THE KURU FIELD OF JUSTICE
I see them here assembled,
I see them here assembled,
ready to fight,
seeking to please...
I see them here assembled,
I see them here assembled,
ready to fight,
seeking to please
the kings sinful son,
the kings sinful son,
by waging war.
And thus addressed by Arjuna,
Krishna brought...
Krishna brought
that splendid chariot to a halt,
to a halt
between the two armies.
Seeing them, all his kinsmen,
thus arrayed,
seeing them, all his kinsmen,
thus arrayed,
Arjuna was filled
with deep compassion
and turned to Krishna.
Arjuna was filled
with deep compassion
and turned to Krishna:
""My very being is oppressed...
with compassions harmful taint...""
""My very being is oppressed...""
""With mind perplexed
concerning right and wrong...""
""With mind perplexed
concerning right and wrong,
I ask you,
which is the better course?""
""With mind perplexed...""
""Tell me
and let your words
be definite and clear.""
""Tell me...""
""I am your pupil
and put all my trust in you.""
""You teach me.""
""I am your pupil...""
Seeing them, all his kinsmen,
thus arrayed...
...Arjuna was filled
with deep compassion
and turned to Krishna.
Seeing them, all his kinsmen,
thus arrayed...
But if you,
if you will not,
will not wage this war,
this war
prescribed by your duty...
...then, by casting off
both duty and honor,
you will bring evil on yourself.
If you are slain,
paradise is yours,
and if you gain the victory,
yours is the earth to enjoy.
If you are slain...
Stand up then,
son of Kunti,
resolute for the fight.
Stand up then...
Hold pleasure and pain,
pleasure and pain,
profit and loss,
victory and defeat to be the same.
Then brace yourself for the fight.
So will you bring no evil
on yourself.
Then brace yourself...
To him thus in compassion plunged,
his eyes distraught
and filled with tears,
to him desponding,
Krishna spoke these words,
Krishna spoke these words:
""Whence comes
this faintness on you,
this faintness on you,
now at this crisis hour...?""
""This ill beseems a nobleman,
wins none a heavenly state...""
""This ill beseems a nobleman,
wins none a heavenly state,
but brings dishonor, Arjuna...""
Hold pleasure...
Hold pleasure and pain,
pleasure and pain,
profit and loss,
profit and loss...
...victory and defeat
to be the same.
Then brace yourself
for the fight.
Uo will you bring
no evil on yourself...
TOLUTOY PARM
When the motives and the fruits
of a mans actions
are freed from desire,
his works are burned clean
by wisdoms fire,
the white fire of truth.
Do the allotted task
for which one is fit,
for work is more excellent
than idleness
and the bodys life
proceeds not without work.
Between theory and practice,
some speak as if they were two,
making a separation
and difference between them.
Yet wise men know
that both can be gained
in applying oneself
whole-heartedly to one.
Do the allotted task
for which one is fit,
for work is more excellent
than idleness
and the bodys life
proceeds not without work.
Between theory and practice
some speak as if they were two,
making a separation
and difference between them.
Yet wise men know...
- Do the alloted task...
Freed from desire...
Freed from desire...
When he casts off attachment
to his deeds,
a man embarks on his work
ever content, on none dependent.
When he casts off attachment...
With thought and self controlled
giving up all possessions,
he cares for his
bodily maintenance without excess.
With thought and self controlled...
- Do the allotted task...
Between theory and practice...
- Taking what chance may bring,
surmounting all dualities,
knowing no envy,
the same in success and failure.
Yet wise men know...
- Do the allotted task...
When he casts off
attachment to his deeds
a man embarks on his work
ever content, on none dependent.
THE VOW
Whoever gives up a deed
because it causes pain,
or because he shrinks
from bodily pain,
follows the way of darkness,
knowing nothing of self-surrender.
Whoever gives up a deed
because it causes pain...
But if work is done
because it should be done
and is enjoined by Scripture,
but if work is done
because it should be done
and is enjoined by Scripture
and without thought
for great benefits,
then that is
surrender in goodness...
You sustain the gods
and the gods sustain you in return.
You sustain the gods
and the gods sustain you.
The gods sustain you in return,
attaining the highest good.
You sustain the gods
and the gods sustain you.
With this you sustain the gods
and the gods sustain you in return.
Sustain one another,
you shall attain the highest good.
You sustain the gods...
With this you sustain the gods...
Prom food
do all contingent beings derive
and food derives from rain.
Prom food
do all contingent beings derive...
Rain derives from sacrifice
and sacrifice from work...
With doubt cut away,
suffused with goodness,
the self-surrendered man
hates neither uncongenial work
nor looks only for pleasant work...
So was the wheel set in motion,
and who here
fails to match his turning,
living an evil life...
He who only indulges
in sensual pleasure
lives his life in vain...
CONPRONTATION AND REUCUE
""This I have gained today...""
""This whim I"II satisfy...""
""This wealth is mine...""
""And much more too
will be mine as time goes on...""
""This I have gained today...""
""He was an enemy of mine...""
