1.1 Dhritarashtra said What did my people and the sons of Pandu do when they had assembled together...

1.2. Sanjaya said Having seen the army of the Pandavas drawn up in battle-array, King Duryodhana th...

1.3. "Behold, O Teacher! this mighty army of the sons of Pandu, arrayed by the son of Drupada, thy w...

1.4. Here are heroes, mighty archers, eal in battle to Bhima and Arjuna, Yoyudhana (Satyaki), Virata...

1.5. "Dhrishtaketu, chekitana and the valiant king of Kasi, Purujit and Kuntibhoja and Saibya, the b...

1.6. "The strong Yodhamanyu and the brave Uttamaujas, the son of Subhadra (Abhimanyu, the son of Sub...

1.7. "Know also, O best among the twice-born! the names of those who are the most distinguished amon...

1.8. "Thyself and Bhishma, and Karna and also Kripa, the victorious in war, Asvatthama, Vikarna, and...

1.9. "And also many other heroes who are ready to give up their lives for my sake, armed with variou...

1.10. "This army of ours marshalled by Bhishma is insufficient, whereas that army of theirs marshell...

1.11. "Therefore do ye all, stationed in your respective positions, in the several divisions of the...

1.12. His glorious grandsire (Bhishma), the oldest of the Kauravas, in order to cheer Duryodhana, no...

1.13. Then (following Bhishma), conches and kettledrums, tabors, drums and cow horns blared forth it...

1.14. Then, also, Madhava (Krishna) and the son of Pandu (Arjuna), seated in the magnificent chariot...

1.15. Hrishikesha blew the Panchajanya and Arjuna blew the Devadatta and Bhima (the wolf-bellied), t...

1.16. The king Yodhishthira, the son of Kunti, blew the Anantavijaya; Nakula and Sahadeva blew the S...

1.17. The king of Kasi, an exellent archer, Sikhandi, the mighty car-warrior, Dhrishtadyumna and Vir...

1.18. Drupada and the sons of Draupadi, O Lord of the earth, and the son of Subhadra, the mighty-arm...

1.19. That tumultuous sound rent the hearts of (the members of) Dhritarashtra's party, making both t...

1.20. Then, seeing the people of Dhritarashtra’s party standing arrayed and the discharge of weapons...

1.21 Arjuna said In the middle between the two armies, place my chariot, O krishna, so that I may b...

1.22. Arjuna said In the middle between the two armies, place my chariot, O krishna, so that I may...

1.23. For I desire to observe those who are assembled here to fight, wishing to please in battle the...

1.24. Sanjaya said Thus addressed by Arjuna, Krishna, having stationed that best of chariots, O Dhr...

1.25. In front of Bhishma and Drona, and all the rulers of the earth, said: "O Arjuna (son of Pritha...

1.26. Then, Arjuna (son of Pritha) saw there (in the armies) stationed, fathers and grandfathers, te...

1.27. (He saw) fathers-in-law and friends also in both the armies. The son of Kunti, Arjuna, seeing...

