{"book":"gita","title":"The Bhagavad Gita","sub":"All 18 chapters · 700 verses, plus Arjuna's opening question in chapter 13","credit":"Sanskrit and transliteration: public-domain Gita text (Unlicense dataset). English: our own plain-English rendering.","order":["1","2","3","4","5","6","7","8","9","10","11","12","13","14","15","16","17","18"],"titles":{"1":"Chapter 1 · Arjuna's Despair","2":"Chapter 2 · The Yoga of Knowledge","3":"Chapter 3 · The Yoga of Action","4":"Chapter 4 · Knowledge and Letting Go of Action","5":"Chapter 5 · The Yoga of Renunciation","6":"Chapter 6 · The Yoga of Meditation","7":"Chapter 7 · Knowledge and Realisation","8":"Chapter 8 · The Imperishable","9":"Chapter 9 · The Royal Secret","10":"Chapter 10 · Divine Glories","11":"Chapter 11 · The Vision of the Cosmic Form","12":"Chapter 12 · The Yoga of Devotion","13":"Chapter 13 · The Field and Its Knower","14":"Chapter 14 · The Three Qualities of Nature","15":"Chapter 15 · The Supreme Person","16":"Chapter 16 · Divine and Demonic Traits","17":"Chapter 17 · The Three Kinds of Faith","18":"Chapter 18 · Liberation through Letting Go"},"subs":{"1":"Arjuna sees his own family in the enemy ranks and lays down his bow.","2":"Krishna begins: the self never dies, and you work without clinging to results.","3":"Why no one can stop acting, and how to act without being bound by it.","4":"An ancient teaching, why Krishna returns age after age, and the fire of knowledge.","5":"Giving up action or acting without attachment, and the peace of the free.","6":"How to meditate, how to steady a restless mind, and what happens to a yogi who slips.","7":"Krishna's lower and higher natures, and why so few people truly know him.","8":"What happens at death, the cycles of creation, and the path of no return.","9":"The royal secret: God pervades everything, and even a leaf offered in love is accepted.","10":"Krishna names the best of every kind as a glimpse of his endless glories.","11":"Arjuna asks to see Krishna's universal form and is overwhelmed by what he sees.","12":"Worshipping God with form or without form, and the devotee Krishna holds dear.","13":"The body is the field, the self is its knower, and seeing the difference sets you free.","14":"Goodness, passion and dullness: the three forces that bind us, and how to rise above them.","15":"The upside-down tree of worldly life, and the Supreme Person beyond both the passing and the lasting.","16":"The qualities that lead to freedom, the ones that lead to bondage, and the three gates of hell.","17":"Faith, food, sacrifice, discipline and giving, each shaped by the three qualities, and the meaning of Om Tat Sat.","18":"Krishna's closing teaching on renunciation and duty, his final call to surrender, and Arjuna's answer."},"sections":{"1":[{"ref":"Gita 1.1","orig":"धृतराष्ट्र उवाच\nधर्मक्षेत्रे कुरुक्षेत्रे समवेता युयुत्सवः।\nमामकाः पाण्डवाश्चैव किमकुर्वत सञ्जय॥","tr":"dhṛitarāśhtra uvācha\ndharma-kṣhetre kuru-kṣhetre samavetā yuyutsavaḥ\nmāmakāḥ pāṇḍavāśhchaiva kimakurvata sañjaya","en":"Dhritarashtra said: Sanjaya, at Kurukshetra, the field of dharma, my sons and the sons of Pandu gathered, eager to fight. What did they do?"