Bhagavad Gita Chapter 9 Verse 15

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Chapter 9. The Most Confidential Knowledge

TEXT 15
jnana-yajnena capy anye
yajanto mam upasate
ekatvena prthaktvena
bahudha visvato-mukham

SYNONYMS
jnana-yajnena--by cultivation of knowledge; ca--also; api--certainly;
anye--others; yajantah--worshiping; mam--Me; upasate--worship;
ekatvena--in oneness; prthaktvena--in duality; bahudha--diversity;
visvatah-mukham--in the universal form.

TRANSLATION
Others, who are engaged in the cultivation of knowledge, worship the
Supreme Lord as the one without a second, diverse in many, and in the
universal form.

EXPLANATION
This verse is the summary of the previous verses. The Lord tells
Arjuna that those who are purely in Krsna consciousness and do not
know anything other than Krsna are called mahatma; yet there are other
persons who are not exactly in the position of mahatma but who worship
Krsna also, in different ways. Some of them are already described as
the distressed, the financially destitute, the inquisitive, and those
who are engaged in the cultivation of knowledge. But there are others
who are still lower, and these are divided into three: 1) he who
worships himself as one with the Supreme Lord, 2) he who concocts some
form of the Supreme Lord and worships that, and 3) he who accepts the
universal form, the visvarupa of the Supreme Personality of Godhead,
and worships that. Out of the above three, the lowest, those who
worship themselves as the Supreme Lord, thinking themselves to be
monists, are most predominant. Such people think themselves to be the
Supreme Lord, and in this mentality they worship themselves. This is
also a type of God worship, for they can understand that they are not
the material body but are actually spiritual soul; at least, such a
sense is prominent. Generally the impersonalists worship the Supreme
Lord in this way. The second class includes the worshipers of the
demigods, those who by imagination consider any form to be the form of
the Supreme Lord. And the third class includes those who cannot
conceive of anything beyond the manifestation of this material
universe. They consider the universe to be the supreme organism or
entity and worship that. The universe is also a form of the Lord.

Following is a quotation by Swami Gaurangapada:
"God is available only for those who are always available to know,
serve and love Him."

Please chant Nityananda, Gauranga and Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare, and
attain the abode of the Supreme Lord.