1.28. Arjuna said Seeing these, my kinsmen, O krishna, arrayed, eager to fight.

1.29. My limbs fail and my mouth is parched, my body ivers and my hair stands on end.

1.30. The (bow) Gandiva slips from my hand, and also my skins burns all over; I am unable even to st...

1.31. And I see adverse omens, O Kesava. I do not see any good in killing my kinsmen in battle.

1.32. I desire not victory, O Krishna, nor kingdom, nor pleasures. Of what avail is dominion to us,...

1.33. Those for whose sake we desire kingdom, enjoyments and pleasures, stand here in battle, having...

1.34. Teachers, fathers, sons and also grandfathers, maternal uncles, fathers-in-law, grandsons, bro...

1.35. These I do not wish to kill, though they kill me, O Krishna, even for the sake of dominion ove...

1.36. By killing these sons of Dhritarashtra, what pleasure can be ours, O Janardana? Only sin will...

1.37. Therefore, we should not kill the sons of Dhritarashtra, our relatives; for how can we be happ...

1.38. Though they, with intelligence overpowered by greed, see no evil in the destruction of familie...

1.39. Why should not we who clearly see evil in the destruction of families, learn to turn away from...

1.40. In the destruction of a family, the immemorial religious rites of that family perish; on the d...

1.41. By the prevalence of impiety, O Krishna, the women of the family become corrupt; and , women b...

1.42. Confusion of castes leads to hell the slayers of the family, for their forefathers fall, depri...

1.43. By these evil deeds of the destroyers of the family, which cause confusion of castes, the eter...

1.44. We have heard, O Janardana, that inevitable is the dwelling for an unknown period in hell for...

1.45. Alas! We are involved in a great sin, in that we are prepared to kill our kinsmen, through gre...

1.46. If the sons of Dhritarashtra with weapons in hand should slay me in battle, unresisting and un...

1.47. Sanjaya said Having thus spoken in the midst of the battlefield, Arjuna, casting away his bow...

2.1 Sanjaya said To him who was thus overcome with pity and who was despondent, with eyes full of t...

2.2 The Blessed Lord said Whence is this perilous strait come upon thee, this dejection which is un...

2.3 Yield not to impotence, O Arjuna, son of Pritha. It does not befit thee. Cast off this mean weak...

2.4 Arjuna said How, O Madhusudana, shall I fight in battle with arrows against Bhishma and Drona,...

2.5 Better it is, indeed, in this world to accept alms than to slay the most noble teachers. But if...

2.6 I can hardly tell which will be better, that we should coner them or that they should coner us....

2.7 My heart is overpowered by the taint of pity; my mind is confused as to duty. I ask Thee: Tell m...

2.8 I do not see that it would remove this sorrow that burns up my senses, even if I should attain p...

2.9 Sanjaya said Having spoken thus to Hrishikesha (the Lord of the senses), Arjuna (the coneror of...

2.10 To him who was despondent in the midst of the two armies, Krishna, as if smiling, O Bharata, sp...

2.11 The Blessed Lord said Thou hast grieved for those that should not be grieved for, yet thou spe...

2.12 Nor at any time indeed was I not, nor thou, nor these rulers of men, nor verily shall we ever c...

2.13 Just as in this body the embodied (soul) passes into childhood, youth and old age, so also does...

2.14 The contacts of the senses with the objects, O son of Kunti, which cause heat and cold, pleasur...

2.15 That firm man whom, surely, these afflict not, O chief among men, to whom pleasure and pain are...

2.16 The unreal hath no being; there is non-being of the real; the truth about both has been seen by...

2.17 Know that to be indestructible, by Which all this is pervaded. None can cause the destruction o...

2.18 These bodies of the embodied Self, Which is eternal, indestructible and immeasurable, are said...

2.19 He who takes the Self to be the slayer and he who thinks It is slain, neither of them ï1knowsï1...

2.20 It is not born, nor does It ever die; after having been, It again ceases not to be; unborn, ete...

2.21 Whosoever knows It to be indestructible, eternal, unborn and inexhaustible, how can that man sl...

2.22 Just as a man casts off worn-out clothes and puts on new ones, so also the embodied Self casts...

2.23 Weapons cut It not, fire burns It not, water wets It not, wind dries It not.

2.24 This Self cannot be cut, burnt, wetted, nor dried up. It is eternal, all-pervading, stable, imm...

2.25 This (Self) is said to be unmanifested, unthinkable and unchangeable. Therefore, knowing This t...

2.26 But even if thou thinkest of It as being constantly born and constantly dying, even then, O mig...

2.27 For certain is death for the born, and certain is birth for the dead; therefore, over the inevi...

2.28 Beings are unmanifested in their beginning, manifested in their middle state, O Arjuna, and unm...

2.29 One sees This (the Self) as a wonder; another speaks of It as a wonder; another hears of It as...

2.30 This, the Indweller in the body of everyone, is ever indestructible, O Arjuna; therefore, thou...

2.31 Further, having regard to thy duty, shouldst not waver, for there is nothing higher for a Kshat...

2.32 Happy are the Kshatriyas, O Arjuna! who are called upon to fight in such a battle that comes of...

2.33 But if thou wilt not fight this righteous war, then having abandoned thine own duty and fame, t...

2.34 People, too, will recount thy everlasting dishonour; and to one who has been honoured, dishonou...

2.35 The great car-warriors will think that thou hast withdrawn from the battle through fear; and th...

2.36 Thy enemies also, cavilling at thy power, will speak many abusive words. What is more painful t...

2.37 Slain, thou wilt obtain heaven; victorious, thou wilt enjoy the earth; therefore, stand up, O s...

2.38 Having made pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat the same, engage thou in battl...

2.39 This, which has been taught to thee, is wisdon concerning Sankhya. Now listen to wisdom concern...

2.40 In this there is no loss of effort, nor is there any harm (production of contrary results or tr...

2.41 Here, O joy of the Kurus, there is but a single one-pointed determination; many-branched and en...

2.42 Flowery speech is uttered by the unwise, taking pleasure in the eulogising words of the Vedas,...

2.43 Full of desires, having heaven as their goal, (they utter speech which is directed to ends) lea...

2.44 For those who are attached to pleasure and power, whose minds are drawn away by such teaching,...

2.45 The Vedas deal with the three attributes (of Nature); be thou above these three attributes. O A...

2.46 To the Brahmana who has known the Self, all the Vedas are of as much use as is a reservoir of w...

2.47 Thy right is to work only, but never with its fruits; let not the fruits of action be thy motiv...

2.48 Perform action, O Arjuna, being steadfast in Yoga, abandoning attachment and balanced in succes...

2.49 Far lower than the Yoga of wisdon is action, O Arjuna. Seek thou refuge in wisdom; wretched are...

2.50 Endowed with wisdom (evenness of mind), one casts off in this life both good and evil deeds; th...

2.51 The wise, possessed of knowledge, having abandoned the fruits of their actions, and being freed...

2.52 When thy intellect crosses beyond the mire of delusion, then thou shalt attain to indifference...

2.53 When thy intellect, which is perplexed by the Veda text, which thou hast read, shall stand immo...

2.54 Arjuna said What, O Krishna, is the description of him who has steady wisdom, and is merged in...

2.55 The Blessed Lord said When a man completely casts off, O Arjuna, all the desires of the mind a...

2.56 He whose mind is not shaken by adversity, who does not hanker after pleasures, and is free from...

2.57 He who is everywhere without attachment, on meeting with anything good or bad, who neither rejo...

2.58 When, like the tortoise which withdraws on all sides its limbs, he withdraws his senses from th...

2.59 The objects of the senses turn away from the abstinent man leaving the longing (behind); but hi...

2.60 The turbulent senses, O Arjuna, do violently carry away the mind of a wise man though he be str...

2.61 Having restrained them all he should sit steadfast, intent on Me; his wisdom is steady whose se...

2.62 When a man thinks of the objects, attachment for them arises; from attachment desire is born; f...

2.63 From anger comes delusion; from delusion loss of memory; from loss of memory the destruction of...

2.64 But the self-controlled man, moving among the objects with the senses under restraint and free...

2.65 In that peace all pains are destroyed; for the intellect of the tranil-minded soon becomes stea...

2.66 There is no knowledge of the Self to the unsteady and to the unsteady no meditation is possible...

2.67 For the mind, which follows in the wake of the wandering senses, carries away his discriminatio...

2.68 Therefore, O mighty-armed Arjuna, his knowledge is steady whose senses are completely restraine...

2.69 That which is night to all beings, in that the self-controlled man is awake; when all beings ar...

2.70 He attains peace into whom all desires enter as waters enter the ocean which, filled from all s...

2.71 That man attains peace who, abandoning all desires, moves about without longing, without the se...

2.72 This is the Brahmic seat (eternal state), O son of Pritha. Attaining to this, none is deluded....

3.1 Arjuna said If Thou thinkest that knowledge is superior to action, O Krishna, why then, O Kesav...

3.2 With this apparently perplexing speech, Thou confusest, as it were, my understanding; therefore...

3.3 The Blessed Lord said In this world there is a twofold path, as I said before, O sinless one; t...

3.4 Not by non-performance of actions does man reach actionlessness; nor by mere renunciation does h...

3.5 Verily none can ever remain for even a moment without performing action; for everyone is made to...

3.6 He who, restraining the organs of action, sits thinking of the sense-objects in mind, he of delu...

3.7 But whosoever, controlling the senses by the mind, O Arjuna, engages himself in Karma Yoga with...

3.8 Do thou perform (thy) bounden duty, for action is superior to inaction and even the maintenance...

3.9 The world is bound by actions other than those performed for the sake of sacrifice; do thou, the...

3.10 The Creator, having in the beginning (of creation) created mankind together with sacrifice, sai...

3.11 With this do ye nourish the gods and may those gods nourish you; thus nourishing one another, y...

3.12 The gods, nourished by the sacrifice, will give you the desired objects. So, he who enjoys the...

3.13 The righteous who eat the remnants of the sacrifice are freed from all sins; but those sinful o...

3.14 From food come forth beings; from rain food is produced; from sacrifice arises rain and sacrifi...

3.15 Know thou that action comes from Brahma and Brahma comes from the Imperishable. Therefore, the...

3.16 He who does not follow here the wheel thus set revolving, who is of sinful life, rejoicing in t...

3.17 But for that man who rejoices only in the Self, who is satisfied with the Self and who is conte...

3.18 For him there is no interest whatever in what is done or what is not done; nor does he depend o...

3.19 Therefore without attachment, do thou always perform action which should be done; for by perfor...

3.20 Janaka and others attained perfection verily by action only; even with a view to the protection...

3.21 Whatsoever a great man does, that the other men also do; whatever he sets up as the standard, t...

3.22 There is nothing in the three worlds, O Arjuna, that should be done by Me, nor is there anythin...

3.23 For, should I not ever engage Myself in action, unwearied, men would in every way follow My pat...

3.24 These worlds would perish if I did not perform action; I should be the author of confusion of c...

3.25 As the ignorant men act from attachment to action, O Bharata (Arjuna), so should the wise act w...

3.26 Let no wise man unsettle the mind of ignorant people who are attached to action; he should enga...

3.27 All actions are wrought in all cases by the alities of Nature only. He whose mind is deluded by...

3.28 But he who knows the Truth, O mighty-armed (Arjuna), about the divisions of the alities and (th...

3.29 Those deluded by the alities of Nature are attached to the functions of the alities. The man of...

3.30 Renouncing all actions in Me, with the mind centred in the Self, free from hope and egoism, and...

