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Chapter VII30 verses

अथ सप्तमोऽध्यायः

ज्ञानविज्ञानयोगः

The Yoga of Essential and Comprehensive Knowledge

Jñāna-vijñāna-yoga

All that is here is strung on Him like pearls upon a thread; know the thread, and every pearl becomes a word of the Beloved. — The Delight of Krishna

The soul enters in
śraddhāvān bhajate — the inmost self given to the Divine in love and faith
and is led towards
vāsudevaḥ sarvam — the knowledge that the Divine is all that is
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Summary of chapter 7

The seventh to the twelfth chapters lay down a large metaphysical statement of the nature of the Divine Being and on that foundation closely relate and synthetise knowledge and devotion. just as the first part of the Gita related and synthetised works and knowledge in giving the primary basis of its teachings.

I. The Two Natures (1-14)

The Gita makes the distinction between the two Natures, the phenomenal and the spiritual. Here is the first new metaphysical idea of the Site which helps it to start from the notions of the Sankhya philosophy and yet exceed them and give to their terms a Vedantic significance.

II. The Synthesis of Devotion and Knowledge (15-30)

The Gita is not a treatise of metaphysical philosophy. It seeks the highest truth for the highest practical utility. Thus it turns the philosophic truth given in the opening section of this chapter into a first starting-point for the unification of works. knowledge and devotion.

Chapter 7 illustration, titled ज्ञानविज्ञानयोगः
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Chapter outline

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  1. 7·1–6The lower and the higher Nature.
  2. 7·7–15Comprehensive Knowledge of the Divine lmmanence.
  3. 7·16–19The four kinds of God lovers, the supreme vision of the jr’iani‘lohakta.
  4. 7·20–27The worship of gods by the ignorant.
  5. 7·28–30Hints to Integral Knowledge.
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Śrī Bhagavān uvācaश्रीभगवानुवाच

  1. 7·1, a key verseमय्यासक्तमनाः पार्थ योगं युञ्जन्मदाश्रयः । असंशयं समग्रं मां यथा ज्ञास्यसि तच्छृणु ॥ १ ॥mayyāsaktamanāḥ pārtha yogaṁ yuñjanmadāśrayaḥ, asaṁśayaṁ samagraṁ māṁ yathā jñāsyasi tacchṛṇu.Hear, O Partha, how by practising Yoga with a mind attached to me and with me as āśrayaḥ (the whole basis…
  2. 7·2ज्ञानं तेऽहं सविज्ञानमिदं वक्ष्याम्यशेषतः । यज्ज्ञात्वा नेह भूयोऽन्यज्ज्ञातव्यमवशिष्यते ॥ २ ॥jñānaṁ te’haṁ savijñānamidaṁ vakṣyāmyaśeṣataḥ, yajjñātvā neha bhūyo’nyajjñātavyamavaśiṣyate.I will speak to thee without omission or remainder the essential knowledge, attended with all the…
  3. 7·3मनुष्याणां सहस्रेषु कश्चिद्यतति सिद्धये । यततामपि सिद्धानां कश्चिन्मां वेत्ति तत्त्वतः ॥ ३ ॥manuṣyāṇāṁ sahasreṣu kaścidyatati siddhaye, yatatāmapi siddhānāṁ kaścinmāṁ vetti tattvataḥ.Among thousands of men one here and there strives after perfection, and of those who strive and attain to…
  4. 7·4भूमिरापोऽनलो वायुः खं मनो बुद्धिरेव च । अहंकार इतीयं मे भिन्ना प्रकृतिरष्टधा ॥ ४ ॥bhūmirāpo’nalo vāyuḥ khaṁ mano buddhireva ca, ahaṁkāra itīyaṁ me bhinnā prakṛtiraṣṭadhā.The five elements (conditions of material being – the solid, liquid, fiery, gaseous and ethereal), mind (with…
  5. 7·5, a key verseअपरेयमितस्त्वन्यां प्रकृतिं विद्धि मे पराम् । जीवभूतां महाबाहो ययेदं धार्यते जगत् ॥ ५ ॥apareyamitastvanyāṁ prakṛtiṁ viddhi me parām, jīvabhūtāṁ mahābāho yayedaṁ dhāryate jagat.These eightfold nature is the lower. But know my other Nature different from this, O mighty-armed, the supreme…
  6. 7·6एतद्योनीनि भूतानि सर्वाणीत्युपधारय । अहं कृत्स्नस्य जगतः प्रभवः प्रलयस्तथा ॥ ६ ॥etadyonīni bhūtāni sarvāṇītyupadhāraya, ahaṁ kṛtsnasya jagataḥ prabhavaḥ pralayastathā.Know this to be the womb of all beings. I am the birth of the whole world and so too its dissolution.
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End of the chapter

ॐ तत्सदिति श्रीमद्भगवद्गीतासूपनिषत्सुब्रह्मविद्यायां योगशास्त्रे श्रीकृष्णार्जुनसंवादेज्ञानविज्ञानयोगो नाम सप्तमोऽध्यायः ॥ ७॥

om tatsaditi śrīmadbhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsubrahmavidyāyāṁ yogaśāstre śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṁvādejñānavijñānayogo nāma saptamo’dhyāyaḥ

Thus, in the Upanishad sung by the Lord, the science of Brahman, the scripture of Yoga, the dialogue between Sri Krishna and Arjuna, ends the seventh chapter entitled “The Yoga of Essential and Comprehensive Knowledge ”

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