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Filognostic* understanding of the Bhagavad Gîtâ of Order
Arjuna said: 'What is that Spirit, what about the soul of oneself and what are fruitive activities; what about, oh Supreme One, the material manifestation and what to say about what one calls the godly [or demigods]?
FILOGNOSTIC TRANSLATION
Arjuna said: 'What about God, this soul for oneself and fruitful activities; what oh greatest personality, about the material manifestation and what to say about, what one calls, the lesser gods in this? (Sanskrit & tradition)
Who is the Lord of sacrifice and how does He live within the body, oh slayer of Madhu and how, when ones time has come, can You be known by the self-controlled?'
FILOGNOSTIC TRANSLATION
Who is that lord of sacrifice, how does he live within the body, and, demon-slayer, how can the ones of self-control know you at the time of their death?' (Sanskrit & tradition)
The Supreme Lord said: 'The indestructible Spirit is the transcendental eternal of nature that is called ones own soul [or true self], it produces the material bodies of the living entities and creation is what is called fruitive activity.
FILOGNOSTIC TRANSLATION
The one of all opulence7 said: 'God is the imperishable One in the beyond called the soul or true self that is eternal, and from which the living beings become visible in a creative activity which one calls karma, the workload or the working for a result. (Sanskrit & tradition)
The constantly changing material nature is the [body of the] original person of the godly spoken about and the Lord of sacrifice for sure I am in this body of the embodied, oh best one.
FILOGNOSTIC TRANSLATION
The lesser gods are the universal integrities, or divine personalities, of the different manifestations of nature that are constantly on the move - like the sun and the moon -, and the lord of the sacrifices am I, the one present within the embodied beings, my best. (Sanskrit & tradition)
At the end of ones time it is also surely in the remembrance of Me that he, who goes to quit the body, will achieve My nature. Of that there is no doubt.
FILOGNOSTIC TRANSLATION
He who at the time of his death quitting the physical body remembers me, will beyond any doubt reach my nature. (Sanskrit & tradition)
The nature of whatever one is all remembering, giving this vehicle of time up in the end, similar surely always will lead, oh son of Bhârata, to the state which is essential to it.
FILOGNOSTIC TRANSLATION
The nature of whatever one all remembers, giving up this body in the end, will, oh son of Prithâ, always lead to a state similar to the one that was remembered. (Sanskrit & tradition)
Therefore go on remembering Me at all times and fighting with your mind and intelligence surrendered to Me, you will attain Me without doubt.
FILOGNOSTIC TRANSLATION
Keep therefore at all times, even when you're in the fray, to the remembrance of me, so that you, free from doubt with your mind and intelligence of acceptance for me, are sure to attain me. (Sanskrit & tradition)
Persistently uniting the mind and intelligence in the connectedness of yoga without deviating one achieves the Supreme Original Person of transcendence, oh son of Prithâ, whom one is constantly thinking of.
FILOGNOSTIC TRANSLATION
When one persistent in the uniting is connected with the unwavering of one's mind and intelligence, one reaches the supreme and divine, personal integrity which was kept in mind, oh son of Prithâ. (Sanskrit & tradition)
He is the one who knows all, who is the oldest, the controller, smaller than an atom and is always thinking of everything; He is the inconceivable maintainer whose form is luminous like the sun and who is trancendental to all darkness.
FILOGNOSTIC TRANSLATION
He, the Supreme One, is the One knowing everything, the oldest, the controller, He's smaller than an atom, the One always thinking of everything, the Inconceivable Maintainer transcendental to all darkness with a form as luminous as the sun. (Sanskrit & tradition)
One who, at the end of his time fixes his mind in devotion connected by the strength of yoga and as well for sure establishes the life air between the eyebrows, achieves that transcendental Original Person of the divine.
FILOGNOSTIC TRANSLATION
That person reaches the divine who, when his time has come, fixes his life force between his eyebrows, and, connected by the power of his yoga, in the full of his devotion has a mind that doesn't wander off, but keeps to the integrity of the universe, the Original Person in the beyond. (Sanskrit & tradition)
I will now explain in short to you the practice of the celibate desired by those who enter the renounced order of life as great sages conversant with the Vedas in exercising the pranava [AUM, the primal mantra].
FILOGNOSTIC TRANSLATION
Let me now explain to you in short what it means to be a celibate. It is a practice desired by those, belonging to the renounced order of life, who as great scholars conversant with the culture of knowledge exercise the mantra AUM. (Sanskrit & tradition)
Controlling the [nine] gates [of the senses], confining the mind to the heart and also fixing the soul's life-air [the attention] in the head one is situated in the yogic position.
FILOGNOSTIC TRANSLATION
One is in the position of uniting consciousness when one, self-controlled in relation to the sensory input and fixing the life force in the head, confines the mind to the heart. (Sanskrit & tradition)
Vibrating AUM, the one syllable of the spirit, anyone who remembers Me leaving behind this body achieves the supreme goal.
FILOGNOSTIC TRANSLATION
Anyone may achieve that supreme state who, leaving the body for what it is, in the remembrance of me vibrates AUM, the one syllable of the spirit. (Sanskrit & tradition)
For the one who is always fixing his mind in remembering Me regularly, I am easy to attain, oh son of Prithâ, for he is regularly engaged in the unification.
FILOGNOSTIC TRANSLATION
For any yoga practitioner, who on a regular basis repeatedly, with a mind not going elsewhere, remembers me, oh son of Prithâ, I am, because of that constancy, easy to reach. (Sanskrit & tradition)
Born again, achieving Me, the great souls who attain the ultimate perfection never reach where the temporary and miserable is found.
