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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