Chapter 4 continued...
Verse
32
Evam bahuvidhaa yajnaa
Vitataa brahmano mukhe;
Karmajaan
viddhi taan sarvaan
Evam jnaatwaa vimokshyase.
Thus,
various kinds of sacrifices are spread out before Brahman (literally at the
mouth or face of Brahman). Know them all as born of action, and knowing thus,
thou shalt be liberated.
Verse
33
Shreyaan
dravyamayaadyajnaaj
Jnaanayajnah parantapa;
Sarvam
karmaakhilam paartha
Jnaane parisamaapyate.
Superior
is wisdom-sacrifice to sacrifice with objects, O Parantapa! All actions in
their entirety, O Arjuna, culminate in knowledge!
Verse
34
Tadviddhi pranipaatena
Pariprashnena sevayaa;
Upadekshyanti
te jnaanam
Jnaaninas tattwadarshinah.
Know
that by long prostration, by question and by service, the wise who have realized
the Truth will instruct thee in (that) knowledge.
Verse
35
Yajjnaatwaa na punarmoham
Evam yaasyasi paandava;
Yena
bhootaanyasheshena Drakshyasyaatmanyatho mayi.
Knowing
that, thou shalt not, O Arjuna, again become deluded like this; and by that
thou shalt see all beings in thy Self and also in Me!
Verse
36
Api chedasi paapebhyah
Sarvebhyah paapakrittamah;
Sarvam
jnaanaplavenaiva
Vrijinam santarishyasi.
Even
if thou art the most sinful of all sinners, yet thou shalt verily cross all
sins by the raft of knowledge.
Verse
37
Yathaidhaamsi
samiddho’gnir
Bhasmasaat kurute’rjuna;
Jnaanaagnih
sarvakarmaani
Bhasmasaat kurute tathaa.
As
the blazing fire reduces fuel to ashes, O Arjuna, so does the fire of knowledge
reduce all actions to ashes!
Verse
38
Na hi jnaanena sadrisham
Pavitram iha vidyate;
Tat
swayam yogasamsiddhah
Kaalenaatmani vindati.
Verily
there is no purifier in this world like knowledge. He who is perfected in Yoga finds
it in the Self in time.
Verse
39
Shraddhaavaan labhate
jnaanam
Tatparah samyatendriyah;
Jnaanam labdhvaa paraam
Shaantim
achirenaadhigacchati.
The
man who is full of faith, who is devoted to it, and who has subdued all the
senses, obtains (this) knowledge; and, having obtained the knowledge, he goes
at once to the supreme peace.
Verse
40
Ajnashchaashraddhadhaanashcha
Samshayaatmaa vinashyati;
Naayam
loko’sti na paro
Na sukham samshayaatmanah.
The
ignorant, the faithless, the doubting self-proceeds to destruction; there is
neither this world nor the other nor happiness for the doubting.
Verse
41
Yogasannyasta karmaanam Jnaanasamcchinnasamshayam;
Aatmavantam
na karmaani
Nibadhnanti dhananjaya.
He
who has renounced actions by Yoga, whose doubts are rent asunder by knowledge, and
who is self-possessed — actions do not bind him, O Arjuna!
Verse
42
Tasmaad ajnaanasambhootam
Hritstham
jnaanaasinaatmanah;
Cchittwainam
samshayam yogam Aatishthottishtha bhaarata.
Therefore,
with the sword of knowledge (of the Self) cut asunder the doubt of the self-born
of ignorance, residing in thy heart, and take refuge in Yoga; arise, O Arjuna!
Iti
Srimad Bhagavadgeetaasoopanishatsu Brahmavidyaayaam
Yogashaastre
Sri Krishnaarjunasamvaade
Jnaanavibhaagayogo
Naama Chaturtho’dhyaayah
Thus,
in the Upanishads of the glorious Bhagavad Gita, the science of the Eternal,
the scripture of Yoga, the dialogue between Sri Krishna and Arjuna, ends the
fourth discourse.
Love.
