Chapter 7: Jñāna Vijñāna Yoga – Knowledge and its Actualization: Verse 20
कामैस्तैस्तैर्हृतज्ञाना: प्रपद्यन्तेऽन्यदेवता: ।
तं तं नियममास्थाय प्रकृत्या नियता: स्वया ॥
kāmais-tais-tair-hṛta-jñānā:
prapadyante’nya-devatā:
taṃ taṃ niyamam-āsthāya
prakṛtyā niyatā: svayā – 7.20
Led by their own inherent nature, robbed of wisdom by their own various desires, men worship other divine agencies, observing the disciplines related to each.
Chapter 7: Jñāna Vijñāna Yoga – Knowledge and its Actualization - Verse 20
Ma Gurupriya
One’s own inherent nature is hard to overcome. Holding people firmly under its grip, it robs their discrimination. As a result, many take to worshipping a variety of subsidiary divine agencies with various austerities, by adhering to which alone, the votaries think, their performance will fruition properly.
But the fact is that such impetus primarily results from lack of discrimination to reflect upon and evaluate matters dispassionately.
Worship, to whomever it is addressed, is the worshipper’s act, compelled by his own thoughts, feelings and attitudes. Rules and procedures are more what the worshipper relishes than the worshipped looks for. What is pronounced in the whole process is the worshipper’s inner orientation. One always reaches where his ambition and belief lead to. Krishna emphasizes that one’s fate is what he himself moulds.
