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Summary of #ShreeBhagwatGita Adhyay 7-ज्ञानविज्ञानयोग

Krishna tells Arjuna one can know him (God) by practicing nonattachment. He tells him that he (God) is the fundamental essence of the universe and that his current form is just an earthly incarnation.(1/7)

Shri Krishna says-
"मत्त: परतरं नान्यत्किञ्चिदस्ति धनञ्जय |
मयि सर्वमिदं प्रोतं सूत्रे मणिगणा इव ||"

"Beyond me there is none other, not even a little. Like beads are pervaded by string, all this is in me."(2/7)

Krishna divides those who worship him into four types: the person in distress, the power-seeker, the wisdom-seeker, and the sage. The sage is the type that already has achieved serenity of mind through yoga and meditation and understands the nature of God and Self.(3/7)

Krishna explains he is the essence not only of all existence but also of the perceivable world. Just as he is incarnated in a body, he is both the essence of the universe and its material.(4/7)

What he is trying to convey to Arjuna is that people are often misled by the parts of him or the world they experience with their senses, failing to understand his nature as the essence of being beyond what can be perceived.(5/7)

Shri Krishna concludes,
"साधिभूताधिदैवं मां साधियज्ञं च ये विदु: |
प्रयाणकालेऽपि च मां ते विदुर्युक्तचेतस: || "

"Those who know me(Krishna)as the governing principle of the adhibhūta (field of matter) and the adhidaiva (the celestial gods), and..(continue)"(6.1/7)

"...as adhiyajña (the Lord all sacrificial performances), such enlightened souls are in full consciousness of me even at the time of death."(6.2/7)

"जरामरणमोक्षाय मामाश्रित्य यतन्ति ये |
ते ब्रह्म तद्विदु: कृत्स्नमध्यात्मं कर्म चाखिलम् ||"

"Those who take shelter in me, striving for liberation from old-age and death, come to know the individual self, and the entire field of karma."(7/7)
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