This is a simple reading of Psalm Celestial where 42 verses from the Bhagavad Gita selected by Bhagwan Ramana Maharshi are recited in a single flow.
The aim is clear,
To share the complete message of Gita in a few words so that people of all ages can easily understand,
Remember and live its essence.
Sanjay said,
Despondent,
Overwhelmed with compassion,
As he said,
His troubled eyes filled with tears,
Krishna,
The slayer of Madhu,
Spoke to him.
Shri Bhagwan said,
This body,
Or son of Kunti,
Is known as the Field,
And the knower who is aware of it,
Is called the knower of the Field by the wise,
And know that I am the knower of the Field in all the Fields,
All the bodies.
The knowledge of the Field and the knower of that,
In my opinion,
Is true knowledge.
I am the Self,
Hey Arjun,
Dwelling in the hearts of all beings.
I am the beginning and the middle and the end of all beings.
To whom who is born,
Death is indeed certain,
And to him who dies,
Birth is certain.
Therefore,
You should not grieve for the inevitable.
That is not born,
Nor does it ever die,
Nor,
Having been,
Does it ever cease to be.
That unborn,
Eternal,
Abiding,
Primeval being is not slain,
And the body is slain.
Invulnerable he is,
Not to be burnt,
Not to be drenched or dried.
He is eternal,
All-pervading,
Changeless,
Motionless,
Enduring.
Know that which pervades all this to be indestructible,
That immutable none can destroy.
The unreal has no being,
The real no non-being,
These two facts the truth-seers perceive.
Just as the all-pervading space,
Being subtle,
Is not affected,
Tainted,
Contaminated by anything,
Even so the Self pervading the whole body is not tainted.
Neither sun nor moon nor fire illuminate this state,
And on attaining which one does not return.
And this is my supreme abode.
This supreme state is called the unmanifest,
Imperishable,
Avyakta,
Akshara,
That is my highest abode.
For those who attain to it,
There is no return to the cycle of births and deaths.
The undeluded,
Those who are free from pride and ignorance,
Who have overcome the aval of attachment,
Who are ever devoted to the Self,
Who have turned away from desires and are entirely beyond the dualities of pleasure and pain,
Attain that imperishable state.
He who abandons the injunctions of the scriptures and behaves according to the impulses of his desires,
Attains neither perfection nor happiness nor the highest state of salvation.
He who sees the Supreme Lord residing equally in all beings,
The imperishable one among the perishables,
Sees truly.
Only by unwavering devotion can I be known and truly seen in this form,
Arjuna,
And even be entered into.
The faith of everyone is according to his nature,
O Arjuna.
Man is essentially endowed with faith.
What his faith is,
That indeed is he.
One who has faith and concentration and has subdued his senses,
Attains true knowledge.
Having gained knowledge,
He speedily attains supreme peace.
To them,
Ever steadfast in loving worship,
I give the yoga of understanding by which they attain to me.
Out of compassion for them,
I,
Dwelling in their heart,
Destroy the darkness born of ignorance with the effulgent light of knowledge.
But in those whose unwisdom is destroyed by wisdom,
That wisdom,
Like the sun,
Reveals the Supreme.
Mighty,
They say,
Are the senses.
Mightier than this,
The mind.
Mightier than that,
The intellect.
But mightiest still is he,
The Self.
Thus knowing him,
The true Self,
Who is beyond the intellect.
Hey Arjuna,
Control yourself by that true Self and slay the enemy in the form of desire,
Hard though it may be.
Just as a well-lit fire consumes its fuel,
Arjuna,
So does the fire of knowledge reduce all karmas to ashes.
One whose undertakings are all free from desire and whose activity has been purified in the flame of wisdom is termed a sage by those who know.
Brahmanirvana,
Absolute freedom,
Lies around those who have freed themselves from anger and desire,
Who have subdued the minds and have known the Self.
One should gradually,
Very gradually attain quietude,
With the intellect held steadfast and the mind sunk in the Self,
Allowing no thought to arise.
To whatever side the restless,
Unsteady mind wanders away,
One should check it and bring it back,
Controlled,
To the Self.
With the senses,
Mind and intellect subdued,
The saint who devoutly seeks liberation without desire,
Fear or wrath,
He is indeed ever liberated.
One who is thus integrated in yoga sees all with an equal eye,
Seeing himself in all beings and all beings in himself.
To those,
However,
Who dwell on me in single-minded worship,
I guarantee fulfilment of their needs and security.
The foremost of these is the wise one,
The jnani,
Who is ever steadfast and devoted to the One.
Very dear am I to the wise man and he to me.
At the end of many births,
The man of wisdom comes to me,
Realising that Vasudeva,
The innermost Self,
Is all.
Such a great soul is very rare to find.
When a man casts out all desires of the mind,
Hair jnani,
And is content in himself,
He is said to be steadfast or steadfast in wisdom.
He attains peace who abandons all desires,
Acting without attachment,
Free from I and mine.
He by whom the world is not afflicted and who is not afflicted by the world,
Who is free from pleasure,
Anger,
Fear and anxiety,
He is dear to me.
The same in honour and dishonour towards friends and foes,
He who abandons the initiative in all undertakings,
Who has no doership,
Is called one beyond all qualities.
For him,
However,
Who rejoices only in the Self,
Is gratified with the Self and content with the Self.
No action is incumbent.
No karma is incumbent.
He has nothing to gain by actions done or to lose by those undone.
He is not dependent on anyone for the achievement of any object.
Satisfied with what comes to him by chance,
Beyond the pairs of opposites,
Free from envy,
Equal in success and failure,
He is not bound by his actions.
The Lord resides in the hearts of all,
Revolving all creatures by Prakriti,
As if mounted on a machine.
Surrender unto him with all your heart.
Hey Arjuna,
Through his grace you will attain supreme peace and the eternal abode.
