Bhagvad Gita Rahasya or Karmayoga Shastra VOL 02

SR No.: 011090
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Bhalchandra S Sukhtankar
Publisher: R B Tilak Puna
Publication Year: 1936
Total Pages: 767
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 74 MB

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GITA-RAHASYA OR KARMA-YOGA
FEESTI: T: E Ta tila: 1 अनेन प्रलविष्यध्वमेष वोऽस्त्विष्टकामधुक ॥१०॥ देवान् भावयतानेन ते देवा भावयन्तु वः । परस्परं भावयन्तः श्रेयः परमवाप्स्यथ ॥११॥ सायोगान् हि वो देवा दास्यन्ते यज्ञभाविताः ।
तैर्दतानप्रदायैभ्यो यो भुड़े स्तन एव सः ॥ १२ ॥ because, but for the cycle of Yajñas, the affairs of the world will not go on. Nay; this cycle has been created by Brahmadeva in the beginning of the world in order to maintain the world, and in as much as the well-being or the welfare of the world is what is desired by the Blessed Lord, no one can escape the performance of this Yajñaritual. And this very import is embodied in the next stanza. In reading this chapter, my readers must bear in mind that the word 'Yajña' has not been used in the narrow meaning of the Yajña prescribed by the Srutis, but that it includes the Yajñas prescribed by the Smrtis as also all worldly Action prescribed for the four castes, according to
their respective authority.] (10) In ancient days, Brahmadeva created living beings (prajā ) together with the Yajna and said to them: By means of this (Yajña), may you grow; may this be to you a kama-dhenu (that is, something which fulfils all desires). (11) By this Yajña, do you give pleasure (that is, prosperity) to the gods; (and) may those gods (in return) give you pleasure (that is, prosperity); pleasing each other (in this ay), may you (both) attain the highest śreya (that is, benefit); (12) because, the gods, being satisfied by the .Yajña, will give you (all) desired enjoyments. He who enjoys ( by himself alone ) what has been given by them, not giving it (back) to them, is indeed a thief'.
After Brahmadeva created this Universe that is, the world of the gods and all the other worlds, he was filled with anxiety as to how all these worlds would be maintained. He, therefore, performed austere religious practices for a thousand years; and having thereby pleased the Blessed Lord, He (the Blessed Lord) created the Activistic cycle