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Part IX: The Kingly Knowledge.1443
Part IX: The Kingly Knowledge.
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hen spake Krishna, the Blessed Lord, unto Prince Arjuna, saying:
“And, now giveth I to thee, O Arjuna, thou faithful and trusting one,
the final and supreme knowledge—the wisdom royal—whose secret, when
once known to thee, O Prince, shalt set thee free from evil and misfortune.
This is the true Kingly Science—Royal Secret—Imperial Purifier—most
easy of intuitional comprehension to such as thou art—not difficult of
performance—and imperishable and never-failing. Those who possess not
this knowledge fail to find Me, and therefore return again and again to this
world of birth and death.
“This universe, in its parts, and in its entirety, is an emanation of Me, and
I fill it in my invisible form—yea, even I, the Unmanifest. All things are of
Me—not I of them. But, mistake thou not, O Prince, lest thou in error think
that even All Things are Myself. I am the sustainer of all things, but All Things
are not I. Knoweth thou that even as the vast volume of Air, everywhere
present, and in constant activity, is sustained and contained within the
Universal Ether—so do all manifested things rest in Me, the Unmanifest. This
is the Secret, O Arjuna; ponder well upon it. At the end of a Kalpa—a day of
Brahm—a period of creative activity—I withdraw into my nature all things
and beings. And, at the beginning of another Kalpa, I emanate all things