Bhagavad Gita

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Bhagavad Gita As It Is
Chapter 4 Transcendental Knowledge.
Text 34-35 Process of accepting a Guru. The
science of Absolute Truth.
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Text 34

• Path of Self Realization is very difficult.
• No one can be a bona fide spiritual master
  without following this principle of disciplic
  succession.
• No one can be spiritually realized by
  manufacturing his own process.
• Thus one must approach a Guru.

tad viddhi praëipätena paripraçnena
sevayä upadekñyanti te jïänaà jïäninas
tattva-darçinaù Just try to learn the truth by
approaching a spiritual master. Inquire from him
submissively and render service unto him. The
self-realized souls can impart knowledge unto you
because they have seen the truth.
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Process of surrendering unto a Guru.
Surrender
Once understood that Guru is bonafide, no
reservation in accepting knowldege. This is not
blind following.
Enquiries coupled with service
Not only should one hear submissively from the
spiritual master, but one must also get a clear
understanding from him, in submission and service
and inquiries.
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Text 35
yaj jïätvä na punar moham evaà yäsyasi
päëòava yena bhütäny açeñäëi drakñyasy ätmany
atho mayi Having obtained real knowledge from a
self-realized soul, you will never fall again
into such illusion, for by this knowledge you
will see that all living beings are but part of
the Supreme, or, in other words, that they are
Mine.
One learns the complete science of Absolute truth
from bonafide spiritual master. Complete science
means to understand all living beings as part of
Supreme. Mayavada theory incomplete or improper
understanding.
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Science of Absolute truth.
oà pürëam adaù pürëam idaà pürëät pürëam
udacyate pürëasya pürëam ädäya pürëam
evävaçiñyate The Personality of Godhead is
perfect and complete, and because He is
completely perfect, all emanations from Him, such
as this phenomenal world, are perfectly equipped
as complete wholes. Whatever is produced of the
Complete Whole is also complete in itself.
Because He is the Complete Whole, even though so
many complete units emanate from Him, He remains
the complete balance.
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Transcendental Knowledge of self realization.

• A living being, as Kåñëa's eternal servitor,
  cannot be separated from Kåñëa, and his sense of
  being an identity apart from Kåñëa is called
  mäyä.
• Perfect knowledge is that the Supreme Soul,
  Kåñëa, is the supreme shelter for all living
  entities, and giving up such shelter, the living
  entities are deluded by the material energy,
  imagining themselves to have a separate identity.
  
• muktir hitvänyathä-rüpaà svarüpeëa vyavasthitiù.
  Liberation means to be situated in one's
  constitutional position as an eternal servitor of
  Kåñëa (Kåñëa consciousness).

This knowledge possible by mercy of Guru