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04 - Of Religion of Knowledge - Bhagavad Gita · Sacred Texts Archive

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