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04 - Of Religion of Knowledge - Bhagavad Gita · Philosophy and Faith

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  Speaker 1: Chapter four, Krishna, this teatless yoga, this deep union, I
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  Speaker 1: taught Viswata, the Lord of light, Veiswata to Manu, gave
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  Speaker 1: it he to Ishwaku, so passed it down the line
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  Speaker 1: of all my royal Rishis. Then with years the truth
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  Speaker 1: grew dim and perished. Noble Prince, now once again to thee.
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  Speaker 1: It is declared this ancient lore, this mystery supreme. Seeing
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  Speaker 1: I find thee votary and friend thy birth, Dear Lord,
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  Speaker 1: was in these later days and bright Wiswata's preceded time.
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  Speaker 1: How shall I comprehend this thing? Thou sayst from the
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  Speaker 1: beginning it was I who taught many fold The renewals
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  Speaker 1: of my birth have been urgent, and of thy birds too.
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  Speaker 1: But mine I know, and thine thou knowest not, O
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  Speaker 1: slayer of thy al Bet. I be unborn, undying, indestructible,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord of all things, living not the less. By Maya.
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  Speaker 1: By my magic, which I stamp on floating nature forms
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  Speaker 1: the primal vast, I come and go, and come when
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  Speaker 1: righteousness declines, obareth when wickedness is strong. I rise from
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  Speaker 1: age to age, and take visible shape and move man
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  Speaker 1: with men, succoring the good, thrusting the evil back and
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  Speaker 1: setting virtue on her seat again. Who knows the truth
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  Speaker 1: touching my birds on earth and my divine work. When
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  Speaker 1: he quits, the flesh puts on its loat, no more falls,
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  Speaker 1: no more down to earthly birth to me he comes,
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  Speaker 1: Dear Prince. Many there be who come from fear, set
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  Speaker 1: free from anger, from desire, keep their hearts fixed upon me,
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  Speaker 1: my faithful, purified by sacred flame of knowledge, Such as
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  Speaker 1: these mix with my being. Whoso worship me them I exalt.
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  Speaker 1: But all men everywhere shall fall into my path abed.
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  Speaker 1: Those souls which seek reward for works, make sacrifice now
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  Speaker 1: to the lower gods, I say to thee, here have
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  Speaker 1: they their reward? But I am He made the forecasts
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  Speaker 1: and portioned them a place after their qualities and gifts. Hee,
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  Speaker 1: I created the reportsful, I that live immortally, made all
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  Speaker 1: those mortal birds for works soil, not my essence, being
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  Speaker 1: works wrought uninvolved, who knows me? Acting thus unchained by action,
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  Speaker 1: action binds not him, and so perceiving. All those saints
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  Speaker 1: of old worked seeking for deliverance, worked thou as in
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  Speaker 1: the days gone by thy father's did thou sayest perplexed.
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  Speaker 1: It had been asked before by singers and by sages,
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  Speaker 1: what is act and what is in action? I will
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  Speaker 1: teach thee this, and now, knowing thou shalt learn, which
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  Speaker 1: work doth save needs? Must one rightly meditate those three doing,
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  Speaker 1: not doing, and undoing. Here thorny and dark. The path
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  Speaker 1: is he who sees how action may be rest rest action.
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  Speaker 1: He is wisest mid his kind. He had the truth.
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  Speaker 1: He doth well, acting or resting, freed in all his
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  Speaker 1: works from prickings of desire, burned clean in act by
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  Speaker 1: the white fire of truth. The wise call that why
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  Speaker 1: that man wise, and such a one, renouncing fruit of deeds,
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  Speaker 1: always content, always self satisfying, if he works that nothing
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  Speaker 1: that shall stain his separate soul, which quit a fear
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  Speaker 1: in hope, subduing self, rejecting outward, impulse, yielding up to body.
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  Speaker 1: Bodies need nothing save body dwells sinless, amid all sin,
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  Speaker 1: with equal calm, taking what may befall by grief, unmoved,
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  Speaker 1: unmoved by joy, unenvyingly the same in good and evil fortunes,
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  Speaker 1: no wise bound by bond of deeds, Nay, but of
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  Speaker 1: such a one whose crave is gone, whose soul is liberate,
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  Speaker 1: whose heart is set on truth. And of such a
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  Speaker 1: one whose work he does is work of sacrifice, which
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  Speaker 1: pass it purely into ash and smoke, consumed upon altar.
