March 9, 2024
Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 18, Verses 45-66, The Supreme Secret, Sanskrit and English
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Sanskrit recitations and English commentary of Sri Aurobindo drawn from Sri Aurobindo's Essays on the Gita and Bhagavad Gita and Its Message
The USA editions of these books are published by Lotus Press
The recording features Sanskrit recitation by Sri Vinayak and English introduction and translations recitation by Santosh Krinsky. The recording was made in 1973 at Sri Aurobindo Ashram.
All introductory notes have been extracted from Sri Aurobindo's writings on the Bhagavad Gita from the sources noted above
More information about Sri Aurobindo can be found at http://www.aurobindo.net
An in depth review of Essays on the Gita is available at the daily blog http://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com
Additional recitations can be found at the following YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@santoshkrinsky871
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Extracts from the 18th chapter
of the Bhagavad Gita, the
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supreme Secret, The message of
the Gita, the secret of action.
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So might we summarize the
message of the Gita.
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00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:19,880
The word of its divine teacher
is one with the secret of all
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00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:24,040
life and existence.
Existence is not merely a
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00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:28,280
machinery of nature, a wheel of
law in which the soul is
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00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:30,840
entangled for a moment or for
ages.
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It is a constant manifestation
of the Spirit.
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00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:39,320
Life is not for the sake of life
alone, but for God.
10
00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:43,840
And the living soul of man is an
eternal portion of the Godhead.
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00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:50,120
Action is for self finding, for
self fulfillment, for self
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00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:54,400
realization, and not only for
its own external and apparent
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00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:56,480
fruits of the moment or the
future.
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00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:01,400
There is an inner law and
meaning of all things, dependent
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00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:05,319
on the supreme as well as the
manifested nature of the Self.
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00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:11,320
But the true truth of works lies
there, and can be represented
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00:01:11,320 --> 00:01:16,400
only incidentally, imperfectly,
and disguised by ignorance in
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the outer appearances of the
mind and its action.
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The Supreme, the faultless
largest law of action is
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therefore to find out the truth
of your own highest and inmost
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00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:32,400
existence, and live in it, and
not to follow any outer standard
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00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:36,040
in Dharma.
All life and action must be till
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00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:40,200
then an imperfection, A
difficulty, A struggle, and a
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problem.
It is only by discovering your
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true self and living according
to its true truth.
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It's real reality that the
problem can be finally solved.
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The difficulty and struggle over
past and your doings perfected
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00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:01,880
in the security of the
discovered self and spirit
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00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:05,000
turned into a divinely authentic
action.
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00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:10,440
Know then yourself.
Know your true self to be God
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00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:13,200
and one with the self of all
others.
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00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:16,400
Know yourself to be a portion of
God.
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Live in what you know.
Live in the Self.
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Live in your supreme spiritual
nature.
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Be united with God and God like.
Offer first all your actions as
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00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:34,920
a sacrifice to the highest and
the one in you, and to the
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00:02:34,920 --> 00:02:37,080
highest and the one in the
world.
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Deliver last all you are and do
into His hands for the supreme
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and universal Spirit to do
through you His own will and
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works in the world.
This is the solution that I
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00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:55,840
present to you, and in the end
you will find that there is no
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00:02:55,840 --> 00:07:57,680
other
Slocas. 45 to 66th of the 18th
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Chapter, the Supreme Secret.
A man who is intent on his own
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00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:10,360
natural work attains perfection.
Listen thou how perfection is
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00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:16,360
wooden by him who is intent on
his own natural work, he from
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00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:20,560
whom all beings originate, by
whom all this universe is
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00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:24,160
pervaded.
By worshipping him by his own
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work, a man reacheth perfection.
Better is one's own law of
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00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:35,760
works, though in itself faulty,
than an alien law well wrought
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00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:39,159
out.
One does not incur sin when one
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00:08:39,159 --> 00:08:42,000
acts in agreement with the law
of one's own nature.
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00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:48,680
The inborn work, O son of Kunti,
though defective, ought not to
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00:08:48,680 --> 00:08:52,600
be abandoned.
