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09 - Of Religion by the Kingly Knowledge and the Kingly Mystery - Bhagavad Gita · Sacred Texts Archive

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