},{"ref":"Gita 1.2","orig":"सञ्जय उवाच\nदृष्ट्वा तु पाण्डवानीकं व्यूढं दुर्योधनस्तदा।\nआचार्यमुपसङ्गम्य राजा वचनमब्रवीत्॥","tr":"sañjaya uvācha\ndṛiṣhṭvā tu pāṇḍavānīkaṁ vyūḍhaṁ duryodhanastadā\nāchāryamupasaṅgamya rājā vachanamabravīt","en":"Sanjaya said: When King Duryodhana saw the Pandava army drawn up for battle, he went to his teacher Drona and said this:"},{"ref":"Gita 1.3","orig":"पश्यैतां पाण्डुपुत्राणामाचार्य महतीं चमूम्।\nव्यूढां द्रुपदपुत्रेण तव शिष्येण धीमता॥","tr":"paśhyaitāṁ pāṇḍu-putrāṇām āchārya mahatīṁ chamūm\nvyūḍhāṁ drupada-putreṇa tava śhiṣhyeṇa dhīmatā","en":"Teacher, look at this huge army of the sons of Pandu, arranged for battle by Drupada's son, your own gifted student."},{"ref":"Gita 1.4","orig":"अत्र शूरा महेष्वासा भीमार्जुनसमा युधि।\nयुयुधानो विराटश्च द्रुपदश्च महारथः॥","tr":"atra śhūrā maheṣhvāsā bhīmārjuna-samā yudhi\nyuyudhāno virāṭaśhcha drupadaśhcha mahā-rathaḥ","en":"Here are heroes and mighty archers, as strong in battle as Bhima and Arjuna: Yuyudhana, Virata, and Drupada, a great chariot fighter."},{"ref":"Gita 1.5","orig":"धृष्टकेतुश्चेकितानः काशिराजश्च वीर्यवान्।\nपुरुजित्कुन्तिभोजश्च शैब्यश्च नरपुङ्गवः॥","tr":"dhṛiṣhṭaketuśhchekitānaḥ kāśhirājaśhcha vīryavān\npurujit kuntibhojaśhcha śhaibyaśhcha nara-puṅgavaḥ","en":"Dhrishtaketu, Chekitana, and the brave king of Kashi; Purujit, Kuntibhoja, and Shaibya, a leader among men."},{"ref":"Gita 1.6","orig":"युधामन्युश्च विक्रान्त उत्तमौजाश्च वीर्यवान्।\nसौभद्रो द्रौपदेयाश्च सर्व एव महारथाः॥","tr":"yudhāmanyuśhcha vikrānta uttamaujāśhcha vīryavān\nsaubhadro draupadeyāśhcha sarva eva mahā-rathāḥ","en":"Bold Yudhamanyu and brave Uttamaujas, the son of Subhadra, and the sons of Draupadi: every one of them a great chariot fighter."},{"ref":"Gita 1.7","orig":"अस्माकं तु विशिष्टा ये तान्निबोध द्विजोत्तम।\nनायका मम सैन्यस्य संज्ञार्थं तान्ब्रवीमि ते॥","tr":"asmākaṁ tu viśhiṣhṭā ye tānnibodha dwijottama\nnāyakā mama sainyasya sanjñārthaṁ tānbravīmi te","en":"Now hear, best of the twice-born, about the finest on our side, the commanders of my army. I name them so you know them."},{"ref":"Gita 1.8","orig":"भवान्भीष्मश्च कर्णश्च कृपश्च समितिञ्जयः।\nअश्वत्थामा विकर्णश्च सौमदत्तिस्तथैव च॥","tr":"bhavānbhīṣhmaśhcha karṇaśhcha kṛipaśhcha samitiñjayaḥ\naśhvatthāmā vikarṇaśhcha saumadattis tathaiva cha","en":"You yourself, Bhishma, Karna, and Kripa, winner of battles; Ashvatthama, Vikarna, and the son of Somadatta too."},{"ref":"Gita 1.9","orig":"अन्ये च बहवः शूरा मदर्थे त्यक्तजीविताः।\nनानाशस्त्रप्रहरणाः सर्वे युद्धविशारदाः॥","tr":"anye cha bahavaḥ śhūrā madarthe tyaktajīvitāḥ\nnānā-śhastra-praharaṇāḥ sarve yuddha-viśhāradāḥ","en":"And many other heroes ready to give their lives for me, armed with all kinds of weapons, every one of them skilled in war."},{"ref":"Gita 1.10","orig":"अपर्याप्तं तदस्माकं बलं भीष्माभिरक्षितम्।\nपर्याप्तं त्विदमेतेषां बलं भीमाभिरक्षितम्॥","tr":"aparyāptaṁ tadasmākaṁ balaṁ bhīṣhmābhirakṣhitam\nparyāptaṁ tvidameteṣhāṁ balaṁ bhīmābhirakṣhitam","en":"Our army, guarded by Bhishma, is beyond measure, while theirs, guarded by Bhima, is limited."