Bhagwad Gita - Post 94

Chapter VIII (Continued…)

Verse 1

Arjuna Uvaacha:

Kim tadbrahma kim adhyaatmam

Kim karma purushottama;

Adhibhootam cha kim proktam

Adhidaivam kimuchyate.

Arjuna said:

What is that Brahman? What is Adhyatma? What is action, O best among men? What is declared to be Adhibhuta? And what is Adhidaiva said to be?

Verse 2

Adhiyajnah katham ko’tra

Dehe’smin madhusoodana;

Prayaanakaale cha katham

Jneyo’si niyataatmabhih.

Who and how is Adhiyajna here in this body, O destroyer of Madhu (Krishna)? And how, at the time of death, art Thou to be known by the self-controlled one?

Verse 3

Sri Bhagavaan Uvaacha:

Aksharam brahma paramam Swabhaavo’dhyaatmamuchyate; Bhootabhaavodbhavakaro

Visargah karmasamjnitah.

The Blessed Lord said:

Brahman is the Imperishable, the Supreme; His essential nature is called Self-knowledge; the offering (to the gods) which causes existence and manifestation of beings and which also sustains them is called action.

Verse 4

Adhibhootam ksharo bhaavah Purushashchaadhidaivatam; Adhiyajno’hamevaatra

Dehe dehabhritaam vara.

Adhibhuta (knowledge of the elements) pertains to My perishable Nature, and the Purusha or soul is the Adhidaiva; I alone am the Adhiyajna here in this body, O best among the embodied (men)!

Verse 5

Antakaale cha maameva

Smaran muktwaa kalevaram;

Yah prayaati sa madbhaavam

Yaati naastyatra samshayah.

And whosoever, leaving the body, goes forth remembering Me alone at the time of death, he attains My Being; there is no doubt about this.

Verse 6

Yam yam vaapi smaran

Bhaavam tyajatyante kalevaram;

Tam tamevaiti kaunteya

Sadaa tadbhaavabhaavitah.

Whosoever at the end leaves the body, thinking of any being, to that being only does he go, O son of Kunti (Arjuna), because of his constant thought of that being!

Verse 7

Tasmaat sarveshu kaaleshu

Maamanusmara yudhya cha; Mayyarpitamanobuddhir Maamevaishyasyasamshayam.

Therefore, at all times remember Me only and fight. With mind and intellect fixed (or absorbed) in Me, thou shalt doubtless come to Me alone.

Verse 8

Abhyaasayogayuktena

Chetasaa naanyagaaminaa;

Paramam purusham divyam

Yaati paarthaanuchintayan.

With the mind not moving towards any other thing, made steadfast by the method of habitual meditation, and constantly meditating, one goes to the Supreme Person, the Resplendent, O Arjuna!

Verse 9

Kavim puraanamanushaasitaaram Anoraneeyaamsam anusmaredyah;

Sarvasya dhaataaram achintyaroopam Aadityavarnam tamasah parastaat.

Whosoever meditates on the Omniscient, the Ancient, the ruler (of the whole world), minuter than an atom, the supporter of all, of inconceivable form, effulgent like the sun and beyond the darkness of ignorance.

Continued…

Love.