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BRAHMAN is the
imperishable, the Supreme , his essential nature is called self-knowledge;
the offering to the god which causes existence and
manifestation of beings and which also
sustains them is called action. Knowledge of the elements pertains to
god’s perishable nature, and the purusha
or soul is the deity , God alone is the actions
here in this body. Neither agency nor actions does the Lord create for
the world, nor union with the fruits of actions ,it is nature that acts. All
beings are the perishable, and the soul is called the imperishable but distinct
is the supreme purusha called the highest self, the indestructible Lord
who,pervading the three worlds, sustains them. He who, undeluded, knows him
thus as the highest purusha, he, knowing all, worships with his whole being , the deluded do not see
him who departs, stays and enjoys; but they who possess the eye of knowledge
behold him. An eternal portion of him having become a living soul in the world
of life, draws to itself the five senses
with the mind for the sixth, abiding in nature. When a soul obtains a body and
when leaves, it takes these and goes with them as the wind takes
the scents from their seats flowers. Whatever is given or performed, and whatever austerity is
practised without faith, it is called hypocrisy , it is naught here or hereafter ,after death. Some
philosophers declare that all actions should be abandoned as an evil, while
others declare that acts of welfare , homage and austerity should not be
relinquished. The body, the doer, the various senses, the different functions
of various sorts, and the presiding deity, also, the fifth, whatever action a
man performs by his body, speech and mind, whether right or the reverse, these
five are its causes. Now, such being the case, he who, owing to untrained
understanding, looks upon his self, which is isolated, as the agent, he of
perverted intelligence, sees not. He , the God from whom all the beings have
evolved and by whom all this is pervaded, worshipping him with his own
duty, person attains perfection. The Lord dwells in the
hearts of all beings, causing all
beings, by his illusive power, to revolve as if mounted on a machine! the immortal and the immutable, of everlasting
dharma and of absolute bliss. Being without beginning and devoid of any
qualities, the supreme self, imperishable, though dwelling in the body, neither acts nor is tainted . A person sees,
who sees that all actions are performed by nature alone and that the self is
actionless , because the person who sees the same Lord dwelling equally everywhere
does not destroy the self by the self, he goes to the highest goal. The soul
seated in nature experiences the qualities born of nature; attachment to the
qualities is the cause of his birth in good and evil wombs. In the production
of the effect and the cause, nature is
said to be the cause; in the experience of pleasure and pain, the soul is said
to be the cause. He, the God is the source of all; from him everything evolves;
understanding thus, the wise, endowed with meditation, worship him. Whatever is
done, eat, offered,
given, practiced as
austerity, should be for god, even those
devotees who, endowed with faith, worship other gods, worship him only, but by
the wrong method . To those person who worship god alone, thinking of no other,
of those ever united, he secures what is not already possessed and preserved
what they already possess. God is easily attainable by that ever-steadfast
person who constantly and daily
remembers him ONLY , not thinking of anything else , neither in this world, nor in the next world
is there destruction for him; none, verily, who does good, ever comes to grief . Let a man lift himself
by his own self alone; let him not lower himself, for this self alone is the
friend of oneself and this self alone is the enemy of oneself. He who is able,
while still here in this world to withstand, before the liberation from the
body, the impulse born of lust and anger he is a perfect person, he is a happy
man. Thus, knowing him who is superior to the intellect and restraining the
self by the self, slay the enemy in the form
of lust . Hard to conquer the lust ,one should perform the bounden duty, for action is
superior to inaction and even the maintenance of the body would not be possible
for one by inaction. Verily none can ever remain for even a moment without
performing action; for, everyone is made to act helplessly indeed by the
qualities born of nature. When the intellect, perplexed by what has heard, shall stand immovable and steady in
the self, then one shall attain self-realisation. Soul is not born nor does ever die; after having been, he again ceases
not to be. Unborn, eternal, changeless and ancient, soul is not killed when the
body is killed .
It is RIGHT that the world delights and rejoices in god praise; demons fly in fear to all quarters
and the hosts of the perfected ones bow to the BRAHMAN .
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