Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Verses 24-30 from the Seventh chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. This series of talks unfolds the highest truths of Vedanta through the study of "The song of God".

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 7, Verse 24:

अव्यक्तं व्यक्तिमापन्नं मन्यन्ते मामबुद्धय: |

परं भावमजानन्तो ममाव्ययमनुत्तमम् || 24||

avyaktaṁ vyaktim āpannaṁ manyante mām abuddhayaḥ

paraṁ bhāvam ajānanto mamāvyayam anuttamam

🔴 Without any insight into my transcendental nature, unique and immutable, men of little understanding look upon me as a mere human individual, having come into manifestation from an unmanifested state.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 7, Verse 25:

नाहं प्रकाश: सर्वस्य योगमायासमावृत: |

मूढोऽयं नाभिजानाति लोको मामजमव्ययम् || 25||

nāhaṁ prakāśhaḥ sarvasya yoga-māyā-samāvṛitaḥ

mūḍho ’yaṁ nābhijānāti loko mām ajam avyayam

🔴 Veiled as I am in My Yogamaya (Divine Power), I am not revealed at all. This deluded world does not know Me, the unoriginated and the indestructible.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 7, Verse 26:

वेदाहं समतीतानि वर्तमानानि चार्जुन |

भविष्याणि च भूतानि मां तु वेद न कश्चन || 26||

vedāhaṁ samatītāni vartamānāni chārjuna

bhaviṣhyāṇi cha bhūtāni māṁ tu veda na kaśhchana

🔴 O Arjuna! I know all beings - past, present and future. But none knows me.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 7, Verse 27:

इच्छाद्वेषसमुत्थेन द्वन्द्वमोहेन भारत |

सर्वभूतानि सम्मोहं सर्गे यान्ति परन्तप || 27||

ichchhā-dveṣha-samutthena dvandva-mohena bhārata

sarva-bhūtāni sammohaṁ sarge yānti parantapa

🔴 O scion of Bharata's House! From their very birth all beings are deluded by the bewitchment of the pairs of opposites. like pleasure and pain, sprung from the instinctive feelings of attraction and aversion for them.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 7, Verse 28:

येषां त्वन्तगतं पापं जनानां पुण्यकर्मणाम् |

ते द्वन्द्वमोहनिर्मुक्ता भजन्ते मां दृढव्रता: || 28||

yeṣhāṁ tvanta-gataṁ pāpaṁ janānāṁ puṇya-karmaṇām

te dvandva-moha-nirmuktā bhajante māṁ dṛiḍha-vratāḥ

🔴 But those men of virtuous deeds, in whom sinfulness has been effaced - they, freed from the bewilderment of sense life, worship Me with great steadfastness in their vows.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 7, Verse 29:

जरामरणमोक्षाय मामाश्रित्य यतन्ति ये |

ते ब्रह्म तद्विदु: कृत्स्नमध्यात्मं कर्म चाखिलम् || 29||

jarā-maraṇa-mokṣhāya mām āśhritya yatanti ye

te brahma tadviduḥ kṛitsnam adhyātmaṁ karma chākhilam

🔴 Those that strive for liberation from the travails of old age and death in complete trust and dependence on Me, shall know all about the Absolute, His spiritual manifestation and His worksof spiritual import.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 7, Verse 30:

साधिभूताधिदैवं मां साधियज्ञं च ये विदु: |

प्रयाणकालेऽपि च मां ते विदुर्युक्तचेतस: || 30||

sādhibhūtādhidaivaṁ māṁ sādhiyajñaṁ cha ye viduḥ

prayāṇa-kāle ’pi cha māṁ te vidur yukta-chetasaḥ

🔴 Those who have grasped that I am the spiritual power that sustains all material manifestations, all divine expressions and all spiritual endeavors - they continue to know Me as such even at the time of death, their mind being ever absorbed in Me.

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