CHAPTER
9: THE YOGA OF CONFIDENTIALITY
On the confidential
of knowledge
(1)
The
Supreme Lord said: 'What I am telling now is the most
confidential knowledge of selfrealization for those who
are not envious. With the knowing of it you will be
released from worldly
miseries.
(2)
It
is the King of knowledge and the confidential, it is the
purest, transcendental and understood by direct
experience, it is of the righteous, very happy in its
practice and everlasting.
(3)
Persons
without faith in the path of righteousness, o killer of
the enemies, do not attain Me and will upon dying return
to the path of material
motivation.
(4)
By
the unmanifest of Me this entire cosmic manifestation is
pervaded, all living entities are in Me and I am not
[completely] in
them.
(5)
Never
either is all creation fixed in Me; behold My mystic
union: sustaining all and not being in them also, is My
Self the source of all.
(6)
Try
to understand that, like the mighty wind that is always
in the sky blowing everywhere, I likewise exist with all
created beings that are within
Me.
(7)
All
beings, o son of Kuntî, merge at the end of an era
in My original form and at the beginning of an era all
those I create again.
(8)
Descending
into My material nature I again and again create all of
the cosmic manifestation of which the sum total is
delivered to My compelling
force.
(9)
And
to those activities I am never bound, o conqueror of
wealth, as I am in the neutral without being attracted to
the fruitive action.
(10)
By
my superintendence the material of nature manifests both
the moving and the unmoving and for this reason, o son of
Kuntî, is the cosmic manifestation
working.
(11)
The
foolish look down upon My having assumed the human form,
not knowing of My transcendental nature and that I am the
Great Lord of all.
(12)
Baffled
in their hopes, fruitive actions and knowledge, take
those who are bewildered to demoniac and atheistic views
and also surely to the delusional of material
nature.
(13)
But
the great souls, o son of Prithâ, who have taken to
the shelter of My divine nature, render service without
their minds deviating and know of the inexhaustible
origin of creation.
(14)
Always
singing about Me and also endeavoring with determination
they offer Me their obeisances perpetually engaged in the
worship of their devotion.
(15)
Also
cultivating knowledge others sacrificing worship Me as
the oneness in the diversity of the universal
form.
(16)
I
am the ritual, the sacrifice, the oblation and I am the
medicinal herb, the mantra and also for sure the
clarified butter, the fire and the
offering.
(17)
Of
this universe I am the father, the mother, the supporter
the grandfather, that what's to be known, that what
purifies, the pranava AUM and surely the Rig-,
Sâma- and the
Yayur-Veda.
(18)
The
goal, the sustainer, the master, the witness, the refuge,
the most intimate friend, the origin, the dissolution,
the ground of being, the resting place and the
imperishable seed.
(19)
I
give heat, I bring and withhold the rain and I am
immortality and surely death and both the subtle and the
gross, Arjuna.
(20)
The
knowers of the three Vedas, these Soma-drinkers who are
freed from from sins, worship Me with sacrifices and pray
for their passage to heaven - they attain the world of
Indra and enjoy the celestial pleasures of the gods
there.
(21)
After
they, taking pleasure in that vast heaven, have exhausted
the merit of their good deeds, they fall back into the
mortal world again and thus do those who desire
sense-enjoyment in following the doctrines of the three
Vedas attain to birth and
death.
(22)
But
of those persons who concentrate on nothing else but Me
and who are fixed in devotion in proper worship, I
protect the union and to them I carry what they
need.
(23)
Even
though those who are the devotees of other gods with
faith also worship Me only, o son of Kuntî, they
worship Me the wrong way.
(24)
I
am certainly of all sacrifices the enjoyer and the
controller as well; they who do not know Me in reality
fall down therefore.
(25)
Worshippers of the godly go to the gods, worshipers of
the ancestors go to the forefathers, they who worship
spirits go to them and My devotees come to
Me.
(26)
Whoever
offers Me a leaf, a flower, a fruit and water with
devotion, that offer brought from the heart by a soul of
good habits I accept.
(27)
Whatever
you do, whatever you eat, whatever you offer, whatever
you give away or whatever austerity you're in, o son of
Kuntî, do that as an offering towards
Me.
(28)
Thus
you will be freed from the auspicious and inauspicious
consequences of being bound by karma and liberated in
having your mind set on the renunciation in this yoga,
you will attain Me.
(29)
I
am equal to all living entities, no one is disliked or
favored by Me, but those persons who render
transcendental service to Me in devotion are in Me and I
also certainly am [partially] in
them.
(30)
Even
if one committing the most abominable action is engaged
in devotional service unto Me without deviation, is he to
be considered a saint as he is complete in his
determination.
(31)
Very
soon he becomes righteous and attains lasting peace, o
son of Kuntî; do proclaim that my devotee never
perishes!
(32)
And
also in particular those who take shelter of Me, o son of
Prithâ, who are born from sin, who are women, of
the trading business and also the laborers; even they
will attain the supreme
destination.
(33)
What
then again for righteous brahmins, devotees and saintly
rulers who also gained to this temporary world full of
miseries - be in loving service towards
Me.
(34)
Always
thinking of Me, become My devotee, My worshiper and thus
devoted to Me, offering Me obeisances, your soul will
become fully aligned.
Spoken
by Anand Aadhar Prabhu
to the text offered below