OM
5. Samnyasa Yoga
1)
ARJUNA:
Renunciation of actions, O Krishna,
you praise and again Yoga – performance of actions. Tell me conclusively, which
is better of the two.
2)
SRI KRISHNA:
Renunciation-of-action and
Yoga-of-action, both lead to the highest bliss; But of the two, Yoga-of-action
is superior to renunciation-of-action.
3)
He should be known as a perpetual Sannyasi, who neither
hates nor desires; for, free from pairs of opposites, O Mighty armed, he is
easily set free from bondage.
4)
Children, not the wise, speak of SANKHYA
(knowledge) and YOGA (yoga of action) as distinct; he who is truly established
even in one obtains the fruits of both.
5)
That place which is reached by the SANKHYAS
(jnanis) is also reached by the YOGINS (karma yogins). He “sees” who “sees”
Sankhya and Yoga as one.
6)
But renunciation, O mighty armed, is hard to
attain without YOGA; The YOGA harmonized man of (steady) contemplation, quickly
goes to BRAHMAN
7)
He who is devoted to the path of action, whose
mind is quite pure, who has conquered the self, who has subdued his senses, who
realizes his Self as the self in all beings, though acting, is not tainted.
8)
“I do nothing at all”, thus would be the
harmonized knower of Truth think seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating,
going, sleeping, breathing,
9)
Speaking, letting go, seizing, opening and
closing the eyes; convinced that the senses move amongst the sense objects.
10)
He who does actions, offering them to BRAHMAN,
abandoning attachment, is not tainted by sin, just as a lotus leaf remains unaffected
by the water on it.
11)
Yogis, having abandoned attachment, perform
actions, merely by body, mind, intellect and senses, for the purification of
the self (ego)
12)
The united one (well poised or harmonized),
having abandoned the fruit of action, attains Eternal Peace; The non-united
(unsteady or unbalanced), impelled by desire and attached to the fruit, is
bound.
13)
Mentally renouncing all actions and fully
self-controlled, the ‘embodied’ one rests happily in the nine-gate city*,
neither acting nor causing others (body and senses) to act.
14)
Neither agency nor action does the Lord create
for the world nor union with the fruits of actions. But it is nature that acts.
15)
The Lord takes neither the demerit nor even the
merit of any; Knowledge is enveloped by ignorance, thereby beings are deluded.
16)
But to those whose ignorance is destroyed by the
knowledge of the self, like the sun, to them knowledge reveals the Supreme
(BRAHMAN).
17)
Intellect absorbed in That, their self being
That, established in That, with That for their Supreme Goal, they go whence
there is no return, their sins dispelled by Knowledge.
18)
Sages look with an equal eye upon a BRAHMAN
endowed with learning and humility on a cow, on an elephant, and even a dog and
an outcaste.
19)
Even here (in this world), birth (everything) is
overcome by those whose minds rest in equality; BRAHMAN is spotless indeed and
equal; therefore they are established in BRAHMAN.
20)
Resting in BRAHMAN, with steady intellect, and
undeluded, The knower of BRAHMAN neither rejoices on obtaining what is
pleasant, nor grieves on obtaining what is unpleasant.
21)
With the self, unattached to external contacts,
he finds happiness in the Self; with the self, engaged in edition of BRAHMAN,
he attains, endless happiness.
22)
The enjoyments that are born of contacts are
only generators of pain, for they have beginning and an end. O son of Kunti,
the wise do not rejoice in them.
23)
He who is able, while still here (in this world)
to withstand, before liberation from the body (death), the impulse born out of
desire and anger, he is a YOGI, he is a happy man.
24)
He who is happy within, who rejoices within, who
is illuminated within, that YOGI attains Absolute Freedom or Moksha, himself
becoming BRAHMAN.
25)
Those
RISHIS obtain absolute freedom or MOKSHA – whose sins have been destroyed,
whose dualities are torn asunder, who are self-controlled, and intend on the
welfare of all beings.
26)
Absolute Freedom (or BRAHMAI Bliss) exists on
all sides for those self-controlled ascetics, who are free from desire and
anger, who have controlled their thoughts and who have realized the Self.
27)
Shutting out (all) external contacts and fixing
the gaze (as though) between the eyebrows, equalizing equalizing the outgoing
and incoming breath moving within the nostrils,
28)
With senses, mind and intellect (ever)
controlled, having liberation as his Supreme Goal, free from desire, fear and
anger – the sage is verily liberated forever.
29)
Knowing me as Enjoyer of sacrifices and
austerities, the Great Lord of all worlds, the friend of all beings, he attains
Peace.
No comments:
Post a Comment