Dhyana Gita 8: Yoga of Knowledge

1. Annihilation of Action:
   
   
   
   1. What is the highest knowledge? Sri Bhagavan said: I shall fully explain to you both knowledge of the Self and of the Cosmos by learning which nothing more shall remain to be known here [7(2)].
      
   2. Sacrifice in the form of knowledge is superior to all other sacrifices, for all actions culminate in knowledge [4(33)].
      
   3. The fire of knowledge burns all fuel of actions [4(37)].
      
   4. He alone deserves the epithet of a sage, who has burnt all his actions with the fire of knowledge [4(19)].
      
   5. Since doubt is the cause of ruin, he who attains Self-knowledge beyond doubt, is alone free from bonds of action [4(40-41)].
      
   
   
   
2. Self-knowledge, very difficult for man:
   
   
   
   1. The river of Yoga disappears and appears again after a lapse of time [4(2,3)].
      
   2. Rare is the man who has realized God [7(3)].
      
   3. Time is required for acheiving perfection in Yoga as well as for the complete assimilation of that all-purifying Self-knowledge [4(38)].
      
   
   
   
3. Initiation in Knowledge: You can know the path of Knowledge from the realized seers, through humble service [4(34)].
   
   
4. The beginning of knowledge: [Even the beginning of this Yoga will put an end to grear fear.] When once we begin to tread the Path of Knowledge, it will enable us to reach perfection -- our goal -- without any obstacles [2(40)].
   
   
5. Attainment of the supreme person:
   
   
   
   1. Through one-pointed devotion it is possible to attain the all-pervading Almighty God [8(21-22)].
      
   2. He alone merges in God, who realizes that God is the source and abode of all things [8(30)].
      
   3. That knowledge will remove the darkness of your delusion and will enable you to perceive all the beings in the Atman [4(35)].
      
   4. The night of the common people is the day for the wise [2(69)].
      
   
   
   
6. Vision of equality: He who attains equality in the vision of God, can alone be entitled to the epithet of a realized Seer [13(27-28)].
   
   
7. Attainment of supermoralism:
   
   
   
   1. Even if you are the foremost of all the sinners, you will cross over all the sins by the raft of divine knowledge [4(36)].
      
   2. Unlimited is the merit in the form of this knowledge [8(28)].
      
   
   
   

Om Tat Sat!