CHAPTER 9:
THE YOGA OF CONFIDENTIALITY
On the confidential of
knowledge
(1) The Supreme Lord said: 'What
I am telling now is the most confidential knowledge of selfrealization
for those who are not envious. With the knowing of it you will be
released from worldly miseries. (2) It is the King of knowledge and the confidential, it is the
purest, transcendental and understood by direct experience, it is of
the righteous, very happy in its practice and everlasting.
(3) Persons without faith in the
path of righteousness, o killer of the enemies, do not attain Me and
will upon dying return to the path of material motivation. (4)
By the
unmanifest of Me this entire cosmic manifestation is pervaded, all
living entities are in Me and I am not [completely] in them. (5)
Never
either is all creation fixed in Me; behold My mystic union: sustaining
all and not being in them also, is My Self the source of all. (6)
Try to
understand that, like the mighty wind that is always in the sky blowing
everywhere, I likewise exist with all created beings that are within Me. (7)
All
beings, o son of Kuntî, merge at the end of an era in My original
form and at the beginning of an era all those I create again. (8)
Descending
into My material nature I again and again create all of the cosmic
manifestation of which the sum total is delivered to My compelling
force. (9) And to those activities I am never bound, o conqueror of
wealth, as I am in the neutral without being attracted to the fruitive
action. (10) By my superintendence the material of nature manifests both
the moving and the unmoving and for this reason, o son of Kuntî,
is the cosmic manifestation working.
(11) The foolish look down upon My
having assumed the human form, not knowing of My transcendental nature
and that I am the Great Lord of all. (12)
Baffled
in their hopes, fruitive actions and knowledge, take those who are
bewildered to demoniac and atheistic views and also surely to the
delusional of material nature. (13) But the great souls, o son of Prithâ, who have taken
to the shelter of My divine nature, render service without their minds
deviating and know of the inexhaustible origin of creation. (14)
Always
singing about Me and also endeavoring with determination they offer Me
their obeisances perpetually engaged in the worship of their devotion. (15)
Also
cultivating knowledge others sacrificing worship Me as the oneness in
the diversity of the universal form. (16)
I am the
ritual, the sacrifice, the oblation and I am the medicinal herb, the
mantra and also for sure the clarified butter, the fire and the
offering. (17) Of this universe I am the father, the mother, the supporter
the grandfather, that what's to be known, that what purifies, the
pranava AUM and surely the Rig-, Sâma- and the Yayur-Veda. (18)
The goal,
the sustainer, the master, the witness, the refuge, the most intimate
friend, the origin, the dissolution, the ground of being, the resting
place and the imperishable seed. (19) I give heat, I bring and withhold the rain and I am
immortality and surely death and both the subtle and the gross, Arjuna.
(20) The knowers of the three
Vedas, these Soma-drinkers who are freed from from sins, worship Me
with sacrifices and pray for their passage to heaven - they attain the
world of Indra and enjoy the celestial pleasures of the gods there. (21)
After
they, taking pleasure in that vast heaven, have exhausted the merit of
their good deeds, they fall back into the mortal world again and thus
do those who desire sense-enjoyment in following the doctrines of the
three Vedas attain birth and death.
(22) But of those persons who
concentrate on nothing else but Me and who are fixed in devotion in
proper worship, I protect the union and to them I carry what they need. (23)
Even
though those who are the devotees of other gods with faith also worship
Me only, o son of Kuntî, they worship Me the wrong way. (24)
I am
certainly of all sacrifices the enjoyer and the controller as well;
they who do not know Me in reality fall down therefore. (25) Worshippers of the godly go to the gods,
worshipers of the ancestors go to the forefathers, they who worship
spirits go to them and My devotees come to Me. (26)
Whoever
offers Me a leaf, a flower, a fruit and water with devotion, that offer
brought from the heart by a soul of good habits I accept. (27)
Whatever
you do, whatever you eat, whatever you offer, whatever you give away or
whatever austerity you're in, o son of Kuntî, do that as an
offering towards Me. (28) Thus you will be freed from the auspicious and inauspicious
consequences of being bound by karma and liberated in having your mind
set on the renunciation in this yoga, you will attain Me.
(29) I am equal to all living
entities, no one is disliked or favored by Me, but those persons who
render transcendental service to Me in devotion are in Me and I also
certainly am [partially] in them.
(30) Even if one committing the
most abominable action is engaged in devotional service unto Me without
deviation, he is to be considered a saint as he is complete in his
determination. (31) Very soon he becomes righteous and attains lasting peace, o
son of Kuntî; do proclaim that my devotee never perishes! (32)
And also
in particular those who take shelter from Me, o son of Prithâ,
who are born from sin, who are women, of the trading business and also
the laborers; even they will attain the supreme destination. (33)
What then
again for righteous brahmins, devotees and saintly rulers who also
gained this temporary world full of miseries - be in loving service
towards Me. (34) Always thinking of Me, become My devotee, My worshiper and
thus devoted to Me, offering Me obeisances, your soul will become fully
aligned.'
Spoken by Anand Aadhar Prabhu
to the text offered below