Bhagavad-Gita AS It Is.

Chapter – 4Text 10

Text 10

véta-räga-bhaya-krodhäman-mayä mäm upäçritäù

bahavo jïäna-tapasäpütä mad-bhävam ägatäù

Being freed from attachment, fear and anger, being fully absorbed in Me and taking refuge in Me, many, many persons in the past became purified by knowledge of Me—and thus they all attained transcendental love for Me.

Freedom from three stages of attachment to the material world.

• Attachment:to sense gratification,to bodily conception of life,

• Fear:of personality even after liberation.

• Anger:on different philosophical conculsions.

Attachment : to body and sg

• Bodily enjoyment & opulence ( I ). Bhoga aishwarya prasktanam….E.g. King Purüravä Enchanted by Urvaçé

• Bodily relation (mine)svadhi kaltradhisu bhauma….

• Janasya moho ‘yam ahamameti…business of “I and Mine” – no understanding of spiritual subject.

Fear : Personality & duality

• Source of fear – duality in relation to selfe.g. we are eternal soul, but fear of death only when one identify himself with body.

• Source of fear – duality in relation to God.E.g. Brahamanas performing sacrifices.

• Ultimately fear in even liberation – fear of personality – due to lack of proper spiritual knowledge.

Anger or frustration :

• Cause of voidisam philosophy.• Voidisam – what it means?

tarko ‘pratiñöhaù çrutayo vibhinnä näsäv åñir yasya mataà na bhinnamdharmasya tattvaà nihitaà guhäyäà mahäjano yena gataù sa panthäù

“‘Dry arguments are inconclusive. A great personality whose opinion does not differ from others is not considered a great sage. Simply by studying the Vedas, which are variegated, one cannot come to the right path by which religious principles are understood. The solid truth of religious principles is hidden in the heart of an unadulterated, self-realized person. Consequently, as the çästras confirm, one should accept whatever progressive path the mahäjanas advocate.’”

Process of devotional services makes us free from all 3 stages :

ädau çraddhä tataù sädhu saìgo 'tha bhajana-kriyätato 'nartha-nivåttiù syät tato niñöhä rucis tataùathäsaktis tato bhävas tataù premäbhyudaïcati

sädhakänäm ayaà premëaù prädurbhäve bhavet kramaù"In the beginning one must have a preliminary desire for

self-realization. This will bring one to the stage of trying to associate with persons who are spiritually elevated. In the next stage one becomes initiated by an elevated spiritual master, and under his instruction the neophyte devotee begins the process of devotional service. By execution of devotional service under the guidance of the spiritual master, one becomes free from all material attachment, attains steadiness in self-realization, and acquires a taste for hearing about the Absolute Personality of Godhead, Çré Kåñëa. This taste leads one further forward to attachment for Kåñëa consciousness, which is matured in bhäva, or the preliminary stage of transcendental love of God. Real love for God is called prema, the highest perfectional stage of life."

Gradual progress in devotional service:

Faith (in beginning)

Association with devotees

Initiated in Practice of Krsna Consciousness

Removal of unwanted things (anarth nivriti)

Faithfullness

Taste in practice of KC

Attachment to Krsna

Ecstatic stage (bhava)

Love of God