3.31 Those men who constantly practise this teaching of Mine with faith and without cavilling, they...

3.32 But those who carp at My teaching and do not practise it, deluded of all knowledge, and devoid...

3.33 Even a wise man acts in accordance with his own nature; beings will follow Nature; what can re...

3.34 Attachment and aversion for the objects of the senses abide in the senses; let none come under...

3.35 Better is one's own duty, though devoid of merit than the duty of another well discharged. Bett...

3.36 Arjuna said But impelled by what does man commit sin, though against his wishes, O Varshneya (...

3.37 The Blessed Lord said It is desire, it is anger both of the ality of Rajas, all-devouring, all...

3.38 As fire is enveloped by smoke, as a mirror by dust, and as an embryo by the amnion, so is this...

3.39 O Arjuna, wisdom is enveloped by this constant enemy of the wise in the form of desire, which i...

3.40 The senses, the mind and the intellect are said to be its seat; through these it deludes the em...

3.41 Therefore, O best of the Bharatas (Arjuna), controlling the senses first, do thou kill this sin...

3.42 They say that the senses are superior (to the body); superior to the senses is the mind; superi...

3.43 Thus knowing Him Who is superior to the intellect and restraining the self by the Self, slay th...

4.1 The Blessed Lord said I taught this imperishable Yoga to Vivasvan; he told it to Manu; Manu pro...

4.2 This, handed down thus in regular succession, the royal sages knew. This Yoga, by long lapse of...

4.3 That same ancient Yoga has been today taught to thee by Me, for thou art My devotee and My frien...

4.4 Arjuna said Later on was Thy birth, and prior to it was the birth of Vivasvan (the Sun); how am...

4.5 The Blessed Lord said Many births of Mine have passed as well as of thine, O Arjuna; I know the...

4.6 Though I am unborn, of imperishable nature, and though I am the Lord of all beings, yet, governi...

4.7 Whenever there is decline of righteousness, O Arjuna, and rise of unrighteousness, then I manife...

4.8 For the protection of the good, for the destruction of the wicked and for the establishment of r...

4.9 He who thus know, in their true light, My divine birth and action, having abandoned the body, is...

4.10 Freed from attachment, fear and anger, absorbed in Me, taking refuge in Me, purified by the fir...

4.11 In whatever way men approach Me even so do I reward them; My path do men tread in all ways, O A...

4.12 Those who long for success in action in this world sacrifice to the gods; because success is ic...

4.13 The fourfold caste has been created by Me according to the differentiation of Guna and Karma; t...

4.14 Actions do not taint Me, nor have I a desire for the fruit of actions. He who knows Me thus is...

4.15 Having known this, the ancient seekers after freedom also performed action; therefore do thou a...

4.16 What is action? What is inaction? As to this even the wise are confused. Therefore I shall teac...

4.17 For verily (the true nature) of action (enjoined by the scriptures) should be known, also (that...

4.18 He who seeth inaction in action and action in inaction, he is wise among men; he is a Yogi and...

4.19 He whose undertakings are all devoid of desires and (selfish) purposes and whose actions have b...

4.20 Having abandoned attachment to the fruits of the action, ever content, depending on nothing, he...

4.21 Without hope and with the mind and the self controlled, having abandoned all covetousness, doin...

4.22 Content with what comes to him without effort, free from the pairs of opposites and envy, even-...

4.23 To one who is devoid of attchment, who is liberated, whose mind is established in knowledge, wh...

4.24 Brahman is the oblation; Brahman is the melted butter (ghee); by Brahman is the oblation poured...

4.25 Some Yogies perform sacrifice to the gods alone; while others (who have realised the Self) offe...

4.26 Some again offer the organ of hearing and other senses as sacrifice in the fire of restraint; o...

4.27 Others again sacrifice all the functions of the senses and those of the breath (vital energy or...

4.28 Others again offer wealth, austerity and Yoga as sacrifice, while the ascetics of self-restrain...

4.29 Others offer as sacrifice the outgoing breath in the incoming, and the incoming in the outgoing...

4.30 Others who regulate their diet offer life-breaths in life-breaths. All these are knowers of sac...

4.31 Those who eat the remnants of the sacrifice, which are like nectar, go to the eternal Brahman....

4.32 Thus, manifold sacrifices are spread out before Brahman (literally) at the mouth or face of Bra...

Swami Sivananda did not comment on this sloka

4.34 Know That by long prostration, by estion and by service; the wise who have realised the Truth w...

4.35 Knowing ï1thatï1 thou shalt not, O Arjuna, again get deluded like this; and by that thou shalt...

4.36 Even if thou art the most sinful of all sinners, yet thou shalt verily cross all sins by the ra...

4.37 As the blazing fire reduces fuel to ashes, O Arjuna, so does the fire of knowledge reduce all a...

4.38 Verily, there is no purifier in this world like knowledge. He who is perfected in Yoga finds it...

4.39 The man who is full of faith, who is devoted to it, and who has subdued the senses obtains (thi...

4.40 The ignorant the faithless, the doubting self goes to destruction; there is neither this world...

4.41 He who has renounced actions by Yoga, whose doubts are rent asunder by knowledge, and who is se...

4.42 Therefore with the sword of the knowledge (of the Self) cut asunder the doubt of the self born...

5.1 Arjuna said Renunciation of actions, O Krishna, Thou praisest, and again Yoga. Tell me conclusi...

5.2 The Blessed Lord said Renunciation and the Yoga of action both lead to the highest bliss; but o...

5.3 He should be known as a perpertual Sannyasi who neither hates nor desires; for, free from the pa...

5.4 Children, not the wise, speak of knowledge and the Yoga of action or the performance of action a...

5.5 That place which is reached by the Sankhyas or the Jnanis is reached by the Yogis (Karma Yogis)....

5.6 But renunciation, O mighty-armed Arjuna, is hard to attain without Yoga; the Yoga-harmonised sag...

5.7 He who is devoted to the path of action, whose mind is ite pure, who has conered the self, who h...

5.8 "I do nothing at all," thus would the harmonised knower of Truth think seeing, hearing, touchin...

5.9 Speaking, letting go, seizing, opening and closing the eyes convinced that the senses move amon...

5.10 He who does actions, offering them to Brahman, and abandoning attachment, is not tainted by sin...

5.11 Yogis, having abandoned attachment, perform actions only by the body, mind, intellect, and even...

5.12 The united one (the well poised or the harmonised) having abandoned the fruit of action attains...

5.13 Mentally renouncing all actions and self-controlled, the embodied one rests happily in the nine...

5.14 Neither agency nor actions does the Lord create for the world, nor union with the fruits of act...

5.15 The Lord takes neither the demerit nor even the merit of any; knowledge is enveloped by ignoran...

5.16 But to those whose ignorance is destroyed by the knowledge of the Self, like the sun, knowledge...

5.17 Their intellect absorbed in That, their self being That, established in That, with That for the...

5.18 Sages look with an eal eye on a Brahmana endowed with learning and humility, on a cow, on an el...

5.19 Even here (in this world) birth (everything) is overcome by those whose minds rest in eality; B...

5.20 Resting in Brahman, with steady intellect and undeluded, the knower of Brahman neither rejoicet...

5.21 With the self unattached to external contacts he finds happiness in the Self; with the self eng...

5.22 The enjoyments that are born of contacts are only generators of pain, for they have a beginning...

5.23 He who is able, while still here (in this world) to withstand, before the liberation from the b...

5.24 He who is happy within, who rejoices within, and who is illuminated within, that Yogi attains a...

5.25 The sages (Rishis) obtain absolute freedom or Moksha they whose sins have been destroyed, whos...

5.26 Absolute freedom (or Brahmic bliss) exists on all sides for those self-controlled ascetics who...

5.27 Shutting out (all) external contacts and fixing the gaze between the eyrow, ealising the outgoi...

5.28 With the senses, the mind and the intellect (ever) controlled, having liberation as his supreme...

5.29 He who knows Me as the enjoyer of sacrifices and austerities, the great Lord of all the worlds...

6.1 The Blessed Lord said He who performs his bounden duty without depending on the fruits of his a...

6.2 Do thou, O Arjuna, know Yoga to be that which they call renunciation; no one verily becomes a Yo...

6.3 For a sage who wishes to attain to Yoga, action is said to be the means; for the same sage who h...

6.4 When a man is not attached to the sense-objects or to actions, having renounced all thoughts, th...

6.5 One should raise oneself by one's Self alone; let not one lower oneself; for the Self alone is t...

6.6 The Self is the friend of the self of him by whom the self has been conered by the Self, but to...

6.7 The Supreme Self of him who is self-controlled and peaceful is balanced in cold and heat, pleasu...

6.8 The Yogi who is satisfied with the knowledge and the wisdom (of the Self), who has conered the s...

6.9 He who is of the same mind to the good-hearted, friends, enemies, the indifferent, the neutral,...

6.10 Let the Yogi try constantly to keep the mind steady, remaining in solitude, alone, with the min...

6.11 In a clean spot, having established a firm seat of his own, neither too high nor too low, made...

6.12 There, having made the mind one-pointed, with the actions of the mind and the senses controlled...

6.13 Let him firmly hold his body, head and neck erect and still, gazing at the tip of his nose, wit...

6.14 Serene-minded, fearless, firm in the vow of a Brahmachari, having controlled the mind, thinking...

6.15 Thus always keeping the mind balanced, the Yogi, with the mind controlled, attains to the peace...

6.16 Verily Yoga is not possible for him who eats too much, nor for him who does not eat at all, nor...

6.17 Yoga becomes the destroyer of pain for him who is moderate in eating and recreation (such as w...

6.18 When the perfectly controlled mind rests in the Self only, free from longing for all the object...

6.19 As a lamp placed in a windless spot does not flicker to such is compared the Yogi of controlle...

6.20 When the mind, restrained by the practice of Yoga attains to quietude and when seeing the Self...

6.21 When he (the Yogi) feels that Infinite Bliss which can be grasped by the (pure) intellect and w...

6.22 Which, having obtained, he thinks there is no other gain superior to it; wherein estabished, he...

6.23 Let that be known by the name of Yoga, the severance from union with pain. This Yoga should be...

6.24 Abandoning without reserve all desires born of Sankalpa (thought and imagination) and completel...

6.25 Little by little let him attain to ietude by the intellect held firmly; having made the mind es...

6.26 From whatever cause the restless and unsteady mind wanders away, from that let him restrain it...

6.27 Supreme Bliss verily comes to this Yogi whose mind is ite peaceful, whose passion is ieted, who...

6.28 The Yogi, always engaging the mind thus (in the practice of Yoga), freed from sins, easily enjo...

6.29 With the mind harmonised by Yoga he sees the Self abiding in all beings and all beings in the S...

6.30 He who sees Me everywhere and sees everything in Me, he never becomes separated from Me, nor do...

6.31 He who, being established in unity, worships Me Who dwells in all beings, that Yogi abides in M...

6.32 He who, through the likeness of the Self, O Arjuna, sees eality everywhere, be it pleasure or p...

6.33 Arjuna said This Yoga of eanimity taught by Thee, O Krishna, I do not see its steady continuan...

6.34 The mind verily is restless, turbulent, strong and unyielding, O Krishna: I deem it as difficul...

6.35 The Blessed Lord said Undoubtedly, O mighty-armed Arjuna, the mind is difficult to control and...

6.36 I think Yoga is hard to be attained by one of uncontrolled self, but the self-controlled and st...

6.37 Arjuna said He who is unable to control himself though he has the faith, and whose mind wander...

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6.39 This doubt of mine, O Krishna, do Thou dispel completely; because it is not possible for any bu...

