Filognostic*
understanding of the Bhagavad Gîtâ of
Order
Text
1
Arjuna
said: 'Krishna, You as well praise the renunciation of fruitive
labor as the practice of yoga. Please tell me which one is
definitely more beneficial of the two.'
FILOGNOSTIC
TRANSLATION
Arjuna said: 'Krishna, you as
well praise a turn to the better of uniting in the
consciousness as a turn to the renunciation of productive
labor; but which one would be the better, please be definitive
on this.' (Sanskrit
& tradition)
Text
2
The
Supreme Lord replied: 'Renouncing [the fruits] and also
action in yoga lead both to the path of liberation, but
compared to the renunciation of fruitive labor, the action in
yoga is the better of the two.
FILOGNOSTIC
TRANSLATION
The man of fortune said:
'Both the work done for the uniting as the all together
forsaking of profit-minded work lead to liberation, but the way
you put it I'd say that compared to the forsaking of
profit-minded work, the action in service of the unification is
the better. (Sanskrit
& tradition)
Text
3
He should
always be known as a renouncing one who never likes or dislikes
and who is free from the duality, as certainly, o mighty armed
one, he is happy who is liberated from being bound that
way.
FILOGNOSTIC
TRANSLATION
Always consider him a
renouncer who hates nor desires; free from the duality is he, o
man of grip, happy to be completely free from being materially
bound. (Sanskrit
& tradition)
Text
4
The less
intelligent see the analytic and the work of yoga as different,
but not so the learned ones. Situated in either one of them one
will enjoy the complete of the result of both
FILOGNOSTIC
TRANSLATION
Ignorantly one says that the
intellectual consideration of the world differs from the
uniting in the consciousness, but the learned don't see it like
that. From either of the two positions arrives one logically at
the complete of the both of them. (Sanskrit
& tradition)
Text
5
He who
places what one achieves by analysis at the same level as what
one achieves by work done in yoga and thus sees study and
selfless action as one, he actually sees it as it
is.
FILOGNOSTIC
TRANSLATION
That what is achieved by
intellectual endeavor you also achieve in service of the
uniting, and thus sees he who considers study and selfless
action as one, the things as they are.
(Sanskrit
& tradition)
Text
6
But,
renunciation, o mighty armed one, will afflict one with
distress if one is without devotion, while a thinker united in
selfless action reaches the Supreme without
delay.
FILOGNOSTIC
TRANSLATION
But the forsaking, o man of
grip, will result in distress if there's no uniting in the
consciousness to it, while a thinker connected in the uniting
attains the supreme spirit without delay.
(Sanskrit
& tradition)
Text
7
Connected
in yoga a purified soul, who is self controlled and has
mastered his senses, is in compassion with all living beings
and although engaged in action he is never
affected.
FILOGNOSTIC
TRANSLATION
Connected in the uniting will
a pure soul, who self-controlled has subdued the senses, be
compassionate with all living entities and never be affected,
irrespective the work he does. (Sanskrit
& tradition)
Text
8-9
'In divine consciousness I
certainly never do anything' thus thinks one who knows the
truth in his seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating,
going, dreaming and breathing. Despite of his talking,
forsaking, accepting, opening and closing his eyes he considers
it as [merely] an engagemnent of the
senses.
FILOGNOSTIC
TRANSLATION
To the smelling, hearing,
seeing, touching, walking, dreaming and breathing of the body
does the man of truth say: 'Most certainly am I, in my being
connected, not doing a thing'; he considers all the talking,
forsaking, accepting, opening and closing of his eyes, merely
an engagement of the senses. (Sanskrit
& tradition)
Text
10
He who
dedicates all his works to the spiritual forsaking of his
attachments is never affected by sin like a lotusleaf is in the
water.
FILOGNOSTIC
TRANSLATION
Like a lotus leaf in the
water is he, who resigns all his activities to the spiritual in
forsaking his attachments, proceeding thus, never affected by
any misfortune and trouble. (Sanskrit
& tradition)
Text
11
With their
body, mind and intelligence purified yogîs even with
their senses are acting in giving up the attachments for the
sake of the soul.
FILOGNOSTIC
TRANSLATION
In giving up the attachment
of the self are they who are united within as being one, with
their body, mind and intelligence, and even with their senses,
in their activities engaged for the sake of the purification.
