come back to the Central Spirit within the living
organism (in which the most distant things reside...
That Eternal One endued with Divinity) is beheld by
Yogins (by their mental eye). His form cannot
be an object of sight. They only, that are of
pure hearts, can behold him. When one seeketh
the good of all, succeedeth in controlling his mind,
and never suffereth his heart to be affected by grief,
then he is said to have purified his heart. Those
again that can abandon the world and all its cares,
become immortal. (That Supreme Soul which is undying),—that
Eternal One endued with Divinity—is beheld
by Yogins (by their mental eye). Like serpents
concealing themselves in holes, there are persons
who following the dictates of their preceptors, or
by their own conduct conceal their vices from scrutiny’s
gaze. They that are of little sense are deceived
by these. In fact, bearing themselves outwardly
without any impropriety, these deceive their victims
for leading them to hell. (Him, therefore, who may
be attained by companionship with persons of the very
opposite class), that Eternal One endued with Divinity—is
beheld by Yogins (by their mental eye). He that
is emancipate thinks,—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 Brahman, which hath 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 I or Self) that Eternal One endued
with Divinity is beheld by Yogins (by their mental
eye). The Brahman-knowing person, who is equal
unto 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 knoweth 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 his
mind in the way indicated, attain to that essence of
sweetness (Brahman). That Eternal One endued
with Divinity is beheld by Yogins (by their mental
eye). Slander grieveth not the heart of the person
that knoweth Brahman not the thought—I
have not studied (the Veda), or, I have not performed
my Agni-hotra. The knowledge of Brahman soon imparteth
to him that wisdom which they only obtain who have
restrained their mind. (That Brahman which freeth
the Soul from grief and ignorance)-that Eternal One
endued with Divinity-is beheld by Yogins (by their
mental eye). He, therefore, that beholdeth his
own Self in everything, hath 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