| 23. Of the man
whose attachment is gone, who is liberated, whose mind is established in
knowledge, who acts for the sake of sacrifice,his whole action melts away.That
man from whom all attachment is gone, from whom all cause of bondage, dharma
and adharma, has fled away, whose mind is ever fixed in wisdom alone, who
acts with a view, to the performance of a sacrifice his action with its
result is dissolved away, is reduced to nothing. Wisdomsacrifice. For what
reason, then, is all action which he does, entirely dissolved, without producing
its natural result Listen why. Brahman is the offering, Brahman the oblation
; by Brahman is the oblation poured into the fire of Brahman ; Brahman verily
shall be reached by him who always sees Brahman in action.With a view to
please the Lord, Narayana YajnaSacrifice, Vishnu The man who has realized
Brahman sees that the instrument by which the oblation is poured in the
fire is nothing but Brahman: that it has no existence apart from that of
the Self, just as silver has no existence apart from that of the motherof
pearl (mistaken for silver). What (in the illustration) appear as silver
is nothing but the motherofpearl. What people look upon as the instrument
of offering is, to one who has realized Brahman, nothing but Brahman. Brahman
is the oblation: i,e,, what is regarded as oblation is to him nothing but
Brahman ; and it is by Brahman that the offering is made, i e the agent
is none other than Brahman. The act of offering is nothing but Brahman;
and the result, the goal to be reached by him who always sees Brahman in
action is nothing but Brahman.Thus, the action performed by him who wishes
to set an example to the world is in reality no action, as it has been destroyed
by the realization of Brahman in action. |
