Bhagwad Gita - Post 51

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.