Who am I?

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[thus spoke Lord Krishna]:

When a man has achieved non-attachment,

self-mastery and freedom from desire through renunciation,

he reaches union with Brahman,

who is beyond all action.

 

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How man made perfect

Is one with Brahman,

the goal of wisdom.

 

When the mind and the heart

are freed from delusion,

United with Brahman,

when steady will

Has subdued the senses,

when sight and taste

And sound are abandoned,

Without regretting,

Without aversion,

When man seeks solitude,

Eats but little,

Curbing his speech,

His mind and his body,

Ever engaged

in his meditation

on Brahman the Truth,

and full of compassion;

When he casts from him

vanity and violence,

Pride, lust, anger,

And all his possessions,

Totally free

from the sense of ego

and tranquil of heart:

 

That man is ready,

for oneness with Brahman.

 

And he who dwells

United with Brahman,

calm in mind,

not grieving, not craving,

Regarding all men

with equal acceptance:

He loves me most dearly.

 

To love is to know me,

My innermost nature,

The Truth that I am:

Through this knowledge he enters

at once to my Being.

 

All that he does

is offered before me

in utter surrender:

My grace is upon him,

he finds the Eternal,

The place unchanging.

 

-Bhagavad Gita-