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Adi Sankaracharya, BG Chapter 12 Verse 12, Bhagavad Gita, Bhagavad Gita Chapter 12 Bhakti Yoga, Pujya Gurudev Swami Chinmayananda
Continuing on to Verse #12 and The Lord makes a beautiful scheme, a definitive plan to be followed by a seeker. Whilst in earlier verses various options were given to Arjuna, The Lord now sets out a proper and systematic road map to be followed ahead. Pujya Swami Chinmayananda explains each point in detail :
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THE ABANDONING-OF-THE-FRUITS OF ALL ACTIONS
श्रेयो हि ज्ञानमभ्यासाज्ज्ञानाद्ध्यानं विशिष्यते ।
ध्यानात्कर्मफलत्यागस्त्यागाच्छान्तिरनन्तरम् ॥ १२-१२॥
‘Knowledge’ is indeed better than ‘practice’ ;
‘meditation’ is better than ‘knowledge’ ;
‘renunciation of the fruits-of-actions’
is better than ‘meditation’ ;
peace immediately follows ‘renunciation’ 12.12
When a divine philosopher gives a discourse for the benefit of a disciple who is confused and broken-down, it is not sufficient if he merely enumerates the dry philosophical truths; he must so beautifully arrange his ideas that the very scheme of the discourse must help the student to gather all the ideas together in a bunch. The stanza, now under review, gives us one of the typical examples in Krishna’s discourse wherein he directly makes an attempt to systematise his theoretical disquisitions into a well-arranged pattern of thought.