From one-pointedness to universality  

1. The waters of the Ganga are everywhere holy and cleansing, but at Haridwar, Kashi and Prayag, they have special purity. They have made the whole world holy. The Gita too is sacred from beginning to end. But some of the intermediate chapters have become holy places. One such place is the Twelfth Chapter. 

The Lord Himself calls this "the stream of nectar" - "ye tu dharmyaamritam idam yathoktam paryupaasate." This is   small Chapter with only twenty slokas, nevertheless it is a stream of nectar. It is sweet like nectar and confers a new and immortal life. In this Chapter, the Lord has Himself sung the essence of the glory of devotion, bhakti. 

2. In reality, from the Sixth Chapter onwards, the philosophy of bhakti has been expounded. The exposition of the science of life occupied us in the first five Chapters. The karma which consists the performance of svadharma, the vikarma, the accompanying inner process which helps karma, and the final state of akarma resulting from the practice of both, which turns to ashes all karma - these ideas were expounded in the first five Chapters.

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