All actions in the three gunas
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00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:58,680
indeed are clouded by defects,
as fire, by smoke and
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00:08:58,680 --> 00:09:03,040
understanding, without
attachment in all things A soul
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00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:07,440
self conquered and empty of
desire, man attains by
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00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:11,560
renunciation a supreme
perfection of Naishkarimya.
58
00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:17,080
How having attained this
perfection, 1 Thus attains to
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00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:20,360
the Brahman.
Hear from me, O son of Kunti,
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00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:24,280
that which is the supreme
concentrated direction of the
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00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:29,800
knowledge, Uniting the purified
intelligence with the pure
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00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:34,640
spiritual substance in US,
controlling the whole being by
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00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:39,440
firm and steady will, having
renounced sound and the other
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00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:43,720
objects of the senses,
withdrawing from all liking and
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00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:49,600
disliking, resorting to
impersonal solitude of stamius,
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00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:55,000
speech, body and mind
controlled, constantly united
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00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:59,400
with the inmost self by
meditation, completely giving up
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00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:04,600
desire and attachment, having
put away egoism, violence,
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00:10:04,680 --> 00:10:09,120
arrogance, desire, wrath, the
sense and instinctive
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00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:15,600
possession, free from all I Ness
and minus, calm and luminously
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00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:21,600
impassive, One is fit to become
the Brahman when one has become
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00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:25,400
the Brahman.
When one serene in the Self,
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00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:31,800
neither grieves nor desires,
When one is equal to all beings,
74
00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:35,960
then one gets the supreme love
and devotion to Me.
75
00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:44,040
By devotion he comes to know Me,
who and how much I am, and in
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00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:47,280
all the reality and principles
of my being.
77
00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:52,560
Having thus known Me, he
entereth into that Purushotam.
78
00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:59,520
And by doing also all actions
always lodged in Me, He attains
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00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:06,800
by my grace the eternal and
imperishable status, devoting
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00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:11,480
all thyself to Me, giving up in
thy conscious mind all thy
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00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:15,840
actions into Me, resorting to
yoga of the will and
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00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:21,040
intelligence, be always wanted,
heart and consciousness with me.
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00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:26,000
If thou art one in heart, and
consciousness with me at all
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00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:30,720
times, then by my grace thou
shalt pass safe through all
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00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:36,120
difficult and perilous passages.
But if from egoism thou hear
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00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:39,600
not, thou shalt fall into
perdition.
87
00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:45,680
Vain is this thy resolve, that
in thy egoism thou thinkest
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00:11:45,680 --> 00:11:50,600
saying, I will not fight.
Thy nature shall appoint thee to
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00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:54,600
the work.
What from delusion thou desirest
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00:11:54,600 --> 00:12:00,120
not to do, O Kantaya, that
helplessly thou shalt do bound
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00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:04,520
by thy own work.
Born of thy swabhava, the Lord,
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00:12:04,520 --> 00:12:08,560
O Arjuna, is seated in the heart
of all beings, turning all
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00:12:08,560 --> 00:12:11,760
beings mounted upon a machine by
his Maya.
94
00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:18,600
In him take refuge in every way
of thy being, and by his grace
95
00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:23,880
thou shalt come to the supreme
peace and the eternal status.
96
00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:30,200
So have I expounded to thee, And
knowledge more secret than that
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00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:35,600
which is hidden, having
reflected on it fully, do as
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00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:41,120
thou wouldst further hear from
me the most secret, the supreme
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00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:45,680
word that I shall speak to thee.
Beloved, art thou intimately of
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00:12:45,680 --> 00:12:48,000
me?
Therefore will I speak for thy
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00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:53,120
good.
Become my minded my lover, and
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00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:58,560
adorer A sacrificer to me.
Bow thyself to me.
103
00:12:59,560 --> 00:13:04,000
To me Thou shalt come.
This is my pledge and promise to
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00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:10,720
thee, For dear art thou to me?
Abandon all dharmas, and take
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00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:15,320
refuge in me alone.
I will deliver thee from all sin
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00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:20,120
and evil.
Do not grieve home.
