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Bhagavad Gita, Concluding Remarks, the Supreme Secret · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The Bhagavad Gita concluding remarks the Gita throughout has
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  been insisting on a great and well built discipline of Yoga.
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  A large and clearly traced philosophical system on the
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  Swabhava and the Swadharma, on the Satvik law of life as
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  leading out of itself by a self exceeding exaltation to a free
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  spiritual Dharma of immortal existence, utterly wide in its
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  spaces and high lifted beyond the limitation of even this
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  highest guna on many rules and means and injunctions and
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  conditions of perfection. And now suddenly at the end of
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  the 18th chapter, it seems to break out of its own structure,
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  and says to the human soul, abandon all dharmas, give
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  thyself to the divine alone, to the supreme Godhead above and
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  around and within thee. That is all that thou needest,
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  that is the truest and greatest way, that is the real
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  deliverance. The master of the world,
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  speaking as the Spirit and Godhead in man and in all
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  things, says to him all this personal effort and
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  self-discipline will not in the end be needed.
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  All following and limitation of rule and Dharma can at last be
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  thrown away as hampering encumbrances.
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  If thou canst make a complete surrender to me, depend alone on
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  the Spirit and Godhead within thee, and all things, and trust
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  to his soul. Guidance, turn all thy mind to
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  me, and fill it with the thought of me and my presence.
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  Turn all thy heart to me. Make thy every action, whatever
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  it be, a sacrifice and offering to me That done, Leave me to do
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  my will with thy life and soul and action.
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  Do not be grieved or perplexed by my dealings with thy mind and
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  heart, and life and works, or troubled, because they do not
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  seem to follow the laws and dharmas.
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  Man imposes on himself to guide his limited will and
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  intelligence. My ways are the ways of a
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  perfect wisdom and power and love that knows all things and
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  combines all its movements in view of a perfect eventual
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  result, for it is refining and weaving together the many
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  threads of an integral perfection.
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  I am here with thee, and thy chariot of battle, revealed as
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  the master of existence within and without thee.
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  And I repeat the absolute assurance, the infallible
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  promise, that I will lead thee to myself through and beyond all
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  sorrow and evil. Whatever difficulties and
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  perplexities arise, be sure of this, that I am leading thee to
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  a complete divine life in the universal, and an immortal
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  existence in the transcendent spirit.
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  Oh peace, peace, peace.