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VEDIC
SCRIPTURES
A Song of Fortune
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A modern
Gîtâ
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CHAPTER 5
To unite in labor
and detachment
 (1)
Aylen
said: 'Dwayne, you as well praise a turn for the
better to unite in consciousness as a turn to the
renunciation of productive labor; but what would be
the best, please be definitive on this.'
(2) The
man of fortune said: 'Both the work done for the
uniting as the all together forsaking of profit-minded
work lead to liberation, but the way you put it I'd
say that compared to the forsaking of profit-minded
work, the action in service of the unification is the
better. (3) Always consider him a renouncer who hates
nor desires; free from the duality he, o man of
grip, is happy to be completely free from being
materially bound. (4) Ignorantly one says that the
intellectual consideration of the world differs from
the uniting in consciousness, but the learned don't
see it like that. From either of the two positions one
arrives logically at the complete of the both of them.
(5) That what is achieved by intellectual endeavor you
also achieve in service of the uniting, and thus he,
who considers study and selfless action as one, sees
the things as they are.
(6) But
the forsaking, o man of grip, will result in distress
if there's no uniting to it in consciousness, while a
thinker connected in the uniting attains the supreme
spirit without delay. (7) Connected in the uniting a
pure soul, who self-controlled has subdued the senses,
will be compassionate with all living entities and
never be affected, irrespective the work he does.
(8-9) To the smelling, hearing, seeing, touching,
walking, dreaming and breathing of the body the man of
truth says: 'Most certainly I am, in my being
connected, not doing a thing'; he considers all the
talking, forsaking, accepting, opening and closing of
his eyes, merely an engagement of the senses. (10)
Like a lotus leaf in the water he, who resigns all his
activities to the spiritual in forsaking his
attachments, proceeding thus, is never affected by any
misfortune and trouble. (11) In giving up the
attachment of the self they who are united within as
being one, are with their body, mind and intelligence,
and even with their senses, in their activities
engaged for the sake of purification. (12) Connected
forsaking the profit in their work they undaunted
achieve peace, while they who are not connected get
entangled in their attachment to enjoy the fruits of
labor.
(13) In
this mind of forsaking all activities the
embodied one who is of control, lives happily in the city
with the nine gates, the body; never is he the one who
does anything, nor does he lead to
anything.27
(14) He is never the owner, nor the doer, nor does he
make other people act, nor does he create the results;
it is all enacted by nature itself. (15) Never is the
Almighty in His control assuming of anyone that he
would be bad or good; no, He is rather concerned with
the bewilderment of the living entities whose
knowledge is covered by ignorance.
(16) To
that soul, however, of whom the ignorance has been
destroyed by filognosy, the supreme reality of
spiritual knowledge is disclosed like a rising sun.
(17) And for that reason you will not return to the
physical concept of life once you've fixed your
intelligence on that, once you've set your life to
that, are faithful to that and seek your refuge in
that; with that being so, by that filognosy, you will
shake off all your misgivings. (18) Whether it
concerns an academic of virtue and achievement, a cow
in the pasture, an Indian elephant, a dog or a
drop-out, the one of wisdom regards them all
equal-minded. (19) They who with a mind fixed in such
a sameness are flawless in spiritual equanimity, are
situated in the beyond; they have defeated birth and
death. (20) Not too cheerful with successes, nor
really being moved by the unpleasant, he who, not
bewildered knowing the spiritual, relies on his own
intelligence, is situated in transcendence. (21) He who,
not attached to superficial pleasures, manages to
concentrate on the spiritual of being connected in the
soul, will within himself enjoy an unlimited
happiness. (22) The intelligent never take delight in
that what in association with the senses brings the
misery, for such things are always temporary with a
beginning and an end, o son of aunt Alice. (23) He
who, living with the body, before he forsakes his
physical frame, is able to tolerate the lust and the
anger that rise from its urges, is a person of
integrity and happiness. (24) Anyone who, being happy
from within, dwells on the inner light, is a united
filognostic who, liberated in the spirit, is capable
of following his own course with God. (25) They who
free from self-righteousness, living the inner life,
reach that spiritual liberation, are, beyond the
duality being situated in self-realization, actually
engaged in serving the welfare of all living beings.
(26) They who in their renunciation were liberated
from the lust and anger, have subdued their mind, so
that they, with what they learned from the soul, soon
are certain of the supreme its beatitude. (27-28) Not
looking for the unnecessary in the outer world the
person has innerly risen above the things of the world,
and is, in his practice of concentrating between
the eyebrows, suspending the in- and outgoing breath,
keeping the air in the nose, and with the senses, mind
and intelligence thus set to liberation, someone who,
having discarded all desires, fears and anger, most
certainly is always of that liberation. (29)
Considering me and what I stand for as the purpose of
the sacrifices, penances and austerities, as the one
fortunate in all the worlds who is the blessing of all
living beings, one will thus find peace.'
2007
© Aadhar, Enschede
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