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00:13:20,680 --> 00:13:24,400
Peace, peace, peace.
00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:04,880
Extracts from the 18th chapter
of the Bhagavad Gita, the
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00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:11,600
supreme Secret, The message of
the Gita, the secret of action.
3
00:00:12,120 --> 00:00:14,840
So might we summarize the
message of the Gita.
4
00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:19,880
The word of its divine teacher
is one with the secret of all
5
00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:24,040
life and existence.
Existence is not merely a
6
00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:28,280
machinery of nature, a wheel of
law in which the soul is
7
00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:30,840
entangled for a moment or for
ages.
8
00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:34,360
It is a constant manifestation
of the Spirit.
9
00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:39,320
Life is not for the sake of life
alone, but for God.
10
00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:43,840
And the living soul of man is an
eternal portion of the Godhead.
11
00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:50,120
Action is for self finding, for
self fulfillment, for self
12
00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:54,400
realization, and not only for
its own external and apparent
13
00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:56,480
fruits of the moment or the
future.
14
00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:01,400
There is an inner law and
meaning of all things, dependent
15
00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:05,319
on the supreme as well as the
manifested nature of the Self.
16
00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:11,320
But the true truth of works lies
there, and can be represented
17
00:01:11,320 --> 00:01:16,400
only incidentally, imperfectly,
and disguised by ignorance in
18
00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:19,040
the outer appearances of the
mind and its action.
19
00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:24,160
The Supreme, the faultless
largest law of action is
20
00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:27,560
therefore to find out the truth
of your own highest and inmost
21
00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:32,400
existence, and live in it, and
not to follow any outer standard
22
00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:36,040
in Dharma.
All life and action must be till
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00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:40,200
then an imperfection, A
difficulty, A struggle, and a
24
00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:44,520
problem.
It is only by discovering your
25
00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:48,240
true self and living according
to its true truth.
26
00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:53,240
It's real reality that the
problem can be finally solved.
27
00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:58,480
The difficulty and struggle over
past and your doings perfected
28
00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:01,880
in the security of the
discovered self and spirit
29
00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:05,000
turned into a divinely authentic
action.
30
00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:10,440
Know then yourself.
Know your true self to be God
31
00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:13,200
and one with the self of all
others.
32
00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:16,400
Know yourself to be a portion of
God.
33
00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:20,400
Live in what you know.
Live in the Self.
34
00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:23,720
Live in your supreme spiritual
nature.
35
00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:30,240
Be united with God and God like.
Offer first all your actions as
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00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:34,920
a sacrifice to the highest and
the one in you, and to the
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00:02:34,920 --> 00:02:37,080
highest and the one in the
world.
38
00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:43,120
Deliver last all you are and do
into His hands for the supreme
39
00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:47,320
and universal Spirit to do
through you His own will and
40
00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:51,080
works in the world.
This is the solution that I
41
00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:55,840
present to you, and in the end
you will find that there is no
42
00:02:55,840 --> 00:07:57,680
other
Slocas. 45 to 66th of the 18th
43
00:07:57,680 --> 00:08:05,040
Chapter, the Supreme Secret.
A man who is intent on his own
44
00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:10,360
natural work attains perfection.
Listen thou how perfection is
45
00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:16,360
wooden by him who is intent on
his own natural work, he from
46
00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:20,560
whom all beings originate, by
whom all this universe is
47
00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:24,160
pervaded.
By worshipping him by his own
48
00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:30,280
work, a man reacheth perfection.
Better is one's own law of
49
00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:35,760
works, though in itself faulty,
than an alien law well wrought
50
00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:39,159
out.
One does not incur sin when one
51
00:08:39,159 --> 00:08:42,000
acts in agreement with the law
of one's own nature.
52
00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:48,680
The inborn work, O son of Kunti,
though defective, ought not to
53
00:08:48,680 --> 00:08:52,600
be abandoned.
All actions in the three gunas
54
00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:58,680
indeed are clouded by defects,
as fire, by smoke and
55
00:08:58,680 --> 00:09:03,040
understanding, without
attachment in all things A soul
56
00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:07,440
self conquered and empty of
desire, man attains by
57
00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:11,560
renunciation a supreme
perfection of Naishkarimya.
