Verse-18
Chapter 7 — Gyan Vigyan Yoga
Verse 18
🕉 Original Sanskrit Shloka
udārāḥ sarva evaite jñānī tvātmaiva me matam
āsthitaḥ sa hi yuktātmā māmevānuttamām gatim
🕉 English Translation
Aache hain beshak bhakt ye sabhi,
Hai gyani magar mera swaroop hi.
Rehta hai mujhse sada ek vo,
Uttam gati isse badhkar na ho.
📜 Translation
English
All the devotees described above are noble; but the wise I deem as My very Self so is my opinion, because he is harmonised with Me and he is well established in Me taking Me as the supreme goal.
See the magnanimity of the Blessed Lord. In whatever spirit anyone approaches Me it is good. At least he has approached Me and is better than the one who does not seek Me at all, even though he has come with a certain motive but at least he has sought Me. Because of this reason all devotees are noble.
The reality is actually that the Lord is the noblest of all. Therefore, He will find everyone noble. Even when an obstinate man, with misdirected zeal, arrogant and a tyrant like Duryodhan seeks His help, he is also not turned away. If he has approached Me then help he will definitely get. Two options, on one hand, is Myself unarmed and on the other is arms, weapons and the army. It is a different issue that Duryodhan even then asked for the army and the Lord granted his wish. Nobility is His very nature and attitude. The noble finds nobility everywhere and if one's own thinking is narrow then everything appears to be narrow or limited.
All are noble (udarah sarva evaite) but the man of knowledge has been stated to be His own very Self. Why? The reason is given simultaneously-he is in constant communion in Me. There is no distancing in the midst in the form of impresssion, thoughts, transformations. See the splendour of the emperor of the emperors Swami Ram Tirth- There is no state or goal which is greater than this. But to attain this state, and to the extent it is possible to attain it, when, how and for whom is it possible to attain? The depiction is made of the rarity of the rare state.