Chapter 12 verse 6-7
“But those who dedicate all their actions to Me, regarding Me as the Supreme goal, worshiping Me and meditating on Me with exclusive devotion, O Partha (son of pritha dynasty), I swiftly deliver them from the ocean of birth and death, for their consciousness is united with Me.”
This is an amazing set of slokas which enumerate the convergence of the 4 paths laid out in Bhagavat gita to reach the Divine. Jnana yoga, Karma Yoga, Astanga or Raja yoga and Bhakti yoga. When the being develops wisdom to perform all actions for Him, be in constant remembrance of Him, his meditative state always is for Him, then the individual consciousness merges with the supreme consciousness. The ultimate destination of all 4 paths is Brahman or Paramatma or Bhagwan. All of those 3 definitions denote the same entity. As Adi Shankara says in his bhaja govindam, there is no use of theoretical knowledge or information, if it does not convert into wisdom to understand that complete devotion to Supreme is the only way to rid ourselves from this cycle of birth and death.
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