Bhagavad Gita 9.15ज्ञानयज्ञेन चाप्यन्ये यजन्तो मामुपासते।एकत्वेन पृथक्त्वेन बहुधा विश्वतोमुखम् ॥
jñāna-yajñena chāpyanye yajanto mām upāsate
ekatvena pṛithaktvena bahudhā viśhvato-mukham
Sanskrit recitation
How people reach for God · 9.11–9.25 · Teaching
Translation
Others also, sacrificing with the wisdom-sacrifice, worship Me, the All-Faced, as one, distinct, and manifold.
Hindi translation
दूसरे साधक ज्ञानयज्ञके द्वारा एकीभावसे (अभेद-भावसे) मेरा पूजन करते हुए मेरी उपासना करते हैं और दूसरे कई साधक अपनेको पृथक् मानकर चारों तरफ मुखवाले मेरे विराट्ररुपकी अर्थात् संसारको मेरा विराट्ररुप मानकर (सेव्य-सेवकभावसे) मेरी अनेक प्रकारसे उपासना करते हैं।
Meaning
Others too sacrificing by the wisdomsacrifice, i.e., seeing the Self in all, adore Me the One and the manifold, present everywhere. They regard all the forms they see as the forms of God, all sounds they hear as the names of God. They give all objects they eat as offerings unto the Lord in vaious ways.Some adore Him with the knowledge that there is only one Reality, the Supreme Being Who is ExistenceKnowledgeBliss. They identify themselves with the Truth or Brahman. This is the Monistic view of the Vedantins. Some worship Him making a distinction between the Lord and themselves with the attitude of master and servant. This is the view of the Dualistic School of philosophy. Some worship Him with the knowledge that He exists as the various divinities, Brahma, Vishnu, Rudra, Siva, etc.Visvatomukham Others worship Him who has assumed all the manifold forms in the world, Who exists in all the forms as the Allfaced (the one Lord exists in all the different forms with His face on all sides, as it were). (Cf.IV.33)
After Swami Sivananda
How people reach for God· 9.11–9.25→
Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.
- 9.11Fools disregard Me, clad in human form, not knowing My higher Being as the great Lord of…
- 9.12They are possessed of the deceitful nature of demons and undivine beings, filled with vain…
- 9.13But the great souls, O Arjuna, partaking of My divine nature, worship Me with a…
- 9.14Always glorifying Me, striving, firm in their vows, prostrating themselves before Me, they…
9.15Others also, sacrificing with the wisdom-sacrifice, worship Me, the All-Faced, as one,…
- 9.16I am Kratu; I am Yajna; I am the offering to the manes; I am the medicinal herbs and all…
- 9.17I am the father of this world, the mother, the dispenser of the fruits of actions, and the…
- 9.18I am the goal, the supporter, the Lord, the witness, the abode, the shelter, the friend,…
- 9.19As the sun, I give heat; I withhold and send forth the rain; I am immortality and also…
- 9.20The knowers of the three Vedas, the drinkers of Soma, purified of all sins, worshipping Me…
- 9.21They, having enjoyed the vast heaven, enter the world of mortals when their merit is…
- 9.22For those men who worship Me alone, thinking of no one else, for those ever-united, I…
- 9.23Even those devotees who, endowed with faith, worship other gods, worship Me alone, O…
- 9.24For I alone am the enjoyer and Lord of all sacrifices; but they do not know Me in reality,…
- 9.25The worshippers of the gods go to them; the ancestor-worshippers go to the manes; the…
Word-by-word→
- api
- also
- cha
- and
- anye
- others
- mām
- me
- bahudhā
- various
- ekatvena
- undifferentiated oneness
- upāsate
- worship
- yajantaḥ
- worship
- pṛithaktvena
- separately
- jñāna-yajñena
- yajña of cultivating knowledge
- viśhwataḥ-mukham
- the cosmic form
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