Chapter 7: Jñāna Vijñāna Yoga – Knowledge and its Actualization: Verse 16
चतुर्विधा भजन्ते मां जना: सुकृतिनोऽर्जुन ।
आर्तो जिज्ञासुरर्थार्थी ज्ञानी च भरतर्षभ ॥
catur-vidhā bhajante māṃ
janā: sukṛtino’rjuna
ārto jijñāsur-arthārthī
jñānī ca bharatarṣabha – 7.16
Four kinds of virtuous people worship Me – the afflicted, the enquiring, the one yearning for some specific gain, and the Knower, O great amongst the Bharatas.
Chapter 7: Jñāna Vijñāna Yoga – Knowledge and its Actualization - Verse 16
Ma Gurupriya
Nature beams with variety. By the law of variety, all people will never be bad or ignoble. While some love to indulge in evil ways and wickedness, others devoutly remain good and noble, with unswerving resolve. The noble fall into four categories, says Krishna.
Some have a plight of torment on one account or another. Some others will be led by a strong note of curiosity. What is faith, where does it lead to? Their worship will be led by thoughts and enquiry of this kind.
The third category will be looking for some specific secular or divine outcome. But to achieve it somehow, they need support and blessings, and hence they try to propitiate the higher powers, seeking their favour.
The fourth category consists of those who know the supreme Truth. They realize that God alone is; nothing additional or different can be. Their worship consists in this knowledge, its unshrinking blissful prevalence.
