Sri Sathya Sai Baba

For the protection of the virtuous, for the destruction of evildoers and for establishing righteousness on a firm footing, I incarnate from age to age. Whenever disharmony (asanthi) overwhelms the world, the Lord will incarnate in human form to establish the modes of earning peace (prasanthi) and to re-educate the human community in the paths of peace. At the present time, strife and discord have robbed peace and unity from the family, the school, the society, the religions, the cities, and the state.

- Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Bhagwad Gita - Post 48

Chapter 4

Verse 1

Sri Bhagavaan Uvaacha:

Imam vivaswate yogam

Proktavaan aham avyayam;

Vivaswaan manave praaha manur Ikshwaakave’braveet.

The Blessed Lord said:

I taught this imperishable Yoga to Vivasvan; he told it to Manu; Manu proclaimed it to Ikshvaku.

Verse 2

Evam paramparaa praaptam

Imam raajarshayo viduh;

Sa kaaleneha mahataa

Yogo nashtah parantapa.

This handed down thus in regular succession, the royal sages knew. This Yoga, by a long lapse of time, has been lost here, O Parantapa (burner of foes)!

Verse 3

Sa evaayam mayaa te’dya

Yogah proktah puraatanah;

Bhakto’si me sakhaa cheti

Rahasyam hyetad uttamam.

That same ancient Yoga has been today taught to thee by Me, for, thou art My devotee and friend; it is the supreme secret.

Verse 4

Arjuna Uvaacha:

Aparam bhavato janma

Param janma vivaswatah;

Katham etadvijaaneeyaam

Twam aadau proktavaan iti.

Arjuna said:

Later on, was Thy birth, and prior to it was the birth of Vivasvan (the Sun); how am I to understand that Thou didst teach this Yoga in the beginning?

Verse 5

Sri Bhagavaan Uvaacha:

Bahooni me vyateetaani

Janmaani tava chaarjuna;

Taanyaham veda sarvaani

Na twam vettha parantapa.

The Blessed Lord said:

Many births of Mine have passed, as well as of thine, O Arjuna! I know them all but thou knowest not, O Parantapa!

Verse 6

Ajo’pi sannavyayaatmaa

Bhootaanaam eeshwaro’pi san;

Prakritim swaam adhishthaaya Sambhavaamyaatmamaayayaa.

Though I am unborn and of imperishable nature, and though I am the Lord of all beings, yet, ruling over My own Nature, I am born by My own Maya.

Verse 7

Yadaa yadaa hi dharmasya

Glaanir bhavati bhaarata;

Abhyutthaanam adharmasya

Tadaatmaanam srijaamyaham.

Whenever there is a decline of righteousness, O Arjuna, and rise of unrighteousness, then I manifest Myself!

Verse 8

Paritraanaaya saadhoonaam

Vinaashaaya cha dushkritaam;

Dharma samsthaapanaarthaaya

Sambhavaami yuge yuge.

For the protection of the good, for the destruction of the wicked, and for the establishment of righteousness, I am born in every age.

Verse 9

Janma karma cha me

Divyam evam yo vetti tattwatah;

Tyaktwa deham punarjanma

Naiti maameti so’rjuna.

He who thus knows in true light My divine birth and action, after having abandoned the body is not born again; he comes to Me, O Arjuna!

Verse 10

Veetaraagabhayakrodhaa manmayaa

Maam upaashritaah;

Bahavo jnaana tapasaa

Pootaa madbhaavam aagataah.

Freed from attachment, fear and anger, absorbed in Me, taking refuge in Me, purified by the fire of knowledge, many have attained to My Being.

Verse 11

Ye yathaa maam prapadyante

Taamstathaiva bhajaamyaham;

Mama vartmaanuvartante

Manushyaah paartha sarvashah.

In whatever way men approach Me, even so do I reward them;My path do men tread in all ways, O Arjuna!

Continued...

Love.

Sri Yukteswar Giri

“The undeveloped man must undergo countless earthly and astral and causal incarnations in order to emerge from his three bodies. A master who achieves this final freedom may elect to return to earth as a prophet to bring other human beings back to God, or like myself he may choose to reside in the astral cosmos. There a savior assumes some of the burden of the inhabitants’ karma and thus helps them to terminate their cycle of reincarnation in the astral cosmos and go on permanently to the causal spheres. Or a freed soul may enter the causal world to aid its beings to shorten their span in the causal body and thus attain the Absolute Freedom.”

- Sri Yukteswar Giri