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Jnana Vijnana Yoga
Knowledge of the Absolute
Krishna turns from discipline to disclosure: who the Divine actually is. The two natures, the thread through all pearls, the rarity of the seeker, the four kinds of devotee, and the veil of maya that hides the Infinite in plain sight.
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Gita 7.1-2mayyāsaktamanāḥ pārtha yogaṃ yuñjanmadāśrayaḥ | asaṃśayaṃ samagraṃ māṃ yathā jñā…The Blessed Lord said: With mind attached to Me, O Partha, practising yoga, taking refuge in Me, hear how you shall know…Gita 7.3manuṣyāṇāṃ sahasreṣu kaścidyatati siddhaye | yatatāmapi siddhānāṃ kaścinmāṃ vett…Among thousands of human beings, scarcely one strives for perfection; even among those who strive and succeed, scarcely …Gita 7.4-5bhūmirāpo'nalo vāyuḥ khaṃ mano buddhireva ca | ahaṅkāra itīyaṃ me bhinnā prakṛti…Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intellect, and ego, thus is My nature divided eightfold. This is My lower nature; …Gita 7.6-7etadyonīni bhūtāni sarvāṇītyupadhāraya | ahaṃ kṛtsnasya jagataḥ prabhavaḥ pralay…Know that all beings have these two as their womb; I am the origin of the whole universe and likewise its dissolution. T…Gita 7.8-11raso'hamapsu kaunteya prabhāsmi śaśisūryayoḥ | praṇavaḥ sarvavedeṣu śabdaḥ khe p…I am the taste in water, O son of Kunti, the radiance in the moon and sun, the sacred syllable Om in all the Vedas, the …Gita 7.12ye caiva sāttvikā bhāvā rājasāstāmasāśca ye | matta eveti tānviddhi na tvahaṃ te…Whatever states of being there are, sattvic, rajasic, or tamasic, know them all to proceed from Me; yet I am not in them…Gita 7.13tribhirguṇamayairbhāvairebhiḥ sarvamidaṃ jagat | mohitaṃ nābhijānāti māmebhyaḥ p…Deluded by these states composed of the three gunas, this whole world does not recognise Me, who am beyond them and impe…Gita 7.14daivī hyeṣā guṇamayī mama māyā duratyayā | māmeva ye prapadyante māyāmetāṃ taran…This divine maya of Mine, made of the gunas, is hard to cross over; but those who take refuge in Me alone cross beyond t…Gita 7.15na māṃ duṣkṛtino mūḍhāḥ prapadyante narādhamāḥ | māyayāpahṛtajñānā āsuraṃ bhāvam…The evil-doers, the deluded, the lowest of humanity, deprived of knowledge by maya, partaking of demoniac nature, they d…Gita 7.16caturvidhā bhajante māṃ janāḥ sukṛtino'rjuna | ārto jijñāsurarthārthī jñānī ca b…Four kinds of virtuous people worship Me, O Arjuna: the distressed, the seeker of knowledge, the seeker of wealth, and t…Gita 7.17-18teṣāṃ jñānī nityayukta ekabhaktirviśiṣyate | priyo hi jñānino'tyarthamahaṃ sa ca…Of these, the wise one, ever harmonised, devoted to the One, excels; for I am supremely dear to the wise, and that one i…Gita 7.19bahūnāṃ janmanāmante jñānavānmāṃ prapadyate | vāsudevaḥ sarvamiti sa mahātmā sud…At the end of many births, the one of knowledge takes refuge in Me, realising ‘Vasudeva is all.’ Such a great soul is ex…Gita 7.20-23kāmaistaistairhṛtajñānāḥ prapadyante'nyadevatāḥ | taṃ taṃ niyamamāsthāya prakṛty…Those whose knowledge is carried away by various desires resort to other deities, following various rites, constrained b…Gita 7.24-25avyaktaṃ vyaktimāpannaṃ manyante māmabuddhayaḥ | paraṃ bhāvamajānanto mamāvyayam…The unintelligent think of Me, the unmanifest, as having come into manifestation, not knowing My higher, immutable, supr…Gita 7.26vedāhaṃ samatītāni vartamānāni cārjuna | bhaviṣyāṇi ca bhūtāni māṃ tu veda na ka…I know the beings of the past, the present, and the future, O Arjuna; but no one knows Me.Gita 7.27icchādveṣasamutthena dvandvamohena bhārata | sarvabhūtāni sammohaṃ sarge yānti p…By the delusion of the pairs of opposites arising from desire and aversion, O Bharata, all beings are subject to bewilde…Gita 7.28yeṣāṃ tvantagataṃ pāpaṃ janānāṃ puṇyakarmaṇām | te dvandvamohanirmuktā bhajante …But those of virtuous deeds, whose sin has come to an end, freed from the delusion of the pairs, they worship Me with fi…Gita 7.29-30jarāmaraṇamokṣāya māmāśritya yatanti ye | te brahma tadviduḥ kṛtsnamadhyātmaṃ ka…Those who strive for liberation from old age and death, taking refuge in Me, know Brahman in full, the whole of the Self…
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1Arjuna Vishada YogaThe Yoga of Arjuna's Despair2Sankhya YogaThe Yoga of Knowledge3Karma YogaThe Yoga of Action4Jnana Karma Sanyasa YogaKnowledge & Renunciation of Action5Karma Sanyasa YogaThe Yoga of Renunciation6Dhyana YogaThe Yoga of Meditation7Jnana Vijnana YogaKnowledge of the Absolute8Akshara Brahma YogaThe Imperishable Absolute9Raja Vidya Raja Guhya YogaThe Royal Knowledge & Royal Secret10Vibhuti YogaThe Yoga of Divine Glories11Vishvarupa Darshana YogaThe Vision of the Universal Form12Bhakti YogaThe Yoga of Devotion13Kshetra Kshetrajna Vibhaga YogaThe Field & the Knower of the Field14Gunatraya Vibhaga YogaThe Three Gunas15Purushottama YogaThe Supreme Person16Daivasura Sampad Vibhaga YogaThe Divine & Demonic Natures17Shraddhatraya Vibhaga YogaThe Three Kinds of Faith18Moksha Sanyasa YogaLiberation through Renunciation