(Sanskrit
& tradition)
Text
12
United in
giving up the fruits they unflinching attain to perfect peace
while the ones unconnected in the desire to enjoy the results
are entrapped in attachment.
FILOGNOSTIC
TRANSLATION
Connected forsaking the
profit in their work do they undaunted achieve the peace, while
they who are not connected get entangled in their attachment to
enjoying the fruits of labor. (Sanskrit
& tradition)
Text
13
By his
thinking giving up all activities and remaining in happiness,
the one who is controlled resides in the city of nine gates
[the body] and thus the embodied soul for sure never
does anything nor does he cause anything
FILOGNOSTIC
TRANSLATION
In this mind of forsaking all
activities lives the embodied one who is of control, happily in
the city with the nine gates, the body; never is he the one who
does anything, nor leads he to anything.27
(Sanskrit
& tradition)
Text
14
Never is
he the one engaging in action nor does the master [of that
city] induce others to act, nor is he identified with the
results, as all is done by nature.
FILOGNOSTIC
TRANSLATION
He is never the owner, nor
the doer, nor makes he other people act, nor creates he the
results; it is all enacted by nature itself.
(Sanskrit
& tradition)
Text
15
Never is
the one of power responsible for the sins or pious activities
of anyone; it is the spiritual knowledge that is covered by
ignorance because of which the living beings are
bewildered.
FILOGNOSTIC
TRANSLATION
Never is the Almighty in His
control assuming of anyone that he would be bad or good; no, He
is rather concerned with the bewilderment of the living
entities whose knowledge is covered by ignorance.
(Sanskrit
& tradition)
Text
16
But to the
living entity whose nescience is destroyed by knowledge, that
knowledge discloses the Supreme Reality like the rising
sun.
FILOGNOSTIC
TRANSLATION
To that soul however of whom
the ignorance has been destroyed by âtmatattva, is the
supreme reality of the spiritual knowledge disclosed like a
rising sun. (Sanskrit
& tradition)
Text
17
With one's
intelligence to that, self to that, faith to that and refuge in
that, one will, being cleansed from all misgivings by that
knowledge, not return again.
FILOGNOSTIC
TRANSLATION
And for that reason will you
not return to the physical concept of life once you've fixed
your intelligence on that, once you've set your life to that,
are faithful to that and seek your refuge in that; with that
being so, by that âtmatattva, will you shake off all your
misgivings. (Sanskrit
& tradition)
Text
18
In a
gentle brahmin fully educated, in a cow, in an elephant and
surely also in an outcast, see those who are wise [the
soul] with equal vision.
FILOGNOSTIC
TRANSLATION
Whether it concerns a brahmin
of virtue and achievement, a cow, an elephant, a dog or a
drop-out, the one of wisdom regards them all equal-minded.
(Sanskrit
& tradition)
Text
19
In this
life certainly those have conquered birth and death who in
sameness have a fixed mind flawless in the equanimity of the
Supreme Spirit of which they are situated in the
Supreme.
FILOGNOSTIC
TRANSLATION
They who with a mind fixed in
such a sameness are flawless in spiritual equanimity, are
situated in the beyond; they have defeated birth and death.
(Sanskrit
& tradition)
Text
20
Never
rejoicing on achieving the pleasant nor getting agitated as
well arriving at the unpleasant, intelligent of his own and
unbewildered, he who knows the spiritual is situated in
transcendence.
FILOGNOSTIC
TRANSLATION
Not too cheerful with
successes, nor really being moved by the unpleasant, is he who,
not bewildered knowing the spiritual, relies on his own
intelligence, situated in transcendence.
(Sanskrit
& tradition)
Text
21
The one
who is not attached to superficial pleasures finds, by
concentrating on the spiritual of being connected in the soul,
in the self the happiness which is enjoyed as being
unlimited.
FILOGNOSTIC
TRANSLATION
He who, not attached to
superficial pleasures, manages to concentrate on the spiritual
of being connected in the soul, will within himself enjoy an
unlimited happiness. (Sanskrit
& tradition)
Text
22
In that
which certainly by the contact with the senses is a source of
misery, the intelligent never take delight, as that certainly
is subjected to having a beginning and an end, o son of
Kuntî.
FILOGNOSTIC
TRANSLATION
The intelligent never take
delight in that what in association with the senses brings the
misery, for such things are always temporary with a beginning
and an end, o son of aunt Kuntî.
