Surely wisdom is like the sun, revealing the supreme truth to those whose ignorance is
dispelled by the wisdom of the Self.
Meditating on the Divine, having faith in the Divine, concentrating on the Divine and
losing themselves in the Divine, their sins dissolved in wisdom, they go whence there is
no return.
Sages look equally upon all, whether he be a minister of learning and humility, or an
infidel, or whether it be a cow, an elephant or a dog.
Even in this world they conquer their earth-life whose minds, fixed on the Supreme,
remain always balanced; for the Supreme has neither blemish nor bias.
He who knows and lives in the Absolute remains unmoved and unperturbed; he is not
elated by pleasure or depressed by pain.
He finds happiness in his own Self, and enjoys eternal bliss, whose heart does not yearn
for the contacts of earth and whose Self is one with the Everlasting.
The joys that spring from external associations bring pain; they have their beginning and
their endings. The wise man does not rejoice in them.
He who, before he leaves his body, learns to surmount the promptings of desire and anger
is a saint and is happy.
He who is happy within his Self and has found Its peace, and in whom the inner light
shines, that sage attains Eternal Bliss and becomes the Spirit Itself.
Sages whose sins have been washed away, whose sense of separateness has vanished,
who have subdued themselves, and seek only the welfare of all, come to the Eternal Spirit.
Saints who know their Selves, who control their minds, and feel neither desire nor anger,
find Eternal Bliss everywhere.
Excluding external objects, his gaze fixed between the eyebrows, the inward and outward
breathings passing equally through his nostrils;
Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger,
the sage is forever free.
Knowing me as Him who gladly receives all offerings of austerity and sacrifice, as the
Might Ruler of all the Worlds and the Friend of all beings, he passes to Eternal Peace.”
Thus, in the Holy Book the Bhagavad Gita, one of the Upanishads, in the Science of the Supreme
Spirit, in the Art of Self-Knowledge, in the colloquy between the Divine Lord Shri Krishna and the
Prince Arjuna, stands the fifth chapter entitled: The Renunciation of Action.
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