The Bhagavad GitaБхагавадгита
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Each date opens its day beside the list, with these passages marked.Каждая дата открывает свой день рядом со списком, где отрывки этого автора отмечены.
2. Смерть неизбежна для всего рожденного, так же как и рождение неизбежно для всего смертного. Поэтому не должно сетовать на то, что неизбежно. Прежнее состояние существ неизвестно, среднее состояние очевидно, будущее состояние не может быть познано, о чем же заботиться и беспокоиться? Некоторые люди смотрят на душу как на чудо, а другие говорят и слушают про нее с удивлением, но никто ничего не знает про нее.
Дверь неба открыта для тебя ровно настолько, насколько тебе нужно. Освободись от заботы и тревог и направь свою душу на духовное. Пусть твои поступки будут руководимы тобою, а не событиями. Не будь из тех, цель поступков которых — награда. Будь внимателен, совершай свой долг, оставь мысль о последствиях, так чтобы тебе было всё равно, кончится ли дело приятно или неприятно для тебя.
2. Death is inevitable for all that is born, just as birth is inevitable for all that is mortal. Therefore one must not lament over what is inevitable. The former state of beings is unknown, the middle state is evident, the future state cannot be known: what, then, is there to be anxious and troubled about? Some people look upon the soul as a marvel, and others speak and hear of it with wonder, but no one knows anything about it.
The door of heaven is open to you exactly as far as you need. Free yourself from care and anxieties, and turn your soul to the spiritual. Let your actions be guided by you, and not by events. Do not be one of those whose actions have reward for their aim. Be attentive, do your duty, put aside the thought of consequences, so that it is all the same to you whether the matter ends pleasantly or unpleasantly for you.
From Mahābhārata, Bhīṣma Parva: Bhagavad Gītā ch. 2 · reworded by Tolstoy (more).
What changed“Just to thy wish the door of heaven is found open before thee” becomes “The door of heaven is open to you exactly as far as you need,” and “Let the motive be in the deed, and not in the event” becomes “Let your actions be guided by you, and not by events.”
What Tolstoy read · The Sacred AnthologyWherefore it doth not behove thee to grieve about that which is inevitable.
Just to thy wish the door of heaven is found open before thee.
… be free from care and trouble, and turn thy mind to things which are spiritual. Let the motive be in the deed, and not in the event.
Depend upon application, perform thy duty, abandon all thought of the consequence, and make the event equal, whether it terminate in good or evil.
Source text: archive.orgOriginal · Sanskritजातस्य हि ध्रुवो मृत्युर्ध्रुवं जन्म मृतस्य च।
अव्यक्तादीनि भूतानि व्यक्तमध्यानि भारत।
यदृच्छया चोपपन्नं स्वर्गद्वारमपावृतम् ।
कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदा च न ।
Source text: sa.wikisource.orgIn English · Charles Wilkins, 1785Death is certain to all things which are fubjed to birth, …
… the door of heaven is found open before thee.
Let the motive be in the deed, and not in the event.
Depend upon application, perform thy duty, abandon all thought of the confequence, …
Source text: archive.orgDetails
The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Mahābhārata, Bhīṣma Parva: Bhagavad Gītā ch. 2, BG 2.27-29, 2.32, 2.45, 2.47-48 (= Mbh 6.26, Wikisource numbering); Conway (1874), no. DCLXVI, The Unknown Future, pp. 422-423.
Conway's 'The Unknown Future', which takes Wilkins's English (1785) of the second chapter of the Gita, cut, and Tolstoy follows it closely, leaving out a few clauses. Conway: 'Death is certain to all things which are subject to birth, and regeneration to all things which are mortal. Wherefore it doth not behove thee to grieve about that which is inevitable. The former state of beings is unknown, the middle state is evident, and their future state is not to be discovered. Why then shouldst thou trouble thyself about such things as these? Some regard the soul as a wonder, while some speak, and others hear of it with astonishment; but no one knoweth it, although he may have heard it described. Just to thy wish the door of heaven is found open before thee. Be free from duplicity, and stand firm in the path of truth; be free from care and trouble, and turn thy mind to things which are spiritual. Let the motive be in the deed, and not in the event. Be not one whose motive for action is the hope of reward. Let not thy life be spent in inaction. Depend upon application, perform thy duty, abandon all thought of the consequence, and make the event equal, whether it terminate in good or evil.' Tolstoy leaves out 'although he may have heard it described', 'Be free from duplicity, and stand firm in the path of truth', and 'Let not thy life be spent in inaction', and changes two sentences. 'Just to thy wish the door of heaven is found open before thee' becomes «Дверь неба открыта для тебя ровно настолько, насколько тебе нужно» (the door of heaven is open to you exactly as far as you need); the Sanskrit (2.32) says the door of heaven opens of its own accord (yadṛcchayā, unsought) to the warrior who meets such a battle, which Wilkins had already made 'just to thy wish'. 'Let the motive be in the deed, and not in the event' becomes «Пусть твои поступки будут руководимы тобою, а не событиями» (let your actions be guided by you, not by events); the Sanskrit (2.47) says 'your right is to the action alone, never to its fruits'. 'Depend upon application' is «Будь внимателен» (be attentive), and 'make the event equal, whether it terminate in good or evil' is «так чтобы тебе было всё равно, кончится ли дело приятно или неприятно для тебя» (so that it is all the same to you whether the matter ends pleasantly or unpleasantly for you). Wilkins's English is given for the original; its long s is read as f in the scan ('fubjed' is 'subject', 'confequence' 'consequence'). «Богавата» is the Bhagavad Gita, as the Jubilee name index says.