FILOGNOSTIC TRANSLATION
The great souls who reached me never start a new life in the temporary world which is so full of miseries, because they achieved the ultimate of perfection. (Sanskrit & tradition)
[From reaching] up to the highest place one returns again to the world, oh Arjuna, but having found Me, oh son of Kuntî, one is never born again.
FILOGNOSTIC TRANSLATION
Arjuna, even from the highest worlds of the spirit one returns, but having reached me, oh son of Kuntî, one will never start a new life again. (Sanskrit & tradition)
A thousand ages are included in a day to those who know of the Absolute, while the night, that similarly takes a thousand ages, is there to the people understanding by day ànd night
FILOGNOSTIC TRANSLATION
Like it is with the common man who thinks in terms of days and nights, one day of God consists of a thousand cycles of creation8, while His night, so is understood, similarly takes a thousand cycles. (Sanskrit & tradition)
All living beings [thus] manifest themselves from the unmanifest at the beginning of that day, but at the fall of the night they are surely [also] all taken in to that which is called the unseen.
FILOGNOSTIC TRANSLATION
All living entities become manifest at the beginning of the day and with the fall of the night they are all annihilated, or drawn back into the unapparent, so one says. (Sanskrit & tradition)
The totality of all beings that repeatedly take this birth is annihilated on the arrival of the night and out of their own, oh son of Prithâ, they reappear on the arrival of the day.
FILOGNOSTIC TRANSLATION
Oh son of Prithâ, the complete of all living beings manifesting itself upon the arrival of every day and their automatically being annihilated when the night arrives, means that they repeatedly take birth. (Sanskrit & tradition)
But transcendental to that there is another unseen nature to the unmanifest that upon the annihilation of all manifestation is never annihilated.
FILOGNOSTIC TRANSLATION
But transcendental to that nature, which can be unapparent, there is another nature, eternal and unseen, which is never annihilated when all the manifest is annihilated. (Sanskrit & tradition)
It is said that that unseen [the spiritual] is infallible and it is known as the ultimate destination from which, gaining it, one never returns - that is My supreme abode.
FILOGNOSTIC TRANSLATION
That unseen nature is said to be infallible and is described as the ultimate destination from which one, having reached there, never returns: that is my supreme abode. (Sanskrit & tradition)
The original person is He in the beyond, oh son of Prithâ, who can only be achieved by unalloyed devotion, within whom all of manifestation exists and by whom everything we can see is pervaded.
FILOGNOSTIC TRANSLATION
He, the Supreme and Original Person, oh son of Prithâ, within whom all of manifestation exists and by whom everything that is visible is pervaded, can only be reached by means of a service which is of a single-minded devotion. (Sanskrit & tradition)
I shall now describe, oh best of the Bhâratas, that time at which different kinds of mystics having departed attain and for sure to that time do or do not return.
FILOGNOSTIC TRANSLATION
Oh best of the Pândavas, let me now describe to you the times of leaving this world at which the ones successful in uniting consciousness return or else do not return. (Sanskrit & tradition)
Those persons who know the Absolute and leave during the fire of daylight with a waxing moon during the six months when the sun passes the north, reach the Supreme Spirit.
FILOGNOSTIC TRANSLATION
Those persons who, knowing of the Absolute, leave to the light of the fire, the light of the day, the light of the fortnight of a waxing moon, or the light of the six months when the sun runs high in the sky, all leave for God. (Sanskrit & tradition)
The mystic who achieves to the light of the moon during the smoke of the night as also with a waning moon and the six months of the sun passing through the south, comes back.
FILOGNOSTIC TRANSLATION
The one unified in consciousness though who leaves to the darkness of the night, the darkness of smoke, the darkness of the dark half of the lunar month, or the darkness of the six months when the sun runs low in the sky, will turn back to this world because he didn't reach beyond the order of the moonlight. (Sanskrit & tradition)
According to the Vedas there are these two ways of [the spiritual] light and darkness [of ignorance] in passing from this world by which one either does not return or does return again.
FILOGNOSTIC TRANSLATION
These are according to the scriptures the two ways of leaving the world; leaving to the light one does not return while one having departed to the darkness turns back. (Sanskrit & tradition)
Of knowing any of these different paths, oh son of Prithâ, the yogi is never bewildered; therefore always get unified in yoga, oh Arjuna.
FILOGNOSTIC TRANSLATION
The one who, unified in consciousness, knows of these different paths, isn't bewildered by any of them; therefore, Arjuna, be always connected in the âtmatattva of uniting consciousness. (Sanskrit & tradition)
The yogis who know all of this surpass the fruit of pious work as won by Vedic study, through sacrifices, austerities and also surely by giving in charity and achieve the original, supreme abode.'
FILOGNOSTIC TRANSLATION
All the yoga practitioners aware of this, reach beyond the results of pious work as derived from scriptural study, sacrifices, austerities and charity, and attain the original, supreme abode.' (Sanskrit & tradition)
Versions consulted:
- A Song of Fortune One - A modern Gîtâ - the modern version of filognosy (also in mp3-audio).- A Song of Fortune - A Classical Gîtâ - the classical version of filognosy.
- The Bhagavad Gîta-as-it-is by Swami Bhaktivedânta Prabhupâda (PDF-download).
- The Bhagavad Gîtâ-as-it-is: online (version 1.0).
- The Bhagavad Gita As It Is By His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (pdf-download).
- The Bhagavad Gita by the Bhagavad Gita Trust.
- Bhagavad Gita by Sanderson Beck.
- Bhagavad Gita by Ramanad Prasad (American Gita society).
- Srimad Bhagavad-gita - The Hidden Treasure of the Sweet Absolute (from the Vaishnav' S'rî Caitanya Saraswath math).
Sanskrit dictionary: (Monier-Williams' 'Sanskrit-English Dictionary').
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