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TEXT 15 jnana-yajnena capy anye
SYNONYMS  jnana-yajnena--by
cultivation of knowledge; ca--also; api--certainly; anye--others;
yajantah--worshiping;
mam--Me; upasate--worship; ekatvena--in oneness; prthaktvena--in
duality; bahudha--diversity; visvatah-mukham--in the universal
form.
TRANSLATION Others, who
are engaged in the cultivation of knowledge, worship the Supreme Lord as
the one without a second, diverse in many, and in the universal form.
PURPORT This verse is
the summary of the previous verses. The Lord tells Arjuna that those who
are purely in Krsna consciousness and do not know anything other than Krsna
are called mahatma; yet there are other persons who are not exactly
in the position of mahatma but who worship Krsna also, in different
ways. Some of them are already described as the distressed, the financially
destitute, the inquisitive, and those who are engaged in the cultivation
of knowledge. But there are others who are still lower, and these are divided
into three: 1) he who worships himself as one with the Supreme Lord, 2)
he who concocts some form of the Supreme Lord and worships that, and 3)
he who accepts the universal form, the visvarupa of the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, and worships that. Out of the above three, the
lowest, those who worship themselves as the Supreme Lord, thinking themselves
to be monists, are most predominant. Such people think themselves to be
the Supreme Lord, and in this mentality they worship themselves. This is
also a type of God worship, for they can understand that they are not the
material body but are actually spiritual soul; at least, such a sense is
prominent. Generally the impersonalists worship the Supreme Lord in this
way. The second class includes the worshipers of the demigods, those who
by imagination consider any form to be the form of the Supreme Lord. And
the third class includes those who cannot conceive of anything beyond the
manifestation of this material universe. They consider the universe to
be the supreme organism or entity and worship that. The universe is also
a form of the Lord.
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