Ch 4

4: Glorification of Self-Realization

Janaka said: 

Surely one who knows Self, 

though he plays the game of life, 

differs greatly from the worlds 

bewildered burdened beasts. 

Truly the yogi feels no elation, 

though he abides in the exalted state 

yearned for by Indra and all the 

discontented gods. 

Surely one who knows That 

is not touched by virtue or vice, 

just as space is not touched by smoke, 

though it seems to be. 

Who can prevent the great soul, 

who knows the universe as Self, 

from living life as it comes? 

Of the four kinds of beings, 

from Brahma to a blade of grass, 

only the sage can renounce 

aversion and desire. 

Rare is he who knows himself 

as One with no other

the Lord of the Universe. 

He acts as he knows 

and is never afraid.