Sankhya-Yoga
Sankhya-Yoga On the Line of Duty
ktaibyam md sma gamah pdrtha
naitatvayupa padyate
ksudram hradaya dourbafyam
tyaktvo ttistha parantapa
Sri Krishna’s nectarine words echoed…..
Sri слова гладкого персика Кришны отозвался эхом…..
“Stand up like a man, Arjuna this inner weakness isn’t worthy of the glory of your dynasty! Fling away this unmanlincss! It’s most inappropriate.”
Krishna spoke & paused. Startled, Arjuna looked & looked at the determined face of Krishna still hearing the echoing of what he had said.
“My Lord, I know not what is right and what is wrong. Please, please, O great one, O magnanimous hearted friend. What’s right for me, right now in this situation, please told me that Oh unconfused one. Lo, –here I become your disciple teach me, educate me, train me into the way of honor and delight.” Arjuna said.
Here then, like splashings of enlightening Krishna began to smile, his glances becoming ambrosial, and his sweet, soothing words of wisdom echoed…
“On the line of duty and responsibility, O Arjuna, whatever comes according to place, time and circumstance, do your duty to the best of your ability dear with only one talent, with only one exquisite faculty that is- with utmost freedom from egoism, which is~ m the doer.’ The notion that ‘I am doing it.’
“Whenever, somehow, anyhow, however, you bring a discussion of right & wrong, doable or renounceablc, lovable or detestable, then know for sure the basis of this is ignorance.
“And ignorance is only one, that is being devoid of the knowledge & experience that you are not the doer. Yes, you are not the doer but a witness of the happening.
“With complete freedom from doership, when you perform action according to your finest skillness, being educated into the intricacies of your duty, then whatever happens thru you, you incur no karma. Vice versa, you become established in such a Divine Self within whom you do not suffer any loss, disease & death. Because all gain, all accomplishments and all pleasures become like a shallow, muddy pond, whereas you found a sparkling pool of elixir. With this nectarine life of your pure Immortal Self-childhood, teenage, adulthood, old age & death are like light changes in formations of life. They are but natural. Death of your’s or others involved on the line of duty for justice, for the protection of the righteous, for safety of humanity, is a natural flow of evolving consciousness. Therefore, whatever pain or agony comes, bear it. Take it easy. Because to whom this pain cannot move, to whom this joy of senses cannot shake, O Arjuna- amritatvaya kapate such a one attains ambrosial life in eternal abode of mine.
“This eternal abode is situated in the tiny space of chidakasa in vast expansion of your True Self. This True Self is indestructible weapons can’t cut it, fire can’t burn it, water can’t drown it, air can’t hurl it down. It is omnipresent, immovable, still and eternal; formless to physical existence, inconceivable to senses, beyond mind & ego. Never changing as it is you ought not to lament at all O Arjuna.
“If you think it of birthing and dying nature, then too each one born will die some day. All days are interconnected from birth to death. This time factor is part of maya, body too, ego too. Before you were bodiless, after death you become bodiless again. Just in the middle it appears. It may be just appearance, like cloud, iceberg or rainbow–who knows. Just find out. Maybe the existence is only of the Self, and everything else may be just a projection over it, like moving pictures on a t.v. screen.
“To this fact of Inner Self someone looks filled with wonder & delight like Socrates others listen about it filled with thrills like Chaitanya, others discourse about it overwhelmed with amaze like me, and many others experience it in floods of oceanic peace, serenity & placidity like Buddha. Still there are others who even listening, seeing & speaking, do not know-just like the whole world, generation after generation.
“Arjuna, dear friend, this Self in all these warriors is unkillable at any cost. Finding your job risky and dangerous be not afraid O disciple mine. Do or die condition on the line of duty is a rare opportunity. Very fortunate one finds it, open door to heaven as it is, I tell you. Backing out is a sin. a big karma, a blot to the moonshine of fame of your historic dynasty, and doing which long-time smoking people will talk of your nonsense in casinos, bars & restaurants. That’s worse than death.
“Arise, get up, stand up O scorcher of your enemies, win & enjoy life’s success, die & enjoy heaven. On the line of duty both are two beautiful roses. Can’t you smell it? Even if you need none of these, still do this fighting please–for me, for you, for the whole universe, being equal in happiness and suffering, achievement & loss, victory & defeat. This way you will earn the greatest possible wealth, inner treasury of contentment, inner satisfaction & deep meditation.
“Please do not go deluded in flowery words of so many religions. That is just jugglery to entertain the restless mind. Those who have no-yavasayatmika buddhi-the intellect capable of proper decision, always do that. The proper decision is nistmigunyo bhava. Transcend, O Arjuna, the field of all 3 gunas, modes of nature: mode of dullness, of restlessness, & peacefulness. Go beyond them. Rise above the pairs of opposites, pain & pleasure, loss & gain, heat & cold, respect & insult, craving & satisfaction, worry of getting the ungotten& safety of the gotten, and be Self established. After being such an atmavan you go beyond all, and then you don’t have to follow-what to speak of man-made laws, and the laws of nature, but also orders of scriptures. You are then your own law. For that to begin with, O dear friend, you have to feel your right is on the performance of your duty alone and not outside that, not even to its fruits, no matter how great the alluration is. And also- do not be attached to this pattern, or else you may develop dryness of heart or cold bloodedness. Also do not slip into loss of interest in actions related to love, fun and music. Understand your duty in its colossal form and do it!
karmanye vMhi karaste
ma phalesu kadachan
ma karma phala hetu
rbhurma te sangostva karmani
“Therefore, no need to go on long trek to the Himalayas. Himalayas are here, materialized for your salvation. Anything less than all of this will be a mere parroting of existence.
