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VEDIC
SCRIPTURES
A Song of Fortune
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A modern
Gîtâ
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CHAPTER 7
To
know oneself and make it, unified in
filognosy
(1)
The
fortunate one said: 'Now listen how you, o son of
Alice, with your mind fixed on me in the unification
that I care about, may move beyond doubt concerning
this completeness of me. (2) Let me tell you in detail
how, once you get the hang of this knowledge growing
wise with it, that to you would be all you need to
know in this world. (3) Among the thousands is but a
single one interested in the perfection and of those
is but a single one really aware of this integrity of
mine.
(4) What
I consist of in a material sense are the energies of
the earth, the water, the air, the ether, the mind,
the intelligence and the ego. (5) Try to understand, o
man of grip, that besides this lower energy of mine
there is a superior one which, supporting all the
world, is the self of me in which every living soul is
situated. (6) All that is created roots in these two
energies and as such you should know me to be the
eternal source of the manifestation as well as the
fragmentation you find in the world.
(7) Beyond
this superior energy of mine, which is like the thread
that connects all the pearls on a string, there is
nothing else to be found, o winner of the wealth. (8)
In that I am the taste of water, o son of Alice, the
light of the sun and the moon, the primal mantra AUM
in all the holy books, the sound one finds in the
ether and the prowess in man. (9) I am the original
smell of the earth, the heat of the fire, the life in
all living beings and the penance of the repentant I
am. (10) Know, o son of Alice, that I am the seed of
all living beings, the original intelligence of the
intelligent, and the command of the ones in power.
(11) I am of the strong the strength that is free from
desire and attachment, and, o master of the dynasty,
of the sex-life of the living being I am the
consistency with nature.
(12) And
remember of all the states of goodness, passion and
darkness one may be in, that they are more a part of
me, than that I am a part of them. (13) The whole
world is under the influence of these states and is
deluded by them not knowing me, the one who is
situated above them as the inexhaustible supreme. (14)
The divinity of this setup of mine in the sense of the
natural modes, is a most difficult thing, but those
who have accepted me as the integrity, are very well
able to overcome this illusory energy. (15) The
corrupted ones and the foolish5
whose filognosy is clouded by the bewildering effect
of the modes, do, because of their unenlightened
state, not respect me.
(16) Aylen,
of the pious who respect me there are four types: the
ones in trouble, the ones curious, the ones desiring
my opulence, and the ones of filognosy. (17) Of these
the one in devotion always connected in filognosy is
most dear to me, because the one loving the knowledge
who holds me high, is held high by me. (18) All
filognostics are most certainly magnanimous souls, and
I daresay that they, in their being connected in the
soul, are equal to me, for in me that highest
destination is found. (19) After so many trials of
life the one of filognosy, he who loves to know
equal-minded, accepts me as the original divinity of
all success, and such a one, you know, one rarely
encounters.
(20) In
their desires the ones who miss the filognosy,
according to their own nature, abide by lesser gods
and lesser regulations. (21) They who according to
their own desire faithfully adhere to whatever
divinity, are by me confirmed in their faith though.
(22) Inspired by such a form of connectedness they
achieve what they aspire, for that is how I, and no
one else, arranged the connectedness for them. (23)
But, because it concerns a lesser
intelligence6,
those fruits are but temporary; they who want the gods
go to them and they who want me come to me. (24) Not
knowing the supreme integrity of the duality of my
invincible lower and imperishable higher existence,
the less intelligent assume that I acquired a form
from the unapparent. (25) I, in the sense of being
that unborn and inexhaustible reality, am not that
evident to everyone because the foolish, covered by
illusory concepts of union, have no clue about my
integrity. (26) The past, the present and the future
of all living beings is clear to me, Aylen, but I am
not that clear to them. (27) O son of Many, all the
living beings who took their birth have to suffer
under the illusion brought about by the deluding
duality of likes and dislikes. (28) This illusory
duality dissolves with persons who, pious in their
activities, reached the end of their ulterior motives;
they are the ones who, free from delusion and with
determination to serve my cause, engage with devotion.
(29) All the ones who take to my shelter to be freed from the burden
of old age and death are
actually God-conscious people;
they know everything about what to do in favor of the transcendence.
(30) Connected in the spirit they, even when they are about to die,
know me as the one sovereign over all of the material manifestation,
all divinity and all sacrifices.'
2007
© Aadhar, Enschede
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