Bhagavad Gita · 10.10 · Yoga through Appreciating the Infinite Opulences of God·10 of 42
तेषां सततयुक्तानां भजतां प्रीतिपूर्वकम्।ददामि बुद्धियोगं तं येन मामुपयान्ति ते ॥
teṣhāṁ satata-yuktānāṁ bhajatāṁ
prīti-pūrvakam dadāmi buddhi-yogaṁ taṁ yena mām upayānti te
Sanskrit recitation
The source behind everything · 10.1–10.11 · Teaching
Translation
To those who are ever steadfast, worshipping me with love, I give the yoga of discrimination, by which they come to me.
Meaning
The devotees who have dedicated themselves to the Lord, who are ever harmonious and selfabiding, who are ever devout and who adore Him with intense love (not for attaining any selfish purpose), obtain the divine grace. The Lord gives them wisdom or the Yoga of discrimination or understanding by which they attain the knowledge of the Self. The Lord bestows on these devotees who have fixed their thoughts on Him alone, devotion of right knowledge. (Buddhi Yoga) by which they know Him in essence. They know through the eye of intuition in deep meditaion the Supreme Lord, the One in all, the Self of all, as their own Self, destitue of all limitations. Buddhi here is the inner eye of intuition by which the magnificent experience of oneness is had. Buddhi Yoga is Jnana Yoga. (Cf.IV.39XII.6and7)Why does the Lord impart this Yoga of knowledge to His devotees What obstacles does the Buddhi Yoga remove on the path of the aspirant or devotee The Lord gives the answer in the following verse.
After Swami Sivananda
The source behind everything· 10.1–10.11→
Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.
- 10.1The Blessed Lord said, Again, O mighty-armed Arjuna, listen to my supreme word which I will declare to you, who are beloved, for your welfare.
- 10.2Neither the hosts of the gods nor the great sages know My origin; for I am the source of all the gods and the great sages in every way.
- 10.3He who knows Me as unborn and beginningless, as the great Lord of the worlds, he among mortals is undeluded and is liberated from all sins.
- 10.4Intellect, wisdom, non-delusion, forgiveness, truth, self-restraint, calmness, happiness, pain, existence or birth, non-existence or death, fear, and also fearlessness.
- 10.5Non-injury, equanimity, contentment, austerity, beneficence, fame, and ill-fame—these different qualities of beings arise from Me alone.
- 10.6The seven great sages, the ancient four, and the Manus, possessing powers like Mine (due to their minds being fixed on Me), were born from My mind; from them, these creatures have been born in this world.
- 10.7He who truly knows these manifold manifestations of My Being and this Yoga-power of Mine, becomes established in unshakable Yoga; there is no doubt about it.
- 10.8I am the source of all; from me everything evolves; Understanding this, the wise, endowed with meditation, worship me.
- 10.9With their minds and lives wholly absorbed in Me, they enlighten each other and ever speak of Me, being satisfied and delighted.
10.10To those who are ever steadfast, worshipping me with love, I give the yoga of discrimination, by which they come to me.
- 10.11Out of mere compassion for them, I, dwelling within their selves, destroy the darkness born of ignorance with the luminous lamp of knowledge.
Word-by-word→
- te
- they
- tam
- that
- mām
- to me
- yena
- by which
- dadāmi
- I give
- bhajatām
- who engage in devotion
- teṣhām
- to them
- upayānti
- come
- buddhi-yogam
- divine knowledge
- prīti-pūrvakam
- with love
- satata-yuktānām
- ever steadfast
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