“Therefore O Dhananjay, dive deep within your Self. Penetrate, sink, enter, explore the bottom of your own Self, and then come out on physical level and perform action, treat ing success & failure alike but in the intensity. in the enthusiasm, in the energy level, in vigor, in vitality– go to the apex. Then this treating-alikehood is the splendor of yoga.
yogasthah kuru karmani sangam tyaktvti
dhananjayo sidhyasidhyoh samo bhtitvd
samatvam yoga uchyate
Yoga is union with the Divine be unified with Divine, established in immense enthusiasm & vigor and all the zest of aliveness; treating achievement & loss, making & breaking, respect & insult as little toys, or childish, immature feelings of moodiness, thus perform your action. And this is what yoga is my dear friend.
kannasit kouxalam
“It is the very dexterity of action, this skillncss, this aliveness, this refinement of your vision, your perspective through intensity of performance, which transforms itself into freedom of floating in the pool of nectar.
“When your intellect will cross the muddy, stinky ditch of moha, illusion, then it will be steady, and illumination will dazzle!”
“Then, O my lord, tell me, what is the symptom of one who has attained steady intellect? How does he walk, talk, eat, sit?” Arjuna inquired.
“It is desire shaped into longing, passion, hankering for sensations, that keeps the mind agitated and irritated; When you drop the desiring and enjoy in your Self, through your Self, then you become a man of steady intellect.
“When tensionless, stressless & strainless you remain even in big big pain and trouble, and are completely unexcited and vanilylcss in great good happiness; and angerlessly, fearlessly, are uninvolved as an actor on the stage of life; and like a tortoise you withdraw your senses when in the presence of alluring sense objects that would otherwise lead you astray from your Divinity; then know for sure that you are of steady, pure intellect.
yada samharate cayam ktirmongdniva sarvasah
indriyanlndriyarthebhyas tasya prajiia pratisthitti
yada samharate cayam ktirmongdniva sarvasah
indriyanlndriyarthebhyas tasya prajiia pratisthitti
“While trying to become like that, the boat of mind many times, may be taken away, tossed & turned round and around by turbulent waves of senses. Therefore be careful Arjuna. You ought to organi/e your senses dear and flow in deep love towards Me. Because I am not outside you; I’m not distinct from your original reality. I am your purified, actualized, very YOU. Address your emotions to Me, & senses will not agitate. Otherwise objects of senses will appear in the mind. If you remember them then you make a destiny to go into that. Then you continue to be involved into that. May be a beautiful person, music, food, smoke, home, car, dress or any situation. As soon as the barrier comes agitation comes, becoming anger which stupefies the intellect then ability to think back and forth gets gone and intellectual bankruptcy spreads…. There downfall arises in lifesize proportion and all higher possibilities are devoured.
“But opposite to this the properly organized thinking principled one, with Self-experience-born freedom from attachment and abhorrence, who is clean and clear from being smeared with misery and pathological psychology, is just one step away from solid steadiness.
“A divinely ununificd one has no intelligence. Because, intelligence is born from solid introspection. Without that feeling keeps on missing, then peace too gets lost; how then can happiness arise in such a life? And can a life without happiness be called a life?
“With whichever sense mind is most addicted, when it moves & travels & marries with it, hurrying to be unified with tasty sense objects, then, kidnapped away is the left-over intelligence, just like a storm tosses, turns and sinks a ship.
“Arjuna my dear, get awake into the immortal life of your inner Self. Get awake into the reality of ecstatic love oceanica. Get awake into the satchidanandam-all encompassing tatva. Be a yogi and make it your day. Jog, run, play, explore, travel, love and live. This is the day for yogies and worldly life is night for them; in that they sleep soundly. But the non-yogi awakes in worldly life, and spiritual life is night to them; they do fast sleeping snoring & snoring & snoring.
yd nisd sarvabhutanam tasydm jctgarti samyami
yasydm jagrati bhuttini sti nisi!) pasyato muneh
“Falling from high hills of Himalayas, waters of innumerable rivers rushing down flow fast, faster & fastest, meandering their way to submerge in the ocean without any agitation. The same way, if there is some mighty hearted, oceanic hearted, magnanimous gentleman, in whom all senses with all of their urges to unile with sense objects, submerge without a trace, he or she is said to be of steady intellect.
“Arjuna dear one, rising above all desires for sensations, one who performs action on the line of his duty remaining uninvolvcd, egoless, reproductively impressionless, that one attains peace. That one neither becomes allured nor goes confused. Always super-right actions happen through his limbs. Even if he wants to do wrong he cannot do. He is always accurate, honest and upright. He doesn’t need to choose because whatever flows makes the destiny finest and best. Why? Because of this simple reason, he has: bramha nin’dna mrchchati he has become arisen and firmly established on the top high minaret of bramha nirvana state of highest consciousness.
Sankhya-Yoga, Song Of Enlightenment
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