Eleventh Chapter
Everyone can’t behold the divine Universal Form whose vision Arjun enjoyed by God’s grace, but everyone can see this world as an incarnation of God, and by having faith, can thus have a vision of this Universal Form. When Arjun requested Lord Krishna to reveal His Cosmic Form, the Lord by bestowing upon Him divine vision manifested His Cosmic Form to him. In that form, Arjun beheld innumerable mouths, eyes, arms etc. He also saw Brahma, the Creator, Vishnu, the Preserver, and Shiva, the destroyer. Moreover, he saw hosts of gods, Gandharvas (celestial musicians), Siddhas (those who have attained the Supreme), the celestial serpents etc. He saw the cosmic form in several stages, gentle (pleasing), frightful and very frightful etc. Though we can’t see this Divine Cosmic form, yet we can attain salvation by regarding this world as the manifestation of God, because this world has emanated from God and it is He alone who has put on the appearance of the whole phenomenon.
Twelfth Chapter
A devotee is extremely dear to God; because he fully surrenders himself to God with his body, senses, mind, intellect. He who with utmost faith, engages his mind in God, that devotee is best of all. Those devotees who have turned to God, who have dedicated all their actions to God, and with exclusive feeling worshipped God; God Himself sees to their crossing the ocean of this world and quickly leads them to their salvation. Those who engage their mind-intellect in God, they dwell and live in God Himself. Those who are friendly and compassionate to all beings, those who are free from sense of I-ness (ahamta) and mineness (mamta), and no beings are perturbed and on the edge by them, and who himself is also not anxious with others, he who renounces the initiation of any new actions, he who does not become elated or dejected at favorable and unfavorable circumstances, who remains equanimous in honor and dishonor, who remains ever contented in any situation or circumstance, such a devotee is dear to God. If man becomes God’s, has sense of mine (my very own) with God, then all can become dear to God.
‒ From the book in Hindi ‘Gita Darpan’ by Swami Ramsukhdasji Maharaj
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