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Chapter-9
Raj Vidya
Raj Guyha Yog
1: The Supreme Personality of
Godhead said: My dear Arjuna, because you are never
envious of Me, I shall impart to you this most
confidential knowledge and realization, knowing which
you shall be relieved of the miseries of material
existence.
2: This knowledge is the king of education, the
most secret of all secrets. It is the purest knowledge,
and because it gives direct perfection of the self by
realization, it is the perfection of religion. It is
everlasting, and it is joyfully performed.
3: Those who are not faithful in this devotional
service cannot attain Me, O conqueror of enemies.
Therefore they return to the path of birth and death in
this material world.
4: By Me, in My unmanifested form, this entire
universe is pervaded. All beings are in Me, but I am not
in them.
5: And yet everything that is created does not rest
in Me. Behold My mystic opulence! Although I am the
maintainer of all living entities and although I am
everywhere, I am not a part of this cosmic
manifestation, for My self is the very source of
creation.
6: Understand that as the mighty wind, blowing
everywhere, rests always in the sky, all created beings
rest in Me.
7: O son of Kunti, at the end of the millennium all
material manifestations enter into My nature, and at the
beginning of another millennium, by My potency, I create
them again.
8: The whole cosmic order is under Me. Under My it
is automatically manifested again and again, and under
My will it is annihilated at the end.
9: O Dhananjaya, all this work cannot bind Me. I am
ever detached from all these material activities, seated
as though neutral.
10: This material nature, which is one of My
energies, is working under My direction, O son of Kunti,
producing all moving and non-moving beings. Under its
rule this manifestation is created and annihilated again
and again.
11: Fools deride Me when I descend in the human
form. They do not know My transcendental nature as the
Supreme Lord of all that be.
12: Those who are thus bewildered are attracted by
demonic and atheistic views. In that deluded condition,
their hopes for liberation, their fruitive activities,
and their culture of knowledge are all defeated.
13: O son of Prtha, those who are not deluded, the
great souls, are under the protection of the divine
nature. They are fully engaged in devotional service
because they know Me as the Supreme Personality of
Godhead, original and inexhaustible.
14: Always chanting My glories, endeavoring with
great determination, bowing down before Me, these great
souls perpetually worship Me with devotion.
15: Others, who engage in sacrifice by the
cultivation of knowledge, worship the Supreme Lord as
the one without a second, as diverse in many, and in the
universal form.
16: But it is I who am the ritual, I the sacrifice,
the offering to the ancestors, the healing herb, the
transcendental chant. I am the butter and the fire and
the offering.
17: I am the father of this universe, the mother,
the support and the grandsire. I am the object of the
knowledge, the purifier and the syllable om. I am also
Rg, the Sama and the Yajur Vedas.
18: I am the goal, the sustainer, the master, the
witness, the abode, the refuge and the most dear friend.
I am the creation and the annihilation, the basis of
everything, the resting place and the eternal seed.
19: O Arjuna, I give heat, and I withhold and send
forth the rain. I am immortality, and I am also death
personified. Both spirit and matter are in Me.
20: Those who study the Vedas and drink the soma
juice, seeking the heavenly planets, worship Me
indirectly. Purified of sinful reactions, they take
birth on the pious, heavenly planet of Indra, where they
enjoy godly delights.
21: When they have thus enjoyed vast heavenly sense
pleasure and the results of their pious activities are
exhausted, they return to this mortal planet again. Thus
those who seek sense enjoyment by adhering to the
principles of the three Vedas achieve only repeated
birth and death.
22: But those who always worship Me with exclusive
devotion, meditating on My transcendental form- to them
I carry what they lack, and I preserve what they have.
23: Those who are devotees of other gods and who
worship them with faith actually worship only Me, O son
of Kunti, but they do so in a wrong way.
24: I am the only enjoyer and the master of all
sacrifices. Therefore, those who do not recognize My
true transcendental nature fall down.
25: Those who worship the demigods will take birth
among the demigods; those who worship the ancestors go
to the ancestors; those who worship ghosts and spirits
will take birth among such beings; and those who worship
Me will live with Me.
26: If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf,
a flower, a fruit or water, I will accept it.
27: Whatever you do, whatever you eat, whatever you
offer or give away, and whatever austerities you
perform-do that, O son of Kunti, as an offering to Me.
28: In this way you will be freed from bondage to
work and its auspicious and inauspicious results. With
your mind fixed on Me in this principle of renunciation,
you will be liberated and come to Me.
29: I envy no one, nor am I partial to anyone. I am
equal to all. But whoever renders service unto Me in
devotion is a friend, is in Me, and I am also a friend
to him.
30: Even if one commits the most abominable action,
if he is engaged in devotional service he is to be
considered saintly because he is properly situated in
his determination.
31: He quickly becomes righteous and attains
lasting peace. O son of Kunti, declare it boldly that My
devotee never perishes.
32: O son of Prtha, those who take shelter in Me,
though they be of lower birth- women, vaisyas
[merchants] and sudras [workers]-can attain the supreme
destination.
33: How much more this is so the righteous
brahmanas, the devotees and the saintly kings.
Therefore, having come to this temporary, miserable
world, engage in loving service unto Me.
34: Engage your mind always in thinking of Me,
become My devotee, offer obeisances to Me and worship
Me. Being completely absorbed in Me, surely you will
come to Me.
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