Transformation

The following is a transliteration by Sri Ramen Basu of one of Sri Sri Babathakur’s songs (Song No. 44 appearing within the Karma O Sadhan Tattva section of Swanubhava Sudha Vol. 2).

 

 

Life-long human being has been struggling with his own adversary, the cardinal passions

Inner enemy, the outer enemy he himself is a papier mache of the acts of gunas

One’s own self has conflict and enmity with one’s own modifications of the inner sense

Verily one’s own modifications of the inner sense always hinder to one’s own self

Builds up the realm of the innate nature with much exultation for the amorous play of the mind

Fancies countless dreams obsessed with moods

Enters into the inner realm of ideas.

With the discord of emotions falls into confusion

Thus forgets the innate nature

Consequent on the mutual rivalry between self contradictory emotions

Enmeshes itself in the net of illusions.

The friend and foe on the canvas of innate nature

The battle-ground within and without like Kurushkshetra

In the life-struggle the self is verily struggling with one’s own mind everywhere

The inner passions as adversaries beguile and invade

Sex-passion, anger, greed, infatuation, vanity and envy harass.

The wretched individual (Jiva) has forgotten that he is Shiva (the Essence) by nature

So the six inherent enemies made him an animal, made him an embodied being

Perchance ever he suppresses the sex-passion

Coming from behind the anger attacks fiercely

Not easily the anger is subdued, nor negated

The fire of anger causing the mind burn does great harm

If the anger subsides comes the greed, the great rogue

Along with appears the infatuation, the vanity, the dark ignorance

On the defeat of the greed the infatuation dawns

Chasing away the infatuation the vanity appears and seizes all

The friend of vanity, the envy, known as jealousy

Desires all the time the respect, fame, vainglory, authority and the victory

Alas!  Jiva (the individual) beats the breast being caught in their clutches 

How much more will he struggle, thinks helplessly

Battle of the austere penance - a mark of his struggling life 

The victory if won ever-immortal will be his lot

To seek victory in the life’s struggle be conscious now

The even-awareness be your Sadhana

Accept, accommodate, adjust and embrace all

As the Self-I in Self Consciousness.

In the Sadhana of one’s Own Consciousness

Perception of difference-non-difference is dispelled

Friend and foe, one’s own and the other merge in Self Consciousness

The essence of all consciousness is the Self Consciousness of one’s Own

Through one’s Own Consciousness the practice of all consciousness is done

One’s Own Consciousness verily is all-even Consciousness

The substratum of all consciousness

By the meditation on one’s Own Consciousness

The nescience and the ignorance are negated

Sex-passion becomes the Love then; the anger becomes the Prowess

The greed becomes the Affection

The infatuation becomes the Oblation to the Sacrificial Fire in Self Consciousness

The vanity becomes the Attendant, the envy becomes the upholder of Equanimity

Being the abode of the Wit, Bliss, Love and Beauty of the Self-I

The six cardinal passions become the Servient of the Self Consciousness      

 

Transliterated by Ramen Basu and offered to the lotus feet of Sri Sri Babathakur