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.
