Chapter 4 Shloka 35

यज्ज्ञात्वा न पुनर्मोहमेवं यास्यसि पाण्डव।

येन भूतान्यशेषेण द्रक्ष्यस्यात्मन्यथो मयि।।३५।।

Lord Krishna says that the knowledge the true seeker receives

from That Enlightened One will be as follows:

O Arjuna! Knowing which, you will no longer

be afflicted by moha and with the aid of which

you will see all beings within yourself and in Me.

Chapter 4 Shloka 35

यज्ज्ञात्वा न पुनर्मोहमेवं यास्यसि पाण्डव।

येन भूतान्यशेषेण द्रक्ष्यस्यात्मन्यथो मयि।।३५।।

Lord Krishna says that the knowledge the true seeker receives from That Enlightened One will be as follows:

O Arjuna! Knowing which, you will no longer be afflicted by moha and with the aid of which you will see all beings within yourself and in Me.

Bhagwan says, “When the Realised Guru is pleased with you He will give you that Supreme knowledge, knowing which, you shall become an Atmavaan. Then you will see all beings in yourself and in Me.” Then your moha will be eliminated.

In other words:

1. Your illusions about birth and death will vanish.

2. The attachment that has arisen within you upon seeing your friends and relatives, will subside.

3. This moha, which is preventing you from your duty in this battle, will disappear.

4. The moha that is causing you anxiety and sapping your limbs of all strength, will disappear and you will regain your strength.

5. Then your confusion regarding your duty will disappear.

6. When this moha is annihilated, you will renounce your identification with the body and you will be one with your True Self – the Atma.

7. You will renounce the body idea and become an Atmavaan.

8. You will see that all the people who stand opposite you in the battlefield are mere statues of clay, monitored by their respective gunas.

9. You will realise that you too, are being led into action by your gunas.

10. This body which you consider your own, is a creation of the threefold nature of Prakriti.

11. Seeing all as an objective witness, you will realise that the substratum of all beings is the Atma itself, for they are nothing but the Atma and you too, are nothing but Atma.

12. From this angle, you will realise each one is, in essence, that formless Non-doer, embodied.

13. You will realise that each one is performing actions only on account of the gunas.

14. Thus, the real doers are the inert gunas – all else is the Atma:

– then you will know all beings as that essential Self of all.

– From the point of view of the Atma, you will realise the intimate relationship between all beings and you will know them all as one within you.

Then the Lord states, “Thereafter, Knowing Me as the Formless Essence of the Atma, you will see everyone as abiding within Me.”

Little one:

1. The Atmavaan knows all to be the Atma.

2. He knows that all bodies are constituted of the gunas, bound by the gunas and dependent on the gunas.

3. In a futile bid, the ‘I’ has individualised this inert creation of Prakriti, the body.

4. The birth of the individualised ‘I’ is the primal folly.

5. The ‘I’ is the cause of moha and renders the individual blind and unconscious to the Truth for life.

When the individual realises that the Atma is the only Truth and that all are in essence That Atma, he recognises that all beings are essentially that indivisible, eternal Essence. All else is a play of Prakriti.

1. In Prakriti’s creation of the body, ‘I’ and ‘mine’ are mere illusions.

2. The illusionary concept of ‘I’ has captivated even the intellect.

3. This illusionary concept of ‘I’ has caused great confusion through the sense organs.

4. This illusionary concept of ‘I’ has erected an imaginary world of its own within the mind.

The Atmavaan watches all this silently. Knowing that all is the Atma, what can he say and to whom?