The Eternal One endued with divinity is beheld by yogis (in consciousness). The Supreme Soul, endued with four legs (states), called respectively Waking, Dream, Deep Sleep and Turiya, like unto a swan, treading above the unfathomable ocean of worldly affairs, does not put forth one leg that is hidden deep. Unto him that beholds that leg (Turiya) as put forth for the purpose of guiding the other three, both death and emancipation are the same (as the whole of the material world is dissolved, when the self is dissevered from the delusion which is the cause of it).
The Eternal One endued with divinity is beheld by yogis (in consciousness). Of the measure of the thumb, being the Inner-self, ever Full, and different from the organism, coming in contact with the Vital airs, the Will, the Intellect, and the ten Senses, it moves to and fro. That Supreme Controller, worthy of reverential hymns, and the prime cause of everything, is manifest as Knowledge in creature-souls. Fools alone do not behold Him.
The Eternal One endued with divinity is beheld by yogis (in consciousness). Among individuals there are those that have obtained mastery of their minds, and those that have not. Yet in all men the Supreme Soul may be seen equally. Indeed, IT resides equally in him that is emancipate, and in him that is not, with only this difference that
they that are emancipate obtain honey flowing in a thick jet (attain to the Supreme Brahman).
The Eternal One endued with divinity is beheld by yogis (in consciousness). When one makes life’s sojourn, having attained to the knowledge of the Self and Not-Self, then it matters little whether one’s agni-hotra is performed or not. (Yet one obtains the fruit of it). O Monarch! The Supreme Soul has another name that is Pure Knowledge. They that have restrained their minds alone attain to Him.
The Eternal One endued with divinity is beheld by yogis (in consciousness). Even such is He. Illustrious and full, all living creatures are merged into Him. He who knows that embodiment of Fullness attains to his object (emancipation) even here.
The Eternal One endued with divinity is beheld by yogis (in consciousness). That which flies away stretching forth thousands of wings, even if endued with the speed of the mind, must yet come back to the Central Spirit within the living organism (in which the most distant things reside).
The Eternal One endued with divinity is beheld by yogis (in consciousness). His form cannot be an object of sight. They that are of pure hearts alone can behold Him.
When one seeks the good of all, succeeds in controlling one’s mind, and never suffers one’s heart to be affected by grief, then one is said to have purified one’s heart. Those that can abandon the world and all its cares alone become immortal.
The Eternal One endued with divinity is beheld by yogis (in consciousness). Like serpents concealing themselves in holes, there are persons who, following the dictates of their senses, or by their own conduct, conceal their vices from scrutiny’s gaze. They that are so deluded take to worldly life, appreciating nothing but the sensuous objects.
The Eternal One endued with divinity is beheld by yogis (in consciousness). He that is emancipate thinks thus: This transitory organism can never make me liable to joy and grief and the other attributes inhering to it; nor can there be, in my case, anything like death and birth: and, further, when the Brahman, which has no opposing force to contend against and which is alike in all times and all places, constitutes the resting–place of both realities and unrealities, how can emancipation be mine? It is I alone that am the origin and the end of all causes and effects (existing in the form of the Self).
The Eternal One endued with divinity is beheld by yogis (in consciousness).
The Brahman knowing person, who is equal unto the Brahman Itself, is neither glorified by good acts nor defiled by bad ones. It is only in ordinary men that acts, good or bad, produce different results. The person that knows the Brahman should be regarded as identical with Amrita or the state called Kaivalya which is incapable of being affected by either virtue or vice. One should, therefore, disposing one’s mind in the way indicated, attain to that essence of sweetness (the Brahman).
The Eternal One endued with divinity is beheld by yogis (in consciousness). Slander grieves not the heart of the person that knows the Brahman, nor the thought, ‘I have not studied (the Veda)’, or ’I have not performed my agni-hotra’. The knowledge of the Brahman soon imparts to him that wisdom which is obtained only by the restraint of the mind (and awakening of the soul).
The Eternal One endued with divinity is beheld by yogis (in consciousness). He that beholds his own self in everything has no longer to grieve for, they only have to grieve, who are employed in diverse other occupations of the world.
As one’s purposes (appeasing thirst, etc.) may be served in a well, as in a large reservoir of vast expanse, so the various purposes of the Vedas may all be derivable by him that knows the Soul. Dwelling in the heart, and of the measure of the thumb, that illustrious One—the embodiment of Fullness—is not an object of sight. Unborn, He moves, awake day and night.
He that knows Him becomes both learned and full of joy. I am called the mother and the father. I am again the son. Of all that was, and of all that we will be, I am the Soul.
O Bharata! I am the old grandsire; I am the father; and I am the son. You are staying in my soul, yet you are not mine, nor am I yours! The Soul is the cause of my birth and procreation. I am the warp and woof of the universe. That upon which I rest is indestructible. Unborn I move, awake day and night.
It is I knowing whom one becomes both learned and full of joy. Subtler than the subtle, of excellent eyes capable of looking into both the past and the future, the Brahman is awake in every creature. They that know Him know that Universal Father dwells in the heart of every created thing!.
