ON TRUTH AND RIGHT KNOWLEDGE.
Argument:—Subjection of the senses followed by the government of
the Mind; and Indifference to visible objects.
Bhusunda continued:—He is said to be situated in the seat of the
Supreme, who has his mind unmoved at the stroke of a weapon of his bare
body, as also at the touch of a form with his naked person. (One must
practice his self-controul until he attains to this state of
insensibility of both his body and mind).
2. One must strive by exercise of his manly powers and patience, to
practice his rigid hebetude or stoicity, as long as he attains to his
somnolence or hypnotism over all visible appearances. (Hypnotism is
asleep over the phenomenal, but wakeful to the spiritual).
3. The wise man who is acquainted with the truths of nature, is not to
be thwarted back by the severest tribulation and persecution; as the
heaving waves of the lake, cannot submerge the lotus that stands firm
amidst its water.
4. He who is impassive as the empty air, to the strokes of weapons on
his person, and unaffected by the embraces of beauties; is the only
person who sees inwardly what is worth seeing: (though he is outwardly
as insensible as a block of stone).
5. As poison breeds the rust in itself, which is not different from the
nature of poison.
6. So the infinity of souls which are produced in the Supreme spirit,
retain the nature of their original; and which they are capable of
knowing.
7. As the insect that is born in the poison, does not die by the same;
so the human soul which is produced by the eternal soul, is not subject
to death, nor does it forsake its own nature, though it takes a grosser
form like the vile figure of the poisonous insects.
8. Things born in or produced by Brahma, are of the same nature with
itself, though different from it in appearance; such is the rust and
mustiness of meat, which adheres to the food and appears as otherwise.
So the world subsisting in Brahma, seems as something without it. (The
fruit is alike its tree, though unlike to it in its shape and size).
9. No worm is born in poison, that does not retain the nature of poison;
it never dies in it without being revivified in the same. (All things
that are seen to die in nature, have only to be regenerated in another
form, or as it is said “we die but to be born again”).
10. It is owing to the indestructible property of self-consciousness,
that all beings pass over the great gulph of death, as they leap over a
gap in the ground hide by the foot mark of a bull (goshpad).
11. Why is it, that men neglect to lay hold on that blessed state, which
is beyond and above all other states in life, and which when had,
infuses a cool calmness in the soul?
12. What a great stain it is to the pure soul, to neglect the meditation
of the glorious God, before which our mind, egoism and understanding, do
all vanish into nothing or insignificance.
13. As you look upon a pot and a piece of cloth as mere trifles, so
should you consider your body as brittle as glass, and your mind,
understanding and egoism also as empty nothing.
14. Therefore it is for the wise and learned, to divert their attention
from all worldly things, as also from their internal powers of the mind
and understanding; and to remain steadfast in their consciousness of the
soul.
15. The wise man takes no notice of the faults or merits of others; nor
does he take heed of the happiness or misery of himself or any body;
knowing well that no one is the doer or sufferer of anything whatever.