THE HOLY GITA , CHAPTER NUMBER 06, DHYANA YOGA OR THE YOGA OF MEDITATION, VERSE NUMBER 30

THE HOLY GITA

CHAPTER NUMBER 06

DHYANA YOGA OR THE YOGA OF MEDITATION:

VERSE NUMBER 30

Text in Transliteration:

yo maam pasyati sarvatra sarvam cha mayi pasyati

tasyaa ‘ham no pranasyaami sa cha me na pranasyati

Text in English:

He who sees Me everywhere and sees all in Me, he never becomes lost to Me, nor do I become lost to him.

COMMENTARY BY SWAMI SIDBHAVANANDA:

After realizing the unity of all beings, the yogi further realizes that it is the Paramatman that manifests Himself as the multitudinous beings at all levels. The one appearing as the many is not merely the yogi’s imagination. It is the eternal sport of the Lord. He and His manifestations are interrelated as the ocean and the waves on it. He is therefore not lost to the Lord and the Lord is not lost to him.

SRI RAMAKRISHNA AS QUOTED BY SWAMI SIDBHAVANANDA:

Sweetmeats in the shape of various animals, birds and men are made from the same stuff, sugar. Likewise it is the Sat-chit-ananda that has assumed as the forms of the sentient and insentient in the Universe.

COMMENTARY BY DR.S.RADHAKRISHNAN:

  It is personal mysticism as distinct from the impersonal one that is stressed in these tender and impressive words: “I am not lost to him nor is he lost to me.” The verse reveals the experience of the profound unity of all things in one who is the personal God. The more unique, the more universal. The deeper the self, the wider is its comprehension. When we are one with the Divine in us, we become one with the whole stream of life.

COMMENTARY MADE BY SWAMI SIVANANDA:

In this verse the Lord describes the effect of the vision of the unity of the Self or oneness.

He who sees Me, the Self of all, in all beings, and (Brahma the Creator down to the blade of grass) in Me, I am not lost to him, nor is he lost to Me. I and the sage or seer of unity of the Self become identical or one and the same. I never leave his presence nor does he leave My presence. I never lose hold of him nor does he lose hold of Me. I dwell in him and he dwells in Me.

Comments by the blogger:

In Graham Green’s novel, “The Journey with my Aunt” an interesting argument is held as to the fact if a dog has Atman or Self! And if the dog has the Self isn’t it important to have the funeral rites held before it is interred!

The religion of Gita is even a blade of grass is full of God and is an exhibition of Him in His Universe!

The Lord who had taken more than ten verses to describe the way of Meditation to be practised by a Yogi is now describing the effect of the Yogi who has attained Him. Even while living in this world, such liberated souls enjoy high distinction and once they have attained Him they will never lose Him nor He will lose them.