I love the Sri Atma Gita, it is the finally discourse between Krishna and his beloved disciple Uddhava, it takes place on the eve of Krishna's departure from earth. It holds all the truth one needs to ascend the illusive delusion of our 3D world, the next step in our evolution. These truths are presented with such beauty and poise, with such deep love, you will surely fall in love with this (most sacred of all teachings~IMHO). It will fill your soul with Love, Joy, Peace, and understanding of your true nature~The Self...
 
Years ago, Donny and I put together our rendition of this discourse and recorded it...I share that now with you..it's not perfect, but it is good enough. I am also transcribing the words for you in case you would like to sing along.. It is very fullfilling!  
{I use Italics when Krishna is speaking}
 
Sri Atma Gita
 
Om Sri Atma Gita now I'll sing~On hearing which a man is freed~That heart receptive to God's word~Becomes the Lord Hari's abode~
 
On the wheel of change a man is turned~Until Sri Atma Gita's heard~Even the place in which it's sung~Becomes a sacred place of Love~
 
Oh man, seek thee the highest goal~Read or sing this song each day~True understanding thou wilt gain~And all past sins will fade away~
 
To one who hears this song at death~Sri Krishna out of love bestows~A place on high and those who give~This song as a gift are One with Him~
 
Om O souls who yearn for truth~Come sip Sri Krishna's honeyed word~Who hears this song is freed from death~ And gains the precious peace of God~ 
 
 
O noble Uddhava, remember my words~For I'll not be around to remind you again~Give up all attachment, surrender your love~ For this world of sense-objects relations, and friends~ 
 
The feeling of "i" as a separate self~must be given up if you wish to know truth~There's only one "Self" which exists within all~'Tis this very Self that you see as the world~
 
The Self is the source of the whole Universe~ It fashions all forms of it's own Consciousness ~Though all forms are changing and soon fade away~The one conscious Self is forever the same~
 
Therefore Uddhava, cling fast to the Self~Your mind must be steady, unswayed by the world~Your heart must be free of all selfish desire~If you wish to awake and to know who you are~
 
When you have gained knowledge and wisdom as well~When you can feel one with the whole universe~When ypu've found the Self and in Self found delight~Then you will be free, though you live still on earth~
 
Thus will you go beyond evil and good~With out pride or shame you'll be have as you should~To everyone Loving and Gentle and Kind~
You'll see not but One and in One keep your mind~
 
Oh Krishna my God, only Soul of the world ~So that I may awake please instruct me still more~My mind is so dull I'm unable to see~The way that a man from his flesh can be free~
 
Listen Uddhava, take refuge in me~Perform all your duties and works faithfully~But keep your heart free from all want or desire~And surrender your heart and your mind unto me~
 
This world which the senses perceives is a dream~There's nothing within it that is what it seems~So keep your mind steady, remembering me~And do what you must while your heart remains free~
 
To work with the motive of pleasing  oneself~Leads only to ruin and darkness within~But the works that are done in the service of God~Bring freedom and peace as the fruits of reward 
 
With your mind wide awake and remembering me ~ Surrender all thought of yourself and be free~
give up the false notion of '"myself and "my own" ~ Become one with God through devotional love~
 
Regard all your brothers with equality ~ See only oneself in whatever you see ~ With all doubts dispelled by the bright light of truth ~Awake from the dream of this world and be free  ~
 
When you've become free of all worldly desire ~ No power and can shake you or move you to ire ~ Unstirred  by the words of both good men and bad  ~ Uddhava, be free, keep your mind fixed on God ~
 
O Krishna, all men are aware that the world~ Is changing and fleeting, a whirlpool of dust ~ Yet see how all men run to fill their desires ~ See how they're caught in the jaws of dark lust ~
 
Though suffering and misery runs after those men ~ Who seek for their pleasure the objects of sense~  Please tell me, dear Krishna, why it should be so ~ That men, like dumb beasts love their suffering so~
 
Uddhava, such poor men do not know the truth ~ Nor have they the peace and contentment that comes ~   From know the bliss of the one conscious Self ~ Pervading this world in these myriad forms ~
 
