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Unto Him alone, therefore, you surrender, O Scion of Bharata, with your very being; through His grace you shall attain to the Supreme Peace and the Absolute.
इित ते ानमाातं गु ादग् ु तरं मया। ि व म  ृ य त ै द श ष े ण े य थ े ि स त थ ा क ु  ॥
Iti te jnaanamaakhyaatam guhyaad guhyataram mayaa; Vimrishyaitadasheshena yathecchasi tathaa kuru. (18-63)
Thus unto thee has been recited by Me this doctrine which is more mysterious than mystery itself: ponder over it well and fully, and thereafter do as thou willst.
They relate directly to the various conditions which an abhyasi passes through during the course of his march. It related to the practical realisation of those conditions which
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can be attained through proper Sadhana . There may
however be elevated souls present in the world today4 who may be able to give you a glimpse of it, or to create instantly the same state in you by the application of their own inner powers.
Let us here consider how much time Lord Krishna could have possibly required for speaking out the total text of the Srimad Bhagavad Gita as we find it today. The armies were standing face to face on the battlefield, and war trumpets were sounding loud, announcing the zero hour for action. How much time was there at the disposal of Lord Krishna to bring Arjuna round to the proper course by preaching a sermon to him? The recitation requires at least a few hours. How could that be possible at that critical moment? Evidently he could not have taken more than a few minutes for it. The fact is that Lord Krishna actually transmitted to Arjuna, within a few minutes, all those mental states
3 See Basic Writings of Sri Ramchandra (Towards Infinity) / Path of Grace 4 Like our masters and trainers in the Natural Path