6.40 The Blessed Lord said O Arjuna, neither in this world, nor in the next world is there destruct...

6.41 Having attained to the worlds of the righteous and having dwelt there for everlasting years, he...

6.42 Or he is born in a family of even the wise Yogis; verily a birth like this is very difficult to...

6.43 Thee he comes in touch with the knowledge acired in his former body and strives more than befor...

6.44 By that very former practice he is borne on in spite of himself. Even he who merely wishes to k...

6.45 But the Yogi who strives with assiduity, purified of sins and perfected gradually through many...

6.46 The Yogi is thought to be superior to the ascetics and even superior to men of knowledge (obtai...

6.47 And among all the Yogis he who, full of faith and with his inner self merged in Me, worships Me...

7.1 The Blessed Lord said O Arjuna, hear how you shall without doubt know Me fully, with the mind i...

7.2 I shall declare to thee in full this knowledge combined with realisation, after knowing which no...

7.3 Among thousands of men, one perchance strives for perfection; even among those successful strive...

7.4 Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intellect and egoism thus is My Nature divided eightfold.

7.5 This is the inferior Prakriti, O mighty-armed (Arjuna); know thou as different from it My higher...

7.6 Know that these two (Natures) are the womb of all beings. So I am the source and dissolution of...

7.7 There is nothing whatsoever higher than Me, O Arjuna. All this is strung on Me, as clusters of g...

7.8 I am the sapidity in water, O Arjuna; I am the light in the moon and the sun; I am the syllable...

7.9 I am the sweet fragrance in the earth and the brilliance in the fire, the life in all beings, an...

7.10 Know Me, O Arjuna, as the eternal seed of all beings; I am the intelligence of the intelligent;...

7.11 Of the strong, I am the strength devoid of desire and attachment, and in (all) beings, I am the...

7.12 Whatever beings (and objects) that are pure, active and inert, know that they proceed from Me....

7.13 Deluded by these Natures (states or things) composed of the three alities of Nature all this wo...

7.14 Verily, this divine illusion of Mine, made up of the (three) alities (of Nature) is difficult t...

7.15 The evil-doers and the deluded who are the lowest of men do not seek Me; they whose knowledge i...

7.16 Four kinds of virtuous men worship Me, O Arjuna, and they are the distressed, the seekr of know...

7.17 Of them the wise, ever steadfast and devoted to the One, excels (is the best); for I am exceedi...

7.18 Noble indeed are all these; but I deem the wise man as My very Self; for, steadfast in mind he...

7.19 At the end of many births the wise man comes to Me, realising that all this is Vaasudeva (the i...

7.20 Those whose wisdom has been rent away by this or that desire, go to other gods, following this...

7.21 Whatsoever form any devotee desires to worship with faith that (same) faith of his I make firm...

7.22 Endowed with that faith, he engages in the worship of that (form) and from it he obtains his de...

7.23 Verily the reward (fruit) that accrues to those men of small intelligence is finite. The worshi...

7.24 The foolish think of Me, the Unmanifest, as having manifestation, knowing not My higher, immuta...

7.25 I am not manifest to all (as I am) veiled by the Yoga-Maya. This deluded world does not know Me...

7.26 I know, O Arjuna, the beings of the past, the present and the future, but no one knows Me.

7.27 By the delusion of the pairs of opposites arising from desire and aversion, O Bharata, all bein...

7.28 But those men of virtuous deeds whose sins have come to an end, and who are freed from the delu...

7.29 Those who strive for liberation from old age and death, taking refuge in Me, realise in full ï1...

7.30 Those who know Me with the Adhibhuta (pertaining to the elements), Adhidaiva (pertaining to the...

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8.2 Who and how is Adhiyajna here in this body, O destroyer of Madhu (Krishna)? And how at the time...

8.3 The Blessed Lord said Brahman is the Imperishable, the Supreme; Its essential nature is called...

8.4 Adhibhuta (knowledge of the elements) pertains to My perishable Nature and the Purusha or the So...

8.5 And whosoever, leaving the body, goes forth remembering Me alone, at the time of death, he attai...

8.6 Whosoever at the end leaves the body, thinking of any being, to that being only does he go, O so...

8.7 Therefore at all times remember Me only and fight. With mind and intellect fixed (or absorbed) i...

8.8 With the mind not moving towards any other thing, made steadfast by the method of habitual medit...

8.9 Whosoever meditates on the Omniscient, the Ancient, the Ruler (of the whole world), minuter than...

8.10 At the time of death, with unshaken mind, endowed with devotio, by the power of Yoga, fixing th...

8.11 That which is declared Imperishable by those who know the Vedas, that which the self-controlled...

8.12 Having closed all the gates, confined the mind in the heart and fixed the life-breath in the he...

8.13 Uttering the one-syllabled Om the Brahman and remembering Me, he who departs, leaving the bod...

8.14 I am easily attainable by that ever-steadfast Yogi who constantly and daily remembers Me (for a...

8.15 Having attained Me these great souls do not again take birth (here) which is the place of pain...

8.16 (All) the worlds including the world of Brahma are subject to return again, O Arjuna; but he wh...

8.17 Those people who know the day of Brahma which is of a duration of a thousand Yugas (ages) and t...

8.18 From the Unmanifested all the manifested (worlds) proceed at the coming of the 'day'; at the co...

8.19 This same multitude of beings, being born again and again, is dissolved, helplessly, O Arjuna (...

8.20 But verily there exists, higher than this Unmanifested, another unmanifested Eternal, which is...

8.21 What is called the Unmanifested and the Imperishable, That they say is the highest goal. They w...

8.22 That highest Purusha, O Arjuna, is attainable by unswerving devotion to Him alone within Whom a...

8.23 Now I will tell thee, O chief of Bharatas, the times departing at which the Yogis will return o...

8.24 Fire, light daytime, the bright fortnight, the six months of the northern path of the sun (the...

8.25 Attaining to the lunar light by smoke, night time, the dark fortnight also, the six months of t...

8.26 The bright and the dark paths of the world are verily thought to be eternal; by the one (the br...

8.27 Knowing these paths, O Arjuna, no Yogi is deluded; therefore at all times be steadfast in Yoga.

8.28 Whatever fruit of merit is declared (in the scriptures) to accrue from (the study of) the Vedas...

9.1 The Blessed Lord said I shall now declare to thee who does not cavil, the greatest secret, the...

9.2 This is the kingl science, the kingly secret, the supreme purifier, realisable by direct intuiti...

9.3 Those who have no faith in this Dharma (knowledge of the Self), O Parantapa (Arjuna), return to...

9.4 All this world is pervaded by Me in My unmanifest aspect; all beings exist in Me, but I do not d...

9.5 Nor do beings exist in Me (in reality); behold My divine Yoga, supporting all beings, but not dw...

9.6 As the mighty wind, moving everywhere, rests always in the ether, even so, know thou that all be...

9.7 All beings, O Arjuna, go into My Nature at the end of a Kalpa; I send them forth again at the be...

9.8 Animating My Nature, I again and again send forth all this multitude of beings, helpless by the...

9.9 These acts do not bind Me, O Arjuna, sitting like one indifferent, unattached to those acts.

9.10 Under Me as supervisor, Nature produces the moving and the unmoving; because of this, O Arjuna,...

9.11 Fools disregard Me, clad in human form, not knowing My higher Being as the great Lord of (all)...

9.12 Of vain hopes, of vain actions, of vain knowledge and senseless, they verily are possessed of t...

9.13 But the great souls, O Arjuna, partaking of My divine nature, worship Me with a single mind (wi...

9.14 Always glorifying Me, striving,firm in vows, prostrating themselves before Me, they worship Me...

9.15 Others also sacrificing with the wisdom-sacrifice worship Me, the All-faced, as one, as distinc...

9.16 I am the Kratu; I am the Yajna; I am the offering (food) to the manes; I am the medicinal herbs...

9.17 I am the father of this world, the mother, the dispenser of the fruits of actions and the gran...

9.18 I am the goal, the supporter, the Lord, the witness, the abode, the shelter, the friend, the or...

9.19 (As the sun) I give heat; I withhold and send forth the rain; I am immortality and also death,...

