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XV - The Supreme Being
Those who are free from pride and delusion, who have conquered the evil of attachment, who constantly dwell on the Supreme Being with
senses under control, who understand dualities of pleasure and pain (disappointment), such wise ones reach My Supreme Abode. (15.05) The
individual soul in the body of living beings is the integral part of the universal Spirit, or Consciousness. The individual soul
associates with six sensory faculties of perception including the mind, and activates them. (15.07)
Just as air takes aroma away from a flower; similarly, the individual soul takes the sensory faculties from the physical body it casts
off during death to a new physical body it acquires. (15.08) The living entity enjoys sensual pleasure using sensory faculties of
hearing, touch, sight, taste, smell, and mind. The devotees striving for perfection behold the living entity abiding in their inner
psyche as consciousness.
I am seated in the inner psyche of all beings. Memory, Self-knowledge, and the removal of doubt and wrong notions about God come from Me.
I am verily that which is to be known by the study of all the Vedas. I am, indeed, the author as well as the student of the Vedas
(Scriptures). (15.15)
There are two entities in the cosmos: The changeable Temporal Beings, and the unchangeable Eternal Beings (the Spirit). All created
beings are subject to change, but the Spirit does not change. (15.16) The Supreme Being (or the Absolute) is beyond both the Temporal
Beings and the Eternal Beings. That Supreme Being is also called the Absolute Reality that sustains both the Temporal and the Eternal by
pervading everything. (15.17) Because the Supreme Being is beyond both Temporal and Eternal Beings; therefore, He is known in this world
and in the scriptures as the Supreme Being (Absolute Reality, Truth, or Super-soul). (15.18) The wise who truly understand the Supreme
Being, worship Him whole-heartedly. (15.19) Thus this most secret transcendental science of the Absolute has been explained by Me. Upon
understanding this, one becomes enlightened, and all of one’s duties are accomplished, O Arjuna.(15.20)
Abbreviated By Harry Bhalla.
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