yamādibhir yoga-pathair. abhyasañ śraddhayānvitaḥ. mayi bhāvena satyena. mat-kathā-śravaṇena ca. With faith one should practice using the yoga process starting with yama and niyama, while hearing my glories

yamādibhir yoga-pathair

abhyasañ śraddhayānvitaḥ

mayi bhāvena satyena

mat-kathā-śravaṇena ca

 

With faith one should practice using the yoga process starting with yama and niyama, while hearing my glories with the understanding that I am real.

 

Elaborating on what has just been said, Kapila explains the method of attaining liberation by jñāna. The sentence actually continues till verse 11. Practicing the path of yoga, concentrating the mind, realizing jīva and Paramātmā, one will attain non-duality which contains everything. One should think of the Lord as real (satyena). The Lord is not something false. This misconception is based on the perception that Brahman becomes variegated with forms by illusion only, and the form of the Lord is included in that illusion. The jñānī cannot attain liberation by the offensive mentality of thinking that knowledge and bliss are different from the form of the Lord. This is understood from the following statements.

 

ye 'nye 'ravindākṣa vimukta-māninas

tvayy asta-bhāvād aviśuddha-buddhayaḥ

āruhya kṛcchreṇa paraṁ padaṁ tataḥ

patanty adho 'nādṛta-yuṣmad-aṅghrayaḥ

 

Persons who are falsely under the impression of being liberated, without devotional service to the Lord, may reach the goal of the brahmajyoti, but because of their impure consciousness and for want of shelter in the Vaikuṇṭha-lokas, such so-called liberated persons again fall down into material existence. SB 10.2.32

 

naiṣkarmyam apy acyuta-bhāva-varjitaṁ

na śobhate jñānam alaṁ nirañjanam

kutaḥ punaḥ śaśvad abhadram īśvare

na cārpitaṁ karma yad apy akāraṇam

 

Even the stage of jñāna without the bondage of karma is not glorious because it is devoid of bhakti to the Supreme Lord. What is the use of having destroyed ignorance? What to speak of sakāma-karma which is suffering during practice and perfection, and niṣkāma-karma, when not offered to the Lord? SB 1.5.12

 

ya eṣāṁ puruṣaṁ sākṣād

ātma-prabhavam īśvaram

na bhajanty avajānanti

sthānād bhraṣṭāḥ patanty adhaḥ

 

If any of the members of the four varṇas and four āśramas fail to worship or intentionally disrespect the Lord, who is the source of their own creation, they will fall down from their position into a hellish state of life. SB 11.5.3

 

avajānanti māṁ mūḍhā

mānuṣīṁ tanum āśritam

paraṁ bhāvam ajānanto

mama bhūta-maheśvaram

 

Fools deride me when I descend in the human form. They do not know my transcendental nature and my supreme dominion over all that be. BG 9.11

 

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