9.20 The knowers of the three Vedas, the drinkers of Soma, purified of all sins, worshipping Me by s...

9.21 They, having enjoyed the vast heaven, enter the world of mortals when their merit is exhausted;...

9.22 For those men who worship Me alone, thinking of no other, for those ever-united, I secure what...

9.23 Even those devotees who, endowed with faith, worship other gods, worship Me alone, O Arjuna, b...

9.24 (For) I alone am the enjoyer and also the Lord of all sacrifices; but they do not know Me in es...

9.25 The worshippers of the gods go to them; to the manes go the ancestor-worshippers; to the deitie...

9.26 Whoever offers Me with devotion a leaf, a flower, a fruit or a little water that, so offered d...

9.27 Whatever thou doest, whatever thou eatest, whatever thou offerest in sacrifice, whatever thou g...

9.28 Thus shalt thou be freed from the bonds of actions yielding good and evil fruits; with the mind...

9.29 The same am I to all beings; to Me there is none hateful or dear; but those who worship Me with...

9.30 Even if the most sinful worships Me, with devotion to none else, he too should indeed by regard...

9.31 Soon he becomes righteous and attains to eternal peace; O Arjuna, proclaim thou for certain tha...

9.32 For, taking refuge in Me, they also who, O Arjuna, may be of a sinful birth women, Vaisyas as...

9.33 How much more (easily) then the hold Brahmins and devoted royal saints (attain the goal); havin...

9.34 Fix thy mind on Me; by devoted to Me; sacrifice unto Me; bow down to Me; having thus united thy...

10.1 The Blessed Lord said Again, O mighty-armed Arjuna, listen to my supreme word which I will dec...

10.2 Neither the hosts of the gods nor the great sages know My origin; for in every way I am the sou...

10.3 He who knows Me as unborn and beginningless, as the great Lord of the worlds, he, among mortals...

10.4 Intellect, wisdom, non-delusion, forgiveness, truth, self-restraint, calmness, happiness, pain,...

10.5 Non-injury, eanimity, contentment, austerity, beneficence, fame, ill-fame (these) different ki...

10.6 The seven great sages, the ancient four and also the Manus, possessed of powers like Me (on acc...

10.7 He who in truth knows these manifold manifestations of My Being and (this) Yoga-power of Mine b...

10.8 I am the source of all; from Me everything evolves; understanding thus, the wise, endowed with...

10.9 With their mind and their life wholly absorbed in Me, enlightening each other and ever speaking...

10.10 To them who are ever steadfast, worshipping Me with love, I give the Yoga of discrimination by...

10.11 Out of mere compassion for them, I, dwelling within their Self, destroy the darkness born of i...

10.12 Arjuna said Thou art the Supreme Brahman, the supreme abode (or the supreme light), the supre...

10.13 All the sages have thus declared Thee, as also the divine sage Narada; so also Asita, Devala a...

10.14 I believe all this that Thou sayest to me to be true, O Krishna; verily, O blessed Lord! neith...

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10.16 Thou shouldst indeed tell, without reserve, of Thy divine glories by which Thou existest, perv...

10.17 How shall I, ever meditating, know Thee, O Yogin? In what aspects or things, O blessed Lord,...

10.18 Tell me again in detail, O Krishna, of Thy Yogic power and glory; for I am not satiated with w...

10.19 The Blessed Lord said Very well! Now I will declare to thee My divine glories in their promin...

10.20 I am the Self, O Gudakesa, seated in the hearts of all beings; I am the beginning, the middle...

10.21 Among the (twelve) Adityas, I am Vishnu; among luminaries, the radiant sun; I am Marichi among...

10.22 Among the Vedas I am the Sama-Veda; I am Vasava among the gods; among the senses I am the mind...

10.23 And, among the Rudras I am Sankara; among the Yakshas and Rakshasas, the Lord of wealth (Kuber...

10.24 And, among the household priests (of kings), O Arjuna, know Me to be the chief, Brihaspati; am...

10.25 Among the great sages I am Bhrigu; among words I am the one syllable (Om); among sacrifices I...

10.26 Among all the trees ( I am) the Peepul; among the divine sages, I am Narada; among Gandharvas,...

10.27 Know Me as Ucchaisravas born of nectar, among horses; among lordly elephants (I am) the Airava...

10.28 Among weapons I am the thunderbolt; among cows I am the wish-fulfilling cow called Kamadhenu;...

10.29 I am Ananta among the Nagas; I am Varuna among water-deities; Aryaman among the Manes I am; I...

10.30 And, I am Prahlada among the demons, among the reckoners I am time; among beasts I am the lion...

10.31 Among the purifiers (or the speeders) I am the wind; Rama among the warriors am I; among the f...

10.32 Among creations I am the beginning, the middle and also the end, O Arjuna; among the sciences...

10.33 Among the letters of the alphabets, the letter 'A' I am and the dual among the compounds. I am...

10.34 And I am the all-devouring Death, and the prosperity of those who are to be prosperous; among...

10.35 Among the hymns also I am the Brihatsaman; among metres Gayatri am I; among the montsh I am th...

10.36 I am the gambling of the fraudulent; I am the splendour of the splendid; I am victory; I am de...

10.37 Among the Vrishnis I am Vaasudeva; among the Pandavas I am Arjuna; among the sages I am Vyasa;...

10.38 Of those who punish, I am the sceptre; among those who seek victory, I am statesmanship; and a...

10.39 And whatever is the seed of all beings, that also am I, O Arjuna; there is no being, whether m...

10.40 There is no end to My divine gloreis, O Arjuna, but this is a brief statement by Me of the par...

10.41 Whatever being there is glorious, prosperous or powerful, that know thou to be a manifestation...

10.42 But, of what avail to thee is the knowledge of all these details, O Arjuna? I exist, supportin...

11.1 Arjuna said By this word (explanation) of the highest secret concerning the Self which Thou ha...

11.2 The origin and the destruction of beings verily have been heard by me in detail from Thee, O lo...

11.3 (Now) O Supreme Lord, as Thou hast thus described Thyself, O Supreme Person, I wish to see Thy...

