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Chapter XV

\ ADHYAAY XV PURUSHOTTAMA YOGAM Introduction This chapter is continuation of chapter 14.  In the last two shlokams of 14 th chapter, He had talked about Avyabhicharini Bhakti and said, ‘he who devotes on Me with Avyabhicharini Bhakti reaches Me’.  The ‘Me’ denotes the Paramaatman and is being discussed in detail here in this chapter.  The Paramaatman is Purushottama. The three basic Tattvas are Samsaara, Jeeva and the Paramaatman.  Jeeva is an essence of the Paramaatman.  It is Gunaateeta in real nature, but out of ignorance the Jeeva under the influence of the Gunas, gets bonded with body and the Samsaara by the chords ‘me’, ‘mine’, desire-contempt etc.  So long the Jeeva does not realize its real Nature as Gunaateeta, it remains clutched to Prakriti, the Gunas and Samsaara.  Shri Krishna is trying to assist the Jeeva to develop ‘Avyabhicharini Bhakti’, by explaining Self, the object of ‘avyabhicharini bhakti’, in this chapter called Purushottama Yog.  The Samsa