Receiving Higher Knowledge

The "Raja Yoga" gives perfection of Sama+dhi (equanimity of mind) gradually as explained in the previous posts.

Having controlled the external and internal nature and gaining the realization of the SELF as it were, leads the YOGI to be capable of receiving the HIGHER knowledge of LORD.

Question: Until this stage we have not entertained any question relating to the "nature of LORD". We have just been instructed to surrender to the LORD. WHY?

Ans: Because a person will not be able to "intellectually speculate" the nature of LORD who is beyond the ideas and words.

Question: So, Is there no way to gain the knowledge of LORD?
Ans: NO. There is a WAY. LORD himself reveals his true nature once the recipient is ready for such a knowledge. Only by conquering one's own nature (by the means of Karma Yoga and Raja Yoga methods) both externally and internally one can purify himself to receive the higher knowledge directly from LORD.

In Srimad Bhagavad Gita, the first verses (1-3) of Chapter 7 (called jnana vijnana yoga), Lord Declares to Arjuna

श्री भगवानुवाच
मय्यासक्तमनाः पार्थ योगं युञ्जन्मदाश्रयः।
असंशयं समग्रं मां यथा ज्ञास्यसि तच्छृणु।।7.1।।

śrī bhagavānuvāca
mayyāsaktamanāḥ pārtha yōgaṅ yuñjanmadāśrayaḥ.
asaṅśayaṅ samagraṅ māṅ yathā jñāsyasi tacchṛṇu..7.1..

ज्ञानं तेऽहं सविज्ञानमिदं वक्ष्याम्यशेषतः।
यज्ज्ञात्वा नेह भूयोऽन्यज्ज्ञातव्यमवशिष्यते।।7.2।।
jñānaṅ tē.haṅ savijñānamidaṅ vakṣyāmyaśēṣataḥ.
yajjñātvā nēha bhūyō.nyajjñātavyamavaśiṣyatē..7.2..

मनुष्याणां सहस्रेषु कश्चिद्यतति सिध्दये।
यततामपि सिध्दानां कश्चिन्मां वेत्ति तत्त्वतः।।7.3।।
manuṣyāṇāṅ sahasrēṣu kaścidyatati sidhdayē.
yatatāmapi sidhdānāṅ kaścinmāṅ vētti tattvataḥ..7.3..

What does the above three verses tell?

Instruction 21:
LORD comes forward to reveal himself to the one who has surrendered himself by the means of yoga and who is TRULY interested in knowing him.
The DIRECT knowledge of LORD is COMPLETE (samagram - in fullness) and generates no further doubt (asamsayam - with certainity, without any doubt)

By knowing such knowledge (jnanam) along with the realization of its apparent multiple branches (sa, vijnanam) there is nothing more worthy remains to be known. (na anyat jnatavyam avasishyate)

In thousands of men, one (a few of them) strives for perfection [of their knowledge of LORD]. Of the thousands who strive to know the LORD, one will truly know the LORD in essence!


So, only after knowing one's own self through the purification, LORD reveals himself to that pure soul. There is no way of knowing the LORD by the means of "ideas" and "words" that are generated out of confused dualistic mind! (extroverted mind that is polluted by the duality of attraction and repulsion / acceptance and rejection)


om tat sat