A s the dialogue between Lord Krishna and Arjuna progresses, it becomes subtle from gross, spiritual from material, royal from ordinary and secret from open. The ninth chapter of the Geeta is named as RajavidyaRajaguhya - Yoga or the Yoga of the royal path which is secret. The path which Lord Krishna is talking about is royal because it frees the practitioners from all sorrows and suffering and it is highly secret as it is not known to many. The path is eternal and is attainable by all. This is the beauty of this royal path. In this chapter also Lord Krishna is talking about knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge is related to the material world, whereas wisdom is the realisation of our own conscious existence.

 

The divinity pervades the entire cosmos and acts as the substratum for the play of the phenomenal world woven into the multiplicities of beings and things. The divinity is eternal because it is the immutable platform upon which the ephemeral world keeps on changing. The art of right living constitutes the understanding that the bliss and liberation from suffering happens only through the inner journey of consciousness. Consciousness trapped into the material and sensuous pleasures ultimately leads to pain and suffering. Self control is the key to inner joy. Awareness that our inner core is pure and attainable only through devotion is the essence of the righteous living. Devotion is the pure love which opens the doors to divinity. Devotion and faith are the anchors of the inner journey of bliss and tranquility. Egocentric tendencies and arrogance lead to conflicts and maladjustment.

 

To understand that we are eternally divine is the only blessed path. Too much indulgence into the pleasure of sense organs is the origin of mental restlessness and inner conflict. The phenomenal world is full of multiplicities, but these multiplicities cannot exist without one unbroken web of Single Reality. The sun is one, but it gets reflected into innumerable sources of the different mediums. Lord Krishna propounds that the deluded persons consider the world as the only reality, but they forget that the phenomenal microcosm cannot exist without the universal macrocosm. In this chapter also the importance of cognitive understanding is emphasised. One becomes what one thinks. Types and qualities of thoughts decide our actions and destination. Narrow and egocentric thoughts bind us and limit our happiness. Hence constant meditation upon divinity and purity leads to the cultivation of universal and all encompassing affinity and sense of interconnectedness.

 

Those who work with full focus with single pointedness and devotion easily achieve both material as well as spiritual success. The Geeta is revolutionary in the sense that this royal path of liberation is open to all. Even a person with evil deeds will get purified and be free from suffering if he follows the righteous path of knowledge. This is the great message of reformation and redemption given by the Geeta. The Geeta does not attach any ideological tag for liberation and freedom from suffering. There are many ancient texts which are discriminatory against women and some communities. But the Geeta has opened the royal path to one and all.