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prakāśaṁ ca pravṛttiṁ ca mohameva ca pāṇḍava — He, O Pandava, who does not abhor or shrink from the operation of enlightenment (the…
14·23उदासीनवदासीनो गुणैर्यो न विचाल्यते ।udāsīnavadāsīno guṇairyo na vicālyate — He who, established in a position as of one seated high above, is unshaken by the gunas…
14·24समदुःखसुखः स्वस्थः समलोष्टाश्मकाञ्चनः ।samaduḥkhasukhaḥ svasthaḥ samaloṣṭāśmakāñcanaḥ — He who regards happiness and suffering alike, gold and mud and stone as of equal value, to…
14·25सर्वारम्भपरित्यागी गुणातीतः स उच्यते ॥sarvārambhaparityāgī guṇātītaḥ sa ucyate — To whom the honour and insult, the faction of his friends and the faction of his enemies…
14·26मां च योऽव्यभिचारेण भक्तियोगेन सेवते ।māṁ ca yo’vyabhicāreṇa bhaktiyogena sevate — He also who loves and strives after Me with an undeviating love and adoration, passes…
14·27ब्रह्मणो हि प्रतिष्ठाहममृतस्याव्ययस्य च ।शाश्वतस्य च धर्मस्य सुखस्यैकान्तिकस्य च ॥
brahmaṇo hi pratiṣṭhāhamamṛtasyāvyayasya ca — I (the Purushottama) am the foundation of the silent Brahman and of Immortality and…
15·1श्रीभगवानुवाचछन्दांसि यस्य पर्णानि यस्तं वेद स वेदवित् ॥chandāṁsi yasya parṇāni yastaṁ veda sa vedavit — With its original source above (in the Eternal), its branches stretching below, the…
15·2अधश्चोर्ध्वं प्रसृतास्तस्य शाखाअधश्च मूलान्यनुसन्ततानि
adhaścordhvaṁ prasṛtāstasya śākhā — The branches of this cosmic tree extend both below and above (below in the material, above…
15·3नान्तो न चादिर्न च सम्प्रतिष्ठा ।असङ्गशस्त्रेण दृढेन छित्त्वा ॥
nānto na cādirna ca sampratiṣṭhā — The real form of it cannot be perceived by us in this material world of man’s embodiment…
15·4तमेव चाद्यं पुरुषं प्रपद्ये ।tameva cādyaṁ puruṣaṁ prapadye — Having cut down the firmly rooted Ashvattha by the strong sword of detachment, one should…
15·5गच्छन्त्यमूढाः पदमव्ययं तत् ॥gacchantyamūḍhāḥ padamavyayaṁ tat — To be free from the bewilderment of this lower Maya, without egoism, the great fault of…
15·8शरीरं यदवाप्नोति यच्चाप्युत्क्रामतीश्वरः ।śarīraṁ yadavāpnoti yaccāpyutkrāmatīśvaraḥ — When the Lord takes up this body (he brings in with him the mind and the senses) and in…
15·9श्रोत्रं चक्षुः स्पर्शनं च रसनं घ्राणमेव च ।अधिष्ठाय मनश्चायं विषयानुपसेवते ॥
śrotraṁ cakṣuḥ sparśanaṁ ca rasanaṁ ghrāṇameva ca — The ear, the eye, the touch, the taste and the smell, using these and the mind also, he…
15·10विमूढा नानुपश्यन्ति पश्यन्ति ज्ञानचक्षुषः ॥vimūḍhā nānupaśyanti paśyanti jñānacakṣuṣaḥ — The deluded do not perceive him in his coming in and his going forth or in his staying and…
15·11यतन्तो योगिनश्चैनं पश्यन्त्यात्मन्यवस्थितम् ।यतन्तोऽप्यकृतात्मानो नैनं पश्यन्त्यचेतसः ॥
yatanto yoginaścainaṁ paśyantyātmanyavasthitam — The Yogins who strive, see the Lord in themselves; but though they strive to do so, the…
15·12यच्चन्द्रमसि यच्चाग्नौ तत्तेजो विद्धि मामकम् ॥yaccandramasi yaccāgnau tattejo viddhi māmakam — The light of the sun that illumines all this world, that which is in the moon and in fire…
15·13गामाविश्य च भूतानि धारयाम्यहमोजसा ।पुष्णामि चौषधीः सर्वाः सोमो भूत्वा रसात्मकः ॥
gāmāviśya ca bhūtāni dhārayāmyahamojasā — I have entered into this form of earth (and am the spirit of its material force) and…
