{"id":574,"date":"2013-07-13T01:28:58","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=574"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:28:58","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:28:58","slug":"18-chapter-four-vol-08-translations-volume-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/08-translations-volume-08\/18-chapter-four-vol-08-translations-volume-08","title":{"rendered":"-18_Chapter Four.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\t\tCHAPTER FOUR<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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\nkrishna<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is the Yoga, I
\ndeclared to Vivasvan, that cannot perish; Vivasvan told it to Manu, Manu to Ixvacou
\nrepeated it. Thus was it handed down from generation to generation, and known
\nof the philosopher kings, till in a mighty lapse of time that Yoga was lost, O
\nscourge of thy foemen. This is that same ancient Yoga that I today have
\ndeclared to thee because thou art my worshipper and lover and friend, for it is
\nthe noblest mystery of all.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

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\nurjoona<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cOf these latter times is
\nthy birth, O Krishna, of the high ancient times was the birth of Vivasvan, how
\nshould I understand aright this thy saying that thou in the beginning
\ndeclaredst it?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nkrishna<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cMany are my births that are
\npast and gone and thine also, Urjoona; all of them I know but thou knowest not,
\nO scourge of thy foemen. Yea, though I be unborn, and imperishable Spirit,
\nthough I be the Lord of all creatures, yet, I resort to my own nature and am
\nborn by the power of my Self-Illusion. For whenever and whenever righteousness
\nand justice decline and faint upon the earth, O Bharata, and unrighteousness
\nand injustice arise and flourish, then do I put forth myself; for the salvation
\nof the pure and the destruction of evildoers, to raise up justice and
\nrighteousness, I am born again and again from age to age. He who in this sort
\nknoweth aright my divine birth and works, cometh not to birth when he leaveth
\nthe body, to Me he cometh, Urjoona. Many have sought refuge with me and made
\nthemselves full of me, who have risen beyond love and wrath and fear and made
\nthemselves holy by the austere energisms of Knowledge, and become even as
\nMyself. In whatsoever way men come to me, in their own way I accept and love
\nthem; utterly, do men, O son of Pritha, follow in the path which I tread.
\nDesiring good success of their works men sacrifice to the gods on earth, for
\nvery quickly in the world of men cometh the success <\/i>that is born of
\nworks. By me were the four orders created according unto the division of the
\nworkings of the stuff of their nature; know Me for their maker and yet neither
\nfor doer nor maker who am imperishable. On Me actions leave no stain for I have
\nno craving for their fruits; he who really knoweth this of Me is not bound by
\nhis works. Knowing that in this wise <\/span><\/p>\n

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\n works were done by the
\nancient seekers after salvation, do thou also do works as they were done by the
\nmen of old. What is action and what is inaction, as to this the very sages are
\nbewildered; therefore I will declare action unto thee by the knowledge whereof
\nthou shalt be delivered out of evil. For of works thou must understand, of
\nmis-work thou must under\u00adstand, and thou must understand also of inaction; very
\ndifficult is the way of works and their mystery. <\/b>He who in action can
\nsee inaction and action in inaction, he is the understanding mind among men; he
\ndoeth all works, yet is in Yoga. When the imaginations of desire are shut out
\nfrom all that a man beginneth and undertaketh, and his works have been burned
\nup in the fires of knowledge, then it is he that the wise call the truly
\nlearned. When he hath relinquished attachment to the fruit of his work, is ever
\nsatisfied of soul and dependeth not on any outward things, such a man though he
\nengage himself deep in works yet really doeth nothing: pure of lusts, he is
\ngoverned in heart and spirit, he hath surrendered all sense of belonging, doing
\nactions only with his body he receiveth no stain of sin; well-content with the
\ngains that chance and time may bring him, lifted above the plane of the
\ndualities, void of jealousy, receiving success and failure as friends, though he
\ndo works yet is he not bound by them; leaving all heart-clingings behind him, a
\nSpirit released, a mind safe in its tower of knowledge, performing works for a
\nsacrifice, all his works are swallowed up and vanish.<\/span><\/p>\n


\nBrahman is his giving and Brahman is his sacrifice.
\nBrahman casteth and Brahman is cast into the fire that is Brahman; by Samadhi
\nof his works in Brahman he goeth unto Brahman. Of the Yogins some make to the
\nna\u00adtural Gods their session of sacrifice, others offer the sacrifice by the
\nsacri\u00adfice into the fire that is Brahman. Some offer the hearing and all the
\nsenses into the fires of self-mastery and some offer sound and the other things
\nof sense into the fires of the senses. All the works of the senses and all the
\nworks of the vital breath others offer into the Yoga-fire of a controlled
\nSpirit that knowledge hath kindled with her hands. And some make the sacrifice
\nof their goods, and some make a sacrifice of their austerity and others the
\nknowledge of the Vedas. Lords of askesis are they all, keen in the vow of their
\nundertaking. Some offer the upper breath into the lower and the lower breath
\ninto the upper, stopping the passages of the inbreath and outbreath, absorbed
\nin government of the breath that is life; others, eating temperately, offer up
\nthe breaths into the breaths as into a sacrificial fire. And all these, yea
\nall, are wise in sacrifice, and by sacrifice the obscuration <\/span><\/p>\n

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of sin fades away from them,
\nfor they live on the remnants of their sacri\u00adfice, deeming it as the food of
\nGods, and rise to pass over into the Brahman that is for ever. This world
\nbelongeth not to him who doeth not sacrifice, how then shall another, O prince
\nof the Kurus? Thus there are many sorts of sacrifice extended in the mouth of
\nthe eternal; know all these to be born of works, so knowing thou shalt find
\ndeliverance. Better than the sacri\u00adfice that is all of goods is the sacrifice
\nof knowledge, O Scourge of thy foe-men, for all man\u2019s work upon earth
\naccomplisheth itself utterly in Wisdom. This wisdom thou must learn by
\nprostration and questioning and service; then shall the knowers, they who have
\nseen the truth of existence initiate thee in the knowledge which, when thou
\nhast learnt, thou shalt not again fall into delusion, O son of Pandou: by the
\nknowledge thou shalt see all creatures, even to the meanest, in the Self and
\ntherefore in Me. Yea, wert thou the vilest and most lewd in sin, yet shouldest
\nthou pass over to the other shore of Perversity in the ship of the Knowledge.
\nEven as a fire when it hath been kindled, O Urjoona, burneth to ashes the fuel
\nof it, even so doth the fire of the Knowledge burn all a man\u2019s works to
\nnothingness, In all the world there is nought that is so great and pure as
\nWisdom, and one who hath been made perfect by Yoga findeth Wisdom in his self
\nnaturally and by the mere lapse of time. The man of faith, the self-devoted,
\nwho has bridled his senses, he winneth the Knowledge; and when a man has got
\nthe Knowledge, he attains very quickly to the high and perfect peace. But the
\nignorant, the man of little faith, the soul full of doubts, these go to
\nperdition; this world is not for the doubting soul, nor the other world, nor
\nany kind of happiness. But he who reposeth all his works in Yoga and cleaveth
\nDoubt asunder with the sharp edge of Knowledge, the man that possesseth his
\nSelf, O Dhanunjoy, his works cannot bind. Therefore take up the sword of
\nKnowledge, O Urjoona, and cleave asunder this Doubt that hath made his seat in
\nthy heart, this child of the Ignorance; lay fast hold upon Yoga, arise, O seed
\nof Bharata.\u201d  <\/span><\/p>\n

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