{"id":2290,"date":"2013-07-13T01:40:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=2290"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:40:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:40:38","slug":"24-bhagavat-skandha-1-vol-05-translations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/03-cwsa\/05-translations\/24-bhagavat-skandha-1-vol-05-translations","title":{"rendered":"-24_Bhagavat – Skandha -1.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nBhagawat
\n<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSKANDHA I, ADHYAYA I <\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n1. On Him we fix our thoughts from whom are birth and being
\nand death, who knoweth the chain of things and their separate
\ntruth, King and Free, who [to] the earliest seer disclosed the
\nVeda through his heart, which even illuminated minds find hard
\nto understand,
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIn whom like interchange of water, earth and light the triple
\ncreation stands free from falsehood, for by His inherent lustre
\nHe casts out always the glamour of the worlds, \u2014 to Him we
\nturn, that Highest Truth of things.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\n2. Here shall ye find highest religion in which all trickery has
\nbeen eschewed, here the one substantial thing that is utterly true,
\nthat hearts free from jealousy and wickedness may know, that
\nis a fountain of blessing and peace, that is an uprooting of the
\nthreefold sorrow of the world,
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIn this holy Bhagawat that the great Thinker has made.
\nWhen by its power even others can imprison the Lord in their
\nhearts so soon, the fulfilled in nature who love to hear it shall
\nseize Him the moment that they hear.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\n3. This is the fruit fallen from the tree of Veda which giveth
\nmen every desire, \u2014 come, all you that are lovers of God on the
\nearth and sensible to His delight, drink from the mouth of Shuka
\nthe Bhagawat’s delightful juice into which wine of immortality
\nhas been poured, drink and drink again until the end of things.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\n4. In Naimisha, field of the Timeless Lord, the sages, Shaunaka and the rest,
\nsat down to millennial sacrifice for the bringing of the kingdom of heaven. <\/span><\/p>\n

\n5.
\nAnd one day at dawn the Wise Ones having cast their offerings into the eater of the sacrifice asked with eagerness of the Suta as welcomed in their midst he sat.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

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6. By thee, O pure of blemish, have the Traditions and Histories been studied, by thee recited, which are institutes of the
\nWay of life,
\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n

7. Those that the Lord Badarayan knoweth, chief of the Veda
\nWise; and the other sages to whom these low things and those
\nhigh are known.
\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n

8. Thou knowest it all, O gracious one, in its essential truth by Vyasa’s grace; verily, to the loving disciple the Masters will tell
\neven the secret thing.
\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n

9. What thou, O long of life, hast distinguished decisively in
\nthis book and in that to be utterly the best for men, we would
\nhave thee announce to us.
\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n

10. For thou knowest, O cultured soul, that usually in this age
\nof the Kali men are short of days, poor in spirit, poor in sense,
\npoor in fate, assailed by ills,
\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n

11. And numerous are the scriptures that have to be studied, full
\nof multitudinous laws of conduct and divided into many parts,
\n\u2014 therefore drawing out from them by thy thought whatever
\nis the essence of all these, tell us as to men of faith that which
\nmakes the soul clear and glad.
\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n

12. And, O Suta, since thou knowest for what purpose the Lord,
\nthe Prince of the Satwatas was born to Vasudeva in Devaki’s
\nwomb,
\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n

13. Be pleased to narrate it to our expectant ears, \u2014 whose descent into mortal life is for the bliss and increase of created
\nthings;
\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n

14. Whose name if one fallen into the dread whirl uttereth aloud
\neven without his will, at once he is delivered therefrom,
\n\u2014 the
\nname of which Fear itself is afraid;
\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n

15. By dependence on whom, O Suta, the seers that follow the
\nway of Peace purify by their first touch, but the waters of the
\nmystic stream only after the soul has bathed in them often and
\nlong.
\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n

16. For who that longeth after purity would not listen to the
\nglory destroying Kali’s darkness of that divine Lord whose actions are adored by souls of virtuous fame?
\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n

17. Tell us, for we believe, his noble deeds hymned by illumined<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n

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\nseers when by reason of His world-sport He manifests His
\naspects in the world.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\n18. Then tell us the blessed incarnations of Hari when the Lord
\nof Creation ordereth variously at His unfettered pleasure and by
\nthe play of His own Glamour, His sport in human forms.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\n19. We are not satiated however often we hear the mightiness
\nof that most glorious Being, for at every step sweetness is added
\nto sweetness for those who can feel its beauty when they hear.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\n20. High were the heroic deeds Keshava did with Rama for His
\naid and beyond mortal strength, for this was the hidden Lord
\ndisguised as a man.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\n21. Because we knew that Kali had come upon the world, we
\nin this region holy to Vishnu have sat down to long sacrifice &
\nleisure vast have we to hear of the Lord.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\n22. It is Providence then that has shown thee to us who desire
\nto cross safe over the difficult Kali, destroyer of the purer energy
\nin men, as appears a sudden pilot to those who would voyage
\nthrough the difficult sea.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\n23. Say, when the Master of the Yoga, full of holiness, Krishna,
\narmour of the Dharma, passed to His Divine Summit, with
\nwhom did the Dharma take sanctuary then?<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n

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