India’s Greatest Impersonalist Meditated
on Lord Krsna and the Bhagavad-gita

Srila Prabhupdda chastises impersonalist yogis and swamis, the nominal
followers of the ninth-century teacher Sankara, in this commentary on the lat-
ter’s Meditation on the Bhagavad-gita: “Fools rush in where angels fear to
tread. Whereas Sankara, the greatest of the impersonalists, offers his due
respects to Krsna and His book Bhagavad-gita, the foolish say that ‘we need
not surrender to the personal Krsna.’”

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O Bhagavad-gita,

Through Thy eighteen chapters
Thou showerest upon man

The immortal nectar

Of the wisdom of the Absolute.

O blessed Gita,

By Thee, Lord Krsna Himself
Enlightened Arjuna.

Afterward, the ancient sage Vyasa
Included Thee in the Mahabharata.
O loving mother,

Destroyer of man’s rebirth

Into the darkness of this mortal world,
Upon Thee I meditate.

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Salutations to thee, O Vyasa.

Thou art of mighty intellect,

And thine eyes

Are large as the petals

Of the full-blown lotus.

It was thou

Who brightened this lamp of wisdom,
Filling it with the oil

Of the Mahabharata.

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