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Verse 18·56

The supreme attainment through devotion

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सर्वकर्माण्यपि सदा कुर्वाणो मद्व्यपाश्रयः ।मत्प्रसादादवाप्नोति शाश्वतं पदमव्ययम् ॥

sarvakarmāṇyapi sadā kurvāṇo madvyapāśrayaḥmatprasādādavāpnoti śāśvataṃ padamavyayam

And by doing also all actions always lodged in Me he attains by My grace the eternal and imperishable status.

Gītā 18·56

He becomes one with him in his self-knowledge and self-experience, one with him in his being and consciousness and will and world-knowledge and world-impulse, one with him in the universe and in his unity with all creatures in the universe and one with him beyond world and individual in the transcendence of the eternal Infinite, śāśvataṁ padamavyayam. This is the culmination of the supreme bhakti that is at the core of the supreme knowledge.
And it then becomes evident how action continual and unceasing and of all kinds without diminution or abandonment of any part of the activities of life can be not only quite consistent with a supreme spiritual experience, but as forceful a means of reaching this highest spiritual condition as bhakti or knowledge.

CWSA 19 · Essays on the Gita · pp. 537–38

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