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2024-04-26, 9:19 AM |
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Chapter
27: Liberation
from
Falsehood
(1) The Supreme Lord [as Kapila] said: 'Even
though the living entity abides in a material body, he is not
affected by the modes of nature when he does not claim
proprietorship and thus is not subject to change, just
like the sun that is not affected by being reflected in water. (2)
But when this very living entity is
absorbed
in
false
ego
and
thus
is possessed by the modes of material nature, the individual soul is
bewildered and thinks: 'I am the doer'. (3)
Because of the faulty actions
resulting from dealing with material nature in such a way, he thus in
discontent helplessly undergoes the repeated occurrence of birth and
death in being born from different wombs [or species] depending the
good or bad life he led or a combination of these. (4)
Like having landed in a
nightmare in
which the things happening do not really exist, there is for the living
entity who [only] contemplates what occurs to his senses no end to his
materially conditioned existence [of illusion]. (5) Therefore the mind of attachment to
material
pleasure must consequently
without
attachment
gradually be brought under control on the path of bhakti yoga. (6) Beginning with yama [meaning the
great
vow of yoga of nonviolence, truth, non-stealing, celibacy and
non-possessiveness in the practice of detachment], practice the
different forms of yoga and develop, endowed with faith, by listening to My stories unalloyed devotion unto Me. (7)
Be
therein without enmity and regard
all living beings as equal, do not entertain intimate relations and be
celibate *, be silent and offer the
results of your labor. (8) Be satisfied
with whatever comes of its own,
eat little and live thoughtfully in a secluded place and be peaceful,
kind, compassionate and self-realized. (9)
Do not follow the physical concept of life in relating to others and
your own body but rather see, through spiritual knowledge, the factual
truth of [both] the material and the personal aspect. (10) Transcend
the
stages
of
consciousness
[of
waking,
dreaming
and
deep
sleep]
and
stay away from other conceptions of life. Thus with a
purified intellect see the true self, the soul of your realization inside, alike the sun
before your eyes [outside]. (11)
Arrive at the
realization of the transcendental Support of the Material Cause [the
Supreme Soul] that is manifest as a reflection within the untrue, as an
eye for the illusory of matter that penetrated everything as one
without a second. (12) It is like the sun in the sky that above water is seen
as a reflection on that water or on a wall. (13) Thus the truth of the self is
revealed by its
reflections in the threefold of the materially identified ego
consisting of body, senses and mind. (14) Someone
who
in
this
material
world
falsely
unites
with the
material elements, the
objects of enjoyment, the material senses, the mind, intelligence and
so on, is situated in sleep, but
awakened [in the devotion of yoga] he is freed from false ego. (15)
Even though he is not lost,
someone [who awakens] unjustly
[at first] thinks that he is
lost because
he, just like someone upset because of losing his fortune, as the
silent witness realizes the demise of his false ego. (16)
Coming to understand this, knowing
the
situation
he
accepted
under
the
false
ego,
such
a
person realizes the mercy of the
original position of his true self, his original individuality [svarûpa].'
(17) Devahûti said: 'Dear brahmin, is it not
so that material nature never releases the soul because the two are
eternally attracted to each other oh Best One? (18) As there is no separate
existence of aroma and earth or of water and
taste, so it is also with intelligence and consciousness. (19)
How then can there be the soul free from material nature? For the soul as
a non-doer existing with those modes, is bound to the karma
associated with them. (20) The great fear one sometimes may avoid by
contemplating the fundamental principles, will reappear because
the cause [the gunas] continued to be.'
(21) The Supreme Lord said: '[One will realize the
freedom,] when one with a pure mind serious unto Me and faithfully
listening to My stories in devotional service manages to perform one's
duties without
desiring the fruits thereof. (22) By
means of spiritual knowledge someone, with the vision of the Absolute
Truth in yoga strongly being connected in
penance, gets
detached
and firmly fixed in being absorbed in the soul. (23)
Bound to its material nature
a living entity
is day by day consumed, disappearing gradually like firewood on fire. (24) Giving up on
the pleasure he tasted [in the material world] because he sees the wrong of the desire to enjoy it always
and the harm
that dependence gives, he stands
in his own
glory. (25) The way it is with someone who in his sleep
has a dream that brings him many bad things,
that same dream with him being awake will not in the least daunt him. (26) The same way someone who is always contented
within and fixes his mind upon Me, thus knowing the Absolute
Truth, has nothing to fear from material nature. (27) When someone wise thus for many years and
many births
is engaged in self-realization, he will develop a distaste for anything
up to the
highest spiritual position [of Satyaloka]. (28-29) Someone devoted to Me who under My protection
for the sake of awakening his
intelligence, by My unlimited mercy goes for the ultimate goal of his existence
of what is called kaivalya
[enlightenment, emancipation, beatitude], will in this life attain a
steady
self-awareness and be free from doubt. The
yogi who departed for that
heavenly abode will, after
leaving behind the subtle as also the gross body, never return. (30)
When the attention of the perfected yogi is
not drawn towards yogic powers my dear mother, he then, having no other
purpose in his life, in his progress towards Me will never be
frustrated, because he
will not find the power of death therein.'
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