Transformation

Arjuna said: My delusion is destroyed, and I have regained remembrance by Your grace, O Achyuta. I stand firm, my doubts gone; I shall do Your word.

As a blazing fire reduces kindling to ash, O Arjuna, so the fire of knowledge reduces all karma to ash.

Overpowering rajas and tamas, sattva prevails, O Bharata. Overpowering sattva and tamas, rajas prevails. And overpowering sattva and rajas, tamas prevails.

Salutations to the Guru who pervades all that is stationary and all that moves, all that is animate and all that is inanimate — the entire universe.

When the soul completely frees itself from everything that goes against God's will and conforms to it, it is transformed in God through love.

Life is a journey of transformation from impurity to purity, hatred to love, death to immortality, imperfection to perfection, and slavery to freedom, ultimately leading to eternal bliss and infinite strength.

If God enters one's life, the feelings of hatred, jealousy and pride disappear and then all the material progress of the world becomes a source of joy. Nobody appears to be an enemy, nobody remains a stranger.

He said to him, 'Just as, dear boy, from a great blazing fire a single ember the size of a firefly might be left, and one might make it blaze up by feeding it with straw, so that by it the fire could then burn far more —'

A saint has been considered more valuable even than Paras. Paras converts iron into gold, while a saint converts the seeker of his company into a saint like himself.

When the mind unites with the Lord, in place of hatred there arises love, and in place of enmity there arises affection. Sweetness fills the mind, giving beauty to others. Instead of snatching, the feeling of renunciation awakens; the urge to serve others is born. The hands that once rose to oppress and wound others now rise to apply balm and to lift up the fallen. Such a transformation takes place, and beauty is established within the mind.

The congregation is Paras which turns life into gold, provided only that no wall of ego, no wall of falsehood, creates obstruction.

The bushes that grow near Sandal also get the same fragrance. Paras, the touch-stone, comes into contact with iron and converts it into gold. Similarly, a person who seeks the company of saints becomes a saint, becomes a devotee of God.

Just as a goldsmith, taking the material of a piece of gold, fashions another newer and more beautiful form, so does this self, having cast off this body and dispelled ignorance, make another newer and more beautiful form—whether that of the manes, or of the gandharvas, or of the gods, or of Prajapati, or of Brahma, or of other beings.

From the dark I pass to the dappled; from the dappled I pass to the dark. Shaking off evil as a horse shakes off the dust from its hairs, freeing myself from the body as the moon frees itself from the mouth of Rahu, I, with self perfected, attain the uncreated world of Brahman — I attain it.

You are beyond human perception and yet present in all forms. The Vedas declare that you don't change into these forms, just like the sun and its sunshine are different yet identical.

My preceptor and Lord Rama are my guides, and I believe that their guidance will lead me to transformation.

I constantly transform myself and take birth in various wombs to uphold my son, with the help of men who exist in or have departed from the world.

Even if the fundamental forces of nature were to change, I will remain committed to the truth I have spoken.

A foolish disciple who offends their preceptor by causing them harm will certainly undergo three transformations in this world.

A regenerate person who has studied the four Vedas, but becomes foolish and accepts a gift from a fallen person, will be reborn as an ass.