Being there and
having been there before
(1) The
fortunate
one
said: 'Not expecting anything from working for the
profit, he, who does his job as a matter of duty, belongs to the
department of the detached. He as a person is united and connected
within, but not so the one who is of no sacrifice and of no sense of
duty. (2) It is this department of the detached by which one is linked
up, oh son of Gwen; not forsaking the selfish motive there's no
question
of unifying consciousness, no question of being a filognostic. (3) Of a
beginner in this practice of wisdom one says that it is work that
connects and unites, but of those who attained one says it is the
equanimity that does the job. (4) As soon as the person no longer
serves the sensual and has forsaken the profit motive, he is at that
time a renouncer of all material desire who is elevated in this yoga
science of uniting consciousness. (5) One must care to be mindful and
attentive and not to freak out in flippancy, thereto keeping in mind
that that mindfulness is just the same one's enemy as one's friend. (6)
To the one who has conquered himself the mind is the best friend, but
to those who forgot about the soul the mind stays an enemy. (7) As a
champion of mindfulness having found the peace, one is wholly of the
greater Soul ruling the individual souls, which is the same in cold and
heat, happiness and distress, honor and dishonor. (8) Satisfied with
the filognosy and its wisdom a person is rock-solid once he has
the sensual in his grip, and because of that one is united famed for
being unconcerned about the difference between a clod of dirt, a stone
and a piece of gold. (9) Most advanced is he who is equal-minded
towards friends and well-wishers as also to enemies, to relatives
who hate as also to relatives who favor, to those who bend the rules
as also to those who are devout and faithful.
(10) In order to be unified in yoga a person must
always remember himself from a secluded position in solitude, in which
he is fully attentive, not diverted and unconcerned about possessions.
(11-12) In a safe place he should arrange for a comfortable seat close
to the floor and a mat, and thus do his yoga postures, so that he,
one-pointed of attention, is able to clear his heart in controlling his
busy mind, senses and muscles. (13-14) Not moving with his body and
with his neck and head straight, the practitioner of yoga must gaze at
the tip of his nose and not look elsewhere. With a calm self, free from
fear and vowed to the celibate, he must, fully self-controlled,
concentrate on the ultimate goal of me, on that what I stand for. (15)
He, who with the practice as mentioned, liberated in the beyond thus
restraining the mind unites consciousness, will with that soulfulness
attain the peace of the spiritual realm. (16) But, Aylen, there's no
real unification when one eats too much, or when one excessively fasts,
and the same is true for sleeping too much or staying awake too long.
(17) But, when one, with doing yoga, manages to regulate one's sleep
and wakefulness, one's eating and entertainment, one's personal
endeavors as also one's working hours, all the trouble will cease to
be. (18) When one, free from desiring with all kinds of lusty motives,
with the mind disciplined this way, becomes situated in transcendence,
one is at that time said to be connected. (19) You may compare the
person of unification, whose mind is controlled by the regular and
constant meditation of the soul, to an oil lamp not wavering out of the
wind. (20) In the state in which the mind, turned away from material
concerns, calms in practicing the unification, one becomes satisfied
when one, in the purity of such a mind, realizes that one's place is
found in the soul. (21) The supreme happiness, of which one knows that
it by intelligence can be reached in the position of transcendence,
will never remove the one who reached it from the truth. (22) And
whatever else you might realize in that position, can never be
considered more valuable than that, because you're never obscured from
within that bliss, however difficult the trouble might be. (23) Know
that in the yogic trance all the miseries dissolve of being in touch
with the material world. (24) Thus make sure to practice that
unification diligently in not losing yourself in guesswork that rose
from your propensity for unregulated actions; you'll be sure of the
total retreat of the mind once you've managed to settle this for the
entirety of your sensory apparatus.
(25) Not thinking of making it any other way, one
should, with an intelligence that is carried by conviction, step by
step train the mind to retreat to the stability of the soul. (26) From
wherever the mind, so easily agitated, flickering and unsteady, may
wander, one must bring it back under the control of this
self-regulation. (27) The one connected attains the highest virtue,
when he, freed in the spirit of the absolute, with his mind in peace
and his passion quieted, is free from impurities. (28) Always being of
the soul is so the never ending happiness found by the one unified who,
piously in touch with the transcendental spirit, is free from all
material darkness. (29) The one connected in the united self looks upon
all with a neutral vision: he sees the soul in all beings and all
beings in the soul. (30) To the one who, as such, recognizes me in
everything and looks upon everything as residing in me, I never perish,
nor will he ever be lost to me. (31) If one is devoted to me as
residing in each his heart, one is situated in oneness, and being of
that vision such a one will, unified in consciousness, always have a
life with me, whatever the circumstance. (32) That transcendentalist
who, at ease or in trouble with it, manages to match his own self with
the self that is of an equal vision everywhere, is considered to be
perfect.'
(33) Aylen said: 'Moved as I am at the moment, I
have no clue as to how this system of unification, you described to me
in general, oh demon-slayer, would offer me any firm ground. (34) The
mind, Dwayne, is so wayward, agitating, strong and obstinate, that I
think that doing what you say is as difficult as taming the wind.'
(35) The one of fortune said: 'It suffers no doubt,
oh man of grip, that it is difficult to curb the wayward mind, but, oh
son of Alice, with persistence and detachment it can be done. (36) With
a fickle mind one has a hard time to find one's way; to my opinion the
appropriate means to achieve it is found in committing the mind to a
practical approach: do something!'
(37) Aylen said: 'But what is then the fate of him,
oh Dwayne, who fallen from his belief, with a mind missing the
perfection, strays from the path of unification? (38) Doesn't such a
one, oh mighty commander, missing the path as also the belief, not
perish like a riven cloud, finding no hold then? (39) This is my doubt
Dwayne, I beg you, drive it away completely, for there's no one else to
remove it.'
(40) The fortunate one said: 'Dear son of Alice,
neither in this world nor in the hereafter it is so that he who is of a
sound conduct will ever find himself going down, how can such a one end
up bad? (41) For many years having lived a life of achievement and good
deeds, the one who fell from the path of inner unification, will
reawaken in the house of the one who is understanding and honest. (42)
Or else he may find a life in an association of transcendentalists of
great wisdom, but of course such a new life is very rare in this world.
(43) Picking up the intelligence where he left it in his previous
manifestation, oh son of Gwen, he will thereupon again endeavor for
perfection. (44) Innerly drawn to his previous practice he will be
inquisitive about the unification in consciousness and he will manage
to reach beyond the scripturally fixed routines. (45) Systematic in his
approach such a spiritual person will, life after life gradually
achieving the perfection, see all the impurities washed away from his
soul and thus he will attain the position on top of the duality. (46)
The ones unified in consciousness rank higher than the ones who are
merely of a philosophy, as also higher than the ones working for an
income only; therefore, Aylen, be of the former. (47) And of all the
ones unified within I consider those who faithfully know to remember
and serve me as the integrity of it all, to be the greatest.'
