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05 - Of Religion by Renouncing Fruit of Works - Bhagavad Gita · Philosophy and Faith

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  Speaker 1: Chapter five the Book of Religion, by renouncing fruit of
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  Speaker 1: works Arju. Now, yet Krishna, at the one time thou
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  Speaker 1: dost Lord, surcease of works, and at another time service
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  Speaker 1: through work. Of these twain plainly tell which is the
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  Speaker 1: better way, Krishna. To cease from works is well, and
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  Speaker 1: to do works in holiness is well, and both conduct
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  Speaker 1: to bliss supreme. But of these twain, the better way
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  Speaker 1: is his, who working piously refraineth not. That is the
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  Speaker 1: true renouncer, firm and fixed, who seeking nought rejecteth nought,
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  Speaker 1: dwells proof against the opposites, that is joy and sorrow,
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  Speaker 1: success and failure, heat and cold, etc. Oh, valiant Prince,
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  Speaker 1: in doing such breaks lightly from all deed. Tis the
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  Speaker 1: new scholar talks as they were two, this Sankia and
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  Speaker 1: this yoga. Wise men know who husband's one plucks golden
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  Speaker 1: fruit of both the region of high rest which Sanchian's
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  Speaker 1: reach yogins attain. Who sees these twain as one sees
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  Speaker 1: with clear eyes. Yet such abstraction chief is hard to
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  Speaker 1: win without much holiness. Who is fixed in holiness, self ruled,
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  Speaker 1: pure hearted, lord of senses and of self lost in
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  Speaker 1: the common life of all which lives a yoga yucht.
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  Speaker 1: He is a saint who wends straightway to Brahm. Such
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  Speaker 1: an one is not touched by taint of deeds, nought
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  Speaker 1: of myself. I do. Thus will he think who holds
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  Speaker 1: the truth of truths in beeing, hearing, touching, smelling, when
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  Speaker 1: he eats or goes, or breathes, slumbers or talks, holds
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  Speaker 1: fast or loosens, opens his eyes or shuts, always assured.
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  Speaker 1: This is the sense world plays with senses. He that
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  Speaker 1: acts in thought of Brahm, detaching end from act with
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  Speaker 1: act content the world of sense can no more stain
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  Speaker 1: his soul than waters mar the enameled lotus leaf with life,
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  Speaker 1: with heart, with mind, nay, with the help of all
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  Speaker 1: five senses. Letting selfhard go Jogan's toil, ever towards their
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  Speaker 1: soul's release. Such votaries renouncing fruit of deeds, gain endless peace.
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  Speaker 1: The unvowed, the passion bound seeking a fruit from works,
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  Speaker 1: are fastened down. The embodied sage with drawn within his
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  Speaker 1: soul at every act sits godlike in the town which
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  Speaker 1: hath nine gateways, I either body, neither doing aught nor
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  Speaker 1: causing any deed. This world's lord makes neither the work,
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  Speaker 1: nor passion for the work, nor lust for fruit of work.
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  Speaker 1: The man's own self pushes to these. The master of
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  Speaker 1: this world takes on himself the good or evil deeds
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  Speaker 1: of no man. Dwelling beyond mankind heirs here by folly
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  Speaker 1: darkening knowledge, but for whom that darkness of the soul
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  Speaker 1: is chased by light, splendid and clear shines manifest the truth,
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  Speaker 1: as if a sun of wisdom sprang to shed its
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  Speaker 1: beams of dawn, Him meditating, still him seeking with him, blended,
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  Speaker 1: stayed on him. The souls illuminated take that road which
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  Speaker 1: hath no turning back, their sins flung off by strength
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  Speaker 1: of faith. Who will may have this light? Who hath it?
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  Speaker 1: Sees to him who wisely sees the Brahman with his
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  Speaker 1: scrolls and sanctities, The cow, the elephant, the unclean dog,
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  Speaker 1: the outcast gorging dog's meat, are all one. The world
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  Speaker 1: is overcome. I even hear by such as fix their
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  Speaker 1: faith on unity. The sinless Brama dwells in unity. And
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  Speaker 1: they in brama be not over glad attaining joy, and
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  Speaker 1: be not oversad encountering grief, but stayed on Brama still constant.
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  Speaker 1: Let each abide. The sage, whose soul holds off from
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  Speaker 1: outer contacts in himself, finds bliss to Brama. Joined by piety,
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  Speaker 1: his spirit takes eternal peace. The joys springing from sense
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  Speaker 1: life are but quickening wombs which breed sure griefs. Those
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  Speaker 1: joys begin and end. The wise mind takes no pleasure
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  Speaker 1: Kunti's son in such as those. But if a man
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  Speaker 1: shall learn, even while he lives and bears his body's chain,
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  Speaker 1: to master lust and anger, he is blessed. He is
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  Speaker 1: the Yuctar. He hath happiness, contentment, light within his life
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  Speaker 1: is merged in Brahma's life. He doth Nirvana touch. Thus
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  Speaker 1: go The rishis unto rest, who dwell with sins, effaced
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  Speaker 1: with doubts, at end, with hearts governed and calm, glad
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  Speaker 1: in all good. They live nigh to the peace of God.
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  Speaker 1: And all those live who pass their days exempt from
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  Speaker 1: greed and wrath, subduing self and senses, knowing the soul.
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  Speaker 1: The saint who shuts outside his placid soul all touch
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  Speaker 1: of sense, letting no contact through, whose quiet eyes gaze
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  Speaker 1: straight from fixed brows, whose outward breath and inward breath
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  Speaker 1: are drawn equal and slow through nostrils, still and close.
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  Speaker 1: That one with organ's heart and mind constrained, bent on deliverance,
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  Speaker 1: having put away passion and fear and rage, hath even
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  Speaker 1: now obtained deliverance, ever and ever freed YEA, for he
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  Speaker 1: knows me. Who am he that heeds the sacrifice and
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  Speaker 1: worship God revealed, And he who heeds not, being Lord
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  Speaker 1: of worlds, lover of all that lives, God unreveal'd. Wherein
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  Speaker 1: who will shall find surety and shield? Here ends Chapter
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  Speaker 1: five of the Bagavad Geeta