Conclusion of chapter five

“O hearers, (there is) originally a mother’s heart; added to it, is her intense love for her favourite child; who would then be able to realise fully the rising tide of the stirring affection? I am at a loss to understand whether I should name the fond gaze of Lord Krishna towards Arjuna as a shower of nectar in the form of sentiment, grace and mercy or a new world imposed by unique and intense love? That gaze was as it were the very image cast in nectar, or it got so much intoxicated with the sentiment of affection and got so much entangled in the infatuation of Arjuna, that it was not possible to divert it. The more I profusely spend my words, the greater would be the deviation from the main topic,—without having a true picture in words of the intense love. But there is no wonder that any one else should not be able to describe adequately what God is, when He Himself fails to tell it in words.

But methinks there is the secret truth that Lord Krishna was enamoured of Arjuna, for frequently in his previous oft-repeated words he fondly says: “O Arjuna, hear, do hear please.”

Now Lord Krishna will again say

“I shall gladly preach the teachings again in a way that would make you understand the subject thoroughly, I shall explain fully what is called the Path of Yoga, of what use it is, and who are qualified for it, and any other question that may be raised in regard to it. You only hear it attentively.”

The next chapter deals with what Lord Krishna said after making such an introduction. I, Jnandev [Jnanadeva], the disciple of Nivrittinath [Nivritti Natha], say to you hearers, that I shall now make clear to you Lord Krishna’s teachings to Arjuna, how to attain that path without abandoning one’s place in earthly empirical life. (180)