15·14प्राणापानसमायुक्तः पचाम्यन्नं चतुर्विधम् ॥prāṇāpānasamāyuktaḥ pacāmyannaṁ caturvidham — I, having become the flame of life, sustain the physical body of living creatures, and…
15·15सर्वस्य चाहं हृदि सन्निविष्टोमत्तः स्मृतिर्ज्ञानमपोहनञ्च ।
वेदैश्च सर्वैरहमेव वेद्यो
वेदान्तकृद्वेदविदेव चाहम् ॥
sarvasya cāhaṁ hṛdi sanniviṣṭo — I am lodged in the heart of all; from Me are memory and knowledge and their absence. And…
15·16द्वाविमौ पुरुषौ लोके क्षरश्चाक्षर एव च ।क्षरः सर्वाणि भूतानि कूटस्थोऽक्षर उच्यते ॥
dvāvimau puruṣau loke kṣaraścākṣara eva ca — There are two Purushas (spiritual beings) in this world, the immutable (and impersonal)…
15·18यस्मात्क्षरमतीतोऽहमक्षरादपि चोत्तमः ।अतोऽस्मि लोके वेदे च प्रथितः पुरुषोत्तमः ॥
yasmātkṣaramatīto’hamakṣarādapi cottamaḥ — Since I am beyond the mutable and am greater and higher even than the immutable, in the…
15·20एतत्बुद्ध्वा बुद्धिमान्स्यात्कृतकृत्यश्च भारत ॥etatbuddhvā buddhimānsyātkṛtakṛtyaśca bhārata — Thus by Me the most secret Shastra (the supreme teaching and science) has been told, O…
16·1श्रीभगवानुवाचदानं दमश्च यज्ञश्च स्वाध्यायस्तप आर्जवम् ॥dānaṁ damaśca yajñaśca svādhyāyastapa ārjavam — Fearlessness, purity of temperament, steadfastness in the Yoga of Knowledge, giving…
16·2दया भूतेष्वलोलुप्त्वं मार्दवं ह्रीरचापलम् ॥dayā bhūteṣvaloluptvaṁ mārdavaṁ hrīracāpalam — Harmlessness, truth, absence of wrath, self-denial, calm, absence of fault-finding…
16·3तेजः क्षमा धृतिः शौचमद्रोहो नातिमानिता ।tejaḥ kṣamā dhṛtiḥ śaucamadroho nātimānitā — Energy, forgiveness, patience, cleanness, absence of envy and pride – these are the wealth…
16·4दम्भो दर्पोऽभिमानश्च क्रोधः पारुष्यमेव च ।अज्ञानं चाभिजातस्य पार्थ सम्पदमासुरीम् ॥
dambho darpo’bhimānaśca krodhaḥ pāruṣyameva ca — Pride, arrogance, excessive self-esteem, wrath, harshness, ignorance, these, O Partha, are…
16·5मा शुचः संपदं दैवीमभिजातोऽसि पाण्डव ॥mā śucaḥ saṁpadaṁ daivīmabhijāto’si pāṇḍava — The Daivic qualities lead towards liberation, the Asuric towards bondage. Grieve not, thou…
16·6द्वौ भूतसर्गौ लोकेऽस्मिन्दैव आसुर एव च ।dvau bhūtasargau loke’smindaiva āsura eva ca — There are two creations of beings in this material world, the Daivic and the Asuric; the…
16·7प्रवृत्तिं च निवृत्तिं च जना न विदुरासुराः ।न शौचं नापि चाचारो न सत्यं तेषु विद्यते ॥
pravṛttiṁ ca nivṛttiṁ ca janā na vidurāsurāḥ — Asuric men have no true knowledge of the way of action or the way of abstention; truth is…
16·10मोहाद्गृहीत्वासद्ग्राहान्प्रवर्तन्तेऽशुचिव्रताः ॥mohādgṛhītvāsadgrāhānpravartante’śucivratāḥ — Resorting to insatiable desire, arrogant, full of self-esteem and the drunkenness of their…
16·11चिन्तामपरिमेयां च प्रलयान्तामुपाश्रिताः ।कामोपभोगपरमा एतावदिति निश्चिताः ॥
cintāmaparimeyāṁ ca pralayāntāmupāśritāḥ — They imagine that desire and enjoyment are all the aim of life and (in their inordinate…
16·12ईहन्ते कामभोगार्थमन्यायेनार्थसञ्चयान् ॥īhante kāmabhogārthamanyāyenārthasañcayān — Bound by a hundred bonds, devoured by wrath and lust, unweariedly occupied in amassing…
16·14असौ मया हतः शत्रुर्हनिष्ये चापरानपि ।asau mayā hataḥ śatrurhaniṣye cāparānapi — Always they think, “I have killed this my enemy, the rest too I will kill. I am a lord and…
16·16अनेकचित्तविभ्रान्ता मोहजालसमावृताः ।प्रसक्ताः कामभोगेषु पतन्ति नरकेऽशुचौ ॥
