| 20. Thus, this
most Secret Science has been taught by Me, O sinless one ; on knowing this,
(a man becomes wise, O Bharata, and all his duties are accomplished. Though
the whole of the Gita is called Science (Sastra) yet from the context it
appears that the fifteenth discourse alone is here spoken of as the Science,
for the purpose of extolling it. In fact the whole teaching of the Gita,sastra
has been summed up in this discourse. Not the teaching of the GitaSastra
only, but the whose teaching of the Veda is here embodied: and it has been
said that he who knows it(the Advatha) knows the Veda (xii. 1). and that
it is who am to be known by all the Vedas (xv.l5). On knowing this science
as taught abovebut not otherwisea man becomes wise. He has accomplished
all duties. Whatever duty a brahmana of superior birth has to do, all that
duty has been done when the real truth about the Lord is known that is to
say, by no other means can a mans duty have been accomplished. And it has
been said All actions, without exception, O son of Pritha, are comprehended
in wisdom (iv. 33). And here is the saying of Manu: This is the fulfillment
of the birth, especially for a brahmana ; for, by attaining to this does
the twice born become the accomplisher of all duties, and not otherwise
(xii. 93).Since you have heard from Me this truth about the Supreme Being,
you are a happy man, O Bharata. |
| 20. "This alone is the inner
secret of Shastra. One who has understood this alone is a Jnani, one who
has attained the ultimate goal of his life (Krita- krityata). Because, after
having known the Puru, shottama Tattwa or the essential Truth of Purushottama,
the Supreme Self, there is nothing else remaining to be known or done."
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