Such men are deluded in thinking the Self  ~ Is body and mind and the organs of sense ~ Betrayed by desires of the flesh they are led ~ By dreams of sense-pleasure until they are dead ~
 
By giving himself to the impulse of lust ~ A foolish man gathers up pain for himself ~ But a man of dispassion and knowledge is wise ~ He gathers the fruits of a joy that's divine ~
 
So listen Uddhava, give up lethargy ~ Keep watch on the thoughts of your mind faithfully ~ Withdraw your regard from the world and it's play ~ Remember the Self with each thought every day ~ 
 
"Tis this which is known as the yoga supreme ~  I've taught it to god's and I've taught it to men ~ I'll tell you Uddhava the words which I gave ~To the great sage Sanaka in a far-distant age ~
 
The question Sanaka asked of me was this: ~ "The mind is attracted to objects of sense  ~ And objects of sense become fixed in the mind ~ How can I be free from sense objects that bind" ~
 
What you say is true I assured him at once  ~ But your niether mind nor the objects of  sense ~ There's only one "I" ever free and divine ~ When you know that Self then true freedom you'll find ~
 
That vision that sees many where there is one ~ Is sleep though one's eyes may appear open wide ~ The one conscious Self is the Reality ~ Awake from the dream of this world and be free ~
 
Dispell the dark clouds of delusion with truth ~ With knownledge and wisdom shed light on the Self ~ Realize who you are and by knowledge be freed ~ Devotion to truth  is the true love indeed ~
 
Today the world is but, tomorrow it's not ~ It sifts like the forms of the clouds in the sky ~ It is but one Consciousness seeming to be ~The manifold world which the senses perceive ~
 
Withdraw from this world  of appearance  your mind ~ And give up the thirst for the pleasures of life ~ With mind set at rest know the bliss of the Self ~ And never more fall into error and strife  ~
 
That man who has tasted the bliss of the Self  ~ May move among objests of sense without fear ~ His mind never clings to the world's misery ~ His heart is with God and his mind is made free  ~
 
This is the secret Sanaka was taught ~The goal of all men and the highest of paths ~ Give worship to God as the Self of your heart ~ See only one Self and remain unattached ~
 
 Dear Krishna the sages have taught many ways ~ To reach to the end of man's journey to God ~ I wish to know, Lord, the way that is best ~ Can each of these ways be as good as the rest ~ 
 
Uddhava my child, there are many ways ~ Which sages have shone to attain the Supreme  ~The pathways are many and each of them leads ~To the  knowledge of God beyond scriptures or creeds ~  
 
By love, or by inward control of the mind ~ By faith, or by wisdom, by serving mankind  ~ All these have been taught as the way to reach God ~ But the best way of all is devotional love ~
 
What joy does one find in the sweet love of God ~ The bliss of his love fills the whole universe  ~ Uddhava delight in that Lord who's within  Surrender your life in devotion to Him ~ As wood is burnt up when it's thrown into fire ~
 
Devotional love burns up worldly desire. ~ By study of books man may try to find joy ~ But, God who is Love is found only through love. ~ Without love for God  all man's learning is vain ~
 
"Tis only through love that true bliss is regained ~ With joy in his heart that wise lover is blessed  ~ Who serves God with Love;  ~'tis this path which is best  ~
 
Uddhava, obtain that sweet blessing of grace ~  By taking the path that is followed by saints  ~ Give worship to God through devotional hymns ~  Perform all your actions in service to Him ~
 
Be free from all selfish desires of the mind ~ Renounce everything for the love that's divine  ~ When your mind is surrendered and evermore true ~That love which is bliss will awaken in you  ~
 
This goal is the highest goal one can attain ~ God's freedom and bliss in the form of a man ~ All pleasure, all knowledge, all power divine ~ Belongs to that man who's surrendered the mind ~
 
So therefore Uddhava, restrain the desire  ~ Foroutward enjoyments through organs of sense  ~ And trun your mind inward with love to the Self  ~Through deep meditation regain your true wealth ~
 
