(1)
The
one of fortune said: 'What I'm going to tell you now
is the most confidential type of wisdom and knowledge
and is reserved for those who are free from envy; your
knowing about it will free you from all worldly
miseries. (2) It is the absolute ruler of all
knowledge and confidence, it is the purest and utter
intelligence of practical experience, it defines the
religiousness, it is everlasting and brings happiness
once it is put into practice.
(3) Persons
without faith in this way of connecting oneself, o
conqueror of your foes, will on the path of a material
existence altogether missing me, return after they
have died. (4) By my unseen form is this entire cosmic
manifestation pervaded; so are all beings in me while
at the other hand the complete of me cannot be found
in them. (5) Nor will anything of what separately
exists remain in me; understand my majestic union: as
the original self being the source of all creation am
I, as the maintainer of all that is created, never
completely within whatever that is created. (6) Think
of it this way: just as it is with the mighty wind
blowing everywhere in space, is it with all the beings
living everywhere within me. (7) O son of aunt Alice,
at the end of a day of creation merge all living
beings with the totality of my material nature and at
the beginning of such a day are they all created, or
conditioned, anew. (8) Entering into this material
nature of mine do I, over and over, create all of the
cosmic manifestation, the complete of which is
delivered to my compelling ethereal force. (9) And to
those actions I am never bound, o winner of the
wealth, for I am of a neutral position in not being
attracted to the fruit-bearing action. (10) Under my
supervision is the material nature manifesting both
the moving and the non-moving entities, and this
supervision is for the living being, o son of Alice,
the reason, the motive, to exist.
(11) Fools,
not knowing my transcendental nature, my supreme
lordship over all, deride me for my having assumed a
human form. (12) Disappointed in their expectations,
profit motives and their knowledge do the bewildered
ones take to atheistic and demoniac, delusional views
of a materialistic nature. (13) But, o son of Alice,
the great souls who take to the shelter of my divine
nature, know about the inexhaustible source of
creation and are of devotion with a mind that doesn't
wander off. (14) Full of devotion endeavoring with
determination, are they always singing about me and do
they, constantly engaged in worship, offer me their
obeisance. (15) Others are of sacrifice with the
knowledge they offer in the worship of me as the
oneness in the rich diversity of the universal form.
(16) I am the ritual, the sacrifice and the flavor; I
am the curative herb and I am the mantra; I am the
oblation, the fire and the offering. (17) I am of the
living being the father, the mother, the supporter and
the ancestor; I am that what's to be known, that what
purifies, the syllable AUM and the sacred books with
the mantras, the prayers and the hymns as well. (18) I
am the goal, the sustainer and the master; the
witness, the abode and the refuge; I am the best
friend, the creation and the dissolution; I am the
foundation, the seed that doesn't perish and the
resting place. (19) I give heat, bring and withhold
the rain; I am immortality, death and the being as
well as the not being, o Aylen.
(20) Those
who know the three types of sacred books, they who
freed from their sins, drink from the ritual cup and,
worshiping with sacrifices, pray for their passage to
heaven, reach the world of the king of heaven and
enjoy the celestial pleasures of the gods. (21) After
they, having enjoyed that vast heaven, reached the end
of their pious deeds, enter they the world of the
mortals, and arrive they, who are so faithful with the
culture of the mantras, devotional songs and prayers,
thus at the life and loss of desiring in lust. (22)
But they who concentrate with no one but me as their
object of reverence, those persons, who always fixed
in devotion are of proper worship, I protect and
provide what they need. (23) Even though the ones
devoted to lesser gods are also of an exclusive faith
and worship in relation to me, are they not of worship
according the regulative principles.3
(24) Since I am the enjoyer and master of all
sacrifices, do they who do not know me to the
principle, fall away from the divine. (25) Those who
observe the lesser gods, find the lesser gods; those
who respect the ancestors, go to them; those who
worship ghosts and spirits reach those entities; but
my devotees reach me. (26) Anyone faithful to the
principles who, devoted to me, offers beans, cereal,
fruits and vegetables, and cheese and
milk9,
is making an offering acceptable to me. (27) Do
whatever you eat, give away in charity, or sacrifice
in your renunciation, as an offering to me, o son of
aunt Alice. (28) Thus free from as well the bright as
the dark side of being bound to profit-minded labor
will you, liberated, with your mind connected in yogic
renunciation, reach me.
(29) I'm
equal-minded in my respect for all living beings, I
hate nor cherish anyone, but those who in their
devotion are of service with me, are in me as good as
I am in them. (30) Even having been of the worst
conduct is the one who, unwavering, is devoted to me,
to be considered a saint because of the full of his
determination. (31) Such a one quickly becomes
righteous and attains lasting peace; do defend that my
devotee is never lost! (32) O son of Alice, even
troublemakers like philanderers, spammers and
henchmen, will reach the supreme destination when they
resort to me. (33) And how much more wouldn't this be
true for righteous intellectuals, worshipers and pious
civil servants; therefore, with you having made it to
this temporary world full of miseries, be engaged in
my loving service! (34) Think of me always, become a
devotee, a worshiper, an offerer of mine, so that you,
in your devotion with me, will be a fully aligned
soul.'
