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Chapter VIII - “Aksharaparabrahmayog,” or "The Book of Religion by Devotion to the One Supreme God
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Here are the excerpts
Arjuna asks:
Who is that Brahma? What that Soul of Souls, The Adhyatman? What, Thou Best of All! Thy work, the Karma? Tell me what it is Thou namest Adhibhuta? What again Means Adhidaiva? Yea, and how it comes Thou canst be Adhiyajna in thy flesh?
Lord Krishna:
I Brahma am! the One Eternal God, And Adhyatman is My Being’s name, The Soul of Souls! What goeth forth from Me, Causing all life to live, is Karma called: And, Manifested in divided forms, I am the Adhibhuta, Lord of Lives; And Adhidaiva, Lord of all the Gods, Because I am Purusha, who begets. And Adhiyajna, Lord of Sacrifice
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That way - the highest was - goes he who shuts The gates of all his senses, locks desire Safe in his heart, centres the vital airs Upon his parting thought, steadfastly set; And, murmuring Om, the sacred syllable Emblem of Brahm - dies, meditating Me
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The worlds, Arjuna! - even Brahman’s world Roll back again from Death to Life’s unrest;
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Yea! this vast company of living things Again and yet again produced - expires At Brahma’s Nightfall; and, at Brahma’s Dawn, Riseth, without its will, to life new-born. But - higher, deeper, innermost - abides Another Life, not like the life of sense, Escaping sight, unchanging. This endures When all created things have passed away: This is that Life named the Unmanifest, The Infinite! the All! the Uttermost.Thither arriving none return. That Life Is Mine, and I am there!
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Chapter 9: Rajavidyarajaguhyayog or “The Book of Religion by the Kingly Knowledge and the Kingly Mystery”**
Here are the excerpts.
Lord Krishna:
Now will I open unto thee - whose heart Rejects not - that last lore, deepest-concealed, That farthest secret of My Heavens and Earths, Which but to know shall set thee free from ills, A Royal lore! a Kingly mystery!..
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By Me the whole vast Universe of things Is spread abroad; - by Me, the Unmanifest! In Me are all existences contained; Not I in them!
Yet they are not contained, Those visible things! Receive and strive to embrace The mystery majestical! My Being Creating all, sustaining all - still dwells Outside of all!
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See! as the shoreless airs Move in the measureless space, but are not space, [And space were space without the moving airs]; So all things are in Me, but are not I.**
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Have sense of one pervading Spirit’s stress, One Force in every place, though manifold! I am the Sacrifice! I am the Prayer! I am the Funeral-Cake set for the dead!
I am the healing herb! I am the ghee, The Mantra, and the flame, and that which burns! I am - of all this boundless Universe The Father, Mother, Ancestor, and Guard! The end of Learning! That which purifies In lustral water! I am Om! I am Rig-Veda, Sama-Veda, Yajur-Ved; The Way, the Fosterer, the Lord, the Judge, The Witness; the Abode, the Refuge-House, The Friend, the Fountain and the Sea of Life Which sends, and swallows up; Treasure of Worlds And Treasure-Chamber! Seed and Seed-Sower, Whence endless harvest spring! Sun’s heat is mine; Heaven’s rain is mine to grant or to withhold; Death am I, and Immortal Life I am. Arjuna!, Sat and Asat, Visible Life, And Life Invisible!
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^ this should be in the religion forum. SO that the pakistani hindus and muslims can benefit.
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Chapter 10: Vibhuti Yog or “The Book of Religion by the Heavenly Perfections”
Some excerpts follow.
[Footnote 1: The Sanskrit poem here rises to an elevation of style and manner which I have endeavored to mark by change of metre.]
Lord Krishna:
He only knoweth - only he is free of sin, and wise, Who seeth Me, Lord of the Worlds, with faith-enlightened eyes, Unborn, undying, unbegun. Whatever Natures be To mortal men distributed, those natures spring from Me! Intellect, skill, enlightenment, endurance, self-control, Truthfulness, equability, and grief or joy of soul, And birth and death, and fearfulness, and fearlessness, and shame, And honor, and sweet harmlessness,2 and peace which is the same Whate’er befalls, and mirth, and tears, and piety, and thrift, And wish to give, and will to help, - all cometh of My gift!
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**Arjuna:
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**How shall I learn, Supremest Mystery! To know Thee, though I muse continually? Under what form of Thine unnumbered forms Mayst Thou be grasped?
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Lord Krishna
So be it! Kuru Prince! I will to thee unfold Some portions of My Majesty, whose powers are manifold! I am the Spirit seated deep in every creature’s heart;…
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=2]Vishnu of the Adityas I am, those Lords of Light; Maritchi of the Maruts, the Kings of Storm and Blight; By day I gleam, the golden Sun of burning cloudless Noon; By Night, amid the asterisms I glide, the dappled Moon! Of Vedas I am Sama-Ved, of gods in Indra’s Heaven Vasava; of the faculties to living beings given The mind which apprehends and thinks; of Rudras Sankara; Of Yakshas and of Rakshasas, Vittesh; and Pavaka Of Vasus, and of mountain-peaks Meru…
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And of the viewless virtues, Fame, Fortune, Song am I, And Memory, and Patience; and Craft, and Constancy: Of Vedic hymns the Vrihatsam, of metres Gayatri, Of months the Margasirsha, of all the seasons three The flower-wreathed Spring; in dicer’s-play the conquering Double-Eight; The splendor of the splendid, and the greatness of the great, Victory I am, and Action! and the goodness of the good, And Vasudev of Vrishni’s race, and of this Pandu brood Thyself!..