},{"ref":"Gita 1.11","orig":"अयनेषु च सर्वेषु यथाभागमवस्थिताः।\nभीष्ममेवाभिरक्षन्तु भवन्तः सर्व एव हि॥","tr":"ayaneṣhu cha sarveṣhu yathā-bhāgamavasthitāḥ\nbhīṣhmamevābhirakṣhantu bhavantaḥ sarva eva hi","en":"So all of you, holding your places at every point along the lines, must protect Bhishma above all."},{"ref":"Gita 1.12","orig":"तस्य संजनयन्हर्षं कुरुवृद्धः पितामहः।\nसिंहनादं विनद्योच्चैः शङ्खं दध्मौ प्रतापवान्॥","tr":"tasya sañjanayan harṣhaṁ kuru-vṛiddhaḥ pitāmahaḥ\nsiṁha-nādaṁ vinadyochchaiḥ śhaṅkhaṁ dadhmau pratāpavān","en":"Then, to cheer Duryodhana, the mighty Bhishma, grandfather and eldest of the Kurus, roared like a lion and blew his conch."},{"ref":"Gita 1.13","orig":"ततः शङ्खाश्च भेर्यश्च पणवानकगोमुखाः।\nसहसैवाभ्यहन्यन्त स शब्दस्तुमुलोऽभवत्॥","tr":"tataḥ śhaṅkhāśhcha bheryaśhcha paṇavānaka-gomukhāḥ\nsahasaivābhyahanyanta sa śhabdastumulo ’bhavat","en":"At once conches and kettledrums, tabors, drums and horns all sounded together, and the noise was tremendous."},{"ref":"Gita 1.14","orig":"ततः श्वेतैर्हयैर्युक्ते महति स्यन्दने स्थितौ।\nमाधवः पाण्डवश्चैव दिव्यौ शङ्खौ प्रदध्मतुः॥","tr":"tataḥ śhvetairhayairyukte mahati syandane sthitau\nmādhavaḥ pāṇḍavaśhchaiva divyau śhaṅkhau pradadhmatuḥ","en":"Then Krishna and Arjuna, standing in their great chariot yoked to white horses, blew their divine conches."},{"ref":"Gita 1.15","orig":"पाञ्चजन्यं हृषीकेशो देवदत्तं धनंजयः।\nपौण्ड्रं दध्मौ महाशङ्खं भीमकर्मा वृकोदरः॥","tr":"pāñchajanyaṁ hṛiṣhīkeśho devadattaṁ dhanañjayaḥ\npauṇḍraṁ dadhmau mahā-śhaṅkhaṁ bhīma-karmā vṛikodaraḥ","en":"Krishna blew Panchajanya, Arjuna blew Devadatta, and Bhima, fierce in his deeds, blew his great conch Paundra."},{"ref":"Gita 1.16","orig":"अनन्तविजयं राजा कुन्तीपुत्रो युधिष्ठिरः।\nनकुलः सहदेवश्च सुघोषमणिपुष्पकौ॥","tr":"anantavijayaṁ rājā kuntī-putro yudhiṣhṭhiraḥ\nnakulaḥ sahadevaśhcha sughoṣha-maṇipuṣhpakau","en":"King Yudhishthira, son of Kunti, blew Anantavijaya, and Nakula and Sahadeva blew Sughosha and Manipushpaka."},{"ref":"Gita 1.17","orig":"काश्यश्च परमेष्वासः शिखण्डी च महारथः।\nधृष्टद्युम्नो विराटश्च सात्यकिश्चापराजितः॥","tr":"kāśhyaśhcha parameṣhvāsaḥ śhikhaṇḍī cha mahā-rathaḥ\ndhṛiṣhṭadyumno virāṭaśhcha sātyakiśh chāparājitaḥ","en":"The king of Kashi, a superb archer, Shikhandi the great chariot fighter, Dhrishtadyumna, Virata, and Satyaki, who was never defeated,"},{"ref":"Gita 1.18","orig":"द्रुपदो द्रौपदेयाश्च सर्वशः पृथिवीपते।\nसौभद्रश्च महाबाहुः शङ्खान्दध्मुः पृथक्पृथक्॥","tr":"drupado draupadeyāśhcha sarvaśhaḥ pṛithivī-pate\nsaubhadraśhcha mahā-bāhuḥ śhaṅkhāndadhmuḥ pṛithak pṛithak","en":"Drupada and the sons of Draupadi, and the strong-armed son of Subhadra, O lord of the earth, each blew his own conch."},{"ref":"Gita 1.19","orig":"स घोषो धार्तराष्ट्राणां हृदयानि व्यदारयत्।\nनभश्च पृथिवीं चैव तुमुलो व्यनुनादयन्॥","tr":"sa ghoṣho dhārtarāṣhṭrāṇāṁ hṛidayāni vyadārayat\nnabhaśhcha pṛithivīṁ chaiva tumulo nunādayan","en":"That uproar, echoing through sky and earth, tore at the hearts of Dhritarashtra's sons."},{"ref":"Gita 1.20","orig":"अथ व्यवस्थितान् दृष्ट्वा धार्तराष्ट्रान्कपिध्वजः।