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VEDIC
SCRIPTURES
A Song of Fortune
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A modern
Gîtâ
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CHAPTER
8
To
find salvation in being united in the eternal
spirit
(1)
Aylen
said: 'What about God, this soul for oneself and
fruitful activities; what o greatest personality,
about the material manifestation and what to say
about, what one calls, the lesser gods in this? (2)
Who is that lord of sacrifice, how does he live within
the body, and, demon-slayer, how can the ones of
self-control know you at the time of their death?'
(3) The
one of all opulence7
said: 'God is the imperishable One in the beyond
called the soul or true self that is eternal, and from
which the living beings become visible in a creative
activity which one calls karma, the workload or the
working for a result. (4) The lesser gods are the
universal integrities, or divine personalities, of the
different manifestations of nature that are constantly
on the move - like the sun and the moon -, and the
lord of the sacrifices I am, the one present within
the embodied beings, my best. (5) He who at the time
of his death quitting the physical body remembers me,
will beyond any doubt reach my nature. (6) The nature
of whatever one all remembers, giving up this body in
the end, will, o son of Alice, always lead to a state
similar to the one that was remembered. (7) Keep
therefore at all times, even when you're in the fray,
to the remembrance of me, so that you, free from doubt
with your mind and intelligence of acceptance for me,
are sure to attain me. (8) When one persistent in the
uniting is connected with the unwavering of one's mind
and intelligence, one reaches the supreme and divine,
personal integrity which was kept in mind, o son of
Alice.
(9) He,
the Supreme One, is the One knowing everything, the
oldest, the controller, He's smaller than an atom, the
One always thinking of everything, the Inconceivable
Maintainer transcendental to all darkness with a form
as luminous as the sun. (10) That person reaches the
divine who, when his time has come, fixes his life
force between his eyebrows, and, connected by the
power of his yoga, in the full of his devotion has a
mind that doesn't wander off, but keeps to the
integrity of the universe, the Original Person in the
beyond.
(11) Let
me now explain to you in short what it means to be a
celibate. It is a practice desired by those, belonging
to the renounced order of life, who as great scholars
conversant with the culture of knowledge exercise the
mantra AUM. (12) One is in the position of uniting consciousness when one, self-controlled in relation to
the sensory input and fixing the life force in the
head, confines the mind to the heart. (13) Anyone may
achieve that supreme state who, leaving the body for
what it is, in the remembrance of me vibrates AUM, the
one syllable of the spirit.
(14) For
any yoga practitioner, who on a regular basis
repeatedly, with a mind not going elsewhere, remembers
me, o son of Alice, I am, because of that constancy,
easy to reach. (15) The great souls who reached me
never start a new life in the temporary world which is
so full of miseries, because they achieved the
ultimate of perfection. (16) Aylen, even from the
highest worlds of the spirit one returns, but having
reached me, o son of Alice, one will never start a new
life again. (17) Like it is with the common man who
thinks in terms of days and nights, one day
of God consists of a thousand cycles of
creation8,
while His night, so is understood, similarly takes a
thousand cycles. (18) All living entities become
manifest at the beginning of the day and with the fall
of the night they are all annihilated, or drawn back
into the unapparent, so one says. (19) O son of Alice,
the complete of all living beings manifesting itself
upon the arrival of every day and their automatically
being annihilated when the night arrives, means that
they repeatedly take birth. (20) But transcendental to
that nature, which can be unapparent, there is another
nature, eternal and unseen, which is never annihilated
when all the manifest is annihilated. (21) That unseen
nature is said to be infallible and is described as
the ultimate destination from which one, having
reached there, never returns: that is my supreme
abode. (22) He, the Supreme and Original Person, o son
of Alice, within whom all of manifestation exists and
by whom everything that is visible is pervaded, can
only be reached by means of a service which is of a
single-minded devotion.
(23) O
best of the
Gwens, let me now describe to you the times of leaving
this world at which the ones successful in uniting consciousness return or else do not return. (24) Those
persons who, knowing of the Absolute, leave to the
light of the fire, the light of the day, the light of
the fortnight of a waxing moon, or the light of the
six months when the sun runs high in the sky, all
leave for God. (25) The one unified in consciousness
though who leaves to the darkness of the night, the
darkness of smoke, the darkness of the dark half of
the lunar month, or the darkness of the six months
when the sun runs low in the sky, will turn back to
this world because he didn't reach beyond the order of
the moonlight. (26) These are according to the
scriptures the two ways of leaving the world; leaving
to the light one does not return while one having
departed to the darkness turns back. (27) The one who,
unified in consciousness, knows of these different
paths, isn't bewildered by any of them; therefore,
Aylen, be always connected in the filognosy of uniting consciousness. (28) All the yoga-practitioners
aware of this, reach beyond the results of pious work
as derived from scriptural study, sacrifices,
austerities and charity, and attain the original,
supreme abode.'
2007
© Aadhar, Enschede
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