Sunday 10 April 2011

Bhagavad Gita 5: 4 - 12

These are the verses I suggest for contemplation for our next Saturday Sadhana (from Mascaro):

5.4 Ignorant men, but not the wise, say that sankhya and yoga are different paths; but he who gives all his soul to one reaches the end of the two.
5.5 Because the victory won by the man of wisdom is also won by the man of good work. That man sees indeed the truth who sees that vision and creation are one.
5.6 But renunciation, Arjuna, is difficult to attain without Yoga of work. When a sage is one in Yoga, he soon is one in God.
5.7 No work stains a man who is pure, who is in harmony; who is master of his life, whose soul is one with the soul of all.
5.8 'I am not doing any work' thinks the ma  who is in
5.9 harmony, who sees the truth. For in seeing or hearing, smelling or touching,  eating or walking or sleeping or breathing, in taling or grasping or relaxing, and even in opening or closing his eyes, remembers: 'It is the servants of my soul that are working'.
5.10  Offer all thy works to God, throw off selfish bonds, and do thy work. No sin can then stain thee, even as waters do not stain the leaf of the lotus.
5.11 The yogi works for the purification of the soul: he throws off selfish attachment, and thus it is only his body, or his senses, or his mind or his reason that works.
5.12 This man of harmony surrenders the reward of his work and thus attains final peace: the man of disharmony, urged by desire, is attached to his reward and remains in bondage.

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