Bhagvad-Gita: Treatise of Self-help - Page 14/50

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Weigh who pain ’n pleasure equal

Such are those on path freedom.

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What’s not real, it’s never been

And that’s true, it’s ever there

That’s how wise all came to see.

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Spirit in lay us All-Pervading

Given that not to destruction,

What sense doth it make to think

That’s immutable gets destroyed!

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Perish all bodies, Spirit not therein

Know this truth, and take up arms.

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With no slayer, nor one slain

Whoso feels that he might kill

It's in delusion that he harps.

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Unbound being ever unborn

Ageless since it’s endless too

Goes on Spirit, beyond life-span.

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Spirit as entity hath no birth

How can thou kill what’s not born!

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Change as men fade if clothes

So doth Spirit as frames are worn.

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Hurts no weapon the Spirit in thee

Nor scathe elements, wind, water ’n fire.

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Unalterable ’n Eternal

Immovable but pervades all

Permanent ’n so Everlasting

Spirit thus none can ever destruct.

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Can sans form Spirit get bound?

Get right answer thou won’t burn.

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Prima facie if thou feel

Subject Spirit is to rebirths

Why grieve over end of frame?

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Dies as one

For like rebirth,

Why feel sad

Of what’s cyclic.

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Isn’t thy lament over that

Un-manifested to start with

Gets manifested just as guest

And bids adieu in due course.

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Seen in wonder, spoken in awe

Spirit none knows that lies in him.

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Dies not Spirit as die beings

What for man then tends to grieve!

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Being a warrior dharma thine

That thee fight with all thy might.

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For martyrs of unsought wars

Ever open are heavenly gates.

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If thee back out from duty

Imperil thou thy own dharma

And that earns thee infamy.

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What for lead a dishonored life

Why leave legend dubious behind!

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Amiss be taken thine intent

Treat thee coward thy friends ’n foes.

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Count on thou thy detractors

Besmirch they thy character,

Damned be thine obituary

By their campaign of slander.

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If slain, heaven; alive, it’s reign

Resolve to fight with right intent.

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Shed thy sentiment, guilt unhinge

Eye not gain as wage thou war.

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It's this knowledge that liberates

And helps thee act, with no restraint.

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Goes not waste

Effort thine ever,

Zeal for action