Learn to be even in mind and in poise ~ Be calm in the midst of the mightiest storm ~  Though men may upbraid you and call you false names ~ Remember the Self, remain ever the same ~
 
 Do not allow hatred  to rise up in you ~ Nor ever in anger return blow for blow ~  But keep your mind turned to the Self who's within ~ And strive to be free from the bondage of sin ~
 
O Master, dear teacher, O Soul of the world ~ When one is insulted and false words are hurled ~ How hard is the task of remaining in peace ~ Please show me the way I can do this with ease ~
 
 Indeed it is true there's nothing more hard ~ The words of the wicked strike deep in the heart ~ Like arrows they lodge in the breast of a man ~  And Cause such a pain that he hardly can stand ~ 
 
But please let me tell you, Uddhava my child, ~ A story  of one who was painfully tried  ~ By torment and mis'ry throughout all his life  ~ Yet ever remain free of pain and of strife ~
 
 This man was once wealthy and foolishly proud ~ 'Til fate intervened and deprived him of all ~ But the blow fortune dealt him was good in disguise ~ For he soon realized where man's real treasure lies ~
 
With his mind turned within he examined his soul  ~While wond'ring  the earth as a sudhu alone ~ Though poor in the eye of all men of the world ~ He soon became wealthy in trus self-control  ~
 
Now other men saw him alone and detached ~ And desided to test him by treating him rough ~ Wherever he went he was treated with scorn ~ As men tried to wound him with words and with stones  ~
 
But though he was treated by all men with spite ~ The truth of the Self he kept ever in sight ~ Tormented incessantly, injured and wronged ~ He sang in his heart this pain-dispelling song  ~
 
"No pleasure, No pain can affect my true Self ~ Both suff'ring and pleasure belong to the mind  ~ The Self is the witness  of all the mind's play ~  Remaining forevermore conscious and free. ~
 
The Self, like an object reflected in glass ~ Appears to be mind and the whole universe  ~ And man, by forgetting his identity ~ Is lost in delusion and knows misery ~
 
All teaching's of  sages have one common goal  ~They all teach the way to attain self-control ~  The highest religion consists of just this: ~To Bridle the mind and in truth become fixed ~
 
The uncontrolled mind is man's sole evil foe ~ It vanguishes men with it's weapons of woe ~ Forgetful of this men see evil in men ~ Like fools, they forget that all evil's within ~
 
None other can cause me to know joy or pain ~ For I am forever the unchanging One  ~The sense of delight or of sadness I find ~  Comes from the false notion that I am the mind ~
 
Awake to the knowledge that God is your Self ~ Let all of your actions be guided by Him ~ Surrender your life in the service of God ~ And your heart will be filled with the light of His Love ~
 
Take up your abode with the holiest saints ~ Those sages who's live's are devoted to God ~  And learn by their conduct to live as you must  ~To see only One in this vast universe  ~
 
Oh nobal  Uddhava, your sight must be pure  ~To see only God in this manifold world ~ Such vision is wisdom that sets the soul free ~ See only one Consciousness incessantly  ~
 
By seeing in all men the spirit divine  ~ The notion of 'others' abandons the mind  ~ Realize this one truth and your heart will be free  ~ Of anger and hatred and mean jealousy.~ 
 
That man who has seen God sees God everywhere ~ He worships the Self in all hearts as his own  ~ This is the best mode of worship indeed ~  To treat all as God in one's thought, word, and deed ~
 
Such is the wisdom I pass on to you ~  By which in this life you may learn to be free ~ And loose all attachment to things passing by ~ And know your true Self as immortality ~
 
 Dear Brother, said Suta, the tale has been told ~ Of Uddhava and Krishna in days long ago ~ The fountian of nectar which flowed from the lips ~ Of Sri Krishna enables all men to know bliss.~  
 
I Bow to that Krishna, the one Soul of all ~ This song Atma Gita, His glory has told ~  May all men win freedom by singing this song ~ From the Srimad Bhagavatam Purana of old ~
 
~ Om Shanti Shanti Shanti Om ~
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