anekacittavibhrāntā mohajālasamāvṛtāḥ — Thus occupied by many egoistic ideas, deluded, addicted to the gratification of desire…
16·18अहङ्कारं बलं दर्पं कामं क्रोधं च संश्रिताः ।ahaṅkāraṁ balaṁ darpaṁ kāmaṁ krodhaṁ ca saṁśritāḥ — In the egoism of their strength and power, in the violence of their wrath and arrogance…
16·22आचरत्यात्मनः श्रेयस्ततो याति परां गतिम् ॥ācaratyātmanaḥ śreyastato yāti parāṁ gatim — A man liberated from these doors of darkness, O son of Kunti, follows his own higher good…
16·24तस्माच्छास्त्रं प्रमाणं ते कार्याकार्यव्यवस्थितौ ।tasmācchāstraṁ pramāṇaṁ te kāryākāryavyavasthitau — Therefore let the Shastra be thy authority in determining what ought to be done or what…
17·1अर्जुन उवाचये शास्त्रविधिमुत्सृज्य यजन्ते श्रद्धयान्विताः ।arjuna uvāca — When men sacrifice to God or the gods with faith, but abandon the rule of the Shastra…
17·2श्रीभगवानुवाचसात्त्विकी राजसी चैव तामसी चेति तां शृणु ॥sāttvikī rājasī caiva tāmasī ceti tāṁ śṛṇu — The faith in embodied beings is of a triple kind like all things in Nature and varies…
17·3श्रद्धामयोऽयं पुरुषो यो यच्छ्रद्धः स एव सः ॥śraddhāmayo’yaṁ puruṣo yo yacchraddhaḥ sa eva saḥ — The faith of each man takes the shape given to it by his stuff of being, O Bharata. This…
17·4प्रेतान्भूतगणांश्चान्ये यजन्ते तामसा जनाः ॥pretānbhūtagaṇāṁścānye yajante tāmasā janāḥ — Sattwic men offer sacrifice to the gods, the rajasic to the Yakshas (the keepers of…
17·6कर्षयन्तः शरीरस्थं भूतग्राममचेतसः ।मां चैवान्तःशरीरस्थं तान्विद्ध्यासुरनिश्चयान् ॥
karṣayantaḥ śarīrasthaṁ bhūtagrāmamacetasaḥ — The men who perform violent austerities, contrary to the Shastra, with arrogance and…
17·10यातयामं गतरसं पूति पर्युषितं च यत् ।उच्छिष्टमपि चामेध्यं भोजनं तामसप्रियम् ॥
yātayāmaṁ gatarasaṁ pūti paryuṣitaṁ ca yat — The tamasic temperament takes a perverse pleasure in cold, impure, stale, rotten or…
17·12अभिसन्धाय तु फलं दम्भार्थमपि चैव यत् ।abhisandhāya tu phalaṁ dambhārthamapi caiva yat — The sacrifice offered with a view to the personal fruit, and also for ostentation, O best…
17·13श्रद्धाविरहितं यज्ञं तामसं परिचक्षते ॥śraddhāvirahitaṁ yajñaṁ tāmasaṁ paricakṣate — The sacrifice not performed according to the right rule of the Shastra, without giving of…
17·14देवद्विजगुरुप्राज्ञपूजनं शौचमार्जवम् ।ब्रह्मचर्यमहिंसा च शारीरं तप उच्यते ॥
devadvijaguruprājñapūjanaṁ śaucamārjavam — Worship given to the godhead, to the twice-born, to the spiritual guide, to the wise…
17·15अनुद्वेगकरं वाक्यं सत्यं प्रियहितं च यत् ।स्वाध्यायाभ्यसनं चैव वाङ्मयं तप उच्यते ॥
anudvegakaraṁ vākyaṁ satyaṁ priyahitaṁ ca yat — Speech causing no trouble to others, true, kind and beneficial, the study of Scripture…
17·16भावसंशुद्धिरित्येतत्तपो मानसमुच्यते ॥bhāvasaṁśuddhirityetattapo mānasamucyate — A clear and calm gladness of mind, gentleness, silence, self-control, the purifying of the…
17·17अफलाकाङ्क्षिभिर्युक्तैः सात्त्विकं परिचक्षते ॥aphalākāṅkṣibhiryuktaiḥ sāttvikaṁ paricakṣate — This threefold askesis, done with a highest enlightened faith, with no desire for fruit…
17·18सत्कारमानपूजार्थं तपो दम्भेन चैव यत् ।क्रियते तदिह प्रोक्तं राजसं चलमध्रुवम् ॥
satkāramānapūjārthaṁ tapo dambhena caiva yat — The askesis which is undertaken to get honour and worship from men, for the sake of…
