Chapter 7: Jñāna Vijñāna Yoga – Knowledge and its Actualization: Verse 3
मनुष्याणां सहस्रेषु कश्चिद्यतति सिद्धये ।
यततामपि सिद्धानां कश्चिन्मां वेत्ति तत्त्वत: ॥
manuṣyāṇāṃ sahasreṣu
kaścid-yatati siddhaye
yatatām-api siddhānāṃ
kaścin-māṃ vetti tattvata: – 7.3
One in thousands takes up and pursues spiritual seeking. Amongst such striving seekers, very rare is the one who understands Me, the Supreme, in essence.
Chapter 7: Jñāna Vijñāna Yoga – Knowledge and its Actualization - Verse 3
Ma Gurupriya
Many are fond of God, and they respect, fear and praise Him. Equally so a few take to some kind of religious yearning and strive for its fruition. As mentioned earlier (4.12), people take to different forms of worship to propitiate some divine agency or other. Such worship is said to yield quick results.
But proper discrimination is rare; and hence not many pursue true devotion for gaining lasting contentment. Generally people are happy with some transitory gains, for which the effort required is little and short.
Krishna pinpoints that true spiritual seekers are very few. Amongst them, those who strive to know God in preference to any other attainment, are still rarer, nay the rarest. By mentioning this rarity, Krishna is drawing Arjuna’s special attention to a devotionally enriched spiritual seeking. He intends to provide Arjuna with additional knowledge of the mystery and excellence of Creation.