\nप्रवृत्ते शस्त्रसंपाते धनुरुद्यम्य पाण्डवः॥","tr":"atha vyavasthitān dṛiṣhṭvā dhārtarāṣhṭrān kapi-dhwajaḥ\npravṛitte śhastra-sampāte dhanurudyamya pāṇḍavaḥ","en":"Then Arjuna, whose banner bears the monkey, saw Dhritarashtra's sons lined up. As the weapons were about to fly, he raised his bow."},{"ref":"Gita 1.21","orig":"अर्जुन उवाच\nहृषीकेशं तदा वाक्यमिदमाह महीपते।\nसेनयोरुभयोर्मध्ये रथं स्थापय मेऽच्युत॥","tr":"arjuna uvācha\nhṛiṣhīkeśhaṁ tadā vākyam idam āha mahī-pate\nsenayor ubhayor madhye rathaṁ sthāpaya me ’chyuta","en":"And he spoke these words to Krishna, O king. Arjuna said: Krishna, steadfast one, place my chariot between the two armies,"},{"ref":"Gita 1.22","orig":"यावदेतान्निरीक्षेऽहं योद्धुकामानवस्थितान्।\nकैर्मया सह योद्धव्यमस्मिन्रणसमुद्यमे॥","tr":"yāvadetān nirīkṣhe ’haṁ yoddhu-kāmān avasthitān\nkairmayā saha yoddhavyam asmin raṇa-samudyame","en":"so that I can look at those standing here eager to fight, and see whom I must fight in this coming battle."},{"ref":"Gita 1.23","orig":"योत्स्यमानानवेक्षेऽहं य एतेऽत्र समागताः।\nधार्तराष्ट्रस्य दुर्बुद्धेर्युद्धे प्रियचिकीर्षवः॥","tr":"yotsyamānān avekṣhe ’haṁ ya ete ’tra samāgatāḥ\ndhārtarāṣhṭrasya durbuddher yuddhe priya-chikīrṣhavaḥ","en":"I want to see the ones who have gathered here ready for war, hoping to please Dhritarashtra's wrong-minded son."},{"ref":"Gita 1.24","orig":"संजय उवाच\nएवमुक्तो हृषीकेशो गुडाकेशेन भारत।\nसेनयोरुभयोर्मध्ये स्थापयित्वा रथोत्तमम्॥","tr":"sañjaya uvācha\nevam ukto hṛiṣhīkeśho guḍākeśhena bhārata\nsenayor ubhayor madhye sthāpayitvā rathottamam","en":"Sanjaya said: O king, when Arjuna said this, Krishna drove that finest of chariots into the space between the two armies,"},{"ref":"Gita 1.25","orig":"भीष्मद्रोणप्रमुखतः सर्वेषां च महीक्षिताम्।\nउवाच पार्थ पश्यैतान्समवेतान्कुरूनिति॥","tr":"bhīṣhma-droṇa-pramukhataḥ sarveṣhāṁ cha mahī-kṣhitām\nuvācha pārtha paśhyaitān samavetān kurūn iti","en":"facing Bhishma, Drona and all the rulers of the earth, and said: Arjuna, look at all the Kurus gathered here."},{"ref":"Gita 1.26","orig":"तत्रापश्यत्स्थितान्पार्थः पितृ़नथ पितामहान्।\nआचार्यान्मातुलान्भ्रातृ़न्पुत्रान्पौत्रान्सखींस्तथा॥","tr":"tatrāpaśhyat sthitān pārthaḥ pitṝīn atha pitāmahān\nāchāryān mātulān bhrātṝīn putrān pautrān sakhīṁs tathā","en":"There Arjuna saw fathers and grandfathers, teachers, uncles, brothers, sons, grandsons and friends,"},{"ref":"Gita 1.27","orig":"श्वशुरान्सुहृदश्चैव सेनयोरुभयोरपि।\nतान्समीक्ष्य स कौन्तेयः सर्वान्बन्धूनवस्थितान्॥","tr":"śhvaśhurān suhṛidaśh chaiva senayor ubhayor api\ntān samīkṣhya sa kaunteyaḥ sarvān bandhūn avasthitān","en":"fathers-in-law and dear friends, in both armies. Looking at all these relatives standing there, the son of Kunti"},{"ref":"Gita 1.28","orig":"अर्जुन उवाच\nकृपया परयाऽऽविष्टो विषीदन्निदमब्रवीत्।\nदृष्ट्वेमं स्वजनं कृष्ण युयुत्सुं समुपस्थितम्॥","tr":"arjuna uvācha\nkṛipayā parayāviṣhṭo viṣhīdann idam abravīt\ndṛiṣhṭvemaṁ sva-janaṁ kṛiṣhṇa yuyutsuṁ samupasthitam","en":"was overcome with deep pity, and in despair he spoke. Arjuna said: Krishna, when I see my own people here, eager to fight,"},{"ref":"Gita 1.29","orig":"सीदन्ति मम गात्राणि मुखं च परिशुष्यति।