11.4 If Thou, O Lord, thinkest it possible for me to see it, do Thou, then, O Lord of the Yogins, sh...

11.5 The Blessed Lord said Behold, O Arjuna, forms of Mine, by the hundreds and thousands, of diffe...

11.6 Behold the Adityas, the Vasus, the Rudras, the two Asvins and also the Maruts; behold many wond...

11.7 Now behold, O Arjuna, in this, My body, the whole universe centred in one including the moving...

11.8 But thou art not able to behold Me with these thine own eyes; I give thee the divine eye; behol...

11.9 Sanjaya said Having thus spoken, O king, the great Lord of Yoga, hari (Krishna), showed to Arj...

11.10 With numerous mouths and eyes, with numerous wonderful sights, with numerous divine ornaments,...

11.11 Wearing divine garlands (necklaces) and apparel, anointed with divine unguents, the all-wonder...

11.12 If the splendour of a thousand suns were to blaze out at once (simultaneously) in the sky, tha...

11.13 There, in the body of the God of gods, Arjuna then saw the whole universe resting in one, with...

11.14 Then, Arjuna, filled with wonder and with his hair standing on end, bowed down his head to the...

11.15 Arjuna said I see all the gods, O God, in Thy body, and (also) hosts of various classes of be...

11.16 I see Thee of boundless form on every side with many arms, stomachs, mouths and eyes: neither...

11.17 I see Thee with the diadem, the club and the discus, a mass of radiance shining everywhere, v...

11.18 Thou art the Imperishable, the Supreme Being, worthy to be known. Thou art the great treasure-...

11.19 I see Thee without beginning, middle or end, infinite in power, of endless arms, the sun and t...

11.20 This space between the earth and the heaven and all the arters are filled by Thee alone; havin...

11.21 Verily, into Thee enter these hosts of gods; some extol Thee in fear with joined palms; saying...

11.22 The Rudras, Adityas, Vasus, Sadhyas, Visvedevas, the two Asvins, Maruts, the manes and the hos...

11.23 Having seen Thy immeasurable form with many mouths and eyes, O mighty-armed, with many arms, t...

11.24 On seeing Thee (the Cosmic Form) touching the sky, shining in many colours, with mouths wide o...

11.25 Having seen Thy mouths fearful with teeth (blazing) like the fires of cosmic dissolution, I kn...

11.26 All the sons of Dhritarashtra, with the hosts of kings of the earth, Bhishma, Drona and Karna,...

11.27 Some hurriedly enter Thy mouths with their terrible teeth, fearful to behold. Some are found s...

11.28 Verily, just as many torrents of rivers flow towards the ocean, even so these heroes in the wo...

11.29 As moths hurriedly rush into a blazing fire for (their own) destruction, so also these creatur...

11.30 Thou lickest up, devouring all the worlds on every side with Thy flaming mouths. Thy fierce ra...

11.31 Tell me, who Thou art, so fierce of form. Salutations to Thee, O God Supreme: have mercy. I de...

11.32 The Blessed Lord said I am the full-grown world-destroying Time, now engaged in destroying th...

11.33 Therefore, stand up and obtain fame. Coner the enemies and enjoy the unrivalled kingdom. Veril...

11.34 Drona, Bhishma, Jayadratha, Karna and other brave warriors these are already slain by Me: do...

11.35 Sanjaya said Having heard that speech of Lord Krishna, Arjuna, with joined palms, trembling,...

11.36 Arjuna said It is meet, O Krishna, that the world delights and rejoices in Thy praise; demons...

11.37 And why should they not, O great Soul, bow to Thee Who art greater (than all else), the primal...

11.38 Thou art the primal God, the ancient Purusha, the supreme refuge of this universe, the knower,...

11.39 Thou art Vayu, Yama, Agni, Varuna, the moon, the Creator, and the great-grandfather. Salutatio...

11.40 Salutations to Thee, in front and behind! Salutations to Thee on every side! O All!! Thou infi...

11.41 Whatever I have presumptuously said from carelessness or love, addressing Thee as O Krishna! O...

11.42 In whatever way I may have insulted Thee for the sake of fun, while at play, reposing, sitting...

11.43 Thou art the Father of this world, moving and unmoving. Thou art to be adored by this world, T...

11.44 Therefore, bowing down, prostrating my body, I crave Thy forgiveness, O adorable Lord. As a fa...

11.45 I am delighted, having seen what has never been seen before; and yet my mind is distressed wit...

11.46 I desire to see Thee as before, crowned, bearing a mace, with the discus in hand, in Thy forme...

11.47 The Blessed Lord said O Arjuna, this Cosmic Form has graciously been shown to thee by Me by M...

11.48 Neither by the study of the Vedas and sacrifices, nor by gifts nor by rituals nor by severe au...

11.49 Be not afraid, nor bewildered on seeing such a teriible form of Mine as this; with thy fear di...

11.50 Sanjaya said Having thus spoken to Arjuna, Krishna again showed His own form and the great So...

11.51 Arjuna said Having seen this Thy gentle human form, O Krishna, now I am composed and am resto...

11.52 The Blessed Lord said Very hard indeed it is to see this form of Mine which thou hast seen. E...

11.53 Neither by the Vedas nor by austerity, nor by gift, nor by sacrifice can I be seen in this for...

11.54 But by single-minded devotion can I, of this Form, be known and seen in reality and also enter...

11.55 He who does all actions for Me, who looks upon Me as the Supreme, who is devoted to Me, who is...

12.1 Arjuna said Those devotees who, ever steadfast, thus worship Thee and those also who worship t...

12.2 The Blessed Lord said Those who, fixing their mind on Me, worship Me, ever steadfast and endow...

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12.4 Having restrained all the senses, even-minded everywhere, intent on the welfare of all beings...

12.5 Greater is their trouble whose minds are set on the unmanifested; for the goal; the unmanifeste...

12.6 But to those who worship Me, renouncing all actions in Me, regarding Me as the supreme gaol, me...

12.7 To those whose minds are set on Me, O Arjuna, verily I become ere long the saviour out of the o...

12.8 Fix thy mind in Me only, thy intellect in Me, (then) thou shalt no doubt live in Me alone herea...

12.9 If thou art unable to fix thy mind steadily on Me, then by the Yoga of constant practice do tho...

12.10 If thou art unable to practise even this Abhyasa Yoga, be thou intent on doing actions for My...

12.11 If thou art unable to do even this, then, resorting to union with Me, renounce the fruits of a...

12.12 Better indeed is knowledge than practice; than knowledge meditation is better; than meditation...

12.13 He who hates no creature, who is friendly and compassionate to all, who is free from attachmen...

12.14 Ever content, steady in meditation, self-controlled, possessed of firm conviction, with the mi...

12.15 He by whom the world is not agitated and who cannot be agitated by the world, and who is freed...

12.16 He who is free from wants, pure, expert, unconcerned, and free from pain, renouncing all under...

12.17 He who neither rejoices, nor hates, nor grieves, nor desires, renouncing good and evil, and wh...

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12.19 He to whom censure and praise are eal, who is silent, content with anything, homeless, of a st...

