, enemies like Desire, Anger etc. fix their abode in the senses, and destroy both Spiritual Knowledge (Iñiāna) and Specified Knowledge (vijñāna), and that he should, therefore, first control the senses and destroy these enemies; and He had thus shown the necessity for the control of the senses; and He has also described the Yoga-yukta person in the last chapter as one who, after having controlled the senses," has become satisfied by Jñāna and Vijñāna" (6. 8), and "sees the Parameśvara in all created beings, and all created beings in the Parameśvara" (6. 29). Therefore, as He has explained to Arjuna what is meant by the control of the senses, it has become necessary for Him, as a matter of course, to also explain to him what is 'Jñana' and what is Vijñāna', as also the methods (vidhi) of the Karma-Yoga, by which one can acquire the complete Knowledge of the Parameśvara, without abandoning Action, and ultimately attain Release with certainty; and this same subject has been explained in the eleven chapters of the Gitā from the seventh chapter to the end of the seventeenth chapter; and in the last, that is, in the 18th chapter of the Gītā, a summary of the Karma-Yoga has been made. Realising that there is only One Indestructible Parameśvara, Who pervades all the various perishable things which fill the world, is known as *Jñana'; and understanding in what way the various perishable things come into existence out of one permanent
