(39) 'Thus
far
about
being intelligent in analyzing matters, now listen how in
association with this intelligence, oh son of Alice, you may escape
from
the burden of serving the capital. (40) In this spirit then, you won't
corrupt, nor be lost, and just serving this a little you'll avert the
greatest danger. (41) Because of being mindful about the soul one is
unified in intelligence, oh child of Many, but if one, on the other
hand, is not of such a conscience, one has a mind that is constantly
diverted. (42) Religious people also say things like this oh son of
Alice, but they are quite ignorant in thinking that there's nothing
else to it. (43) With their shiny ceremonies they hope to go to heaven
and have a better life, but their hearts are full of desire to please
their senses and to be rich. (44) That way all too attached to material
pleasures and luxuries, their minds are fuzzy of a poor logic and they
never get a real grip on matters. (45) The books of wisdom speaking
about the material affair and the way we're affected by its threefold
nature in the sense of 1 - having passions, 2 - being dull-witted and 3
- lusting in goodness, tell us to transcend these modes of nature,
because outside of the opposites they form, absorbed in what is really
good and pure, the soul is found which is unconcerned about possessing
and acquiring possessions. (46) In a sip of water one finds the same as
in a lake, similarly in the soul of a single man of spiritual virtue
the entirety of classical wisdom is found.
(47) It is your perfect right to serve the cause,
but you must never claim the results of that service for yourself. Do
not consider yourself the cause, you're not God, so never develop any
attachment in holy matters like these. (48) Keep in touch, stay
connected, in forsaking such conceit and desire, oh winner of the
wealth, and be equal-minded in the face of success and failure, for
that equanimity is the secret of staying united in consciousness. (49)
Thus being united in full surrender to the intelligence, don't give in
to the feeblemindedness; know that it are the miserly ones who want to
win and acquire. (50) Aligned with this intelligence you can, in this
life, escape from the consequences of which you unjustly thought they
were good, as also the ones you had to suffer. So, for the sake of
this science, engage undaunted in your being connected with the soul
that endures and is happy in the wisdom. That's the art of the matter
with all you do! (51) To be immersed in serving this purpose, to be in
line with the intelligence of not desiring any advantage, that is what
freed the wise as also the devoted from the misery of repeated
failure and the need to start all over time and again. (52) Once you,
free from any desire, respect it the way it is with the soul, you will,
at that time, no longer worry about all this you now heard about nor
about that what you'll be hearing more. (53) With a mind clear about
the advantage of your actions the way I disclosed it to you, you will,
unmoved risen above matters with a fixed intelligence, be able to find
the happy life you wish for yourself and others.'
(54) Aylen said: 'What characterizes the one who is
on top of matters, who is fixed in a consciousness of being connected?
And what kind of things does such a person all say, how does he keep
his distance and what are his moves?'
(55) Dwayne, as the master, said: 'The moment one
forsakes the desires and the worries belonging to them, oh son of
Alice,
one will, to the good of that mindfulness, become steady in one's
consciousness, so confirm also other authorities. (56) They who free
from worries face the miseries, free from desire face the happiness
and, not being of any attachment, are free from fear and anger, are
considered sages steady in their meditation. (57) He who, whether
things turn out good or bad in this, stays unaffected in whatever
situation and hates nor praises, is fixed in knowing it perfectly. (58)
Like a tortoise withdrawing its legs and head, he who fixes himself in
consciousness withdraws his senses from the sense objects. (59) Anyone
not of this mindfulness, may refrain just the same, but such a one then
keeps the material taste, the taste which only ends with the stronger
experience of the higher taste one has when one is above it all. (60)
Irrespective one's intelligence, when one endeavors, the senses draw
the attention away and the mind is stirred. (61) To keep the busy
senses under control is something which is achieved by positively
relating to the position of meditation one has in the beyond, and thus
having mastered them, one is then established in wisdom. (62) The wrong
way it works like this: first you get attached to what the senses
perceive, from that the lust develops to enjoy it whenever you want and
what follows is the anger upon the inevitable frustration of realizing
that that is not possible. (63) From that anger of one's predilection
one no longer sees things in proportion, and thus one is, with that
being illusioned, not mindful of what should be remembered.
Consequently the intelligence fails and from no longer understanding
matters one loses control: one falls down. (64) But not being of any
aversion or attachment one is, having the busy senses under control,
thus regulated, of a clear mind. (65) In that peace all miseries find
their end, and with such an open mind soon the intuition is
sufficiently established. (66) Not being aligned this way the
intelligence has no chance and there is, missing the connectedness in
the soul, no steadiness of one's respect; how can one, discontented not
being of any peace, find happiness then? (67) The mind in following the
senses is of an intelligence as fickle as a boat drifting away on the
wind. (68) And so, as you'll understand, the intelligence is steady
when the senses are drawn away from their objects. (69) What the common
people attend to is as night for the man of wisdom, and to what to the
common man is as dark as the night the wise are wakeful. (70) Contrary
to a man of desire, a man of peace is just as steady with what his
senses perceive as the ocean that is never filled by all the water of
the rivers ending in it. (71) A person attains peace when he - free
from longing - has forsaken his desires, when he's not striving for
possessions, and, instead of identifying himself with the body,
identifies himself with the soul. (72) Therefore, don't be afraid that
this position in the beyond will bewilder you oh son of Alice, you
rather attain heaven with it, even if you deferred this mindfulness
until the moment you die.'
