VEDIC
SCRIPTURES
A Song of Fortune
- A modern Gîtâ -
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 oh 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, oh 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, oh 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, oh 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, oh 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) Oh 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, oh 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) Oh 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.'
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