12.20 They verily who follow this immortal Dharma (law or doctrine) as described above, endowed with...

13.1 Arjuna said I wish to learn about Nature (matter) and the Spirit (soul), the field and the kno...

13.2 The Blessed Lord said This body, O Arjuna, is called the field; he who knows it is called the...

13.3 Do thou also know Me as the knower of the field in all fields, O Arjuna. Knowledge of both the...

13.4 What the field is and of what nature, what are its modifications and whence it is and also who...

13.5 Sages have sung in many ways, in various distinctive chants and also in the suggestive words in...

13.6 The great elements, egoism, intellect, and also the Unmanifested Nature, the ten senses and one...

13.7 Desire, hatred, pleasure, pain, the aggregate (the body), intelligence, fortitude the field ha...

13.8 Humility, unpretentiousness, non-injury, forgiveness, uprightness, service of the teacher, puri...

13.9 Indifference to the objects of the senses and also absence of egoism; perception of (or reflect...

13.10 Non-attachment, non-identification of the Self with son, wife, home and the rest, and constant...

13.11 Unswerving devotion unto Me by the Yoga of non-separation, resort to solitary places, distaste...

13.12 Constancy in Self-knowledge, perception of the end of true knowledge this is declared to be k...

13.13 I will declare that which has to be known, knowing which one attains to immortality, the begin...

13.14 With hands and feet everywhere, with eyes, heads and mouths everywhere, with ears everywhere,...

13.15 Shining by the functions of all the senses, yet without the senses; unattached, yet supporting...

13.16 Without and within (all) beings the unmoving and also the moving; because of Its subtlety, unk...

13.17 And undivided, yet It exists as if divided in beings; It is to be known as the supporter of be...

13.18 That, the Light of all lights, is said to be beyond darkness: knowledge, the knowable and the...

13.19 Thus the field, as well as knowledge and the knowable have been briefly stated. My devotee, kn...

13.20 Know thou that Nature (matter) and the Spirit are both beginningless; and know also that all m...

13.21 In the production of the effect and the cause, Nature (matter) is said to be the cause; in the...

13.22 The soul seated in Nature experiences the alities born of Nature; attachment to the alities is...

13.23 The Supreme Soul in this body is also called the spectator, the permitter, the supporter, the...

13.24 He who thus knows the Spirit and Matter together with the alities, in whatever condition he ma...

13.25 Some by meditation behold the Self in the self by the self, others by the Yoga of knowledge, a...

13.26 Others also, not knowing thus, worship, having heard of It from others; they, too, cross beyon...

13.27 Wherever a being is born, whether unmoving or moving, know thou, O best of the Bharatas (Arjun...

13.28 He sees, who sees the Supreme Lord, existing eally in all beings, the unperishing within the p...

13.29 Because he who sees the same Lord eally dwelling everywhere does not destroy the Self by the s...

13.30 He sees, who sees that all actions are performed by Nature alone and that the Self is actionle...

13.31 When a man sees the whole variety of beings as resting in the One, and spreading forth from Th...

13.32 Being without beginning and being devoid of (any) alities, the Supreme Self, imperishable, tho...

13.33 As the all-pervading ether is not tainted, because of its subtlety, so the Self seated everywh...

13.34 Just as the one sun illumines the whole world, so also the Lord of the field (Supreme Self) i...

13.35 They who, by the eye of knowledge, perceive the distinction between the field and its knower a...

14.1 The Blessed Lord said I will again declare (to thee) that supreme knowledge, the best of all k...

14.2 They who, having taken refuge in this knowledge, have attained to unity with Me, are neither bo...

14.3 My womb is the great Brahma; in that I place the germ; thence, O Arjuna, is the birth of all be...

14.4 Whatever forms are produced, O Arjuna, in any womb whatsoever, the great Brahma is their womb a...

14.5 Purity, passion and inertia these alities, O Arjuna, born of Nature, bind fast in the body, th...

14.6 Of these, Sattva, which from its stainlessness is luminous and healthy, binds by attachment to...

14.7 Know thou Rajas to be of the nature of passion, the source of thirst (for sensual enjoyment) an...

14.8 But know thou Tamas to be born of ignorance, deluding all embodied beings; it binds fast, O Arj...

14.9 Sattva attaches to happiness, Rajas to action, O Arjuna, while Tamas verily shrouding knowledge...

14.10 Now Sattva arises (prevails), O Arjuna, having overpowered Rajas and Tamas; nor Rajas, having...

14.11 When through every gate (sense) in this body, the wisdom-light shines, then it may be known th...

14.12 Greed, activity, the undertaking of actions, restlessness, longing these arise when Rajas is...

14.13 Darkness, inertness, heedlessness and delusion these arise when Tamas is predominant, O Arjun...

14.14 If the embodied one meets with death when Sattva is predominant, then he attains to the spotle...

14.15 Meeting death in Rajas, he is born among those who are attached to action; and dying in Tamas,...

14.16 The fruit of good action, they say, is Sattvic and pure, verily the fruit of Rajas is pain, an...

14.17 From Sattva arises knowledge, and greed from Rajas; heedlessness and delusion arise from Tamas...

14.18 Those who are seated in Sattva go upwards; the Rajasic dwell in the middle; and the Tamasic, a...

14.19 When the seer beholds no agent other than the Gunas and knows That which is higher than they,...

14.20 The embodied one having crossed beyond these three Gunas out of which the body is evolved, is...

14.21 Arjuna said What are the marks of him who has transcended the three alities, O Lord? What is...

14.22 The Blessed Lord said When light, activity and delusion are present, he hates them not, nor d...

14.23 He who, seated like one unconcerned, is not moved by the alities, and who, knowing that the al...

14.24 Who is the same in pleasure and pain, who dwells in the Self, to whom a clod of earth, stone a...

14.25 Who is the same in honour and dishonour, the same to friend and foe, abandoning all undertakin...

14.26 And he who serves Me with unswerving devotion, he, crossing beyond the alities, is fit for bec...

14.27 For I am the abode of Brahman, the immortal and the immutable, of everlasting Dharma and of ab...

15.1 The Blessed Lord said They (the wise) speak of the indestructible peepul tree having its root...

15.2 Below and above spread its branches, nourished by the Gunas; sense-objects are its buds; and be...

15.3 Its form is not perceived here as such, neither its end nor its origin, nor its foundation nor...

15.4 Then That goal should be sought for, whither having gone none returns again. I seek refuge in t...

15.5 Free from pride and delusion, victorious over the evil of attachment, dwelling constantly in th...

15.6 Neither doth the sun illumine there nor the moon, nor the fire; having gone thither they return...

15.7 An eternal portion of Myself having become a living soul in the world of life, draws to (itself...

15.8 When the Lord (as the individual soul) obtains a body and when He leaves it, He takes these and...

15.9 Presiding over the ear, the eye, touch, taste and smell, as well as the mind, it enjoys the obj...

15.10 The deluded do not see Him Who departs, stays and enjoys; but they who possess the eye of know...

15.11 The Yogins striving (for perfection) behold Him dwelling in the Self; but, the unrefined and u...

15.12 That light which residing in the sun illumines the whole world, that which is in the moon and...

15.13 Permeating the earth I support all beings by (My) energy; and having become the watery moon I...

15.14 Having become the fire Vaisvanara, I abide in the body of living beings and, associated with t...

15.15 And I am seated in the hearts of all; from Me are memory and knowledge, as well as their absen...

15.16 Two Purushas there are in this world, the perishable and the imperishable. All beings are the...

15.17 But distinct is the Supreme Purusha called the highest Self, the indestructible Lord Who, perv...

15.18 As I transcend the perishable and am even higher than the imperishable, I am declared to be th...

15.19 He who, undeluded, knows Me thus as the highest Purusha, he, knowing all, worships Me with his...

15.20 Thus, this most secret science has been taught by Me, O sinless one; on knowing this, a man be...

16.1 The Blessed Lord said Fearlessness, purity of heart, steadfastness in knowledge and Yoga, alms...

16.2 Harmlessness, truth, absence of anger, renunciation, peacefulness, absence of crookedness, comp...

16.3 Vigour, forgiveness, fortitude, purity, absence of hatred, absence of pride these belong to th...

16.4 Hypocrisy, arrogance and self-conceit, anger and also harshness and ignorance, belong to one wh...

16.5 The divine nature is deemed conducive to liberation, and the demoniacal to bondage. Grieve not,...

16.6 There are two types of beings in this world, the divine and the demoniacal; the divine has been...

16.7 The demoniacal know not what to do and what to refrain from; neither purity, nor right conduct...

16.8 They say, "This universe is without truth, without (moral) basis, without a God, brought about...

16.9 Holding this view, these ruined souls of small intellect and fierce deeds, come forth as the en...

16.10 Filled with insatiable desires, full of hypocrisy, pride and arrogance, holding evil ideas thr...

16.11 Giving themselves over to immeasurable cares ending only with death, regarding gratification o...

16.12 Bound by a hundred ties of hope, given over to lust and anger, they strive to obtain by unlawf...

16.13 "This has been gained by me today; this desire of mine I shall fuffil; this is mine and this w...

16.14 "That enemy has been slain by me; and others also I shall slay. I am the lord. I enjoy. I am p...

16.15 "I am rich and born in a noble family. Who else is equal to me? I shall perform sacrifices. I...

16.16 Bewildered by many a fancy, entangled in the snare of delusion, addicted to the gratification...

16.17 Self-conceited, stubborn, filled with the pride and intoxication of wealth, they perform sacri...

16.18 Given over to egoism, power, haughtiness, lust and anger, these malicious people hate Me in th...

16.19 Those cruel haters, worst among men in the world, I hurl those evil-doers into the wombs of de...

16.20 Entering into demoniacal wombs and deluded, birth after birth, not attaining Me, they thus fal...

16.21 Triple is the gate of this hell, destructive of the self lust, anger and greed; therefore one...

16.22 A man who is liberated from these three gates to darkness, O Arjuna, practises what is good fo...

16.23 He who, having cast aside the ordinances of the scriptures, acts under the impulse of desire,...

16.24 Therefore, let the scripture be thy authority in determining what ought to be done and what ou...

17.1 Arjuna said Those who, setting aside the ordinances of the scriptures, perform sacrifice with...

17.2 The Blessed Lord said Threefold is the faith of the embodied, which is inherent in their natur...

17.3 The faith of each is in accordance with his nature, O Arjuna. The man consists of his faith; as...

17.4 The Sattvic or the pure men worship the gods; the Rajasic or the passionate worship the Yakshas...

17.5 Those men who practise terrific austerities not enjoined by the scriptures, given to hypocrisy...

17.6 Senseless, torturing all the elements in the body and Me also, Who dwell in the body, know tho...

17.7 The food also which is dear to each is threefold, as also sacrifice, austerity and almsgiving....

17.8 The foods which increase life, purity, strength, health, joy and cheerfulness (good appetite),...

17.9 The foods that are bitter, sour, saline, excessively hot, pungent, dry and burning, are liked b...

17.10 That which is state, tasteless, putrid, rotten, refuse and impure, is the food liked by the Ta...

17.11 That sacrifice which is offered by men without desire for reward as enjoined by the ordinance...

17.12 The sacrifice which is offered, O Arjuna, seeking a reward and for ostentation, know thou that...

17.13 They declare that sacrifice to be Tamasic which is contrary to the ordinances of the scripture...

17.14 Worship of the gods, the twice-born, the teachers and the wise, purity, straightforwardness, c...

17.15 Speech which causes no excitement, truthful, pleasant and beneficial, the practice of the stud...

17.16 Serenity of mind, good-heartedness, self-control, purity of nature this is called mental aust...

17.17 This threefold austerity, practised by steadfast men, with the utmost faith, desiring no rewar...

17.18 The austerity which is practised with the object of gaining good reception, honour and worship...

17.19 That austerity which is practised out of a foolish notion, with self-torture, or for the purpo...

17.20 That gift which is given to one who does nothing in return, knowing it to be a duty to give in...

17.21 And, that gift which is given with a view to receive something in return, or looking for a rew...

17.22 The gift that is given at a wrong place and time, to unworthy persons, without respect or with...

17.23 "Om Tat Sat": This has been declared to be the triple designation of Brahman. By that were cre...