(Sanskrit
& tradition)
Text
23
He who in
this material body is able to tolerate, before the body is
forsaken, the lust and anger generated from the urges, is a
composed and happy human being.
FILOGNOSTIC
TRANSLATION
He who, living with the body,
before he forsakes his physical frame, is able to tolerate the
lust and the anger that rise from its urges, is a person of
integrity and happiness. (Sanskrit
& tradition)
Text
24
Surely
anyone who happy from within takes pleasure in the self and
dwells on the inner light is a yogi who selfrealized attains to
liberation in the Supreme.
FILOGNOSTIC
TRANSLATION
Anyone who, from within being
happy, dwells on the inner light, is a united âtmatattva
person who, liberated in the spirit, is capable of following
his own course with God. (Sanskrit
& tradition)
Text
25
Those
achieve that spiritual liberation who live the inner life and
are spotless; they are beyond the duality in selfrealization
and are engaged in work for the welfare of all living beings.
FILOGNOSTIC
TRANSLATION
They who free from
self-righteousness, living the inner life, reach that spiritual
liberation, are, beyond the duality being situated in
self-realization, actually engaged in serving the welfare of
all living beings. (Sanskrit
& tradition)
Text
26
The mind
of renounced persons who are liberated from lust and anger is
under full control and for them who learned from the soul there
is in the near future the guarantee of spiritual
enlightenment.
FILOGNOSTIC
TRANSLATION
They who in their
renunciation were liberated from the lust and anger, have
subdued their mind, so that they, with what they learned from
the soul, soon are certain of the supreme its beatitude.
(Sanskrit
& tradition)
Text
27-28
Turned
away from the unnecessary in the outer world not looking for it
and concentrated between the eyebrows in suspending the in- and
outgoing breath keeping the air with it in ones nose, are the
senses, mind and intelligence of the transcendentalist set to
liberation as one who has discarded all wishes, fear and anger
is surely always of that liberation.
FILOGNOSTIC
TRANSLATION
Not looking for the
unnecessary in the outer world has the person innerly risen
above the things of the world, and is he, in his practice of
concentrating between the eyebrows, suspending the in- and
outgoing breath, keeping the air in the nose, and with the
senses, mind and intelligence thus set to liberation, someone
who, having discarded all desires, fears and anger, most
certainly is always of that liberation.
(Sanskrit
& tradition)
Text
29
One who
knows Me as the beneficiary of sacrifices, penances and
austerities, as the Supreme Lord of all the worlds and as the
benefactor of all living beings, thus attains to
peace.
FILOGNOSTIC
TRANSLATION
Considering me and what I
stand for as the purpose of the sacrifices, penances and
austerities, as the one fortunate in all the worlds who is the
blessing of all living beings, will one thus find peace.'
(Sanskrit
& tradition)
Versions
consulted:
-
A
Song of Fortune One - A modern
Gîtâ
- the modern version of filognosy
(also in mp3-audio).
- A
Song of Fortune - A Classical
Gîtâ
- the classical version of filognosy.
- The
Bhagavad
Gîta-as-it-is
by Swami Bhaktivedânta Prabhupâda
(PDF-download).
- The
Bhagavad
Gîtâ-as-it-is:
online (version 1.0).
- The
Bhagavad Gita As It Is
By His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
(pdf-download).
- The
Bhagavad Gita
by the Bhagavad Gita Trust.
- Bhagavad
Gita by
Sanderson Beck.
- Bhagavad
Gita by Ramanad
Prasad (American Gita society).
- Srimad
Bhagavad-gita -
The Hidden Treasure of the Sweet Absolute (from the
Vaishnav' S'rî Caitanya Saraswath math).
Sanskrit
dictionary:
(Monier-Williams' 'Sanskrit-English Dictionary').
(18)
In a gentle brahmin fully educated, in a cow, in an
elephant and surely also in an outcast, see those who
are wise [the soul] with equal vision.
(19)
In this life certainly those have conquered birth and
death who in sameness have a fixed mind flawless in
the equanimity of the Supreme Spirit of which they are
situated in the Supreme. (20)
Never rejoicing on achieving the pleasant nor getting
agitated as well arriving at the unpleasant,
intelligent of his own and unbewildered, he who knows
the spiritual is situated in transcendence.
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