\nवेपथुश्च शरीरे मे रोमहर्षश्च जायते॥","tr":"sīdanti mama gātrāṇi mukhaṁ cha pariśhuṣhyati\nvepathuśh cha śharīre me roma-harṣhaśh cha jāyate","en":"my limbs give way and my mouth goes dry. My body trembles and my hair stands on end."},{"ref":"Gita 1.30","orig":"गाण्डीवं स्रंसते हस्तात्त्वक्चैव परिदह्यते।\nन च शक्नोम्यवस्थातुं भ्रमतीव च मे मनः॥","tr":"gāṇḍīvaṁ sraṁsate hastāt tvak chaiva paridahyate\nna cha śhaknomy avasthātuṁ bhramatīva cha me manaḥ","en":"My bow Gandiva slips from my hand and my skin is burning. I cannot stand steady, and my mind is spinning."},{"ref":"Gita 1.31","orig":"निमित्तानि च पश्यामि विपरीतानि केशव।\nन च श्रेयोऽनुपश्यामि हत्वा स्वजनमाहवे॥","tr":"nimittāni cha paśhyāmi viparītāni keśhava\nna cha śhreyo ’nupaśhyāmi hatvā sva-janam āhave","en":"Krishna, I see bad omens. I can see nothing good in killing my own people in battle."},{"ref":"Gita 1.32","orig":"न काङ्क्षे विजयं कृष्ण न च राज्यं सुखानि च।\nकिं नो राज्येन गोविन्द किं भोगैर्जीवितेन वा॥","tr":"na kāṅkṣhe vijayaṁ kṛiṣhṇa na cha rājyaṁ sukhāni cha\nkiṁ no rājyena govinda kiṁ bhogair jīvitena vā","en":"I do not want victory, Krishna, or a kingdom, or pleasures. What use is a kingdom to us, Govinda, or comfort, or even life?"},{"ref":"Gita 1.33","orig":"येषामर्थे काङ्क्षितं नो राज्यं भोगाः सुखानि च।\nत इमेऽवस्थिता युद्धे प्राणांस्त्यक्त्वा धनानि च॥","tr":"yeṣhām arthe kāṅkṣhitaṁ no rājyaṁ bhogāḥ sukhāni cha\nta ime ’vasthitā yuddhe prāṇāṁs tyaktvā dhanāni cha","en":"The very people for whose sake we wanted a kingdom, comfort and pleasure stand here in battle, ready to give up their lives and their wealth:"},{"ref":"Gita 1.34","orig":"आचार्याः पितरः पुत्रास्तथैव च पितामहाः।\nमातुलाः श्चशुराः पौत्राः श्यालाः सम्बन्धिनस्तथा॥","tr":"āchāryāḥ pitaraḥ putrās tathaiva cha pitāmahāḥ\nmātulāḥ śhvaśhurāḥ pautrāḥ śhyālāḥ sambandhinas tathā","en":"teachers, fathers, sons and grandfathers, uncles, fathers-in-law, grandsons, brothers-in-law and other kin."},{"ref":"Gita 1.35","orig":"एतान्न हन्तुमिच्छामि घ्नतोऽपि मधुसूदन।\nअपि त्रैलोक्यराज्यस्य हेतोः किं नु महीकृते॥","tr":"etān na hantum ichchhāmi ghnato ’pi madhusūdana\napi trailokya-rājyasya hetoḥ kiṁ nu mahī-kṛite","en":"I do not want to kill them, Krishna, even if they kill me. Not even for rule over the three worlds, let alone for this earth."},{"ref":"Gita 1.36","orig":"निहत्य धार्तराष्ट्रान्नः का प्रीतिः स्याज्जनार्दन।\nपापमेवाश्रयेदस्मान्हत्वैतानाततायिनः॥","tr":"nihatya dhārtarāṣhṭrān naḥ kā prītiḥ syāj janārdana\npāpam evāśhrayed asmān hatvaitān ātatāyinaḥ","en":"What joy could we have in killing Dhritarashtra's sons, Krishna? Only wrong would cling to us if we killed these aggressors."},{"ref":"Gita 1.37","orig":"तस्मान्नार्हा वयं हन्तुं धार्तराष्ट्रान्स्वबान्धवान्।\nस्वजनं हि कथं हत्वा सुखिनः स्याम माधव॥","tr":"tasmān nārhā vayaṁ hantuṁ dhārtarāṣhṭrān sa-bāndhavān\nsva-janaṁ hi kathaṁ hatvā sukhinaḥ syāma mādhava","en":"So we should not kill Dhritarashtra's sons, our own relatives. How could we be happy after killing our own people, Krishna?"},{"ref":"Gita 1.38","orig":"यद्यप्येते न पश्यन्ति लोभोपहतचेतसः।