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CHAPTER 13,
14, 15, 16, 17,18
Hoofdstuk
13-18:
JNANA
YOGA, DE YOGA OF SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE:
The
individual soul realizes itself the Original Soul through
knowledge.
Chapter
13:
The Yoga of Discrimination
On the difference
between the knower and the known.
(13) I will now
explain that which is to be known, knowing which
one tastes the nectar of the beginningless spirit that is
subordinate
to Me and is said to be neither the true nor the untrue.
Chapter
14:
The Yoga of the Three Modes of Nature
On the inherent
qualities of material nature
(3) My channel of
birth is the total material existence and of the Supreme
in that I impregnate, creating the conditions of all living
entities who find
thereafter their existence, o son of Bharata.
(14) When with the
development of the mode of goodness the embodied
one finds dissolution, then one attains to the world of
those
who are pure and of great wisdom.
Chapter
15:
The Yoga of the Supreme Person
About
the realization of the characteristcs, virtue and glory of
God
(1) The Supreme Lord
said: 'Anyone who knows that the Asvattha
is said to be an imperishable [banyan-]tree that has
its roots upwards,
its branches downwards and of which the leaves
are the vedic hymns, knows the Veda's.
(7) The embodied soul in its own local existence is
certainly
an eternal part of Me, with the mind as the sixth of the
senses
carried in its material position.
Chapter
16:
The Yoga of discriminating the qualities
of the enlightened and the unenlightened
About
the qualities of the divine and the godless
(6)
There are two types of
conditioned beings in this world:
the godly and indeed the unenlightened. About the divine
I spoke at length; just hear about the godless from me.
Chapter17:
De Yoga of the Threefold Division of Faith
About
the nature of each type of food intake, austerity and
sacrifice.
(14) In deeds is
austerity said to be of respect for the divinity, the
twice-born,
the spiritual teacher and the wise in cleanliness,
sincerity,
celibacy and nonviolence.
Chapter
18a:
The Yoga of
liberation through lessening
About
renunciation and its threefold nature.
(19) One says that knowledge, action and the doer are
for certain as well of three kinds in terms of the three
modes of nature;
hear also how they are all set apart.
Chapter
18b:
The Yoga of
liberation through lessening
About
renunciation (its threefold nature) and
its service with the divisions of society as the ultimate of
liberation.
(41) 'O chastiser of
the enemy, the activities of the intellectuals
and priests (brahmins), the rulers and the military
(ksatriya's),
the traders and farmers (vaisha's) and the servants and
laborers
(sûdra's), are divided to their own natures that
originate from the material modes.
(74) Sanjaya said:
"Thus I have heard this discussion of Vâsudeva
and of the great soul Arjuna, so wonderful, that it makes my
hair stand on end.