Chapter 9: Rājavidyā-rājaguhya-yoga – Kingly Knowledge, Kingly Secret: Verse 15
ज्ञानयज्ञेन चाप्यन्ये यजन्तो मामुपासते ।
एकत्वेन पृथक्त्वेन बहुधा विश्वतोमुखम् ॥
jñāna-yajñena cāpyanye
yajanto mām-upāsate
ekatvena pṛthaktvena
bahudhā viśvatomukham – 9.15
Others worship Me (the Supreme) through knowledge-sacrifice, jñāna-yajña, contemplating upon Me as all-formed, also as singular, different and universal in expression.
Chapter 9: Rājavidyā-rājaguhya-yoga – Kingly Knowledge, Kingly Secret - Verse 15
Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha
After referring to the devotional ways of worship, Krishna speaks about Jñāna-yajña or knowledge-sacrifice, which is superior to material-sacrifice (4.33). The Supreme is all; everything is the Supreme Itself. The Supreme is universal in Its nature and magnitude, but It manifests in the form of umpteen entities, none of which is different from It. This is more an assessment and finding the mind accepts, letting all its differential notions subside completely.
While the worship mentioned earlier is oral and sensory, this is fully inner, based on the mind and intelligence. The worshipper develops the strength and compulsion to drop his delusional clinging and imbibes purity and wholesomeness to accept the new vision, and get settled in it.
As the Self is in oneself and all, the mind learns to feel and find Its universality.
