Chapters: | | Chapter 12 | The Path of Devotion | Verse 6,7 | | |
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Sanskrit:
Sanskrit Vocals
Transliteration:
Anvaya:
Translation:
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Rudra Vaisnava Sampradaya: Visnuswami |
Sridhara Swami's Commentary
Being so requested the Supreme Lord Krishna continues to reveal that unlike
the path of the abstract, unmanifest, impersonalists which is dukham or
miserable; His devotees are quickly delivered from mrtyu-samsara-sagarat or
the deadly, never ending cycle of birth and death in the material existence
and they attain atma-tattva or soul realisation by His grace. Those who
mayi sannyasya mat-parah or dedicate all their activities to Lord Krishna
and mayy avesita-cetasam or whose hearts are absorbed in thinking of Him
without ananyenaiva or motives of exploitation and remuneration and who are
surrendered in yogena or bhakti yoga exclusive in loving devotion are Lord
Krishna's true devotees who have no other goal or object of attention then
Him and He personally delivers them from the endless, revolving cycle of
transmigration promoting them to the eternal spiritual worlds.
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| Brahma Vaisnava Sampradaya: Madhvacarya | There is no commentary for this verse.
| Sri Vaisnava Sampradaya: Ramanuja |
Ramanuja's Commentary
Actions are of two types. One is worldly activities undertaken to maintain
and progress the material existence of the physical body such as obtaining
food and shelter and material development. The other is spiritual
activities enjoined by the injunctions of the Vedic scriptures such as
propitiation to the Supreme Lord, absence of violence to any living being,
charity, etc. in short every act without an ulterior motive and without a
hopeful gain. Whosoever being spiritual minded without any motive except
for satisfying the Supreme Lord Krishna and without any desire of seeking
anything in return from Him, who offer all their activities as devotion to
Him, keeping Him alone as their sole goal and in one-pointed devotion focus
their meditation on Him fully while worshipping Him in all their activities
such as chanting His holy names, glorifying Him, offering prayers to Him,
prostrating before His deity form, hearing about His lilas or divine
pastimes, enlightening others about His glories, etc. as the be all and end
all of all existence itself. To such devotees as these who always are in
communion with Lord Krishna in their hearts and minds, He Himself
personally becomes their saviour by being their samuddharta or deliverer
from mrtyu-samsara-sagarat or the deadly ocean of the perpetual cycle of
birth and death which is the principle barrier which stops the atma's or
eternal souls of all jivas or embodied from attaining Him when the end of
each physical life has transpired.
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| Kumara Vaisnava Sampradaya: Nimbaditya |
Kesava Kasmiri's Commentary
The devotees of the Supreme Lord Krishna do not have to undergo any
tribulations or difficulties in order to reach Him quickly. This is what He
confirms in these two verses beginning with the words ye tu meaning but
those who denotes those whose parents were conscious of Lord Krishna at the
time of the infants very conception by which receiving such grace they were
born devotees of the Supreme Lord or by destiny or karma being actions
awarded based on previous actions, such beings acquire association of a
pure devotee of Lord Krishna and are blessed by them. Such fortunate jivas
or embodied beings depend exclusively upon the Supreme Lord because He is
absolutely the ultimate goal to be attained above all others in every
situation and in all circumstances. Such blessed beings are fully
surrendered to the Supreme Lord, devoting their very lives for His complete
satisfaction without motive or thought of recompense and reward for their
activities. Even while engaged in worldly activities for preservation of
bodily maintenance for self and family such as food and shelter as well as
performing Vedically ordained activities according to varnasrama or the
four social order of Vedic society such as propitiation to the Supreme
Lord, charity, etc. such surrendered beings continuously remember Lord
Krishna as their most beloved and single object of adoration, reflecting
again and again incessantly over His rupa or divine form, His guna or
divine qualities, His lilas or divine pastimes, His dhama or divine abode
and madhurya or His divine transcendental sweetness. For such great souls
Lord Krishna declares that He Himself becomes their saviour and personally
delivers them from mrtyu-samsara-sagarat or the deadly ocean of the
perpetual cycle of birth and death and this He declares that He does na
cirat meaning without delay.
The conclusion is that by continuously offering their hearts and minds in
uninterrupted bhakti or exclusive loving devotion to the Supreme Lord
Krishna, He becomes indebted to them so much so that He personally goes and
rescues them from samsara, the perpetual cycle of birth and death and
promotes them to the immortal spiritual worlds to eternally share in
exclusive blissful communion with Him
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| Thus ends commentaries of chapter 12, verse 6,7 of the Srimad Bhagavad-Gita.
Verse 6,7
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