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The Gita brings in here as always bhakti as the climax of the Yoga, sarvabhitasthitam yo mdm bhajatr ekatwam asthitah; that may almost be said to sum up the whole final result of the Gita’s teaching—whoever loves God in all and his soulis founded upon the divine oneness, however he lives and acts, lives and actsin God. And to emphasize it still more, after an intervention of Arjuna and a reply to his doubt as to how so difficult a Yoga can be at all possible for the restless mind of man, the divine Teacher returns to this idea and makes it his culminating utterance. “The Yogin is greater than the doers of askesis, greater than the men of knowledge; greater than the men of works; become then the Yogin, O Arjuna,” the Yogin, one who seeks for and attains, by works and knowledge and askesis or by whatever other means, not even spiritual knowledge or power or anything else for their own sake, but the union with God alone ; for in that ali elseis contained and in that lifted beyond itself to a divinest significance. But even among Yogins the greatest is the Bhakta. “Of all Yogins he who with all his inner self given up to me, for me has love and faith, graddhdvdn bhajate, him 1 hold to be the most united with me in Yoga.” Itis this that is the closing word of these first six chapters and contains in itself the seed of the rest, of tha: which still remains unspoken and is nowhere entirely spoken; for it is always and remains something of a mystery and a secret, vahasyam, the highest spiritual mystery and the divine secret.