135. Bhagavad Gita l Chapter 12 I Verses 5-7 I Swami Sarvapriyananda

Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Verses 5-7 from the Twelfth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. This series of talks unfolds the highest truths of Vedanta through the study of "The song of God". 🔆 Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 12 Verse 5: क्लेशोऽधिकतरस्तेषामव्यक्तासक्तचेतसाम् || अव्यक्ता हि गतिर्दु:खं देहवद्भिरवाप्यते || 5|| kleśho ’dhikataras teṣhām avyaktāsakta-chetasām avyaktā hi gatir duḥkhaṁ dehavadbhir avāpyate || 5|| 🔴 The obstacles facing those devoted to the Impersonal Absolute are far greater; for the way of an unclear ideal is difficult for an embodied being (the body-centered one) to understand or follow. || 5 || 🔆 Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 12 Verse 6: ये तु सर्वाणि कर्माणि मयि संन्न्यस्य मत्परा: | अनन्येनैव योगेन मां ध्यायन्त उपासते || 6|| ye tu sarvāṇi karmāṇi mayi sannyasya mat-parāḥ ananyenaiva yogena māṁ dhyāyanta upāsate || 6|| 🔴 Those, however who surrender all works to Me, making Me their supreme (goal) and worship Me, meditating on Me in a state of undivided union; || 6 || 🔆 Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 12 Verse 7: तेषामहं समुद्धर्ता मृत्युसंसारसागरात् | भवामि नचिरात्पार्थ मय्यावेशितचेतसाम् || 7|| teṣhām ahaṁ samuddhartā mṛityu-saṁsāra-sāgarāt bhavāmi na chirāt pārtha mayy āveśhita-chetasām || 7|| 🔴 Of them (all) who have set their thoughts on Me, I shall soon be the deliverer from the sea of empirical life leading to death, O Arjuna! || 7 ||