THE HOLY GITA, CHAPTER NUMBER 06, DHYANA YOGA OR THE YOGA OF MEDITATION, VERSE NUMBER 29

THE HOLY GITA

CHAPTER NUMBER 06

DHYANA YOGA OR THE YOGA OR MEDITATION:

VERSE NUMBER 29

Text in Transliteration

sarvabhootashtham aatmaanam sarvabhootaani chaa ‘tmani

eekshate yogayktaatmaa sarvatra samadarsanah

Text in English:

His mind being harmonized by yoga, he sees himself in al beings and all beings in himself; he sees the same in all.

COMMENTARY BY SWAMI SIDBHAVANANDA:

Separateness is not for him who has progressed high in yoga. The distinction between the high and low, the angel and the humble creature vanishes from his mind. He sees the same divinity in all. in his intuition the Self in him is the Self in all. in his intuition the Self in him is the Self in all and the Self in all is the Self in him. The individualized selves do all merge into one universal Self. This is his realization.

SRI RAMAKRISHNA AS QUOTED BY SWAMI SIDBHAVANANDA:

Assuming individuality to oneself is like putting a dam to a portion of the Ganga and claiming the little water in it as one’s own.

COMMENTARY BY DR.RADHAKRISHNAN:

Though, in the process of attaining the vision of Self, we had to treat form outward things and separate the Self from the world, when the vision is attained the world is drawn into the Self. On the ethical plane, this means that there should grow a detachment from the world and when it is attained, a return to it, through love, suffering and sacrifice for it.

The sense of a separate finite self with its hopes and fears, its likes and dislikes is destroyed.

COMMENTARY BY SWAMI SIVANANDA:

The yogi beholds through the eye of intuition (Jnana-Chakshus or Divya-Chakshus) oneness or unity of the Self everwhere. This is a sublime and magnanimous vision indeed. He feels, “All indeed is Brahman”. He beholds that all beings are one with Brahman and that the Self and Brahman are identified.

Comments by the blogger

The whole of the Prakrity or Nauture scintillates with the Universal Self or God. But Ishwar has hidden himself very well. Indeed the whole Nature is God’s body only. Apart from it His Spirit permeates the Universe as the Universal Soul. So everything here is God only. This is how once the Practitioners of Meditation becomes in his mind harmonized (by yoga) he not only sees himself in all and all in himself, but “he sees the same (Self or God) in all.”

For him the tree is God, the dirt is God, the flower is God and the ugly gardener is God, the earth is God, the Sun and the Moon is God. In all the eight sides everywhere and everything he sees is God. He sees the same in all.