Liberation

The sages, united with pure reason, renounce the results of their actions and, liberated from the cycle of birth, they attain a state of bliss.

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.

The Eternal among eternals, the Conscious among the conscious — the one who grants the desires of the many. That cause, attainable through Sankhya-yoga — knowing that divine One, one is freed from all bonds.

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.

On the same tree, the person, immersed and helpless, grieves in delusion. But when he sees the other — the Lord and His glory — he becomes free from grief.

When all the knots of the heart are cut here, then a mortal becomes immortal — this much is the teaching.

When all the desires that dwell in the heart are released, then a mortal becomes immortal and attains Brahman here.

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.

Just as rivers flowing onward lose their name and form as they merge into the ocean, so the knower—freed from name and form—rises to the divine Purusha who is beyond the beyond.

When that which is both the highest and the lowest is seen, the knot of the heart is cut asunder, all doubts are destroyed, and all karma is exhausted.

Truth alone triumphs, not falsehood. By truth the path of the gods is spread wide—the path along which the seers, their desires fulfilled, travel to where truth has its supreme treasure-house.

One who truly knows in essence this divine nature of My birth and action — on leaving the body, is not reborn, but comes to Me, O Arjuna.

This, O Partha, is the divine state of Brahman — one who attains it is never deluded. Abiding in this even at the final hour, one merges into the peace of Brahman.

In this path, no effort is ever wasted and there is no adverse result. Even a little of this spiritual practice saves one from great fear.

This wisdom I have taught you is of the Sankhya school. Now hear of the wisdom of Yoga — armed with which, O Partha, you will shed the bondage of action.

He who in the beginning created Brahma and delivered the Vedas to Him — I, seeking liberation, take refuge in that divine One who illuminates the intellect of the Self.

The inner Self, the Person of the size of a thumb, dwells always in the heart of all people. With steadiness, draw It out from the body as you would draw the inner stalk from a blade of munja grass. Know It as the pure immortal. Know It as the pure immortal.

The Purusha alone is this whole universe—action, austerity, Brahman, the supreme immortality. O dear one, whoever knows this hidden in the cave of the heart dissolves the very knot of ignorance here in this life.

The fourth is beyond measure, beyond transaction, the cessation of all appearance, auspicious, non-dual. Thus Om is verily the Atman. One who knows this enters the Atman through the Atman itself.

Even while performing all actions always, one who takes refuge in Me attains by My grace the eternal, imperishable abode.