Upadesa Saram, Major Alan Chadwick version, verses 10-15

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UPADESA SARAM

 

Rendered into verse by Major Alan Chadwick

 

("....Major Chadwick translated Upadesa Saram into English and had his manuscript corrected by Bhagavan." - David Godman on www.davidgodman.org )

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10. To be absorbed again into one's Source

Is Karma, Bhakti, Yoga, Jnana, all

These things in truth. Or put in other words

Is Work, Devotion, Union, Wisdom, too.

 

 

11. As by the fowler birds are caught in nets

So by the holding of the breath within

The mind can be restrained. This a device

Which will effect absorption of the mind.

 

12. For mind and life, expressed in thought and act

That is with thought and action as their function,

Diverge and branch like two boughs of a tree,

But both of them spring from one single stem.

 

 

13. Suppression of the mind in two ways comes

Absorption and extinction; mind absorbed

Will live again, but mind which is destroyed

Will never more revive, for it is dead.

 

 

14.

When, by the means of restraint of the breath,

The mind has been controlled, then make it flow

Allow a single current, that achieved,

Its form will then entirely disappear.

 

15. For the Great Sage for whom all form of mind

Has disappeared and who is ever one

With the Reality, there is no Karma more,

For He indeed, the True Self has become.

 

 

 

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