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Janaka and the rest, praised in the world, being cleansed from sins, have gone to the supreme goal.
(20). Having accomplished the reading of the Gita, he who should not also read this description of its greatness, his reading is in vain, and his labour is lost.
(21). He who performs the practice of the Gita, associated with this discourse on its Greatness, he obtains the fruit, he may reach the path difficult of obtainment.
(22). Suta said : He who should read this eternal Greatness of the Gita, proclaimed by me, at the end of the Gita, should obtain that fruit which has been described.
(23). Thus in the blessed Varahapurana the great ness of the Gita is set forth.
Note. The statements made above as to the value of reading portions, or the whole, of the Gita, may seem at first sight to be somewhat fantas tic. They should not be construed as meaning the mere reading, the lip-repetition, of verses, but rather as the mastering and assimilation of the spirit of the Gita, and the life-repetition thereof. The man who has thus wrought the Gita into his life is a Jivanmukta, and the assimilation of one shloka, of several, of a quarter of the Gita and so on, mark various stages in human evolution, each of which has its own appropriate fruit.