\nकुलक्षयकृतं दोषं मित्रद्रोहे च पातकम्॥","tr":"yady apy ete na paśhyanti lobhopahata-chetasaḥ\nkula-kṣhaya-kṛitaṁ doṣhaṁ mitra-drohe cha pātakam","en":"Even if they, their minds clouded by greed, see no evil in destroying a family and no crime in betraying friends,"},{"ref":"Gita 1.39","orig":"कथं न ज्ञेयमस्माभिः पापादस्मान्निवर्तितुम्।\nकुलक्षयकृतं दोषं प्रपश्यद्भिर्जनार्दन॥","tr":"kathaṁ na jñeyam asmābhiḥ pāpād asmān nivartitum\nkula-kṣhaya-kṛitaṁ doṣhaṁ prapaśhyadbhir janārdana","en":"why should we, who clearly see the evil of destroying a family, not know to turn away from this wrong, Krishna?"},{"ref":"Gita 1.40","orig":"कुलक्षये प्रणश्यन्ति कुलधर्माः सनातनाः।\nधर्मे नष्टे कुलं कृत्स्नमधर्मोऽभिभवत्युत॥","tr":"kula-kṣhaye praṇaśhyanti kula-dharmāḥ sanātanāḥ\ndharme naṣhṭe kulaṁ kṛitsnam adharmo ’bhibhavaty uta","en":"When a family is destroyed, its age-old traditions die. When those traditions are lost, lawlessness takes over the whole family."},{"ref":"Gita 1.41","orig":"अधर्माभिभवात्कृष्ण प्रदुष्यन्ति कुलस्त्रियः।\nस्त्रीषु दुष्टासु वार्ष्णेय जायते वर्णसङ्करः॥","tr":"adharmābhibhavāt kṛiṣhṇa praduṣhyanti kula-striyaḥ\nstrīṣhu duṣhṭāsu vārṣhṇeya jāyate varṇa-saṅkaraḥ","en":"When lawlessness takes over, Krishna, the women of the family are corrupted, and from that comes a breakdown of the social order."},{"ref":"Gita 1.42","orig":"सङ्करो नरकायैव कुलघ्नानां कुलस्य च।\nपतन्ति पितरो ह्येषां लुप्तपिण्डोदकक्रियाः॥","tr":"saṅkaro narakāyaiva kula-ghnānāṁ kulasya cha\npatanti pitaro hy eṣhāṁ lupta-piṇḍodaka-kriyāḥ","en":"That breakdown drags both the family and those who destroyed it into hell. Their ancestors fall too, cut off from the offerings of rice and water."},{"ref":"Gita 1.43","orig":"दोषैरेतैः कुलघ्नानां वर्णसङ्करकारकैः।\nउत्साद्यन्ते जातिधर्माः कुलधर्माश्च शाश्वताः॥","tr":"doṣhair etaiḥ kula-ghnānāṁ varṇa-saṅkara-kārakaiḥ\nutsādyante jāti-dharmāḥ kula-dharmāśh cha śhāśhvatāḥ","en":"Through these wrongs of the family-destroyers, which break down the social order, the lasting duties of community and family are wiped out."},{"ref":"Gita 1.44","orig":"उत्सन्नकुलधर्माणां मनुष्याणां जनार्दन।\nनरकेऽनियतं वासो भवतीत्यनुशुश्रुम॥","tr":"utsanna-kula-dharmāṇāṁ manuṣhyāṇāṁ janārdana\nnarake ‘niyataṁ vāso bhavatītyanuśhuśhruma","en":"Krishna, we have heard that people whose family traditions are destroyed live in hell for an unknown time."},{"ref":"Gita 1.45","orig":"अहो बत महत्पापं कर्तुं व्यवसिता वयम्।\nयद्राज्यसुखलोभेन हन्तुं स्वजनमुद्यताः॥","tr":"aho bata mahat pāpaṁ kartuṁ vyavasitā vayam\nyad rājya-sukha-lobhena hantuṁ sva-janam udyatāḥ","en":"Alas, what a great wrong we have set out to do, ready to kill our own people out of greed for the pleasures of a kingdom."},{"ref":"Gita 1.46","orig":"यदि मामप्रतीकारमशस्त्रं शस्त्रपाणयः।\nधार्तराष्ट्रा रणे हन्युस्तन्मे क्षेमतरं भवेत्॥","tr":"yadi mām apratīkāram aśhastraṁ śhastra-pāṇayaḥ\ndhārtarāṣhṭrā raṇe hanyus tan me kṣhemataraṁ bhavet","en":"It would be better for me if Dhritarashtra's sons, weapons in hand, killed me in battle, unarmed and not fighting back."},{"ref":"Gita 1.47","orig":"सञ्जय उवाच\nएवमुक्त्वाऽर्जुनः संख्ये रथोपस्थ उपाविशत्।