God-Realisation

Blessed are those who have pure hearts, for they will see God.

To one who has supreme devotion to God, and the same devotion to the guru as to God — to that great soul the meanings here declared shine forth.

The one swan in the middle of this world — He alone is fire dwelling in the waters. Only by knowing Him does one pass beyond death. There is no other path for liberation.

I know that supreme Person, sunlike in colour, beyond darkness. Only by knowing Him does one pass beyond death. There is no other path for liberation.

One who truly knows that supreme Brahman becomes Brahman itself; no one who does not know Brahman is born in that person's lineage. Such a one crosses over grief, crosses over sin, freed from the knots of the cave of the heart, and becomes immortal.

Smaller than the smallest, greater than the greatest — the Self is hidden in the heart of each creature. The one free from desire sees the glory of the Lord, free from sorrow, through the grace of the Creator.

Smaller than the smallest, greater than the greatest — the Self is hidden in the heart of every creature. Free from desire, one sees the glory of the Self by the grace of the Creator.

One who has become Brahman, with a serene self, neither grieves nor craves; equal to all beings, that person attains supreme devotion to Me.

By worshipping through one's own duty the Source from which all beings arise and by which this whole universe is pervaded, a human being attains perfection.

One who sees the supreme Lord dwelling equally in all beings, undying amid the dying — that one truly sees.

Fix your mind on me alone; let your understanding dwell in me. You shall live in me hereafter — of this there is no doubt.

But through undivided devotion, O Arjuna, I can be known in truth, seen in this way, and even entered into, O scorcher of foes.

At the end of many births, the one who has ripened into wisdom takes refuge in Me, knowing that Vasudeva is all. Such a great soul is supremely rare.

He arrived at the final knowing: 'Bliss is Brahman.' For from bliss alone all these beings are born; by bliss they are held in life; and into bliss they dissolve at the last. This is the wisdom of Bhṛgu, the son of Varuṇa — knowledge established in the highest expanse of being. Whoever knows this becomes firm and unshakeable. One becomes the possessor of food and the enjoyer of food. One grows great in offspring, in animals, in the luminosity of sacred knowledge, and great in renown.

From where words return, unable to reach there, together with the mind — one who knows that bliss of Brahman is afraid of nothing, ever. This is the bodily self of the preceding sheath. Within and beyond this mind-composed self there is yet another inner self, made of discriminative intelligence; by that, this one is pervaded.

Om. The knower of Brahman reaches the highest. On this has been declared: Brahman is truth, knowledge, and infinity. Whoever discerns it hidden in the cave of the heart, in the supreme expanse, that one enjoys together with the all-knowing Brahman all desires fulfilled. From that very Self arose space, from space arose wind, from wind fire, from fire water, from water earth, from earth plants, from plants food, from food the human being. This being is indeed made of the essence of food. Its head is this, its right wing is this, its left wing is this, this is its body, this its tail and support. On this a verse is sung.

This very Awareness (Prajñāna) is Brahman; it is Indra, it is Prajāpati, it is all the gods; it is the five great elements — earth, wind, space, water, light — and these along with the minute and the composite; it is all that is born from eggs, from wombs, from sweat, from sprouts; horses, cows, humans, elephants — whatever breathes, whatever moves, whatever flies, whatever stands still — all this is guided by awareness, established in awareness. The world is led by awareness; awareness is the ground; Prajñāna is Brahman.

Making one's own body the lower fire-stick and Om the upper fire-stick, through the constant practice of the friction of meditation, one sees the hidden divine.

This Self cannot be attained by discourse, nor by intellect, nor by much learning. It is attained by the one whom It chooses — to that person the Self reveals Its own form.

Understand from Me briefly, O son of Kunti, how one who has attained perfection also reaches Brahman — that supreme state of knowledge.