Guidance from the Uddhava-Gita

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srflongago
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(11/16/02 6:21 am)
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Guidance from the Uddhava-Gita

I have seen a lot of confusion on Walrus about what the traditional tenets were upon which the whole Yoga tradition of the Gita rests, particularly Lahiri's, SriYukteswar's, and Yogananda's s Kriya. Here is a short excerpt from a famous work on an excellent site.

http://www.gita-society.com/section3/UddhavaGita.htm

The excerpt explains what is meant by renouncing the results of material action, and makes it clear that having a Guru relation was not traditionally necessary on paths to enlightenment. I was reminded of it by a reference to it on another board.

'Instructions to Uddhava by Lord Krishna known as "The Uddhava-Gita",... meant for those students who have first thoroughly studied The Bhagavad-Gita.'
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'7. My dear Uddhava, the material universe that you perceive through your mind, speech, eyes, ears and other senses is an illusory creation that one imagines to be real due to the influence of maya. In fact, you should know that all of the objects of the material senses are temporary.

8. One whose consciousness is bewildered by illusion perceives many differences in value and meaning among material objects. Thus one engages constantly on the platform of material good and evil and is bound by such conceptions. Absorbed in material duality, such a person contemplates the performance of compulsory duties, nonperformance of such duties and performance of forbidden activities.

9. Therefore, bringing all your senses under control and thus subduing the mind, you should see the entire world as situated within the self, who is expanded everywhere, and you should also see this individual self within Me, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

10. Being fully endowed with conclusive knowledge of the Vedas and having realized the ultimate purpose of such knowledge in practice, you will be able to perceive the pure self, and thus your mind will be satisfied. At that time you will become dear to all living beings, headed by the demigods, and you will never be hampered by any disturbance in life.

11. One who has transcended material good and evil automatically acts in accordance with religious injunctions and avoids forbidden activities. The self-realized person does this spontaneously, like an innocent child, and not because he is thinking in terms of material good and evil.

12. One who is the kind well-wisher of all living beings, who is peaceful and firmly fixed in knowledge and realization, sees Me within all things. Such a person never again falls down into the cycle of birth and death.

19. The Supreme Lord replied: Generally those human beings who can expertly analyze the actual situation of the material world are able to raise themselves beyond the inauspicious life of gross material gratification.

20. An intelligent person, expert in perceiving the world around him and in applying sound logic, can achieve real benefit through his own intelligence. Thus sometimes one acts as one’s own instructing spiritual master.

21. In the human form of life, those who are self-controlled and expert in the spiritual science of Sankhya can directly see Me along with all

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