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Part VII: Spiritual Discernment.
Then, further unto Arjuna, spake Krishna, the Blessed Lord, saying:
“Listen now to My words, O Arjuna, and thou shalt learn how, having
thy mind firmly fixed upon Me, and observing the Yogi teachings, thou shalt
of a verity know Me without a doubt. I shall instruct thee in this wondrous
wisdom and knowledge, without reserve or withholding, and when thou
learnest this teaching, then shalt thou have acquired that knowledge which
leaves nothing else to be known by man.
“But a few men, among the thousands of the race, have sufficient
discernment to desire to attain Perfection. And of this few, the successful
seekers are so rare, that there is but here one and there one who knoweth
Me in my essential nature.
“In my nature are to be found the eightfold forms known as earth, water,
fire, air, and ether, together with mind, reason and self-consciousness. But,
besides these, I possess a higher and nobler nature—the nature or principle
which supporteth and sustaineth the universe. Know this as the womb of
creation.
“For I am the Creator of the universe—likewise am I the dissolution of
the universe. Higher than I, there is naught. All the objects of the universe
depend upon Me, and are sustained by Me, even as precious gems depend