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  Speaker 1: All's then God. The sacrifice is brumma. The ghee and
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  Speaker 1: grain are brama. The fire is brumma, and the flesh
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  Speaker 1: it eats is Brumma. And on to Brumma attain he
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  Speaker 1: who in such office meditates on Brumma. Some votaries there
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  Speaker 1: be who serve the gods with flesh and altar smoke.
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  Speaker 1: But other some who, lighting subtler fires, make purer rite
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  Speaker 1: with will of worship of the which be. They who,
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  Speaker 1: in white flame of countenance consume joys of the sense,
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  Speaker 1: delights of ear and eye, foregoing tender speech and sound
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  Speaker 1: of song. And they who, kindling fires with torch of truth,
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  Speaker 1: burn on a hidden altar stone the bliss of youth
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  Speaker 1: and love, renouncing happiness. And they who lay for offering
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  Speaker 1: their their wealth, their penance, meditation, piety, their steadfast reading
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  Speaker 1: of the scrolls, their lower painfully gained with long austerities.
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  Speaker 1: And they who, making silent sacrifice, draw in their breath
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  Speaker 1: to feed the flame of thought, and breathe it forth
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  Speaker 1: to waft the heart on high, governing the vintage of
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  Speaker 1: each entering air, lest one sigh pass which hath helped
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  Speaker 1: not the soul. And they who, day by day, denying needs,
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  Speaker 1: lay life itself upon the altar flame burning the body
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  Speaker 1: van lo. All these keep the right of offering, as
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  Speaker 1: if they slew victims, and all thereby efface mut sin Ye,
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  Speaker 1: and who feed on the immortal fool left of such
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  Speaker 1: sacrifice to Brumma, pass to the unending. But for him
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  Speaker 1: that makes no sacrifice, he hath nor part nor lot,
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  Speaker 1: even in the present world. How should he share another, O, Thou,
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  Speaker 1: glory of thy line in sight of Brahma. All these
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  Speaker 1: offerings are spread and are accepted, comprehend that all proceed
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  Speaker 1: by act. For knowing this, thou shalt be quit of doubt.
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  Speaker 1: The sacrifice which knowledge pays is better than great sacrifice
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  Speaker 1: or great gifts offered by wealth. Since gifts worth, O,
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  Speaker 1: my Prince, lies in the mind which gives the will
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  Speaker 1: that serves. And these are gained by reverence, by strong search,
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  Speaker 1: by humble heed of those who see the truth and
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  Speaker 1: teach it. Knowing truth, thy heart no more will ache
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  Speaker 1: with error, for the truth shall show all things subdued
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  Speaker 1: to THEE, and thou to me moreover, son of Pandu
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  Speaker 1: wert thou worst of all wrong doers. This fairship of
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  Speaker 1: truth should bear thee safe and dry across the sea
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  Speaker 1: of thy transgressions. As the kindled flame of feeds on
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  Speaker 1: the fuel till it sinks to ash so on to
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  Speaker 1: ash urjda on to nought, the flame of knowledge wastes works,
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  Speaker 1: draws away. There is no purer like there too in
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  Speaker 1: all this world. And he who seeks it shall find it,
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  Speaker 1: being grown perfect in himself, believing he receives it when
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  Speaker 1: the soul masters itself and cleaves to truth, and comes
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  Speaker 1: possessing knowledge to the higher peace the utmost reports. But
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  Speaker 1: those untaught, and those without full faith, and those who
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  Speaker 1: fear are shent. No peace is here or otherwhere, no
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  Speaker 1: hope nor happiness. For whoso doubts he that, being self contained,
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  Speaker 1: hath vanquished doubt, disparting self from service, soul from works,
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  Speaker 1: enlightened and emancipate my prince, works fetter him no more.
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  Speaker 1: Cut a twin with sword of wisdom, son of Bareth.
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  Speaker 1: This doubt that binds thy heart beats, cleave the bond
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  Speaker 1: born of thy ignorance. Be bold and wise give thyself
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  Speaker 1: to the field, with me arise. End of chapter four