VEDIC
SCRIPTURES
A Song of Fortune
- A modern Gîtâ -
CHAPTER 7
To know oneself and
make it, unified in filognosy
(1) The
fortunate
one
said: 'Now listen how you, oh son of Alice, with your mind
fixed on me in the unification that I care about, can 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 but a single one is interested in the perfection and of those
but a single one is 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 oh 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 also 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, oh winner of the wealth. (8) In that I am the
taste of water, oh 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, oh 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, oh 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 dare say 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) Oh 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.'
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