now what of those who worship the formless where will they reach Shri
Krishna doesn't reject them he says Arjun they will also reach the
goal he's now in the next verses is going to explain well who the
worshippers of the faultless reach and then he compares the two paths what is
easy what is difficult what is more appropriate for us and then he goes on
to describe the path of chapter 12 verse 3 year to Akshara Munir - via tompa you
paucity
Salwa track gamut Indians who tossed much Alan drew saniye million grama
sarvatra summer budaya peopre new one teamahma
serve food hitter we discussed so far that having seen the universal form of
the Supreme Lord allergen was moved to curiosity he had seen God
in his two different aspects in his sweet personal two-armed form and his
all-pervading cosmic form so he had now the choice of yoke should he absorb his
mind in the formless all-pervading aspect or
should he angered his mind in thinking of the personal form of God now we
should remember that these two are different aspects of the one God I keep
emphasizing we are not to limit our understanding some people say he's only
personal some say he is only formless that is limited understanding the
complete understanding is that he is both because he's Salva shaktimaan
all-powerful Satya Sun tell whatever he resolves comes about health Shankar
Acharya said if God resolves to be formless he will be so if he resolves to
have a personal form he will have one he is both molten diver a moot injure so
both these aspects are a fact and that gives us the choice
should we approach the farm 'less should we approach the personal farm those who
worshipped of personal farm table my Krishna is everywhere but as a matter of
choice they wish to connect with him in his farm
those who worship the formless they know sometimes that this formless descends as
an avatar in the world but they wish to contemplate upon that aspect of him so
Arjun desired to compare because we all wish to reach the highest goal this is a
universal Dharma amongst all human beings we wish to perfect ourselves we
wish to become perfect humans that's our natural urge of the soul so if we come
to a level of perfection and we find out there is a higher level of perfection we
strive for that so this urge within Arjun inspired him to ask the question
shri krishna which of these two kinds of Yogi's would you consider more perfect
in yoke so shri krishna answered that arjun those who worship my personal farm
i consider them to be the highest and we went into the depths of this verse and
understood that if you have a distant realization
you see him as a formless light if you have a closer realization of him you see
him as seated within the heart as the Paramatma and in his closest realization
you realize him in his personal form where the sweetness of his farm
manifests the sweetness of his flute the sweetness of his pastimes his song
Kumari I saw she Lea saw us here all this is relished by the devotee of the
personal form so now having said that worship of the personal form will give
the highest realization and also the sweetest experience of bliss Shri
Krishna is not eliminating the other kinds of Yogi's he doesn't say this is
the only path so he says archer those who worship the formless and he gives an
extended definition of it it is unmanifest indefinable
inconceivable without attributes Shankaracharya its
inner corner Ashish Nehra car so those who worship God in that aspect will also
reach him
human beings have inherent varieties in them variety is the characteristic of
this world we all have different appearances of course but we also have
different voices and very often I'm subject to intimidation because of this
just today it happened somebody rang up rather than a Swamiji said Ravi Ravi
putana uncle did you recognize me I said what a wonderful way to start why don't
you start by introducing yourself I am so-and-so from LA a very good very
good so but they expect Swamiji to remember
because everybody's voices are different all of us have different fingerprints
that's the principle behind the electronic signature seven billion of us
on the planet Earth and this little area has got such a variety in it and the
variety in our natures is connected to our Sun scars of past lives you know if
we have been through so many forms and even the lower species so to variegated
nature started developing there itself my host has got a dog so that dogs
full-time occupation is making friends with anybody in the house and whenever
he sees me he wants to jump on me so I am NOT habituated to dogs like keep
trying to white but I was interested to see that
look at his affectionate nature now the Sun scars are already there
this dog when finally it's promoted to the human form you'd expect those son
scars it will be a very affectionate loving human being so we are all coming
from different life forms from infinite lifetimes we've all taken on different
human forms in the past that is why there is such amazing variety amongst us
now you can't fit the same shirt on to everyone right so you can't have just
one part as they say different looks for different folks the beauty of our Vedic
tradition is it acknowledges this variety and caters to it so Shri Krishna
does not cut it out but yet he makes arjun aware of what the spot entails
what the other path entails where will the first take us where will
the second take us and then leaves it to her tchen para who just uma he's oh hi
Dharam had said Oh residents of Ayodhya I have informed you of the truck think
over it deeply contemplate decide and then do what you wish so the teacher
does not force the teacher helps the student to learn so Shri Krishna is
letting Arjun know what this path is all about