{"id":4811,"date":"2017-08-02T16:13:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T16:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/?p=4811"},"modified":"2017-08-02T16:13:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T16:13:12","slug":"13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/13\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 13 – kshEthra kshEthragya vibhAga yOga or The Book of Matter-Spirit Distinction"},"content":{"rendered":"

SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama:<\/small><\/p>\n

Original<\/a><\/p>\n

<< Chapter 12<\/a><\/p>\n

\"world-in-krishna-mouth\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"ramanujar-4-forms\"bhagavath rAmAnuja<\/a> at AzhwArthirunagari, SrIperumbUthUr, SrIrangam and thirunArAyaNapuram<\/p>\n

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AUM<\/h2>\n

\u015aRI BHAGAVAD-G\u012aT\u0100<\/h2>\n

WITH<\/h2>\n

SRI R\u0100M\u0100NUJA’S VI\u015aISHT\u0100DVAITA COMMENTARY<\/h2>\n

THIRTEENTH LECTURE<\/h2>\n

NAMED,<\/h2>\n

KSHETRA-KSHETRAJNA-VIBH\u0100GA-YOGA<\/h2>\n

OR<\/h2>\n

THE BOOK OF MATTER-SPIRIT DISTINCTION.<\/h2>\n

PROEM<\/h3>\n

IN the First Division comprising the First Six Lectures (Psychocrasy), it was shown that there were two Paths, viz.<\/em>, Karma-Yoga and J\u00f1\u0101na-Yoga by which an aspirant can achieve actual soul-realization.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was also shown that such soul-realization or soul- cognition is ancillary (or stepping-stone) to God-Love known as Bhakti, or the Means by which to reach the Supreme Goal, viz:<\/em>, the Blessed Lord V\u0101sudeva, Who is Parabrahm.<\/span><\/p>\n

Next, in the Middle Division, (comprising the Six Lectures, Seven to Twelve, or Theocrasy), the Path of Bhakti or Bhakti-Yoga was propounded, \u2014 Bhakti or God-Love, intense and one-pointed, preceded by a true knowledge of the Blessed Lord, and His glory-full Greatness, \u2014 the Lord, the aspirant\u2019s Exalted End.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was also shown (in the Middle Division) that Bhakti-Yoga constitutes the Means (also) by which those, ambitious of acquiring wealth (ai\u015bvarya<\/em>) and those aspiring for mere soul-enjoyment (kaivalya<\/em>), can gain their respective desires.<\/span><\/p>\n

And now in the present (and last) Division, comprising the Third Six Lectures (or Theo-Philosophy, XIII-XVIII.) the topics propounded in the First Two Divisions will be further examined, grouped under the heads of: matter and spirit (prak\u1e5biti-purusha<\/em>), their union constituting the manifested Kosmos, the nature of I\u015bvara (God), the nature of (the Paths, -or Means of Salvation) Karma (works), of J\u00f1\u0101na (knowledge), and of Bhakti (Love or Devotion), and how to acquire (and practise) these several Methods.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of this Third Division, the Thirteenth Lecture undertakes to discuss the following points:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. The nature of body (matter) and soul;<\/li>\n
  2. The examination into the nature of body (matter);<\/li>\n
  3. The means by which to realize the soul (chit<\/em>) in distinction from body (matter or achit<\/em>);<\/li>\n
  4. The examination into the nature of soul as discriminated from body (matter);<\/li>\n
  5. The cause of such distinctive soul\u2019s association with matter and,<\/li>\n
  6. How the soul per se<\/em>, may be meditated on.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n