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BHAGAVAIGITA.
residence', the asylum, the friend, the source, and that in which it merges, the support, the receptacle, and the inexhaustible seed. I cause heat and I send forth and stop showers. I am immortality and also death; and I, O Arguna! am that which is and that which is not ?. Those who know the three (branches of) knowledge, who drink the Soma juice, whose sins are washed away, offer sacrifices and pray to me for a passage into heaven ;,and reaching the holy world of the lord of gods, they enjoy in the celestial regions the celestial pleasures of the gods. And having enjoyed that great heavenly world, they enter the mortal world when (their) merit is exhausted 3. Thus those who wish for objects of desire, and resort to the ordinances of the three (Vedas), obtain (as the fruit) going and coming. To those men who worship me, meditating on me and on no one else, and who are constantly devoted, I give new gifts and preserve what is acquired by them“. Even those, O son of Kunti! who being · devotees of other divinities worship with faith,
worship me only, (but) irregularly. For I am the enjoyer as well as the lord of all sacrifices. But they know me not truly, therefore do they fall i. Those who make vows to the gods go to the gods ;
l.e. the seat of enjoyment; receptacle=where things are preserved for suture use, say the commentators.
• The gross and the subtle elements, or causes and effects. • (f. Mundakopanishad, p. 379; and Khandogya, p. 344.
• Cf. Dhammapada, stanza 23. I.e. attainment to the Brahman and not returning from it.-Ramânuga.
. Because in form they worship other divinities. • Giver of the fruit. As to enjoyer, cf. p. 67 supra.
J.e. return to the mortal world. * I.C. some regulation as to mode of worship. Cf. also p. 76 supra.
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