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06 - Of Religion of Self-Restraint - Bhagavad Gita · Sacred Texts Archive

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  Chapter six. Krishna, therefore, who doeth work rightful to do, not
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  seeking gain from work? That man o prince is Sanyasi and Yogi, both
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  in one, and he is neither who lights not the flame of sacrifice,
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  nor setteth hand to task. Regard as true renouncer him that makes worship by
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  work, For who renounceth not works, not as Yogin, so is that
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  well said by works, the votary doth rise to saint, and saintship is
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  the ceasing from all works. Because the perfect Yogin acts, but acts unmoved
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  by passions and unbound by deeds, setting result aside. Let each man raise
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  the self by soul, not trample down his self, since soul that is
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  self's friend, may grow self's foe. Soul is self's friend when self doth
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  rule over self, but self turns enemy. If soul's own self hate self
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  as not itself. The sovereign soul of him, who live, self governed
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  and at peace, is centered in itself, taking alike pleasure and pain,
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  heat, cold, glory and shame. He is the Yogi. He is
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  Yukta, glad with joy of light and truth, dwelling apart upon a peak,
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  with senses subjugate. Where to the cloud, the rock, the glistering
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  gold, show all as one. By this sign is he known, being
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  of equal grace to comrades, friends, chance comers, strangers, lovers,
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  enemies, aliens and kinsmen, loving all alike, evil or good sequestered.
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  Should he sit steadfastly, meditating, solitary, his thoughts controlled, his passions
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  laid away, quit of belongings, in a fair still spot, having his
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  fixed abode not too much raised, nor yet too low. Let him abide
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  his goods a cloth, a deer skin, and the cusa grass. There,
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  setting heart his mind upon the one restraining heart and senses, silent calm.
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  Let him accomplish yoga and achieve pureness of soul, holding immovable body and
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  neck and head, his gaze absorbed upon his nose, end wrapped from all
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  around, tranquil in spirit, free of fear, intent upon his Brahmacharya,
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  vow devout, musing on me, lost in the thought of me, that
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  Yogan so devoted, so controlled, comes to the piece beyond my peace,
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  the peace of high Nirvana. But for earth needs religion. Is not his
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  who too much fasts or too much feasts, nor his who sleeps away in
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  idle mind, nor his who wears to waste his strength and vigils. Nay
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  Arjuna call that the true piety which most removes earth, aches and ills.
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  Where one is moderate in eating and in resting, and in sport, measured
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  in wish and act, sleeping betimes, waking betimes for duty. When the
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  man so living centers on his soul the thought straightly, restrained, untouched internally
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  by stress of sense, then is he yuctah see steadfast a lamp burns sheltered
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  from the wind. Such is the likeness of the jogi's mind, shut from
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  sense, storms in burning bright to heaven. When mind broods placid, soothed
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  with holy want, when self contemplates self and in itself hath comfort when it
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  knows the nameless joy beyond all scope of sense, revealed to soul only to
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  soul, and knowing wavers not true to the farther truth. When holding this,
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  it deems no other treasure comparable. But harbored there cannot be stirred or
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  shook by any gravest grief. Call that state peace, that happy severance yoga.
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  Call that man the perfect yogin steadfastly the will must toil thereto till efforts
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  end in ease, and thought has passed from thinking, shaking off all longings
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  bred by dreams of fame and gain, shutting the doorways of the senses close
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  with watchful ward. So step by step it comes to gift of peace assured
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  and heart assuaged, when the mind mind dwell, self wrapped, and the
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  soul broods cumberless. But as often as the heart breaks wild and wavering from
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  control, so often let him recurb it, let him rein it back to
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  the soul's governance. For perfect bliss grows only in the bosom, tranquilized,
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  the spirit, passionless, purged from a fence, vowed to the infinite,
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  He who thus vows his soul to the supreme soul, quitting sin, passes
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  unhindered to the enlistless of unity with Brahma. He so vowed, so blended,
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  sees the life's soul resident in all things living, and all living things
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  in that life's soul contained. And whoso thus discerneth me in all and all
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  in me, I never let him go, nor looseneth he hold upon me,
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  but dwell where he may what his life in me? He dwells and
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  lives because he knows and worships me, who dwell in all which lives,
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  and cleaves to me in all, Arjuna. If a man sees everywhere taught
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  by his own similitude, one life, one essence, and the evil and
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  the good, hold him a yogi yea well perfected Arjuna, slayer of Madu.
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  Yet again this yog this peace derived from equanimity made known by THEE.
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  I see no fixity therein no rest, because the heart of men is unfixed.
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  Krishna rash tumultuous, wilful, and strong. It were all one,
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  I think to hold the wayward wind as tame man's heart. Krishna hero long
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  armed beyond denial. Hard man's heart is to restrain and wavering. Yet may
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  it grow restrained by habit, Prince, by want of self command? This
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  yogi, I say, cometh not lightly to the ungoverned ones. But he
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  who will be master of himself shall win it if he stoutly strive there too,
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  Arjuna, In what road goeth he who, having faith fails Krishna in
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  the striving, falling back from holiness, missing the perfect rule? Is he
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  not lost straying from Brahma's light. Like the vain cloud which floats TwixT earth
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  and heaven, when lightning splits it and it vanisheth. Fain would I hear
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  thee answer me herein, Since Krishna, none save thou, can clear the
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  doubt. Krishna, he is not lost, Thou, son of Prita.
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  No nor earth nor heaven is forfeit even for him, because no heart that
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  holds one right desire treadeth the road of law. He who should fail desiring
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  righteousness cometh at death unto the region of the just, dwells there measureless years,
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  and being born anew, beginneth life again in some fair home amid the
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  mild and happy. It may chance he doth descend into a yogan's house on
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  Virtue's breast, but that is rare. Such birth is hard to be obtained
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  on this earth. Chief, so hath he back again what heights of heart
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  he did achieve, And so he strives anew to perfectness with better hope,
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  Dear Prince, for by the old desire he is drawn on unwittingly and only
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  to desire. The purity of yoga is to pass beyond the Shabdebrahm, the
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  spoken vade. But being Yogi, striving strong and long, purged from transgressions,
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  perfected by births. Following on births, he plants his feet at last
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  upon the farther path. Such an one ranks above ascetics, higher than the
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  wise, beyond achievers of vast deeds, be thou Yogi Arjuna, And of
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  such believe truest and best is he who worships me with inmost soul stayed on
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  my mystery. Here endeth Chapter six