The entire content of this mail is from Swami Chidbhavananda's translation of The Bhagavad Gita, published by Ramakrishna Mission.
1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 4 -JnanaKarmaSanyasa Yoga - Sloka 10
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| Dodamallur Krishna |
Vita Raaga bhaya krodhah madmayah mam upasritah I
Bahavah gyana tapasa putah madbhavam agatah II sloka 10
वीत राग भय क्रोधाः मद्मयाः माम उपाश्रिताः ।
बहवः ज्ञान तपसा पूताः मद्भावं आगताः ।। श्लोक १०
Freed from passion, fear & anger, filled with Me, taking refuge in Me, purified by penance in the fire of knowledge, many have entered into My Being.
It is only after filtering that muddy water becomes fit to be mixed with pure water. Mind purged from passion, fear and anger assumes competency to grasp the Divine. Then getting absorbed in It becomes easy. Through absorption the glory of the Divine is increasingly realsied. There is then no difficulty whatsoever in taking refuge in what is known to be Benign. Fuel consigned to fire becomes fire itself. It is penance when individuals seek to know of the Divine and give themselves over to it. This way many have ascended from the human to the Divine. There is no purification greater than this. Mukti or emancipation in this is an eternal process.
Maya is inherent to Iswara. This maya is constituted of both vidya and avidya - knowledge and ignorance. Vidya-maya is made of discrmination, devotion, detachment and love of beings. It takes the aspirant towards God. Avidya-maya on the other hand estranges man from God
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
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