Being
there and having been there before
(1)
The
fortunate one said: 'Not expecting anything from
working for the profit, belongs he, who does his job
as a matter of duty, to the department of the detached
and is he as a person united and connected within, but
not so the one who is of no sacrifice and of no sense
of duty. (2) It is this department of the detached by
which one is linked up, o son of Gwen; not forsaking
the selfish motive there's no question of unifying the
consciousness, no question of being a filognostic. (3)
Of a beginner in this practice of wisdom one says that
it is work that connects and unites, but of those who
attained one says it is the equanimity that does the
job. (4) As soon as the person no longer serves the
sensual and has forsaken to work for a result, is he
at that time a renouncer of all material desire who is
elevated in this yoga science of uniting the
consciousness. (5) One must care to be mindful and
attentive and not to freak out in flippancy, with
thereto keeping in mind that that mindfulness is just
the same one's enemy as one's friend. (6) To the one
who has conquered himself is the mind the best friend,
but to those who forgot about the soul stays the mind
an enemy. (7) As a champion of mindfulness having
found the peace, is one fully of the greater Soul
ruling the individual souls, which is the same in cold
and heat, happiness and distress, honor and dishonor.
(8) Satisfied with the filognosy and its wisdom is a
person rock-solid once he has the sensual in his grip,
and because of that is the one united famed for being
unconcerned about the difference between a clod of
dirt, a stone or a piece of gold. (9) Most advanced is
he who is equal-minded towards as well friends and
well-wishers as to enemies, to as well relatives who
hate as to relatives who favor, to as well those who
bend the rules as to those who are devout and
faithful.
(10) In
order to be unified in yoga must a person always
remember himself from a secluded position in solitude,
in which he is fully attentive, not diverted and
unconcerned about possessions. (11-12) In a safe place
he should arrange for a comfortable seat close to the
floor and a mat, and thus do his yoga-postures, so
that he, one-pointed of attention, is able to clear
his heart in controlling his busy mind, senses and
muscles. (13-14) Not moving with his body and with his
neck and head straight, must the practitioner of yoga,
gaze at the tip of his nose and not look elsewhere.
With a calm self, free from fear and vowed to the
celibate, must he, fully self-controlled, concentrate
on the ultimate goal of me, on that what I stand for.
(15) Liberated in the beyond will he, who with the
practice as mentioned, thus restraining the mind
unites the consciousness, with that soulfulness attain
the peace of the spiritual realm. (16) But, Aylen,
there's no real unification when one eats too much, or
when one excessively fasts, and the same is true for
sleeping too much or staying awake too long. (17) But,
when one, with doing yoga, manages to regulate one's
sleep and wakefulness, one's eating and entertainment,
one's personal endeavors as well as one's working
hours, will all the trouble cease to be. (18) When
one, free from desiring with all kinds of lusty
motives, with the mind disciplined this way, becomes
situated in transcendence, is one at that time said to
be connected. (19) You may compare the person of
unification, whose mind is controlled by the regular
and constant meditation of the soul, to an oil lamp
not wavering out of the wind. (20) In the state in
which the mind, turned away from material concerns,
calms in practicing the unification, becomes one
satisfied when one, in the pure of such a mind,
realizes that one's place is found in the soul. (21)
The supreme happiness, of which one knows that it by
intelligence can be reached in the position of
transcendence, will never remove the one who reached
it from the truth. (22) And whatever else you might
realize in that position, can never be considered more
valuable than that, because you're never obscured from
within that bliss, however difficult the trouble might
be. (23) Know that in the yogic trance all the
miseries dissolve of being in touch with the material
world. (24) Thus make sure to practice that
unification diligently in not losing yourself in the
guesswork which rose from your propensity for
unregulated actions; you'll be sure of the total
retreat of the mind once you've managed to settle this
for the entirety of your sensory apparatus.
(25) Not
thinking of making it any other way, should one, with
an intelligence that is carried by conviction, step by
step train the mind to retreat to the stability of the
soul. (26) From wherever the mind, so easily agitated,
flickering and unsteady, may wander, must one bring it
back under the control of this self-regulation. (27)
The one connected attains the highest virtue, when he,
freed in the spirit of the absolute, with his mind in
peace and his passion quieted, is free from
impurities. (28) Always being of the soul is so the
never ending happiness found by the one unified who,
piously in touch with the transcendental spirit, is
free from all material darkness. (29) The one
connected in the united self looks upon all with a
neutral vision: he sees the soul in all beings and all
beings in the soul. (30) To the one who, as such,
recognizes me in everything and looks upon everything
as residing in me, do I never perish, nor will he ever
be lost to me. (31) If one is devoted to me as
residing in each his heart, is one situated in
oneness, and being of that vision will such a one,
unified in the consciousness, always have a life with
me, whatever the circumstance. (32) That
transcendentalist who, at ease or in trouble with it,
manages to match his own self with the self that is of
an equal vision everywhere, is considered to be
perfect.'
(33) Aylen
said: 'Moved as I am at the moment, have I no clue as
to how this system of unification, you described to me
in general, o demon-slayer, would offer me any firm
ground. (34) The mind, Dwayne, is so wayward,
agitating, strong and obstinate, that I think that
doing what you say is as difficult as taming the
wind.'
(35) The
one of fortune said: 'It suffers no doubt, o man of
grip, that it is difficult to curb the wayward mind,
but, o son of Alice, with persistence and detachment
it can be done. (36) With a fickle mind has one a hard
time to find one's way; to my opinion is the
appropriate means to achieve it found in committing
the mind to a practical approach: do something!'
(37) Aylen
said: 'But what is then the fate of him, o Dwayne, who
fallen from his belief, with a mind missing the
perfection, strays from the path of unification? (38)
Doesn't such a one, o mighty commander, missing as
well the path as the belief, not perish like a riven
cloud, finding no hold then? (39) This is my doubt
Dwayne, I beg you, drive it away completely, for
there's no one else to remove it.'
(40) The
fortunate one said: 'Dear son of Alice, nor in this
world nor in the hereafter is it so that he who is of
a sound conduct will ever find himself going down, how
can such a one end up bad? (41) For many years having
lived a life of achievement and good deeds, will the
one who fell from the path of inner unification,
reawaken in the house of the one who is understanding
and honest. (42) Or else may he find a life in an
association of transcendentalists of great wisdom, but
of course is such a new life very rare in this world.
(43) Picking up the intelligence where he left it in
his previous manifestation, o son of Gwen, will he
thereupon again endeavor for perfection. (44) Innerly
drawn to his previous practice will he be inquisitive
about the unification in consciousness and will he
manage to reach beyond the scripturally fixed
routines. (45) Systematic in his approach will such a
spiritual person, life after life gradually achieving
the perfection, see all the impurities washed away
from his soul and will he thus attain the position on
top of the duality. (46) The ones unified in the
consciousness rank higher than the ones who are merely
of a philosophy, as also higher than the ones working
for an income only; therefore, Aylen, be of the
former. (47) And of all the ones unified within do I
consider those who faithfully know to remember and
serve me as the integrity of it all, to be the
greatest.'
