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CHAPTER 11, 42.
you will obtain heaven; victorious, you will enjoy the earth. Therefore arise, O son of Kunti! resolved to (engage in) battle. Looking on pleasure and pain, on gain and loss, on victory and defeat as the same, prepare for battle, and thus you will oot incur sin. The knowledge here declared to you is that relating to the Sankhya'. Now hear that relating to the Yoga. Possessed of this knowledge, O son of Prithà! you will cast off the bonds of action. In this (path to final emancipation) nothing that is commenced becomes abortive; no obstacles exist ; and even a little of this (form of) piety protects one from great danger. There is here 3, O descendant of Kuru! but one state of mind consisting in firm understanding. But the states of mind of those who have no firm understanding are manifold and endless. The state of mind which consists in firm understanding regarding steady contemplation • does not belong to those, O son of Pritha ! who are strongly attached to (worldly) pleasures and power, and whose minds are drawn away by that Aowery talk which is full of (the ordinances of) specific acts for the attainment of (those) pleasures and (that) power, and which promises birth as the fruit of acts 6—(that flowery
Sankhya is explained in different modes by the different commocatators, but the meaning here seems to be, that the doctrine sated is the doctrine of truc knowledge and of emancipation by means of it. See infra, p. 52.
• Viz this mortal mundane lise. "Le. for those who enter on this path.'
• I.c. of the supreme Being; Yoga meaning really the dedication of all acts to ibat Being.
· See Sutta Nipata, p. 4.
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| SR No. | 007671 |
| Book Title | Zend Avesta Part 01 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | James Darmesteter |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1895 |
| Total Pages | 2695 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 49 MB |