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For wheresoe’er is wondrous work, and majesty, and might, From Me hath all proceeded. Receive thou this aright! Yet how shouldst thou receive, O Prince! the vastness of this word? I, who am all, and made it all, abide its separate Lord![/size]
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atlanntis good for you bro..pakis need a bit of spiritual enlightenment..the enlightened moderation seems to only create more mosque bombings. :k: you should be prophetized!!!
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"Intellect, skill, enlightenment, endurance, self-control, Truthfulness, equability, and grief or joy of soul"......what more need be said? why wouldn't everyone realize it?
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Lussi, sarcaism on one side, but atleast show some respect to other religions. Disrespecting other religions is considered a sin for it directly dis-obeys the commands of Allah in Quran.
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Anwaar Qureshi Bhai,
the voice of Sanity.:k:
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Thanks AQ for clearing things for lussi :--)
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This book is kept in the Mythology section of tmy university's library, inbetween ancient Greek and Roman Mythical stuff. I think that sums up everything.
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bolly yaar, what do americans know. they also keep qurans in toilets..
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But it IS mythology bolly…what is your point? I hope it helps you too. Aum Namo Vasudevaya!
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SPECIAL NOTE FROM ATLANTIS TO ALL IN GS:
This chapter is by far the most beautiful and most frightening one - there is no way I can express or excerpt convincingly - I STRONGLY urge you to click the link and read through the translation full text (will take you about 5 to 10 minutes depending upon your familiarity with metaphysical concepts, math, infinity and belief systems)…but please do …Sir Edwin Arnold enriches the very English language with this one. If only you can hear or read the Sanskrit - majesty in poetry, rich abundance in content …don’t worry about anything else…just immerse yourself and let go …you will know like never before.
This also is my gift back to GS and its members for all that they have given me - Atlantis
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Arjuna asks Lord Krishna to let him see the fully manifested form. Krishna obliges and since normal human vision cannot comprehend the fullness, temporarily grants Arjuna, the faculties needed.
Sanjaya, the remote visioneer and narrater (that’s another story by itself) who is viewing everything going on and relating all happenings to King Dhridrashtr desribes what see as follows.
**Chapter 11:*Viswarupdarsanam *or "The Book of the Manifesting of the One and Manifold"
[Please click here for the full text](http://hinduism.about.com/library/weekly/extra/bl-gitatext11.htm)
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Then, O King! the God, so saying, Stood,
to Pritha's Son displaying All the splendor, wonder, dread
Of His vast Almighty-head.
Out of countless eyes beholding,
Out of countless mouths commanding,
Countless mystic forms enfolding
In one Form: supremely standing
Countless radiant glories wearing,
Countless heavenly weapons bearing,
Crowned with garlands of star-clusters,
Robed in garb of woven lustres,
Breathing from His perfect Presence
Breaths of all delicious essence
Of all sweetest odors;
shedding Blinding brilliance,
overspreading Boundless, beautiful -
all spaces From His all-regarding faces;
So He showed!
If there should rise Suddenly within the skies
Sunburst of a thousand suns
Flooding earth with rays undeemed-of,
Then might be that Holy One's Majesty and glory dreamed of!
So did Pandu's Son behold
All this universe enfold
All its huge diversity
Into one great shape,
and be Visible, and viewed,
and blended In one Body - subtle, splendid, Nameless -
th' All-comprehending God of Gods, The never-Ending Deity!
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and here are some excerpts from what Arjuna said:
To shelter Virtues' laws;
The Fount whence Life’s stream draws
All waters of all rivers of all being:
The One Unborn, Unending: Unchanging and unblending!
With might and majesty, past thought, past seeing!
Silver of moon and gold Of sun
are glances rolled From Thy great eyes;
Thy visage beaming tender Over the stars and skies,
Doth to warm life surprise Thy Universe.
The worlds are filled with wonder
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Arjuna also sees, in the Complete Form in front of him, all the death and destruction,,,,and it scares him...says:
From end to end of earth, Filling life full, from birth To death, with deadly, burning, lurid dread! Ah, Vishnu! make me know Why is Thy visage so? Who art Thou, feasting thus upon Thy dead?
Who? awful Deity! I bow myself to Thee, Namostu Te Devavara! Prasid!<sup>2</sup> O Mightiest Lord! rehearse Why hast Thou face so fierce? Whence did this aspect horrible proceed?
LORD KRISHNA:
Thou seest Me as Time who kills, Time who brings all to doom, The Slayer Time, Ancient of Days, come hither to consume; Excepting thee, of all these hosts of hostile chiefs arrayed, There shines not one shall leave alive the battlefield! Dismayed No longer be!
Arise!
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Chapter XII: Bhaktiyog – The book of religion of faith
<o =""></o>[Click here for the full text – here are so<st1 =""></st1>me excerpts](http://hinduism.about.com/library/weekly/extra/bl-gitatext12.htm)
<o =""></o>Arjuna:Lord! of the men who serve Thee - true in heart As God revealed; and of the men who serve, Worshipping Thee Unrevealed, Unbodied, far, Which take the better way of faith and life?<o =""></o>
** Lord Krishna:**
Whoever serve Me - as I show Myself Constantly true, in full devotion fixed, These hold I very holy. But who serve Worshipping Me The One, The Invisible, The Unrevealed, Unnamed, Unthinkable, Uttermost, All-pervading, Highest, Sure Who thus adore Me, mastering their sense, Of one set mind to all, glad in all good, These blessed souls come unto Me.….for, though to know is more Than diligence, yet worship better is Than knowing, and renouncing better still Near to renunciation - very near Dwelleth Eternal Peace!
But most of all I love Those happy ones to whom 'tis life to live In single fervid faith and love unseeing, Eating the blessed Amrit of my Being!<o =“”>