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\n\u092a\u094d\u0930\u0924\u094d\u092f\u0915\u094d\u0937\u093e\u0935\u0917\u092e\u0902 \u0927\u0930\u094d\u092e\u094d\u092f\u0902 \u0938\u0941\u0938\u0941\u0916\u0902 \u0915\u0930\u094d\u0924\u0941\u092e\u0935\u094d\u092f\u092f\u092e\u094d \u0965 \u0968 \u0965<\/p>\n
\nr\u0101ja-vidy\u0101 r\u0101ja-guhya\u1e41
\npavitram idam uttamam
\npratyak\u1e63\u0101vagama\u1e41 dharmya\u1e41
\nsu-sukha\u1e41 kartum avyayam<\/p>\n
\nSynonyms
\nr\u0101ja-vidy\u0101 \u2014 the king of education; r\u0101ja-guhyam \u2014 the king of confidential knowledge; pavitram \u2014 the purest; idam \u2014 this; uttamam \u2014 transcendental; pratyak\u1e63a \u2014 by direct experience; avagamam \u2014 understood; dharmyam \u2014 the principle of religion; su-sukham \u2014 very happy; kartum \u2014 to execute; avyayam \u2014 everlasting.<\/p>\n
\nTranslation
\nThis knowledge is the king of education, the most secret of all secrets. It is the purest knowledge, and because it gives direct perception of the self by realization, it is the perfection of religion. It is everlasting, and it is joyfully performed.<\/p>\n
\nPurport
\nThis chapter of Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101 is called the king of education because it is the essence of all doctrines and philosophies explained before. Among the principal philosophers in India are Gautama, Ka\u1e47\u0101da, Kapila, Y\u0101j\u00f1avalkya, \u015a\u0101\u1e47\u1e0dilya and Vai\u015bv\u0101nara. And finally there is Vy\u0101sadeva, the author of the Ved\u0101nta-s\u016btra. So there is no dearth of knowledge in the field of philosophy or transcendental knowledge. Now the Lord says that this Ninth Chapter is the king of all such knowledge, the essence of all knowledge that can be derived from the study of the Vedas and different kinds of philosophy. It is the most confidential because confidential or transcendental knowledge involves understanding the difference between the soul and the body. And the king of all confidential knowledge culminates in devotional service.
\nGenerally, people are not educated in this confidential knowledge; they are educated in external knowledge. As far as ordinary education is concerned, people are involved with so many departments: politics, sociology, physics, chemistry, mathematics, astronomy, engineering, etc. There are so many departments of knowledge all over the world and many huge universities, but there is, unfortunately, no university or educational institution where the science of the spirit soul is instructed. Yet the soul is the most important part of the body; without the presence of the soul, the body has no value. Still people are placing great stress on the bodily necessities of life, not caring for the vital soul.
\nThe Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101, especially from the Second Chapter on, stresses the importance of the soul. In the very beginning, the Lord says that this body is perishable and that the soul is not perishable (antavanta ime deh\u0101 nityasyokt\u0101\u1e25 \u015bar\u012bri\u1e47a\u1e25). That is a confidential part of knowledge: simply knowing that the spirit soul is different from this body and that its nature is immutable, indestructible and eternal. But that gives no positive information about the soul. Sometimes people are under the impression that the soul is different from the body and that when the body is finished, or one is liberated from the body, the soul remains in a void and becomes impersonal. But actually that is not the fact. How can the soul, which is so active within this body, be inactive after being liberated from the body? It is always active. If it is eternal, then it is eternally active, and its activities in the spiritual kingdom are the most confidential part of spiritual knowledge. These activities of the spirit soul are therefore indicated here as constituting the king of all knowledge, the most confidential part of all knowledge.
\nThis knowledge is the purest form of all activities, as explained in Vedic literature. In the Padma Pur\u0101\u1e47a, man\u2019s sinful activities have been analyzed and are shown to be the results of sin after sin. Those who are engaged in fruitive activities are entangled in different stages and forms of sinful reactions. For instance, when the seed of a particular tree is sown, the tree does not appear immediately to grow; it takes some time. It is first a small, sprouting plant, then it assumes the form of a tree, then it flowers and bears fruit, and, when it is complete, the flowers and fruits are enjoyed by persons who have sown the seed of the tree. Similarly, a man performs a sinful act, and like a seed it takes time to fructify. There are different stages. The sinful action may have already stopped within the individual, but the results or the fruit of that sinful action are still to be enjoyed. There are sins which are still in the form of a seed, and there are others which are already fructified and are giving us fruit, which we are enjoying as distress and pain.