58
00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:17,080
How having attained this
perfection, 1 Thus attains to
59
00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:20,360
the Brahman.
Hear from me, O son of Kunti,
60
00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:24,280
that which is the supreme
concentrated direction of the
61
00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:29,800
knowledge, Uniting the purified
intelligence with the pure
62
00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:34,640
spiritual substance in US,
controlling the whole being by
63
00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:39,440
firm and steady will, having
renounced sound and the other
64
00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:43,720
objects of the senses,
withdrawing from all liking and
65
00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:49,600
disliking, resorting to
impersonal solitude of stamius,
66
00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:55,000
speech, body and mind
controlled, constantly united
67
00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:59,400
with the inmost self by
meditation, completely giving up
68
00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:04,600
desire and attachment, having
put away egoism, violence,
69
00:10:04,680 --> 00:10:09,120
arrogance, desire, wrath, the
sense and instinctive
70
00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:15,600
possession, free from all I Ness
and minus, calm and luminously
71
00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:21,600
impassive, One is fit to become
the Brahman when one has become
72
00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:25,400
the Brahman.
When one serene in the Self,
73
00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:31,800
neither grieves nor desires,
When one is equal to all beings,
74
00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:35,960
then one gets the supreme love
and devotion to Me.
75
00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:44,040
By devotion he comes to know Me,
who and how much I am, and in
76
00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:47,280
all the reality and principles
of my being.
77
00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:52,560
Having thus known Me, he
entereth into that Purushotam.
78
00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:59,520
And by doing also all actions
always lodged in Me, He attains
79
00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:06,800
by my grace the eternal and
imperishable status, devoting
80
00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:11,480
all thyself to Me, giving up in
thy conscious mind all thy
81
00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:15,840
actions into Me, resorting to
yoga of the will and
82
00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:21,040
intelligence, be always wanted,
heart and consciousness with me.
83
00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:26,000
If thou art one in heart, and
consciousness with me at all
84
00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:30,720
times, then by my grace thou
shalt pass safe through all
85
00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:36,120
difficult and perilous passages.
But if from egoism thou hear
86
00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:39,600
not, thou shalt fall into
perdition.
87
00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:45,680
Vain is this thy resolve, that
in thy egoism thou thinkest
88
00:11:45,680 --> 00:11:50,600
saying, I will not fight.
Thy nature shall appoint thee to
89
00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:54,600
the work.
What from delusion thou desirest
90
00:11:54,600 --> 00:12:00,120
not to do, O Kantaya, that
helplessly thou shalt do bound
91
00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:04,520
by thy own work.
Born of thy swabhava, the Lord,
92
00:12:04,520 --> 00:12:08,560
O Arjuna, is seated in the heart
of all beings, turning all
93
00:12:08,560 --> 00:12:11,760
beings mounted upon a machine by
his Maya.
94
00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:18,600
In him take refuge in every way
of thy being, and by his grace
95
00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:23,880
thou shalt come to the supreme
peace and the eternal status.
96
00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:30,200
So have I expounded to thee, And
knowledge more secret than that
97
00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:35,600
which is hidden, having
reflected on it fully, do as
98
00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:41,120
thou wouldst further hear from
me the most secret, the supreme
99
00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:45,680
word that I shall speak to thee.
Beloved, art thou intimately of
100
00:12:45,680 --> 00:12:48,000
me?
Therefore will I speak for thy
101
00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:53,120
good.
Become my minded my lover, and
102
00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:58,560
adorer A sacrificer to me.
Bow thyself to me.
103
00:12:59,560 --> 00:13:04,000
To me Thou shalt come.
This is my pledge and promise to
104
00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:10,720
thee, For dear art thou to me?
Abandon all dharmas, and take
105
00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:15,320
refuge in me alone.
I will deliver thee from all sin
106
00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:20,120
and evil.
Do not grieve home.
107
00:13:20,680 --> 00:13:24,400
Peace, peace, peace.