Gita 8.1
अर्जुन उवाच।
किं तद्ब्रह्म किमध्यात्मं किं कर्म पुरुषोत्तम।
अधिभूतं च किं प्रोक्तमधिदैवं किमुच्यते।।
arjuna uvāca kiṁ tad brahma kim adhyātmaṁ kiṁ karma puruṣottama adhibhūtaṁ ca kiṁ proktam adhidaivaṁ kim ucyate
"Arjuna said: O Supreme Person, what is Brahman? What is the Self? What is karma? What is called the physical realm? And what is called the divine realm?"
All 28 verses of Chapter 8
- 8.1Arjuna said: O Supreme Person, what is Brahman? What is the Self? What is karma? What is called the...
- 8.2Who is the Lord of sacrifice, and how does He dwell in this body, O Madhusudana? And how can those of...
- 8.3The Supreme Lord said: Brahman is the imperishable, supreme reality. One's essential nature is called the...
- 8.4The physical realm is perishable nature; the divine realm is the cosmic person. And the Lord of sacrifice...
- 8.5Whoever, at the time of death, leaves the body remembering Me alone, that person attains My nature. Of...
- 8.6Whatever state of being one remembers when leaving the body at death, to that state one goes, O son of...
- 8.7Therefore, at all times remember Me and fight. With mind and intellect surrendered to Me, you will...
- 8.8With a mind disciplined by the practice of yoga, not wandering to other things, constantly meditating on...
- 8.9One who meditates on the Omniscient, the Ancient, the Ruler, smaller than the smallest, the Sustainer of...
- 8.10...at the time of death, with unwavering mind, endowed with devotion and the power of yoga, fixing the...
- 8.11I shall now briefly describe that state which knowers of the Vedas call the Imperishable, which...
- 8.12Controlling all the gates of the body, confining the mind in the heart, fixing one's life-breath in the...
- 8.13...uttering 'Om,' the single syllable that is Brahman, remembering Me while leaving the body, such a...
- 8.14For one who remembers Me without deviation, constantly and daily, I am easy to attain, O Arjuna, for such...
- 8.15Having attained Me, the great souls never take birth again in this temporary abode of suffering. They have...
- 8.16All worlds up to Brahma's realm are subject to return, O Arjuna. But having attained Me, O son of Kunti...
- 8.17Those who know that Brahma's day spans a thousand ages, and his night a thousand ages, they understand day...
- 8.18At the arrival of Brahma's day, all manifestations emerge from the unmanifest. At the arrival of night...
- 8.19This same multitude of beings, arising again and again, helplessly dissolves at nightfall, O Arjuna, and...
- 8.20But beyond this unmanifest, there is another unmanifest, eternal existence, which does not perish even...
- 8.21That unmanifest is called the Imperishable (Akshara), they call it the supreme destination. Those who...
- 8.22That Supreme Person, O Arjuna, in whom all beings exist and by whom all this is pervaded, is attainable...
- 8.23I shall now tell you, O best of Bharatas, of the times at which yogis departing this world either return...
- 8.24Fire, light, daytime, the bright fortnight, the six months of the sun's northern journey, departing then...
- 8.25Smoke, night, the dark fortnight, the six months of the sun's southern journey, departing then, the yogi...
- 8.26These two paths, bright and dark, are considered eternal in this world. By one, one goes to non-return; by...
- 8.27Knowing these two paths, O Arjuna, no yogi is ever deluded. Therefore, at all times, be steadfast in yoga.
- 8.28Whatever merit is declared in the Vedas, in sacrifices, austerities, and charities, the yogi who knows...