OM
9.
Yoga of Royal Secret
1)
SRI KRISHNA:
To you who do not cavil, I shall
now declare this, the greatest secret, the most profound knowledge combined
with experience (or realization); which having known, you shall be free from
the sorrows of life.
2)
Royal science, Royal secret, the supreme
purifier is this, realizable by direct intuitive knowledge, according to the
DHARMA, very easy to perform, imperishable.
3)
Persons without faith in this DHARMA (the Divine
Self), O Parantapa (Arjuna), without attaining Me, return to the path of
rebirth, fraught with death.
4)
All this world is pervaded by Me in My
Un-manifest form (aspect); All beings exist in Me, but I do not dwell in them.
5)
Nor do beings exist (in reality) in Me – behold
My Divine Yoga supporting all beings, but not dwelling in them, I am My Self,
the “efficient cause” of all beings.
6)
As the mighty wind, moving everywhere, rests
always in space (Akasha), even so know you, all beings rest in Me.
7)
All beings, O Kaunteya (Arjuna) go into my
Prakriti (nature) at the end of KALPA; I send them forth again at the beginning
of (the next) Kalpa.
8)
Animating My Prakriti, I again and again send
forth all this helpless multitude of beings, by the force of nature. (Prakriti)
9)
Sitting like one indifferent, and unattached to
these acts, Dhananjaya, these acts do not bind Me.
10)
Under Me as her Supervisor, Prakriti (nature)
produces the moving and the unmoving; Because of this, O Kaunteya (Arjuna) the
world revolves.
11)
Fools’ disregard me when I dwell in human form;
they know not My Higher being as the Great Lord of all beings.
12)
Of vain hopes, of vain actions, of vain
knowledge and senseless, they verily are possessed of the delusive nature of
Rakshasas and Asuras.
13)
But the Mahatmas (great souls), O Partha
(Arjuna) partaking of My Divine nature, worship Me with a single mind (with a
mind devoted to nothing else), knowing Me as the Imperishable Source of all
beings.
14)
Always glorifying Me, striving, firm in vows,
prostrating before Me, and always steadfast, they worship Me with devotion.
15)
Others also, offering the ‘Wisdom-sacrifice’
worship Me, regarding Me as One, as distinct, as manifold – Me, who in all
forms, faces everywhere.
16)
I am Kratu; I am the sacrifice; I am the
offering (food) to Pritis (ancestors); I am the medicinal herb, and all plants;
I am the Mantra, I am also the clarified butter; I am the fire; I am the
Oblation.
17)
I am the Father of this world, the Mother, the
supporter and the grandsire; the (one) Thing to be known, the Purifier, (the
syllable) OM, and also the Rik, the Sama and the Yajur also.
18)
I am the Goal, the supporter, the Lord, the
witness, the Abode, the Shelter, the Friend, the Origin, the Dissolution, the
Foundation, the Treasure-House and the seed imperishable.
19)
(As sun) I give heat; I withhold and send forth
the rain; I am immortality and also death, both existence and non existence, O
Arjuna.
20)
The knowers of the three Vedas, the drinkers of
the Soma, purified from sin, worshipping Me by sacrifices, pray for the way to
heaven; they reach the holy world of the Lord-of-the-gods and enjoy in heaven
the Divine pleasures of gods.
21)
They, having enjoyed the vast heaven-world, when
their merits are exhausted, enter the world-of-mortals; thus abiding by the
injunctions of the three (vedas), desiring (objects of) desires, they attain the
state of ‘going-and-returning’ (Samsara)
22)
To those men who worship Me alone, thinking of
no other, to those ever self-controlled. I secure for them that which is not
already possessed (Yoga) by them, and preserve for them what they already
possess (Kshema.)
23)
Even those devotees, who endowed with faith
worship other gods, worship Me alone, O son of Kunti, (but) by the wrong
method.
24)
(For) I alone am the enjoyer in and the Lord of
all sacrifices; but they do not know Me in essence and hence they fall (return
to the mortal world)
25)
The worshipers of the Devas or gods go to the
devas; to the Pitris or ancestors go the ancestor-worshippers; to the Bhutas or
the elements go worshipers of the Bhutas; But My worshippers come unto Me.
26)
Whoever
offers Me with devotion a leaf, a flower, a fruit, water, that I accept,
offered by the pure-minded with devotion.
27)
Whatever you do, whatever you eat, whatever you
offer in sacrifice, whatever you give in charity, whatever you practice as
austerity, O Kaunteya, do it as an offering to Me.
28)
Thus shall you be freed from the
bonds-of-actions yielding good and evil ‘fruits’; with the mind steadfast in
Yoga of renunciation, and liberated, you shall come unto Me.
29)
The same am I to all beings, to Me there is none
hateful nor dear; but those who worship Me with devotion, are in Me and I am
also in them.
30)
Even if the most sinful worships Me, with
devotion to none else, (or with single pointedness) he too should indeed be
regarded as ‘righteous’ for he has rightly resolved.
31)
Soon he becomes righteous and attains Eternal
Peace, O Kaunteya (Arjuna) know for certain that My devotee is never destroyed.
32)
For taking refuge in Me, they also O Partha,
maybe of ‘sinful birth’ – Women, Vaishyas, as well as Shudras – even they
attain the supreme Goal.
33)
How much more (easily) then the holy Brahmins
and devoted Royal saints (attain the goal). Having reached (obtained) this
impermanent and joyless world, do worship Me devoutly.
34)
Fix your mind on Me; be devoted to Me, sacrifice
to Me, bow down to Me; having thus united your (whole) Self with Me, taking Me
as the Supreme Goal , you shall come to Me.
Thus ends the 9th chapter of Bhagavad Gita.
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