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09 - Of Religion by the Kingly Knowledge and the Kingly Mystery - Bhagavad Gita · Philosophy and Faith

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  Speaker 1: Chapter nine of Religion. By the kingly knowledge and the
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  Speaker 1: kingly mystery Krishna. Now will I open unto thee whose
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  Speaker 1: heart rejects not that lost lore, deepest conceal'd, that farthest
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  Speaker 1: secret of my heavens and earths, which but to know
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  Speaker 1: shall set thee free from ills, A royal lore, a
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  Speaker 1: kingly mystery. Here for the soul, such light as purgeth
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  Speaker 1: it from every sin, a light of holiness, with inmost splendor,
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  Speaker 1: shining plain to see, easy to walk by, inexhaustible. They
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  Speaker 1: that receive not this, failing in faith to grasp the
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  Speaker 1: greater wisdom, reach not me, destroyer of thy foes. They
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  Speaker 1: sink anew into the realm of flesh, where all things
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  Speaker 1: change by me. The whole vast universe of things is
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  Speaker 1: spread abroad by me, the unmanifest in me. Are all
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  Speaker 1: existences contained, not I in them? Yet they are not
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  Speaker 1: contained Those visible things receive and strive to embrace the
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  Speaker 1: mystery majestical my being, creating all, sustaining, all still dwells
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  Speaker 1: outside of all. See as the shoreless airs move in
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  Speaker 1: the measureless space, but are not space and space or
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  Speaker 1: space without the moving airs. So all things are in me,
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  Speaker 1: but are not I. At closing of each culpa Indian prints,
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  Speaker 1: all things which be back to my being come at
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of each culpa, all issue newborn from me
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  Speaker 1: by energy and help of Procrithi, my outer self. Again,
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  Speaker 1: and yet again I make go forth the realms of
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  Speaker 1: visible things without their will, all of them by the
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  Speaker 1: power of Procrithi. Yet these great making sprints involve me
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  Speaker 1: not and chain me not. I sit apart from them,
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  Speaker 1: other and higher and free, no wise attached. Thus doth
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  Speaker 1: the stuff of worlds, molded by me, bring forth all
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  Speaker 1: that which is moving, or still living, or lifeless. Thus
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  Speaker 1: the world's go on. The minds untaught mistake me, veiled
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  Speaker 1: in form. Not see they of my secret presence, not
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  Speaker 1: of my hidden nature, ruling all which lives, vain hopes,
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  Speaker 1: pursuing vain deeds, doing fed on vainest knowledge senselessly, they
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  Speaker 1: seek an evil we the way of brutes and fiance.
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  Speaker 1: But my Mahatmas, those of noble soul who tread the
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  Speaker 1: path Celesteel, worship me with hearts unwandering, knowing me the sores,
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  Speaker 1: the eternal source of life. Unendingly they glorify me, seek me,
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  Speaker 1: keep their vows of reverence and love with changeless faith,
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  Speaker 1: adoring me. Yea, And those two adore who offering sacrifice
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  Speaker 1: of wakened hearts have sense of one pervading spirit's stress,
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  Speaker 1: one force in every place, though manifold. I am the sacrifice,
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  Speaker 1: I am the prayer. I am the funeral cake set
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  Speaker 1: for the dead. I am the healing herb. I am
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  Speaker 1: the ghee, the mantra and the flame, and that which burns.
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  Speaker 1: I am of all this boundless universe, the Father, Mother, Ancestor,
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  Speaker 1: and God, the end of learning, that which purifies in
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  Speaker 1: illustril water. I am Olm. I am rig Veda, sama Veda,
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  Speaker 1: yajur Veda, the Way, the fosterer, the Lord, the judge,
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  Speaker 1: the witness, the abode, the refuge, house, the friend, the fountain,
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  Speaker 1: and the sea of life, which sends and swallows up
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  Speaker 1: treasure of worlds and treasure chamber, seed and seed sower.
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  Speaker 1: Whence endless harvests. Spring. Sun's heat is mine, Heaven's rain
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  Speaker 1: is mine. To grant or to withhold. Death am I
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  Speaker 1: and immortal life. I am a Juna sath and asuth,
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  Speaker 1: visible life and life invisible. Yea. Those who learn the Threefold.
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  Speaker 1: Weds who drink the Soma vine purge sins, pay sacrifice
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  Speaker 1: from Me. They earn passage to Swerga, where the meats
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  Speaker 1: divine of great gods freed them in High Indra's heaven.
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  Speaker 1: Yet they, when that prodigious joy is o'er paradise, spent
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  Speaker 1: and wage for merits given, come to the world of
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  Speaker 1: death and change. Once more they had their recompense. They
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  Speaker 1: stored their treasure, following the Threefold Scripture and its writ
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  Speaker 1: who seeketh such gaineth the fleeting pleasure of joy which
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  Speaker 1: comes and goes. I grant them it. But to those
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  Speaker 1: blessed ones who worship me, turning not otherwhere, with minds
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  Speaker 1: set fast, I bring assurance of full bliss beyond nay,
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  Speaker 1: and of hearts which follow other gods in simple faith.
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  Speaker 1: Their prayers arise to me, O count Thee's son, though
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  Speaker 1: they pray wrongfully, for I am the receiver and the
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  Speaker 1: Lord of every sacrifice, which these know not rightfully. So
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  Speaker 1: they fall to earth again. Who follow gods go to
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  Speaker 1: their gods, who wow their souls to pythres, go to pythres,
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  Speaker 1: minds to evil boots given o'er sink to the boots,
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  Speaker 1: and whoso loveth me cometh to me, who so shall
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  Speaker 1: offer me in faith and love a leaf, a flower,
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  Speaker 1: a fruit, water poured forth. That offering I accept lovingly,
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  Speaker 1: made with pious will. Whatever thou doest, Prince, eating or sacrificing,
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  Speaker 1: giving gifts, praying or fasting, let it all be done
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  Speaker 1: for me as mine. So shalt thou free thyself from karmaband,
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  Speaker 1: the chain which holdeth men to good and evil issue.
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  Speaker 1: So shalt come safe unto me, when thou art quit
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  Speaker 1: of flesh by faith and abdication, join'd to me. I
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  Speaker 1: am alike. For all I know not hate, I know
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  Speaker 1: not favor. What is made is mine. But them that
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  Speaker 1: worship me with love I love. They are in me,
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  Speaker 1: and I in them. Nay, Prince, if one of evil
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  Speaker 1: life turn in his thought straitly to me, count him
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  Speaker 1: amidst the good he hath the highway chosen. He shall
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  Speaker 1: grow righteous ere long he shall attain that peace which
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  Speaker 1: changes not Thou, Prince of India, be certain none can perish.
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  Speaker 1: Trust me O Bretha's son, whoso will turn to me,
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  Speaker 1: though they be borne from the very womb of sin,
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  Speaker 1: woman or man, sprung of the vicia caste or lowly disregarded. Sudra,
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  Speaker 1: all plant foot upon the highest path. How then, the
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  Speaker 1: holy Brahmans and my royal saints ah ye, who into
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  Speaker 1: this ill world are come fleeting and false. Set your
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  Speaker 1: faith fast on me, Fix heart and thought on me,
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  Speaker 1: adore me, Bring offerings to me, make me prostrations, Make
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  Speaker 1: me your supremest joy and undivided. Unto my rest, your
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  Speaker 1: spirits shall be guided here ends Chapter nine.