Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 18, Verses 45-66, The Supreme Secret, Sanskrit and English

0:00 Extracts from the 18th chapter of the Bhagavad Gita, the supreme Secret, The message of the Gita, the secret of action. So might we summarize the message of the Gita. The word of its divine teacher is one with the secret of all life and existence. Existence is not merely a machinery of nature, a wheel of law in which the soul is entangled for a moment or for ages. It is a constant manifestation of the Spirit. Life is not for the sake of life alone, but for God. And the living soul of man is an eternal portion of the Godhead.

0:45 Action is for self finding, for self fulfillment, for self realization, and not only for its own external and apparent fruits of the moment or the future. There is an inner law and meaning of all things, dependent on the supreme as well as the manifested nature of the Self. But the true truth of works lies there, and can be represented only incidentally, imperfectly, and disguised by ignorance in the outer appearances of the mind and its action. The Supreme, the faultless largest law of action is therefore to find out the truth of your own highest and inmost existence, and live in it, and not to follow any outer standard in Dharma. All life and action must be till then an imperfection, A difficulty, A struggle, and a problem. It is only by discovering your true self and living according to its true truth.

1:48 It's real reality that the problem can be finally solved. The difficulty and struggle over past and your doings perfected in the security of the discovered self and spirit turned into a divinely authentic action. Know then yourself. Know your true self to be God and one with the self of all others. Know yourself to be a portion of God. Live in what you know. Live in the Self. Live in your supreme spiritual nature. Be united with God and God like. Offer first all your actions as a sacrifice to the highest and the one in you, and to the highest and the one in the world.

2:38 Deliver last all you are and do into His hands for the supreme and universal Spirit to do through you His own will and works in the world. This is the solution that I present to you, and in the end you will find that there is no other Slocas. 45 to 66th of the 18th

7:57 Chapter, the Supreme Secret. A man who is intent on his own natural work attains perfection. Listen thou how perfection is wooden by him who is intent on his own natural work, he from whom all beings originate, by whom all this universe is pervaded. By worshipping him by his own work, a man reacheth perfection. Better is one's own law of works, though in itself faulty, than an alien law well wrought out. One does not incur sin when one acts in agreement with the law of one's own nature.

8:43 The inborn work, O son of Kunti, though defective, ought not to be abandoned. All actions in the three gunas indeed are clouded by defects, as fire, by smoke and understanding, without attachment in all things A soul self conquered and empty of desire, man attains by renunciation a supreme perfection of Naishkarimya. How having attained this perfection, 1 Thus attains to the Brahman. Hear from me, O son of Kunti, that which is the supreme concentrated direction of the knowledge, Uniting the purified intelligence with the pure spiritual substance in US, controlling the whole being by firm and steady will, having renounced sound and the other objects of the senses, withdrawing from all liking and disliking, resorting to impersonal solitude of stamius, speech, body and mind controlled, constantly united with the inmost self by meditation, completely giving up desire and attachment, having put away egoism, violence, arrogance, desire, wrath, the sense and instinctive possession, free from all I Ness and minus, calm and luminously

10:15 impassive, One is fit to become the Brahman when one has become the Brahman. When one serene in the Self, neither grieves nor desires, When one is equal to all beings, then one gets the supreme love and devotion to Me. By devotion he comes to know Me, who and how much I am, and in all the reality and principles of my being. Having thus known Me, he entereth into that Purushotam. And by doing also all actions always lodged in Me, He attains by my grace the eternal and imperishable status, devoting all thyself to Me, giving up in thy conscious mind all thy actions into Me, resorting to yoga of the will and intelligence, be always wanted, heart and consciousness with me.

11:22 If thou art one in heart, and consciousness with me at all times, then by my grace thou shalt pass safe through all difficult and perilous passages. But if from egoism thou hear not, thou shalt fall into perdition. Vain is this thy resolve, that in thy egoism thou thinkest saying, I will not fight. Thy nature shall appoint thee to the work. What from delusion thou desirest not to do, O Kantaya, that helplessly thou shalt do bound by thy own work. Born of thy swabhava, the Lord, O Arjuna, is seated in the heart of all beings, turning all beings mounted upon a machine by his Maya.

12:12 In him take refuge in every way of thy being, and by his grace thou shalt come to the supreme peace and the eternal status. So have I expounded to thee, And knowledge more secret than that which is hidden, having reflected on it fully, do as thou wouldst further hear from me the most secret, the supreme word that I shall speak to thee. Beloved, art thou intimately of me? Therefore will I speak for thy good. Become my minded my lover, and adorer A sacrificer to me. Bow thyself to me.

12:59 To me Thou shalt come. This is my pledge and promise to thee, For dear art thou to me? Abandon all dharmas, and take refuge in me alone. I will deliver thee from all sin and evil. Do not grieve home. Peace, peace, peace.