Realisation of the Self, Realisation of God

Meditation Yoga

Chapter 6, Verse 44

pūrvābhyāsane tenaiva

hriyate hyavaśo’pi saḥ

jijñāsur-api yogasya

śabda-brahmātivartate

By that former practice he is irresistibly carried on. The seeker after the knowledge of yoga goes beyond the range of the Vedas and Upanishads.

The one who takes birth in a spiritually oriented family, is drawn to serving God. One is drawn to God due to one’s past lives. In this life, through sadhana, through following the words of the Master, the one who has faith in one’s practice, who has faith in God, transcends the enjoyment of this world, as well as the next one. And due to the fruits of past good punya, one continues practising and advancing on the path to Enlightenment. One rises in the true “knowledge of yoga” and “goes beyond the range of the Vedas and Upanishads.”

They go “...beyond the range of the Vedas and Upanishads.” This means that in a past life, they had laid a Vedic foundation, they had practised the Vedic precepts, and ‘how to do this’ and ‘how to do that’. However, one continues from life to life, and if one longs for the Divine, one rises above even that foundation; and what lies beyond that foundation is the supreme ultimate reality: the Realisation of the Self, the Realisation of God, attaining the Divine vision of the Lord within oneself.

Bhagavad Gita