(1)
The
fortunate one said: 'Not expecting anything from
working for the profit, belongs he, who does his job
as a matter of duty, to the department of the detached
and is he as a person united and connected within, but
not so the one who is of no sacrifice and of no sense
of duty. (2) It is this department of the detached by
which one is linked up, o son of Pându; not
forsaking the selfish motive there's no question of
unifying the consciousness, no question of being an
âtmatattva person. (3) Of a beginner in
this practice of wisdom one says that it is work that
connects and unites, but of those who attained one
says it is the equanimity that does the job. (4) As
soon as the person no longer serves the sensual and
has forsaken the profit motive, is he at that time a
renouncer of all material desire who is elevated in
this yoga science of uniting the consciousness. (5)
One must care to be mindful and attentive and not to
freak out in flippancy, thereto keeping in mind that
that mindfulness is just the same one's enemy as one's
friend. (6) To the one who has conquered himself is
the mind the best friend, but to those who forgot
about the soul stays the mind an enemy. (7) As a
champion of mindfulness having found the peace, is one
fully of the greater Soul ruling the individual souls,
which is the same in cold and heat, happiness and
distress, honor and dishonor. (8) Satisfied with the
âtmatattva and its wisdom is a person
rock-solid once he has the sensual in his grip, and
because of that is the one united famed for being
unconcerned about the difference between a clod of
dirt, a stone or a piece of gold. (9) Most advanced is
he who is equal-minded towards as well friends and
well-wishers as to enemies, to as well relatives who
hate as to relatives who favor, to as well those who
bend the rules as to those who are devout and
faithful.
(10) In
order to be unified in yoga must a person always
remember himself from a secluded position in solitude,
in which he is fully attentive, not diverted and
unconcerned about possessions. (11-12) In a safe place
he should arrange for a comfortable seat not too high
nor too low with a pillow with a soft covering, and
thus do his yoga-postures, so that he, one-pointed of
attention, is able to clear his heart in controlling
his busy mind, senses and muscles. (13-14) Not moving
with his body and with his neck and head straight,
must the practitioner of yoga gaze at the tip of his
nose and not look elsewhere. With a calm self, free
from fear and vowed to the celibate, must he, fully
self-controlled, concentrate on the ultimate goal of
me, on that what I stand for. (15) Liberated in the
beyond will he, who with the practice as mentioned,
thus restraining the mind unites the consciousness,
with that soulfulness attain the peace of the
spiritual realm. (16) But, Arjuna, there's no real
unification when one eats too much, or when one
excessively fasts, and the same is true for sleeping
too much or staying awake too long. (17) But, when
one, with doing yoga, manages to regulate one's sleep
and wakefulness, one's eating and entertainment, one's
personal endeavors as well as one's working hours,
will all the trouble cease to be. (18) When one, free
from desiring with all kinds of lusty motives, with
the mind disciplined this way, becomes situated in
transcendence, is one at that time said to be
connected. (19) You may compare the person of
unification, whose mind is controlled by the regular
and constant meditation of the soul, to an oil lamp
not wavering out of the wind. (20) In the state in
which the mind, turned away from material concerns,
calms in practicing the unification, becomes one
satisfied when one, in the pure of such a mind,
realizes that one's place is found in the soul. (21)
The supreme happiness, of which one knows that it by
intelligence can be reached in the position of
transcendence, will never remove the one who reached
it from the truth. (22) And whatever else you might
realize in that position, can never be considered more
valuable than that, because you're never obscured from
within that bliss, however difficult the trouble might
be. (23) Know that in the yogic trance all the
miseries dissolve of being in touch with the material
world. (24) Thus make sure to practice that
unification diligently in not losing yourself in the
guesswork which rose from your propensity for
unregulated actions; you'll be sure of the total
retreat of the mind once you've managed to settle this
for the entirety of your sensory apparatus.
(25) Not
thinking of making it any other way, should one, with
an intelligence that is carried by conviction, step by
step train the mind to retreat to the stability of the
soul. (26) From wherever the mind, so easily agitated,
flickering and unsteady, may wander, must one bring it
back under the control of this self-regulation. (27)
The one connected attains the highest virtue, when he,
freed in the spirit of the absolute, with his mind in
peace and his passion quieted, is free from
impurities. (28) Always being of the soul is so the
never ending happiness found by the one unified who,
piously in touch with the transcendental spirit, is
free from all material darkness. (29) The one
connected in the united self looks upon all with a
neutral vision: he sees the soul in all beings and all
beings in the soul. (30) To the one who, as such,
recognizes me in everything and looks upon everything
as residing in me, do I never perish, nor will he ever
be lost to me. (31) If one is devoted to me as
residing in each his heart, is one situated in
oneness, and being of that vision will such a one,
unified in the consciousness, always have a life with
me, whatever the circumstance. (32) That
transcendentalist who, at ease or in trouble with it,
manages to match his own self with the self that is of
an equal vision everywhere, is considered to be
perfect.'
(33) Arjuna
said: 'Moved as I am at the moment, have I no clue as
to how this system of unification, you described to me
in general, o demon-slayer, would offer me any firm
ground. (34) The mind, Krishna, is so wayward,
agitating, strong and obstinate, that I think that
doing what you say is as difficult as taming the
wind.'
(35) The
one of fortune said: 'It suffers no doubt, o man of
grip, that it is difficult to curb the wayward mind,
but, o son of Kuntî, with persistence and
detachment it can be done. (36) With a fickle mind has
one a hard time to find one's way; to my opinion is
the appropriate means to achieve it found in
committing the mind to a practical approach: do
something!'
(37) Arjuna
said: 'But what is then the fate of him, o Krishna,
who fallen from his belief, with a mind missing the
perfection, strays from the path of unification? (38)
Doesn't such a one, o mighty commander, mis- sing as
well the path as the belief, not perish like a riven
cloud, finding no hold then? (39) This is my doubt
Krishna, I beg you, drive it away completely, for
there's no one else to remove it.'
(40) The
fortunate one said: 'Dear son of Prithâ, nor in
this world nor in the hereafter is it so that he who
is of a sound conduct will ever find himself going
down, how can such a one end up bad? (41) For Kuru
years having lived a life of achievement and good
deeds, will the one who fell from the path of inner
unification, reawaken in the house of the one who is
understanding and honest. (42) Or else may he find a
life in an association of transcendentalists of great
wisdom, but of course is such a new life very rare in
this world. (43) Picking up the intelligence where he
left it in his previous manifestation, o son of
Pându, will he thereupon again endeavor for
perfection. (44) Innerly drawn to his previous
practice will he be inquisitive about the unification
in consciousness and will he manage to reach beyond
the scripturally fixed routines. (45) Systematic in
his approach will such a spiritual person, life after
life gradually achieving the perfection, see all the
impurities washed away from his soul and will he thus
attain the position on top of the duality. (46) The
ones unified in the consciousness rank higher than the
ones who are merely of a philosophy, as also higher
than the ones working for the fruit of labor only;
therefore, Arjuna, be of the former. (47) And of all
the ones unified within do I consider those who
faithfully know to remember and serve me as the
integrity of it all, to be the
greatest.'