17.24 Therefore, with the utterance of "Om" are the acts of sacrifice, gift and austerity as enjoine...

17.25 Uttering ï1Tatï1, without aiming at the fruits, are the acts of sacrifice and austerity and th...

17.26 The word ï1Satï1 is used in the sense of reality and of goodness; and so also, O Arjuna, the w...

17.27 Steadfastness in sacrifice, austerity and gift, is also called 'Sat' and also action in connec...

17.28 Whatever is sacrificed, given or performed, and whatever austerity is practised without faith,...

18.1 Arjuna said I desire to know severally, O mighty-armed, the essence or truth of renunciation,...

18.2 The Blessed Lord said The sages understand Sannyasa to be the renunciation of action with desi...

18.3 Some philosophers declare that actions should be abandoned as an evil; while others (declare) t...

18.4 Hear from Me the conclusion or the final truth about this abandonment, O best of the Bharatas;...

18.5 Acts of sacrifice, gift and austerity should not be abandoned, but should be performed; sacrifi...

18.6 But even these actions should be performed leaving aside attachment and the desire for rewards,...

18.7 Verily the renunciation of obligatory action is not proper; the abandonment of the same from de...

18.8 He who abandons action on account of the fear of bodily trouble (because it is painful), does n...

18.9 Whatever obligatory action is done, O Arjuna, merely because it ought to be done, abandoning at...

18.10 The man of renunciation, pervaded by purity, intelligent, and with his doubts cut asunder, doe...

18.11 Verily, it is not possible for an embodied being to abandon actions entirely; but he who relin...

18.12 The threefold fruit of action (evil, good and mixed) accrues after death to the non-abandoners...

18.13 Learn from Me, O mighty-armed Arjuna, these five causes as declared in the Sankhya system for...

18.14 The seat (body), the doer, the various senses, the different functions of various sorts, and t...

18.15 Whatever action a man performs with his body, speech and mind whether right or the reverse t...

18.16 Now, such being the case, verily he who owing to untrained understanding looks upon his Self...

18.17 He who is free from the egoistic notion, whose intelligence is not tainted (by good or evil),...

18.18 Knowledge, the knowable and the knower form the threefold impulse to action; the organ, the ac...

18.19 Knowledge, action and actor are declared in the science of the Gunas (Sankhya philosophy) to b...

18.20 That by which one sees the one indestructible Reality in all beings, not separate in all the s...

18.21 But that knowledge which sees in all beings various entities of distinct kinds as different fr...

18.22 But that which clings to one single effect as if it were the whole, without reason, without fo...

18.23 An action which is ordained, which is free from attachment, and which is done without love or...

18.24 But that action which is done by one longing for the fulfilment of desires or gain with egoism...

18.25 That action which is undertaken from delusion, without a regard for the conseences, loss, inju...

18.26 An agent who is free from attachment, non-egoistic, endowed with firmness and enthusiasm, and...

18.27 Passionate, desiring to obtain the reward of actions, greedy, cruel, impure, moved by joy and...

18.28 Unsteady, vulgar, unbending, cheating, malicious, lazy, desponding and procrastinating such a...

18.29 Hear thou the threefold division of intellect and firmness according to the Gunas, as I declar...

18.30 The intellect which knows the path of work and renunciation, what ought to be done and what ou...

18.31 That, by which one wrongly understands Dharma and Adharma and also what ought to be done and w...

18.32 That, which, enveloped in darkness, sees Adharma as Dharma and all things perverted that inte...

18.33 The unwavering firmness by which, through Yoga, the functions of the mind, the life-force and...

18.34 But that, O Arjuna, by which, on account of attachment and desire for reward, one holds fast t...

18.35 That, by which a stupid man does not abandon sleep, fear, grief, despair and also conceit tha...

18.36 And now hear from Me, O Arjuna, of the threefold pleasure, in which one rejoices by practice a...

18.37 That which is like poison at first but in the end like nectar that happiness is declared to b...

18.38 That happiness which arises from the contact of the sense-organs with the objects, which is at...

18.39 That happiness which at first as well as in the seel deludes the self, and which arises from s...

18.40 There is no being on earth or again in heaven among the gods, that is liberated from the three...

18.41 Of Brahmanas, Kshatriyas and Vaisyas, as also of Sudras, O Arjuna, the duties are distributed...

18.42 Serenity, self-restraint, austerity, purity, forgiveness and also uprightness, knowledge, real...

18.43 Prowess, splendour, firmness, dexterity and also not fleeing from battle, generosity and lordl...

18.44 Agriculture, cattle-rearing and trade are the duties of the Vaisya (merchant), born of (their...

5.10 He who does actions, offering them to Brahman, and abandoning attachment, is not tainted by sin...

18.46 He from Whom all the beings have evolved and by Whom all this is pervaded worshipping Him wit...

18.47 Better is one's own duty (though) destitute of merits, than the duty of another well performed...

18.48 One should not abandon, O Arjuna, the duty to which one is born, though faulty; for, all under...

18.49 He whose intellect is unattached everywhere, who has subdued his self, from whom desire has fl...

18.50 Learn from Me in brief, O Arjuna, how he who has attained perfection reaches Brahman (the Eter...

18.51 Endowed with a pure intellect, controlling the self by firmness, relinishing sound and other o...

18.52 Dwelling in solitude, eating but little, with speech, body and mind subdued, always engaged in...

18.53 Having abandoned egoism, strength, arrogance, desire, anger and covetousness, and free from th...

18.54 Becoming Brahman, serene in the Self, he neither grieves nor desires, the same to all beings,...

18.55 By devotion he knows Me in truth, what and who I am; then having known Me in truth, he forthwi...

18.56 Doing all actions always having taken refuge in Me, by My grace he obtains the eternal indestr...

18.57 Mentally renouncing all actions in Me, having Me as the highest goal, resorting to the Yoga of...

18.58 Fixing thy mind on Me, thou shalt by My grace overcome all obstacles; but if from egoism thou...

18.59 If, filled with egoism, thou thinkest: "I will not fight", vain is this, thy resolve; Nature w...

18.60 O Arjuna, bound by thy own Karma (action) born of thy own nature, that which from delusion tho...

18.61 The Lord dwells in the hearts of all beings, O Arjuna, causing all beings, by His illusive pow...

18.62 Fly unto Him for refuge with all thy being, O Arjuna; by His grace thou shalt obtain supreme p...

18.63 Thus has wisdom, more secret than secrecy itself, been declared unto thee by Me; having reflec...

18.64 Hear thou again My supreme word, most secret of all; because thou art dearly beloved of Me, I...

18.65 Fix thy mind on Me, by devoted to Me, sacrifice to Me, bow down to Me. Thou shalt come even to...

18.66 Abandoning all duties, take refuge in Me alone: I will liberate thee from all sins; grieve not...

18.67 This is never to be spoken by thee to one who is devoid of austerities or devotion, nor to one...

18.68 He who with supreme devotion to Me will teach this supreme secret to My devotees, shall doubtl...

18.69 Nor is there any among men who does dearer service to Me, nor shall there be another on earth...

18.70 And he who will study this sacred dialogue of ours, by him I shall have been worshipped by the...

18.71 Also the man who hears this, full of faith and free from malice, he, too, liberated, shall att...

18.72 Has this been heard, O Arjuna, with one-pointed mind? Has the delusion of thy ignorance been d...

18.73 Arjuna said Destroyed is my delusion as I have gained my knowledge (memory) through Thy grace...

18.74 Sanjaya said Thus I have heard this wonderful dialogue between Krishna and the high-souled Ar...

18.75 Through the grace of Vyasa I have heard this supreme and most secret Yoga direct from Krishna,...

18.76 O King, remembering this wonderful and holy dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna, I rejoice aga...

18.77 And, remembering again and again, also that most wonderful form of Hari, great is my wonder, O...

18.78 Wherever is Krishna, the Lord of Yoga; wherever is Arjuna, the wielder of the bow; there are p...