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VEDIC
SCRIPTURES
A
Song of Fortune
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A
modern
Gîtâ
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Written
by Godcollect
Translated by Foundationbliss
 The
word is the weapon of the wise, and thus the
armed conflict becomes a political struggle with
words. In this book the victory of the word is
presented as the essence of the classical song
of God about the science of yoga: the Bhagavad
Gîtâ. The knowledge of
self-realization, or gnosis in case of
Christianity, connects with this translation not
only Christians with Hindoes, but also all other
people who believe in an ideal spirit. With this
true mystery of connectedness through the
victory of the word was the knowledge of finding
liberation in the self, the love for the gnosis,
the love to be knowledgeable and connected in
spiritual matters, in this modern version of
this classical masterpiece called filognosy. It
is simply so that we without filognosy are not
human, because we essentially are homo sapiens,
or man by dint of our love for spiritual wisdom.
Even though this book for the rest contains not
a single word not found in the dictionary of
English, except for the mantra AUM and the
footnotes explaining to the source, it is a
translation faithful to the original text and
purport. Sanskrit names were converted to
western equivalents and the scene of the
original battlefield was transposed to a modern
one of a political campaign. The result is a
Song of Fortune accessible to any modern man
contending with the burden of modern politics
and postmodern cynicism. By the translator was
added to this book, as a complement to the
knowledge of the science of uniting one's
consciousness that is yoga, an appendix
containing an
accessible translation of the Yoga-sûtras
of
Patañjali.
The
name Godcollect, stands for Krishna
Dvaipâyana Vyâsadeva who is also
called Bâdarâyana. He was the son of
sage Parâs'ara and Satyavatî, and is
a half-brother of Vicitravîrya and
grandfather Bhîshma in the Kuru dynasty,
the last great dynasty of the ancient vedic
civilization that fell down about 5000 years
ago. He is the author of the greatest epic in
the world, the Mahâbhârata of which
the Gîtâ is a part. He collected the
stories of the old vedic culture, the so-called
Purânas, and wrote the Brahmasûtra.
He is regarded the most important writer of the
classics of India.
Foundationbliss
is the filognostic name
for
Anand
Aadhar
Prabhu,
a clinical psychologist born in the Netherlands
in 1954 as René P.B.A. Meijer. Having
turned to the philosophy of yoga he received his
spiritual name after he became independent in
1984. He studied with different spiritual
teachers and translated, following in the
footsteps of his predecessor in the Netherlands,
S'rî Hayes'var das, the most important
book of indian spiritual stories, the Krishna
Bible, the Bhâgavata Purâna.
Filognosy, love for knowledge, is the term for
the close reading he has developed
therewith.
There is also a classical
version,
which is the same as this one, but with the
Sanskrit names and the original setting
restored.
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Contents
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Introduction
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Chapter
1
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Despair
about the debate
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Chapter
2a
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Getting
the mind together
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Chapter
2b
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A
grip on the matter
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Chapter
3
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To
act - a master of intelligence
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Chapter
4
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To
unite one's consciousness in sacrifice and
filognosy
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Chapter
5
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To
unite in labor and detachment
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Chapter
6
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Being
there and having been there
before
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Chapter
7
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To
know oneself and make it, unified in
filognosy
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Chapter
8
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To
find salvation in being united in the eternal
spirit
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Chapter
9
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To
unite in confidential
knowledge
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Chapter
10
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To
be one in respect of the
opulence
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Chapter
11
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Facing
the complete of His reality
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Chapter
12
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Focussing
on the perfect
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Chapter
13
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The
knower, the known and the knowledge of
filognosy
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Chapter
14
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The
three basic qualities of
nature
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Chapter
15
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The
nature of the supreme person
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Chapter
16
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About
the enlightened and the
unenlightened
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Chapter
17
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The
three qualities relating to one's austerity,
sacrifice and food
intake
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Chapter
18a
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Renunciation
according the qualities and the causes of
karma
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Chapter
18b
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Individual
duties and the one way of
liberation
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Epilogue
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Notes
& Links
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Nederlandse
Versie
English
edition edited by Ruth Griepink
2007
© Aadhar, Enschede
Commercial use requires
permission
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