\nविसृज्य सशरं चापं शोकसंविग्नमानसः॥","tr":"sañjaya uvācha\nevam uktvārjunaḥ saṅkhye rathopastha upāviśhat\nvisṛijya sa-śharaṁ chāpaṁ śhoka-saṁvigna-mānasaḥ","en":"Sanjaya said: Having said this on the battlefield, Arjuna dropped his bow and arrows and sank down onto the seat of his chariot, his mind overwhelmed with grief."}],"2":[{"ref":"Gita 2.1","orig":"सञ्जय उवाच\nतं तथा कृपयाऽविष्टमश्रुपूर्णाकुलेक्षणम्।\nविषीदन्तमिदं वाक्यमुवाच मधुसूदनः॥","tr":"sañjaya uvācha\ntaṁ tathā kṛipayāviṣhṭamaśhru pūrṇākulekṣhaṇam\nviṣhīdantamidaṁ vākyam uvācha madhusūdanaḥ","en":"Sanjaya said: Arjuna was overcome with pity, his eyes troubled and full of tears, sinking into despair. Krishna spoke these words to him."},{"ref":"Gita 2.2","orig":"श्री भगवानुवाच\nकुतस्त्वा कश्मलमिदं विषमे समुपस्थितम्।\nअनार्यजुष्टमस्वर्ग्यमकीर्तिकरमर्जुन॥","tr":"śhrī bhagavān uvācha\nkutastvā kaśhmalamidaṁ viṣhame samupasthitam\nanārya-juṣhṭamaswargyam akīrti-karam arjuna","en":"Krishna said: Arjuna, where does this weakness come from at such a critical hour? It is not fitting for a noble person. It does not lead to heaven, and it brings disgrace."},{"ref":"Gita 2.3","orig":"क्लैब्यं मा स्म गमः पार्थ नैतत्त्वय्युपपद्यते।\nक्षुद्रं हृदयदौर्बल्यं त्यक्त्वोत्तिष्ठ परन्तप॥","tr":"klaibyaṁ mā sma gamaḥ pārtha naitat tvayyupapadyate\nkṣhudraṁ hṛidaya-daurbalyaṁ tyaktvottiṣhṭha parantapa","en":"Do not give in to this unmanliness, son of Pritha. It does not suit you. Shake off this petty faint-heartedness and stand up, you who scorch your enemies."},{"ref":"Gita 2.4","orig":"अर्जुन उवाच\nकथं भीष्ममहं संख्ये द्रोणं च मधुसूदन।\nइषुभिः प्रतियोत्स्यामि पूजार्हावरिसूदन॥","tr":"arjuna uvācha\nkathaṁ bhīṣhmam ahaṁ sankhye droṇaṁ cha madhusūdana\niṣhubhiḥ pratiyotsyāmi pūjārhāvari-sūdana","en":"Arjuna said: Krishna, how can I fire arrows in battle at Bhishma and Drona? They deserve my reverence."},{"ref":"Gita 2.5","orig":"गुरूनहत्वा हि महानुभावान्\nश्रेयो भोक्तुं भैक्ष्यमपीह लोके।\nहत्वार्थकामांस्तु गुरूनिहैव\nभुञ्जीय भोगान् रुधिरप्रदिग्धान्॥","tr":"gurūnahatvā hi mahānubhāvān\nśhreyo bhoktuṁ bhaikṣhyamapīha loke\nhatvārtha-kāmāṁstu gurūnihaiva\nbhuñjīya bhogān rudhira-pradigdhān","en":"It would be better to live in this world even by begging than to kill these great-souled teachers. If I kill my teachers, even for the sake of gain, every pleasure I enjoy here will be stained with blood."},{"ref":"Gita 2.6","orig":"न चैतद्विद्मः कतरन्नो गरीयो\nयद्वा जयेम यदि वा नो जयेयुः।\nयानेव हत्वा न जिजीविषाम\nस्तेऽवस्थिताः प्रमुखे धार्तराष्ट्राः॥","tr":"na chaitadvidmaḥ kataranno garīyo\nyadvā jayema yadi vā no jayeyuḥ\nyāneva hatvā na jijīviṣhāmas\nte ’vasthitāḥ pramukhe dhārtarāṣhṭrāḥ","en":"We do not even know which is better for us: that we defeat them, or that they defeat us. The sons of Dhritarashtra stand before us, and if we killed them we would not want to live."},{"ref":"Gita 2.7","orig":"कार्पण्यदोषोपहतस्वभावः\nपृच्छामि त्वां धर्मसंमूढचेताः।\nयच्छ्रेयः स्यान्निश्चितं ब्रूहि तन्मे\nशिष्यस्तेऽहं शाधि मां त्वां प्रपन्नम्॥","tr":"kārpaṇya-doṣhopahata-svabhāvaḥ\npṛichchhāmi tvāṁ dharma-sammūḍha-chetāḥ\nyach-chhreyaḥ syānniśhchitaṁ brūhi tanme\nśhiṣhyaste ’haṁ śhādhi māṁ tvāṁ prapannam","en":"My nature is struck down by weakness and pity, and my mind is confused about what is right. I am asking you: tell me for certain what is best. I am your student. I come to you for refuge. Teach me."