Chapter
9 - The Yoga of the Sovereign
Science and the Sovereign Secret
The
Blessed Sri Krsn said:
To
you who do not cavil, I shall now unfold
the most profound knowledge with
Realization, knowing which you will be
released from evil (i.e. evil of worldly
birth and death). (9.01)
This
knowledge with realization is the
sovereign science, the sovereign secret,
the supreme holy, the most excellent
directly realizable, attended with virtue,
very easy to practice and imperishable.
(9.02)
People
devoid of faith in the Dharma (duty),
failing to reach Me, O oppressor of the
foes, revolve in the path of the mortal
world. (9.03)
The
whole of this universe is permeated by Me
as unmanifest Divinity, and all beings
rest on the idea within Me. Therefore,
really speaking, I am not present in them.
(9.04-05)
As
the mighty wind moving every where ever
rests in ether, likewise know that all
beings rest in Me. (9.06)
All
beings, O Kaunteya, go into My Prakrti
(the Prime cause) at the end of Kalpa
(Brahma's day) and I generate them again
at the beginning of the next Kalpa. (9.07)
Laying
hold of My Nature, I bring forth, again
and again this whole multitude of beings,
subject to the influence of their own
nature. (9.08)
Arjun,
those actions, however, do not bind Me,
unattached as I am to such actions and
standing apart as it were. (9.09)
Arjun,
with Me as the supervisor, Nature brings
forth the whole creation, consisting of
both sentient and insentient beings; it is
due to this cause that the wheel of
Samsara is going around. (9.10)
The
ignorant ones, not knowing My supreme
natures as the great Lord of all beings,
disregard Me when I assume human form.
(9.11)
Those
bewildered persons with vain hopes, futile
actions and fruitless knowledge have
embraced a fiendish, demonical and
delusive nature. (9.12)
On
the other hand, Arjun, great souls who
have embraced the Divine Nature, knowing
Me as the Prime source of all lives and
the imperishable eternal, worship Me
constantly with none else in mind. (9.13)
Constantly
chanting My names and glories and striving
for My realization, and bowing again and
again to Me, those devotees of firm
resolve, ever united with Me through
meditation, worship Me with single-minded
devotion and oneness. (9.14)
Others
worship Me (as the One, Undivided Pure
Consciousness) through their offering of
knowledge; while still others worship Me
in My Universal Form, taking Me to be
diverse celestial forms. (9.15)
I
am the vedic ritual. I am the sacrifice. I
am the offering. I am the offering to the
departed. I am the medicinal herb. I am
the sacred formula (mantra). I am the
clarified butter. I am the sacred fire and
I am the act of offering oblation into the
fire, and I am the knowledge, the
purifier, the sacred syllable Om and the
three Vedas - Rig, Sama and Yajur. I am
the father sustainer, mother, grand
father, goal, supporter, Lord, witness,
abode, refuge, disinterested friend,
origin, end, resting place, store house,
and the imperishable seed of this
universe. (9.16-18)
Arjun,
I as the sun, radiate heat, withhold and
send forth rain. I am immortality as well
as death; I am being and the non-being.
(9.19)
Those
who perform actions with some interested
motive as laid in the three Vedas ad drink
the sap of soma plant, and thus purged of
sin, worshipping Me as Indra, by
sacrifices, pray to seek access to heaven,
attaining Indra's paradise as the result
of their good deeds, enjoy the celestial
pleasures of the gods. (9.20)
Having
enjoyed the extensive heaven-world, they
return to this world of mortals on the
stock of their merits beings exhausted.
Thus devoted to the ritual with interested
motive recommended by the three Vedas (as
the means of attaining heavenly bliss),
and seeking worldly enjoyments, they
repeatedly come and go (i.e., ascend to
heaven by virtue of their merits and
return to earth when their fruit has been
enjoyed.) (9.21)
The
devotees, however, who loving no one else
constantly think of Me, and worship Me,
and worship Me in a disinterested spirit,
to those ever united in thought with Me, I
bring full security and personally attend
to their needs. (9.22)
O
Arjun, even those devotees who, endowed
with faith, worship other gods with some
interested motive worship Me alone, though
with a mistaken approach. (9.23)
For
I am the enjoyer and also the Lord of all
sacrifices; but they know Me not in
reality (as the Supreme Deity), hence they
fall (i.e., return to life on earth).
(9.24)
Those
who are vowed to gods go to the gods;
those who are avowed to the manes reach
the manes; those who adore the spirits
reach the spirits, and those who worship
Me come to Me alone. This is why My
devotees are no longer subject to birth
and death). (9.25)
Whosoever
offers Me with love a leaf, a flower, a
fruit, or even water; I appear in person
before that disinterested devotee of
sinless mind, and delightfully partake of
that article offered by him with love.
(9.26)
O
Arjun, whatever you do, whatever you eat,
whatever you offer as oblation to the
sacred fire, whatever you bestow as gift,
whatever you do by the way of penance,
offer all that as an offering unto Me.
(9.27)
With
your mind firmly set in the Yoga of
renunciation i.e.,by offering all actions
to Me, you will be free from the bondage
of actions yielding good and bad results;
and freed from them, you shall attain Me.
(9.28)
I
am the Self to all beings; to Me there is
none hateful, none dear. But those who
worship Me with devotion are in Me and I
am also in them. (9.29)
Even
if the vilest sinner worships Me with
exclusive devotion; he should be
considered a saint, for he has rightly
resolved. (9.30)
Speedily
he becomes virtuous and secures lasting
peace. O Kaunteya, you know for certain
that My devotee never falls. (9.31)
O
Parth, woman-folk, Vaisyas, Sudras and
even those that are born of the womb of
sin (such as the pariah) taking refuge in
Me attain the Supreme God. (9.32)
What
wonder then that the holy Brahmans and
devout royal saints should attain Him.
Therefore, having obtained this transient
and joyless body, do worship Me. (9.33)
Fix
your mind on Me, Be devoted to Me, Adore
Me, and bow down to Me, thus making
yourself steadfast in Me, and entirely
depending on Me, you will, come to Me.
(9.34)
Thus
with the utterance of Om, Tat, Sat, the
names of the Lord, in the Upanisad of the
Bhagawad Gita, the knowledge of Brahman,
the Supreme Spirit, the science of yoga
and the dialogue between Sri Krsn and
Arjun, this is the ninth discourse
designated: "The Yoga of Sovereign
Science and Sovereign Secret"
Swami Veet Chintan T'Zorba-Krsna
Jyotish
Shastracharya
& Vedic Astrologer of India
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