(39)
'Thus
far about being intelligent in analyzing matters, now
listen how in association with this intelligence, o
son of Alice, you may escape from the burden of
serving the capital. (40) In this spirit then, you
won't corrupt, nor be lost, and just serving this a
little you'll avert the greatest danger. (41) Because
of being mindful about the soul one is unified in
intelligence, o child of Many, but if one, on the
other hand, is not of such a conscience, one has a
mind that is constantly diverted. (42) Religious
people also say things like this o son of Alice, but
they are quite ignorant in thinking that there's
nothing else to it. (43) With their shiny ceremonies
they hope to go to heaven and have a better life, but
their hearts are full of desire to please their senses
and to be rich. (44) That way all too attached to
material pleasures and luxuries, their minds are fuzzy
of a poor logic and they never get a real grip on
matters. (45) The books of wisdom speaking about the
material affair and the way we're affected by its
threefold nature in the sense of 1 - having passions,
2 - being dull-witted and 3 - lusting in goodness,
tell us to transcend these modes of nature, because
outside of the opposites they form, absorbed in what
is really good and pure, the soul is found which is
unconcerned about possessing and acquiring
possessions. (46) In a sip of water one finds the same
as in a lake, similarly in the soul of a single man of
spiritual virtue the entirety of classical wisdom is
found.
(47) It
is your full right to serve the cause, but you must
never claim the results of that service for yourself.
Do not consider yourself the cause, you're not God, so
never develop any attachment in holy matters like
these. (48) Keep in touch, stay connected, in
forsaking such conceit and desire, o winner of the
wealth, and be equal-minded in the face of success and
failure, for that equanimity is the secret of staying
united in consciousness. (49) Thus being united in
full surrender to the intelligence, don't give in to
the feeblemindedness; know that it are the miserly
ones who want to win and acquire. (50) Aligned with
this intelligence you can, in this life, escape from
the consequences of which you unjustly thought they
were good, as well as the ones you had to suffer. So,
for the sake of this science, engage undaunted in your
being connected with the soul that endures and is
happy in the wisdom. That's the art of the matter with
all you do! (51) To be immersed in serving this
purpose, to be in line with the intelligence of not
desiring any advantage, that is what freed the wise as
well as the devoted from the misery of repeated
failure and the need to start all over time and again.
(52) Once you, free from any desire, respect it the
way it is with the soul, you will, at that time, no
longer worry about all this you now heard about nor
about that what you'll be hearing more. (53) With a
mind clear about the advantage of your actions the way
I disclosed it to you, you will, unmoved risen above
matters with a fixed intelligence, be able to find the
happy life you wish for yourself and others.'
(54) Aylen
said: 'What characterizes the one who is on top of
matters, who is fixed in a consciousness of being
connected? And what kind of things does such a person
all say, how does he keep his distance and what are
his moves?'
(55) Dwayne,
as the master, said: 'The moment one forsakes the
desires and the worries belonging to them, o son of
Alice, one will, to the good of that mindfulness,
become steady in one's consciousness, so confirm also
other authorities. (56) They who free from worries
face the miseries, free from desire face the happiness
and, not being of any attachment, are free from fear
and anger, are considered sages steady in their
meditation. (57) He who, whether things turn out good
or bad in this, stays unaffected in whatever situation
and hates nor praises, is fixed in knowing it
perfectly. (58) Like a tortoise withdrawing its legs
and head, he who fixes himself in consciousness
withdraws his senses from the sense objects. (59)
Anyone not of this mindfulness, may refrain just the
same, but such a one then keeps the material taste,
the taste which only ends with the stronger experience
of the higher taste one has when one is above it all.
(60) Irrespective one's intelligence, when one
endeavors, the senses draw the attention away and the
mind is stirred. (61) To keep the busy senses under
control is something which is achieved by positively
relating to the position of meditation one has in the
beyond, and thus having mastered them, one is then
established in wisdom. (62) The wrong way it works
like this: first you get attached to what the senses
perceive, from that develops the lust develops to enjoy it
whenever you want and what follows is the anger upon
the inevitable frustration of realizing that that is
not possible. (63) From that anger of one's
predilection one no longer sees things in
proportion, and thus one is, with that being
illusioned, not mindful of what should be remembered.
Consequently the intelligence fails and from no longer
understanding matters one loses control: one falls
down. (64) But not being of any aversion or attachment
one is, having the busy senses under control, thus
regulated, of a clear mind. (65) In that peace
all miseries findtheir end, and with such an open
mind soon the intuition is sufficiently established.
(66) Not being aligned this way the intelligence has
no chance and there is, missing the connectedness in
the soul, no steadiness of one's respect; how can one,
discontented not being of any peace, find happiness
then? (67) The mind in following the senses is of an
intelligence as fickle as a boat drifting away on the
wind. (68) And so, as you'll understand, the
intelligence is steady when the senses are drawn away
from their objects. (69) What the common people attend
to is as night for the man of wisdom, and to what to
the common man is as dark as the night the wise
are wakeful. (70) Contrary to a man of desire, a man of
peace is just as steady with what his senses perceive
as the ocean that is never filled by all the water of
the rivers ending in it. (71) A person attains peace
when he - free from longing - has forsaken his
desires, when he's not striving for possessions, and,
instead of identifying himself with the body,
identifies himself with the soul. (72) Therefore,
don't be afraid that this position in the beyond will
bewilder you o son of Alice, you rather attain heaven
with it, even if you deferred this mindfulness until
the moment you die.'