""Ive killed him...""
""And many another I"II kill.
Im the master here...""
""I take my pleasure as I will.
Im strong and happy
and successful...""
""He was an enemy of mine...""
And thinking this,
ail those dark minded ones
of little wit...
And thinking this,
ail those dark minded ones
of little wit,
embark on cruel and violent deeds,
the curses of their kind.
And thinking this...
""Im rich and of good family.
Who ease can match himself
with me?
I"II make sacrifices and give alms.
I"II have a marvelous time.""
So speak fools.
""Im rich and of good family...""
Insatiate desire
is their starting point,
insatiate desire
is their starting point,
maddened are they
by hypocrisy and pride,
clutching at false conceptions,
deluded as they are.
Impure are their resolves...
Insatiate desire
is their starting point...
INDIAN OPINION
As witless fools
perform their work,
attached to the work they do,
so with senses freed,
the wise man should act,
longing to bring about the welfare
and coherence of the world...
As witless fools
perform their work,
attached to the work they do,
so with senses freed,
the wise man should act,
longing to bring about the welfare
and coherence of the world.
Therefore detached,
perform unceasingly the work
that must be done...
For the man detached
who labors on to the highest
must win through...
This is how the saints
attained success.
Moreover,
you should embrace action
for the upholding,
the welfare of your own kind.
Therefore detached...
Whatever the noblest does,
that too will others do.
The standard that he sets
ail the world will follow.
""In the three worlds
there is nothing I need do...
nor anything unattained
that I need to gain,
yet action is the element
in which I move...""
""If I were not
tirelessly to busy myself,
to busy myself with work,
then would men everywhere
follow in my footsteps,
sinking back.""
""In the three worlds
there is nothing I need do...""
""As witless fools
perform their work...""
""If I were not to do my work,
these worlds would fail to ruin...
and I would create confusion...""
PROTEU The Lord said,
the Lord said:
""Let a man feel hatred
for no being,
let him be friendly,
compassionate,
done with thoughts
of "I" and "mine",
the same in pleasure
as in pain and long suffering.
His self restrained,
his purpose firm,
Let his mind and soul
be steeped in me,
let him worship me with love.
Then will I love him in return.
Then will I love him in return.""
The Lord said...
Hold pleasure and pain,
profit and loss,
victory and defeat to be the same...
Then brace yourself for the fight.
So will you bring
no evil on yourself.
Hold pleasure and pain,
profit and loss...
If you are slain,
paradise is yours,
and if you gain the victory,
yours is the earth to enjoy...
Stand up then, son of Kunti,
stand up then, son of Kunti,
resolute for the fight.
If you are slain,
paradise is yours...
Hold pleasure and pain,
profit and loss...
Happy are the warriors indeed
who become involved
in such a war as this...
...a war presented by pure chance
and opening the doors of paradise.
Happy are the warriors indeed...
If you are slain,
paradise is yours,
and if you gain the victory,
yours is the earth to enjoy...
Stand up then, son of Kunti,
resolute for the fight...
NEWCAUTLE MARCH
With self content in wisdom
learned from holy books
and wisdom learned from life...
With sense subdued, sublime, aloof,
this athlete of the spirit stands...
""Integrated"",
so is he called...
The same to him
are clods of earth, stones, gold...
Outstanding is he,
outstanding is he whose soul,
whose soul
views in the self-same way,
views in the self-same way
friends, comrades, enemies,
those indifferent, neutrals,
views in the self-same way
men who are hateful
and those who are his kin,
views in the self-same way
the good and the evil, too...
This is the fixed,
the fixed, still state
which sustains,
which sustains,
even at the time of death,
the athletes of the spirit,
which sustains,
even at the time of death,
the athletes of the spirit,
who even then set forth,
who even then set forth,
some to return,
some to return,
some never to return...
Pire, light, day,
the waxing of the moon,
the six months
of the suns northern course,
dying in these,
to Brahman do they go,
the men who Brahman know...
This is the fixed, still state
which sustains,
this is the fixed, still state
which sustains...
...even at the time of death,
the athletes of the spirit...
...the athletes of the spirit
who even then set forth...
This is the fixed, still state
which sustains...
...even at the time of death,
the athletes of the spirit,
who even then set forth,
some to return,
some never to return.
Pire,
light, day,
the waxing of the moon,
the six months...
...of the suns northern course...
...dying in these...
...to Brahman do they go...
...the men who Brahman know...
This is the fixed, still state
which sustains,
even at the time of death,
the athletes of the spirit
who even then set forth,
some to return,
some never to return...
I have passed
through many a birth
and many have you...
I know them ail,
but you do not.
Unborn am I,
changeless is my Self,
of all contingent beings
I am the Lord!
Yet by my creative energy,
I consort with Nature...
...I consort with Nature
and come to be in time.
For whenever
the law of righteousness
withers away
and lawlessness rises...
...then do I generate
myself on earth.
I come into being
age after age
and take a visible shape
and move man with men
for the protection of good,
thrusting evil back...
...and setting virtue
on her throne again...