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अथ नवमोऽध्यायः

राजविद्याराजगुह्ययोगः

The Yoga of King-knowledge and King-secret

Rāja-vidyā-rāja-guhya-yoga

A leaf, a flower, a fruit, a little water, offered in love, and the Lord of all the worlds stretches out His hand to receive it. — The Delight of Krishna

The soul enters in
mām anusmara yudhya ca — the whole of life become a remembrance of the Divine
and is led towards
matparāyaṇaḥ — the whole being turned to the Divine as its one supreme goal
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34 verses

Summary of chapter 9

Works, Devotion and Knowledge - What the Gita now proceeds to say is the most secret thing of all. it is the knowledge of the whole Godhead which the Master of his being has promised to Arjuna. To direct the whole self Godwards in an entire union is the way to rise out of a mundane into a divine existence.

Chapter 9 illustration, titled राजविद्याराजगुह्ययोगः
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Chapter outline

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  1. 9·1–10The secret truth of the Lordship and Transcendence of the Divine.
  2. 9·11–15The ignorant as against the men of spiritual vision.
  3. 9·16–19The lmmanent Divine.
  4. 9·20–25The worship of the limited Godheads and love of the Supreme Divine.
  5. 9·26–33The inspiration to turn the entire life into spiritual Yoga.
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The verses

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Śrī Bhagavān uvācaश्रीभगवानुवाच

  1. 9·1इदं तु ते गुह्यतमं प्रवक्ष्याम्यनसूयवे । ज्ञानं विज्ञानसहितं यज्ज्ञात्वा मोक्ष्यसेऽशुभात् ॥ १ ॥idaṁ tu te guhyatamaṁ pravakṣyāmyanasūyave, jñānaṁ vijñānasahitaṁ yajjñātvā mokṣyase’śubhāt.What I am going to tell thee, the uncarping, is the most secret thing of all, the essential knowledge attended…
  2. 9·2, a key verseराजविद्या राजगुह्यं पवित्रमिदमुत्तमम् । प्रत्यक्षावगमं धर्म्यं सुसुखं कर्तुमव्ययम् ॥ २ ॥rājavidyā rājaguhyaṁ pavitramidamuttamam, pratyakṣāvagamaṁ dharmyaṁ susukhaṁ kartumavyayam.This is the king-knowledge, the king-secret (the wisdom of all wisdoms, the secret of all secrets), it is a…
  3. 9·3अश्रद्दधानाः पुरुषा धर्मस्यास्य परंतप । अप्राप्य मां निवर्तन्ते मृत्युसंसारवर्त्मनि ॥ ३ ॥aśraddadhānāḥ puruṣā dharmasyāsya paraṁtapa, aprāpya māṁ nivartante mṛtyusaṁsāravartmani.(But faith is necessary). The souls that fail to get faith in the higher truth and law, O Parantapa, not…
  4. 9·4, a key verseमया ततमिदं सर्वं जगदव्यक्तमूर्तिना । मत्स्थानि सर्वभूतानि न चाहं तेष्ववस्थितः ॥ ४ ॥mayā tatamidaṁ sarvaṁ jagadavyaktamūrtinā, matsthāni sarvabhūtāni na cāhaṁ teṣvavasthitaḥ.By Me, all this universe has been extended in the ineffable mystery of My being…
  5. 9·5न च मत्स्थानि भूतानि पश्य मे योगमैश्वरम् । भूतभृन्न च भूतस्थो ममात्मा भूतभावनः ॥ ५ ॥na ca matsthāni bhūtāni paśya me yogamaiśvaram, bhūtabhṛnna ca bhūtastho mamātmā bhūtabhāvanaḥ.And yet all existences are not situated in Me, behold My divine Yoga…
  6. 9·6यथाकाशस्थितो नित्यं वायुः सर्वत्रगो महान् । तथा सर्वाणि भूतानि मत्स्थानीत्युपधारय ॥ ६ ॥yathākāśasthito nityaṁ vāyuḥ sarvatrago mahān, tathā sarvāṇi bhūtāni matsthānītyupadhāraya.It is as the great, the all-pervading aerial principle dwells in the etheric that all existences dwell in Me…
  7. 9·7सर्वभूतानि कौन्तेय प्रकृतिं यान्ति मामिकाम् । कल्पक्षये पुनस्तानि कल्पादौ विसृजाम्यहम् ॥ ७ ॥sarvabhūtāni kaunteya prakṛtiṁ yānti māmikām, kalpakṣaye punastāni kalpādau visṛjāmyaham.All existences, O Kaunteya, return into My divine Nature (out of her action into her immobility and silence)…
  8. 9·8प्रकृतिं स्वामवष्टभ्य विसृजामि पुनः पुनः । भूतग्राममिमं कृत्स्नमवशं प्रकृतेर्वशात् ॥ ८ ॥prakṛtiṁ svāmavaṣṭabhya visṛjāmi punaḥ punaḥ, bhūtagrāmamimaṁ kṛtsnamavaśaṁ prakṛtervaśāt.Leaning – pressing down upon my own Nature (Prakriti) I create (loose forth into various being) all this…
  9. 9·9न च मां तानि कर्माणि निबध्नन्ति धनञ्जय । उदासीनवदासीनमसक्तं तेषु कर्मसु ॥ ९ ॥na ca māṁ tāni karmāṇi nibadhnanti dhanaṁjaya, udāsīnavadāsīnamasaktaṁ teṣu karmasu.Nor do these works bind me, O Dhananjaya, for I am seated as if indifferent above, unattached to those actions.
  10. 9·10मयाध्यक्षेण प्रकृतिः सूयते सचराचरम् । हेतुनानेन कौन्तेय जगद्विपरिवर्तते ॥ १० ॥mayādhyakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ sūyate sacarācaram, hetunānena kaunteya jagadviparivartate.I am the presiding control of my own action of Nature, (not a spirit born in her, but) the creative spirit who…
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End of the chapter

ॐ तत्सदिति श्रीमद्भगवद्गीतासूपनिषत्सुब्रह्मविद्यायां योगशास्त्रे श्रीकृष्णार्जुनसंवादेराजविद्याराजगुह्ययोगो नाम नवमोऽध्यायः ॥ ९॥

om tatsaditi śrīmadbhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsubrahmavidyāyāṁ yogaśāstre śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṁvāderājavidyārājaguhyayogo nāma navamo’dhyāyaḥ

Thus, in the Upanishad sung by the Lord, the science of Brahman, the scripture of Yoga, the dialogue between Sri Krishna and Arjuna, ends the ninth chapter entitled “The Yoga of Supreme Knowledge and Supreme Secret”

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