\nAs explained in the twenty-eighth verse of the Seventh Chapter, a person who has completely ended the reactions of all sinful activities and who is fully engaged in pious activities, being freed from the duality of this material world, becomes engaged in devotional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. In other words, those who are actually engaged in the devotional service of the Supreme Lord are already freed from all reactions. This statement is confirmed in the Padma Pur\u0101\u1e47a:
\napr\u0101rabdha-phala\u1e41 p\u0101pa\u1e41
\nk\u016b\u1e6da\u1e41 b\u012bja\u1e41 phalonmukham
\nkrame\u1e47aiva pral\u012byeta
\nvi\u1e63\u1e47u-bhakti-rat\u0101tman\u0101m
\nFor those who are engaged in the devotional service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, all sinful reactions, whether fructified, in the stock, or in the form of a seed, gradually vanish. Therefore the purifying potency of devotional service is very strong, and it is called pavitram uttamam, the purest. Uttama means transcendental. Tamas means this material world or darkness, and uttama means that which is transcendental to material activities. Devotional activities are never to be considered material, although sometimes it appears that devotees are engaged just like ordinary men. One who can see and is familiar with devotional service will know that they are not material activities. They are all spiritual and devotional, uncontaminated by the material modes of nature.
\nIt is said that the execution of devotional service is so perfect that one can perceive the results directly. This direct result is actually perceived, and we have practical experience that any person who is chanting the holy names of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a (Hare K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, Hare K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, Hare Hare\/ Hare R\u0101ma, Hare R\u0101ma, R\u0101ma R\u0101ma, Hare Hare) in course of chanting without offenses feels some transcendental pleasure and very quickly becomes purified of all material contamination. This is actually seen. Furthermore, if one engages not only in hearing but in trying to broadcast the message of devotional activities as well, or if he engages himself in helping the missionary activities of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a consciousness, he gradually feels spiritual progress. This advancement in spiritual life does not depend on any kind of previous education or qualification. The method itself is so pure that by simply engaging in it one becomes pure.
\nIn the Ved\u0101nta-s\u016btra (3.2.26) this is also described in the following words: prak\u0101\u015ba\u015b ca karma\u1e47y abhy\u0101s\u0101t. \u201cDevotional service is so potent that simply by engaging in the activities of devotional service one becomes enlightened without a doubt.\u201d A practical example of this can be seen in the previous life of N\u0101rada, who in that life happened to be the son of a maidservant. He had no education, nor was he born into a high family. But when his mother was engaged in serving great devotees, N\u0101rada also became engaged, and sometimes, in the absence of his mother, he would serve the great devotees himself. N\u0101rada personally says,
\nucchi\u1e63\u1e6da-lep\u0101n anumodito dvijai\u1e25
\nsak\u1e5bt sma bhu\u00f1je tad-ap\u0101sta-kilbi\u1e63a\u1e25
\neva\u1e41 prav\u1e5bttasya vi\u015buddha-cetasas
\ntad-dharma ev\u0101tma-ruci\u1e25 praj\u0101yate
\nIn this verse from \u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam (1.5.25) N\u0101rada describes his previous life to his disciple Vy\u0101sadeva. He says that while engaged as a boy servant for those purified devotees during the four months of their stay, he was intimately associating with them. Sometimes those sages left remnants of food on their dishes, and the boy, who would wash their dishes, wanted to taste the remnants. So he asked the great devotees for their permission, and when they gave it N\u0101rada ate those remnants and consequently became freed from all sinful reactions. As he went on eating, he gradually became as pure-hearted as the sages. The great devotees relished the taste of unceasing devotional service to the Lord by hearing and chanting, and N\u0101rada gradually developed the same taste. N\u0101rada says further,
\ntatr\u0101nv-aha\u1e41 k\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a-kath\u0101\u1e25 prag\u0101yat\u0101m
\nanugrahe\u1e47\u0101\u015b\u1e5b\u1e47ava\u1e41 mano-har\u0101\u1e25
\nt\u0101\u1e25 \u015braddhay\u0101 me \u2019nu-pada\u1e41 vi\u015b\u1e5b\u1e47vata\u1e25
\npriya\u015bravasy a\u1e45ga mam\u0101bhavad ruci\u1e25
\nBy associating with the sages, N\u0101rada got the taste for hearing and chanting the glories of the Lord, and he developed a great desire for devotional service. Therefore, as described in the Ved\u0101nta-s\u016btra, prak\u0101\u015ba\u015b ca karma\u1e47y abhy\u0101s\u0101t: if one is engaged simply in the acts of devotional service, everything is revealed to him automatically, and he can understand. This is called pratyak\u1e63a, directly perceived.
