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Turn away your sight from this object world. Give up all
desires. Be calm and find bliss in the perception of self. At times
you will have experience of the objects in your daily life (for getting
}he necessaries of life). But what you have once thrown aside as
unreal shall not be able to cause delusion in you. Till the fall of
your body, the objects will haunt you like things of the past, stored
as it were in memory alone. This frail body, through which he has
known his real self, may rise or sit, may move away from its place or
come back, just as chance will have it, but the Siddha sees it not,
even as an inebriate person does not see the cloth he puts on.
The body waits with the Pranas and Indriyas till the Com-
menced Karma exhausts itself. But being fixed in Samadhi, the
knower of the truth does not care for the body and the object world,
which are all visionary to him.
I said all this to the Brahmanas and came back to my own
abode.
BHAKTI YOGA.
SKANDHA XI. CHAP. 14.
O Krishna, thou speakest of Bhakti Yoga. Others speak of
other expedients. Are they all same or is any one of them superior to
others?
Sri-Krishna replied:
The tendencies of men are different, according to the differences
in their nature. So different paths have been spoken of. But the
regions (or fruits) acquired by the votaries of the other paths, and as
created by their actions have a beginning and an end, a miserable
future and an end in Tamas. The pleasures there are small and
they are not unmixed with sorrow. Where is that bliss to be found
in objects that is to be found in Me.
Fixed in Me, and finding bliss in Me, all is blissful to My
votaries. They do not wish for universal supremacy, they do not ask
for supremacy over Svarga, Bhur or Patala, they do not long for
Siddhis, they do not even ask for Mukti. Surrendering Self to Me
they wish for nothing else but Myself. Brahma, Siva, Sankarshana,
Lakshmi and My own form are not so dear to Me, O Uddhava, as thou
art to Me. I always seek my Bhaktas. It is they only that know
what bliss they enjoy, Bhakti consumes all impurities, even as fire
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