Srimad Bhagavad-Gita : Chapter-15. Slokam-19.

 

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Thursday, January 21, 2021. 09:42. AM.
Srimad Bhagavad-Gita
Chapter-15.
Slokam-19.

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Slokam-19 :

"yo mamevamasammudho  janati purushottamam,
sa  sarvavid  bhajati mam  sarvabhavena bharata."

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Translation :

bharata  yah  =  Arjuna!  who  ever;
asammudhah  =  without  doubts  (  vyamoham );
evam  mam  =  thus  unto  Me;
purushottamam  janati  =  knowing  as  Purushottaman;
sarvavid  sa  =  he  knower  of  everything;
sarvabhavena   mam  bhajati  =  in  all  respects,  renders  devotional  service  unto  Me. 

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Tatvam (Essence) :

 Whoever knows Me as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, without doubting, is to be understood as the knower of everything, and he therefore engages himself in full devotional service, O Arjuna.

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Commentary :

Now Lord Krishna declares the results one acquires by knowing Him as the ultimate, absolute, paramount supremacy to all that exists. Those who are not subject to illusion and delusion, who can discriminate between between the physical body and the atma or immortal soul and have realised that He is Purusottama the Supreme being. These are the jivas or embodied beings that are all knowing for they have perceived the essence as well as the goal of all existence.

 
This is confirmed in the Chandogya Upanisad III.XIV.VI beginning sarvakarmi sarvakamah sarvagandhah sarvarash meaning: The Supreme Lord is the cause of all causes, the supreme divinity, possessing all transcendental qualities and endowed with glorious, blissful accruements, whose immanence is all pervading. In chapter 7, slokam 7 Lord Krishna has already revealed that there is nothing higher then Him. 

Thus the spiritually evolved propitiate and worship Lord Krishna with bhakti or exclusive loving devotion by speech with prayers to Him, by voice with songs of hommage to Him, by sacred actions dedicated to Him and by a mind totally absorbed in love for Him. Except for the Supreme Lord Krishna who exists within the innermost etheric heart of all jivas or embodied beings as Paramatma the Supreme Soul: there is none else more worthy of adoration then Him. It is stated in the Moksa Dharma known as the Mahabharata that the demigods take refuge in Shiva, who in turn takes shelter of Brahma, who in turn takes refuge in the Supreme Lord; but the Supreme Lord Krishna takes refuge in nothing. 

The knowers of the ultimate truth do not worship Brahma, Shiva, the demigods or any other god because they cannot equate to the paramount position of the Supreme Lord Krishna in any way. Neither is it possible for any of them to bestow the unequivocal, absolute knowledge that Lord Krishna bequeaths in Srimad Bhagavad-Gita.

Whosoever who has developed and evolved their consciousness to become spiritually intelligent enough to realise Lord Krishna's paramount supreme position as the creator, maintainer, sustainer and pervader of all that exists knows everything essential which means everything that is to be know as the means to attain Him by the fact that one knows. Such a one serves the Supreme Lord in every way which means whatever ways of worship have been ordained to attain Him such a one has accomplished them by dint of this service. 

By realising Lord Krishna thus as Purusottama the Supreme Being of all beings and devoted exclusively to Him one is assured His love and protection the same which may be gained by various activities of service and worship to Him that are revealed in the Vedic scriptures. Thus this aforementioned knowledge of Pususottama has been duly eulogised.

The unequivocal result of one who is cognizant of the Supreme Lord Krishna's eternal and paramount position as th ultimate reality is that they no longer are subject to delusion and illusion offerring in all respects themselves and everything they possess unto Him exclusively in propitiation and worship expressing the quintessential truth of all existence.

To be continued .....  ...

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