To unite one's
consciousness in sacrifice and
filognosy
(1)
The
fortunate one said: 'This oldest science of uniting
within is my original instruction to the divinity of
the sun, an instruction which has inspired the very
lead of creation, called the Creator, who on his turn
inspired the first among the rulers to the order of
the sun. (2) The rulers of virtue in the past all in
succession understanding it learned to manage, but in
the long run got this great way of connecting oneself
divided in so many branches of knowledge, o winner of
them all. (3) This very old science of uniting the
consciousness, also called yoga, I now explain to you
today because you are devoted to the cause and my
friend, and thus you may know about the mystery of the
decisive top-position, the position in the beyond, the
transcendence.'
(4) Aylen
said: 'If I get you right was your instruction there
before you were there, you were born after that
ancient rule and instruction, how can that be?'
(5) The
Fortunate One said: 'There were many births of my
character before, just as there are of you, dear
Aylen, I know and identify myself with all of them,
but you apparently do not, o victor of the debate! (6)
I may be transcendent, of an unborn nature, an
imperishable soul who is the Lord over all,
nevertheless do I, from my top position, appear in the
flesh as a covering of my own self. (7) O descendant
of Many, whenever and wherever there is a decline of
righteousness and a predominance of injustice, do I
manifest myself. (8) To give the ones aching for the
truth a life, and to put an end to the miscreants, do
I appear, generation after generation, in order to
reestablish the way of the human principles of truth,
purity, penance and non-violent
compassion3.
(9) Anyone who knows of this taking birth of mine and
what I stand for, will, turning away from the body as
being the true self, not get entangled again, but
rejoice in my love, dear Aylen.
(10) Fully
aware of what I am, have many, who, freed from
attachment and anger, found purification in the
knowledge of penance, attained to my loving nature.
(11) All who are of this surrender to me, do I award
the basis, the foundation on which everyone is
building, o son of Alice, in every possible way. (12)
Anxious for the perfect profit is one in this world of
sacrifice for different types of divinity, and that is
a karmic desire which in the human world soon brings
success. (13) The four classes or divisions of labor,
together with the four age-groups that I settle for in
relation to the three material qualities, is the way
the cookie crumbles with me, but don't see me, the
imperishable soul, as the one who did the crumbling.
(14) On me as the soul has all this karma no effect,
nor am I part of its ambitions; and thus will no aware
person, as far as I am concerned, ever be entangled
because of his karma. (15) Following in the footsteps
of your ancestors should you, in the same way of
keeping to your duty as they did, find liberation.
(16) Many
wonder what this karma and the contrary actually would
be. Let me explain it to you, so that you'll be freed
from all bad luck. (17) Weighing it carefully I must
say there is work, crime and voluntarism, and it's
difficult to understand what it all leads to. (18) If
you consider working for the money as unemployment and
voluntarism as employment, you may consider yourself
intelligent in human affairs; it is then that you,
with all the sorts of activities you're engaged in,
are connected. (19) The learned who know this declare
that he who is free from any intention to endeavor
unregulated in lust, is someone whose profit-minded
labor, his karma, burned up in the fire of spiritual
knowledge. (20) Having given up the attachment to the
fruits of labor as well as to the comfort and control
of a fixed residence - one's private kingdom - is
there a lasting satisfaction; even though fully
engaged in activities is such a one not really doing
anything then. (21) Free from ulterior motives with
his mind and intelligence under control, does he his
job to which no guilt accrues then; for all he does
actually is maintain the body in forsaking all
acquisition. (22) Satisfied with whatever comes his
way has he, free from envy, surpassed the material
duality and is he, steady in success and failure,
never troubled, whatever he does. (23) With his mind
firmly established in spiritual wisdom, and with the
attachment gone acting for the sake of sacrifice,
there remains nothing of his motivation for results,
of his karma thus.
(24) Offering
for the spirit becomes the spirit the offering and is
the offerer of the spiritual fire; most certainly will
he attain the spirit of the absolute who is fully
dedicated to serving that spirit. (25) Some dedicate
themselves to the representatives of this or that
divine interest, while others, wishing to unify in the
consciousness, are of sacrifice for being perfectly
connected in the fire of the Holy Spirit. (26) Some
relate to this fire by means of mantras with which
they dedicate their ears and such senses, while others
sacrifice that what their senses are after in the
fire. (27) Still others, who illumined in the
spiritual knowledge concentrate their minds in the
yoga, offer the breathing they have with all the
activity of their senses in the fire. (28) Some, being
austere, so give up their possessions in the uniting,
while even others, ascetically taking to vows, devote
all their talents of understanding to the study of the
scriptures. (29) Others furthermore, who try to become
still inside with their essence, do so by following
their in- and outgoing breath in which they connect
the inward with the outward going air, while even
others give up on the entire endeavor of breathing it
all out by restricting their food intake. (30)
Whatever the practice, all who know to sacrifice, find
relief that way of the inner turmoil of being stained
by the material affair, and reach, having acquired the
taste of that nectar of sacrifice, the spirit of the
eternal. (31) How can we ever have a better world, if
we're not of sacrifice in this world, o best of the
Many rule? (32) This is how the different types of
sacrifice are defended in the books of wisdom. They're
all the result of being dutifully engaged; and loving
the knowledge of this, being of
filognosy4
in this, you'll find liberation.
(33) If
you, o son of Alice, are determined to dedicate your
knowledge to the filognosy of this, is that a greater
sacrifice than offering your possessions, o defeat to
your opponents, because your duty will be perfectly
served and fully heartened by it. (34) Remember that
when you are of respect for those who know this, and
you, with the wish to serve them, ask them questions,
that these filognostics of self-realization will
initiate you into the truth of the seers. (35) Being
of that filognosy you'll never fall victim to illusion
again, o son of aunt Alice, because you, with this
love of knowledge, will regard all living beings as
being part of the soul - or differently stated, that
all are in me. (36) Even being the most wretched and
lowest of all, will you, with this boat of spiritual
knowledge, cross the ocean of all materialistic
misery. (37) Just like a blazing fire turning firewood
to ashes, will, dear Aylen, the fire of this higher
knowing turn all your karma to ashes. (38) Nothing
that you know of in this world compares to this
purification, and he who is truly experienced in this
unification will conclude to this himself. (39) He who
believes this will, keeping close to the filognosy,
manage to subdue his senses, because from this
faithfulness to the principles one, very quickly
reaching the transcendental, finds the peace. (40) An
ignoramus of doubt without any faith has no taste for
it; never will there in this world, nor in the next,
be happiness for such a soul full of doubts. (41) The
man who, unified in the consciousness, gave up the
profit-minded type of labor, and, with the filognosy
of faithfully knowing the absolute, broke with the
doubts, lives in the soul and will never be bound in
whatever he does, o winner of the wealth. (42) And so,
o son of Many, by means of the weapon of the knowledge
of the soul cutting with the doubt that out of
ignorance rose in your heart, be of the unification
and rise to your feet!'