\nThe word dharmyam means \u201cthe path of religion.\u201d N\u0101rada was actually a son of a maidservant. He had no opportunity to go to school. He was simply assisting his mother, and fortunately his mother rendered some service to the devotees. The child N\u0101rada also got the opportunity and simply by association achieved the highest goal of all religion. The highest goal of all religion is devotional service, as stated in \u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam (sa vai pu\u1e41s\u0101\u1e41 paro dharmo yato bhaktir adhok\u1e63aje). Religious people generally do not know that the highest perfection of religion is the attainment of devotional service. As we have already discussed in regard to the last verse of Chapter Eight (vede\u1e63u yaj\u00f1e\u1e63u tapa\u1e25su caiva), generally Vedic knowledge is required for self-realization. But here, although N\u0101rada never went to the school of the spiritual master and was not educated in the Vedic principles, he acquired the highest results of Vedic study. This process is so potent that even without performing the religious process regularly, one can be raised to the highest perfection. How is this possible? This is also confirmed in Vedic literature: \u0101c\u0101ryav\u0101n puru\u1e63o veda. One who is in association with great \u0101c\u0101ryas, even if he is not educated or has never studied the Vedas, can become familiar with all the knowledge necessary for realization.
\nThe process of devotional service is a very happy one (su-sukham). Why? Devotional service consists of \u015brava\u1e47a\u1e41 k\u012brtana\u1e41 vi\u1e63\u1e47o\u1e25, so one can simply hear the chanting of the glories of the Lord or can attend philosophical lectures on transcendental knowledge given by authorized \u0101c\u0101ryas. Simply by sitting, one can learn; then one can eat the remnants of the food offered to God, nice palatable dishes. In every state devotional service is joyful. One can execute devotional service even in the most poverty-stricken condition. The Lord says, patra\u1e41 pu\u1e63pa\u1e41 phala\u1e41 toyam: He is ready to accept from the devotee any kind of offering, never mind what. Even a leaf, a flower, a bit of fruit, or a little water, which are all available in every part of the world, can be offered by any person, regardless of social position, and will be accepted if offered with love. There are many instances in history. Simply by tasting the tulas\u012b leaves offered to the lotus feet of the Lord, great sages like Sanat-kum\u0101ra became great devotees. Therefore the devotional process is very nice, and it can be executed in a happy mood. God accepts only the love with which things are offered to Him.
\nIt is said here that this devotional service is eternally existing. It is not as the M\u0101y\u0101v\u0101d\u012b philosophers claim. Although they sometimes take to so-called devotional service, their idea is that as long as they are not liberated they will continue their devotional service, but at the end, when they become liberated, they will \u201cbecome one with God.\u201d Such temporary time-serving devotional service is not accepted as pure devotional service. Actual devotional service continues even after liberation. When the devotee goes to the spiritual planet in the kingdom of God, he is also engaged there in serving the Supreme Lord. He does not try to become one with the Supreme Lord.
\nAs will be seen in Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101, actual devotional service begins after liberation. After one is liberated, when one is situated in the Brahman position (brahma-bh\u016bta), one\u2019s devotional service begins (sama\u1e25 sarve\u1e63u bh\u016bte\u1e63u mad-bhakti\u1e41 labhate par\u0101m). No one can understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead by executing karma-yoga, j\u00f1\u0101na-yoga, a\u1e63\u1e6d\u0101\u1e45ga-yoga or any other yoga independently. By these yogic methods one may make a little progress toward bhakti-yoga, but without coming to the stage of devotional service one cannot understand what is the Personality of Godhead. In the \u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam it is also confirmed that when one becomes purified by executing the process of devotional service, especially by hearing \u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam or Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101 from realized souls, then he can understand the science of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, or the science of God. Eva\u1e41 prasanna-manaso bhagavad-bhakti-yogata\u1e25. When one\u2019s heart is cleared of all nonsense, then one can understand what God is. Thus the process of devotional service, of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a consciousness, is the king of all education and the king of all confidential knowledge. It is the purest form of religion, and it can be executed joyfully without difficulty. Therefore one should adopt it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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