Chapter 7

English Meaning Adhyay SevenThe Yoga of 'Knowledge of Nirguna Brahma and the Knowledge of Manifest Divinity'.

.	shree Bhagwan said
1	Arjuna, now listen, how with the mind attached to Me (through exclusive love) and practicing yoga with absolute dependence on Me (the repository of all power strength and glory and other attributes, the Universal soul) in entirety and without any shadow of doubt
2	I shall unfold to you in it's entirety this wisdom (knowledge of God in His absolute form) along with the knowledge of qualified aspect of God (both with form and without form), having known which, nothing else remains 'yet to be known.'
3	Hardly one among thousands of men strives to realize Me; of those striving yogis, again, some rare one (devoting himself exclusively to Me) knows Me in reality.
7.4	Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind reason and also ego; these constitute My nature eight fold divided. This indeed is My lower (material) nature.
7.5	The other than this, by which the whole universe is sustained, know it to be My higher (or spiritual) nature in the form of jiva (the life principle), O Arjuna.
7.6	Arjuna, know that all beings are evolved from this two fold prakriti, and that I am the source of the entire creation, and into Me again it disappears.
7.7	Their is nothing else besides Me, Arjuna. Like clusters of yarn-beads formed by knots on a thread, all this is threaded on Me.
7.8	Arjuna, I am the sapidity in water and the light in the moon and the sun; I am the sacred syllable OM in all the Vedas, the sound in ether, and the manliness in men.
7.9	I am the pure odor (the subtle principle of odor) in the earth and the brilliance in the fire; nay, I am the life in all beings and the austerity in men of ascetics.
7.10	Arjuna, know Me the eternal seed of all beings. I am the intelligence of the intelligent; the glory of the glorious am I.
7.11	Arjuna, of the mighty I am the might, free from passion and desire; in beings I am the sexual desire not conflicting with virtue or scriptural injunctions.
7.12	Whatever other entities there are, born of sattva (the quality of goodness) and those that are born of rajas ( the principle of activity ) and tamas ( the principle of inertia ), know them all as evolved from Me alone. In reality, however, neither do I exist in them, nor they are in Me.
7.13	The whole of this creation is deluded by these objects evolved from three modes of prakriti- satva, rajas and tamas; that is why the world fails to recognize Me, standing apart from these and imperishable.
7.14	For this most wonderful maya (veil) of Mine, consisting of three gunas (modes of nature), is extremely difficult to break through; those however who constantly adore Me, alone are able to cross it.
7.15	Those whose wisdom has been carried away by maya, and who have embraced the demoniac nature, such foolish and vile men of evil deeds do not adore Me.
7.16	Four types of devotees of noble deeds worship Me Arjuna, the seeker after the worldly possessions, the afflicted, the seeker for knowledge, and the men of wisdom, O best of bharatas.
7.17	Of these the best is the man of wisdom, ever established in identity with Me and possessed of exclusive devotion. For I am extremely dear to the wise man (who knows Me in reality), and he is extremely dear to me.
7.18	Indeed all these are noble, but the man of wisdom is My very self; such is my view. for such a devotee, who has his mind and intellect merged in Me, is firmly established in Me alone, the highest goal
7.19	In the very last of all the births the enlightened soul worships Me, realizing that all this is God. Such a great soul is very rare.
7.20	Those whose wisdom had been carried away by various desires, being prompted by their own nature, worship other deities adopting rules relating to each.
7.21	Whatever celestial form a devotee (craving for some worldly object) chooses to worship with reverence, I stabilize the faith of that particular devotee in that very form
7.22	Endowed with such faith he worships that particular deity and obtains through him without doubt his desired enjoyments as ordained by Myself.
7.23	The fruit gained by these people of small understanding, however, is perishable. The worshippers of gods attains the gods; whereas My devotees, however they worship Me, eventually come to Me and Me alone.
24	Not knowing My unsurpassable and un decaying supreme nature, the ignorants belive Me, the supreme spirit, beyond the reach of mind and senses, the embodiment of truth, knowledge and bliss, to have assumed a finite form through birth ( as ordinary human beings).
25	Veiled by My yoga maya (divine potency), I am not manifest to all. Hence these ignorant folks fail to recognize Me, the unborn and imperishable Supreme Deity (i.e., consider Me as subject to birth and death)
26	Arjuna, I know all beings, past as well as present, nay, even those that are yet to come; but none (devoid of faith and reverence) knows Me.
27	O valiant Arjuna, through delusion in the shape of pairs of opposites (such as pleasures and pain etc.) born of desire and hatred, all living creatures in this world are falling a prey to infatuation.
28	But those men of virtuous deeds whose sins have come to an end, being freed from delusion in the shape of opposites (born of attraction and repulsion), worship Me with a firm resolve in every way.
29	They who having taken a refuge in Me, strive for deliverance from old age and death know Brahma (the Absolute), the whole adhyatma (the totality of jivas or embodied souls), and the entire field of karma (action), (continue shl.30)
30	as well as My integral being comprising of adhibhuta (the field of matter), adhidaiva (Brahma) and the adhiyajna (the un manifest Divinity dwelling in the hearts of all beings as their witness). And they who, possessed of steadfast mind, know thus even at the hour of death, they too know Me alone.
end	Thus in the Upanishad sung by the Lord the Science of Brahma, the scripture of Yoga, the dialogue between Shree Krishna and Arjuna, ends the seventh chapter entitled " The Yoga of Janana (Knowledge of Nirguna Brahma) and the Vijnana (Knowledge of Manifest Divinity)"