Mar 6, 2018, Tuesday
Different Convictions in the Gita (cont’d)
1. Lord Krishna’s Conviction (cont’d)
Power of discretion is at the base, at the root of all spiritual disciplines because a striver has to apply discrimination in all disciplines. Therefore the Lord mentions His conviction – The knowledge of Ksetra (Field) and Ksetrajna (knower of the field) is deemed by Me as true knowledge (13/2).
At the beginning of the eighteenth chapter the Lord first mentions four kinds of views of philosophers and then declares His convictions– All actions should be performed giving up attachment and hope of fruit, this is My certain and supreme verdict (18/6).
Glorifying the study of the Gita the Lord declares– He who studies this dialogue of ours (the Gita) by him I shall be worshipped by wisdom sacrifice; such is My conviction (18/70).
The above mentioned facts reveal that the Lord supports the path of devotion four times, the yoga of meditation two times and the Discipline of Action, the Discipline of knowledge and the study of the Gita each once. It means that He glorifies devotion more than other means.