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This is the Yoga, as taught by My disciples Sanaka and
others.
Uddhava asked:
When and in what form did you teach Sanaka and others?
Sri Krishna replied:
Sanaka and other Manas-born sons of Brahm ?? asked their
father as follows: The mind enters the Gunas (objects z'. e. the
mind naturally becomes attached to objects) and the Gunas (/. e. the
objects when experienced) enter the mind (as desires). How can
those that want to cross over (the objects) and to become liberated
cause a separation between the two?
Brahmci could not gauge the question in his own mind. So
he meditated on me. I appeared before him as a Hansa. (The
Swan can discriminate between milk and water. So the bird symbo-
lises a discriminating sage.) " The Brahmanas and Brahma asked:
"Who art thou."? I said as follows:
O Brahmanas does your question relate to Atma If so,
Atma is not many. So the question does not arise. And who will
reply to whom?
If your question relates to the body, then also the elements
composing the body being the same in all beings, and Atm ?? being
the same in all, your question is meaningless.
Whatever is perceived by the senses and the mind, I am
that There is nothing besides Me. Rightly know this to be so.
True the mind enters the Gunas and the Gunas enter the mind.
The Gunas and mind thus mutually blended are but the body of the
Jiva, its reality being My own self. (If mind wedded to objects, be the
essence of Jiva, then their separation is not possible. But the essence
of Jiva is Brahma. Mind is only attributed to Jiva. And Jiva's
connection with the objects is through the properties of the mind.
Therefore Jiva by realising that it is Brahma will find out that the
objects have no existence as far as its own self is concerned. There-
fore by devotion to Bhagavat, Jiva completely rests in its own self
Sndhata. This is not a separation of Manas and objects, but the
withdrawal of self from both.)
By constant pursuit of the Gunas, the mind enters the Gunas.
The Gunas also (being turned into desires) take a firm hold of the
mind. Knowing Me to be thy own self give up both (the objects
and the mind wedded to them.)
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