Excerpt from Basic Yoga Sutras: The Inner Practice
पूर्वेषामपि गुरुः कालेनानवच्छेदात्॥२६॥
sa eṣa pūrveṣām-api-guruḥ kālena-anavacchedāt
“God is the first, foremost and absolute guru, unconditioned by time.”
श्रीभगवानुवाच
इमं विवस्वते योगं प्रोक्तवानहमव्ययम्।
विवस्वान्मनवे प्राह मनुरिक्ष्वाकवेऽब्रवीत्॥१॥
śrī-bhagavān uvāca
imaṁvivasvate yogaṁproktavān aham avyayam
vivasvān manave prāhamanur ikṣvākave ’bravīt
“The Blessed Lord said: I instructed this imperishable science of yoga to the sun-god, Vivasvān, and Vivasvāninstructed it to Manu, the father of mankind, and Manu in turn instructed it to Ikṣvāku.”
—Lord Śrī Krishna, BG 4.1
“Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, O descendant of Bharata, and a predominantrise of irreligion — at that time I descend Myself. In order to deliver the pious and to annihilate the miscreants,as well as to reestablish the principles of religion, I advent Myself millennium after millennium.”—BG 4.7-8
In the Yoga Sūtras, Patañjali is speaking about the Lord. But in the Bhagavad-gītā the Lord Himself is speakingand He is doing so to awaken all of us from the slumber of material identification. God never condemns anyone to hell forever. Each one of us matters too much to Him and He is always ready to give us another chance. He has been waiting for us forever and He is not going to let us go.
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