},{"ref":"Gita 2.8","orig":"न हि प्रपश्यामि ममापनुद्या\nद्यच्छोकमुच्छोषणमिन्द्रियाणाम्।\nअवाप्य भूमावसपत्नमृद्धम्\nराज्यं सुराणामपि चाधिपत्यम्॥","tr":"na hi prapaśhyāmi mamāpanudyād\nyach-chhokam uchchhoṣhaṇam-indriyāṇām\navāpya bhūmāv-asapatnamṛiddhaṁ\nrājyaṁ surāṇāmapi chādhipatyam","en":"I see nothing that could drive away this grief that is drying up my senses, not even winning a rich, unrivalled kingdom on earth, or even rule over the gods."},{"ref":"Gita 2.9","orig":"सञ्जय उवाच\nएवमुक्त्वा हृषीकेशं गुडाकेशः परन्तप।\nन योत्स्य इति गोविन्दमुक्त्वा तूष्णीं बभूव ह॥","tr":"sañjaya uvācha\nevam-uktvā hṛiṣhīkeśhaṁ guḍākeśhaḥ parantapa\nna yotsya iti govindam uktvā tūṣhṇīṁ babhūva ha","en":"Sanjaya said: Having spoken like this to Krishna, Arjuna, the scorcher of foes, said to Govinda, \"I will not fight,\" and fell silent."},{"ref":"Gita 2.10","orig":"तमुवाच हृषीकेशः प्रहसन्निव भारत।\nसेनयोरुभयोर्मध्ये विषीदन्तमिदं वचः॥","tr":"tam-uvācha hṛiṣhīkeśhaḥ prahasanniva bhārata\nsenayorubhayor-madhye viṣhīdantam-idaṁ vachaḥ","en":"Then, O king, there between the two armies, Krishna, as if smiling, spoke these words to the despairing Arjuna."},{"ref":"Gita 2.11","orig":"श्री भगवानुवाच\nअशोच्यानन्वशोचस्त्वं प्रज्ञावादांश्च भाषसे।\nगतासूनगतासूंश्च नानुशोचन्ति पण्डिताः॥","tr":"śhrī bhagavān uvācha\naśhochyān-anvaśhochas-tvaṁ prajñā-vādānśh cha bhāṣhase\ngatāsūn-agatāsūnśh-cha nānuśhochanti paṇḍitāḥ","en":"Krishna said: You grieve for those who need no grief, and yet you speak words that sound wise. The wise grieve neither for the dead nor for the living."},{"ref":"Gita 2.12","orig":"न त्वेवाहं जातु नासं न त्वं नेमे जनाधिपाः।\nन चैव न भविष्यामः सर्वे वयमतः परम्॥","tr":"na tvevāhaṁ jātu nāsaṁ na tvaṁ neme janādhipāḥ\nna chaiva na bhaviṣhyāmaḥ sarve vayamataḥ param","en":"There was never a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor these kings. And none of us will ever stop existing in the future."},{"ref":"Gita 2.13","orig":"देहिनोऽस्मिन्यथा देहे कौमारं यौवनं जरा।\nतथा देहान्तरप्राप्तिर्धीरस्तत्र न मुह्यति॥","tr":"dehino ’smin yathā dehe kaumāraṁ yauvanaṁ jarā\ntathā dehāntara-prāptir dhīras tatra na muhyati","en":"Just as the one who lives in this body passes through childhood, youth and old age, so it passes on to another body. A steady person is not thrown by this."},{"ref":"Gita 2.14","orig":"मात्रास्पर्शास्तु कौन्तेय शीतोष्णसुखदुःखदाः।\nआगमापायिनोऽनित्यास्तांस्तितिक्षस्व भारत॥","tr":"mātrā-sparśhās tu kaunteya śhītoṣhṇa-sukha-duḥkha-dāḥ\nāgamāpāyino ’nityās tans-titikṣhasva bhārata","en":"Arjuna, when the senses meet their objects, there is cold and heat, pleasure and pain. These come and go and do not last. Bear them patiently."},{"ref":"Gita 2.15","orig":"यं हि न व्यथयन्त्येते पुरुषं पुरुषर्षभ।\nसमदुःखसुखं धीरं सोऽमृतत्वाय कल्पते॥","tr":"yaṁ hi na vyathayantyete puruṣhaṁ puruṣharṣhabha\nsama-duḥkha-sukhaṁ dhīraṁ so ’mṛitatvāya kalpate","en":"The person these do not shake, who stays the same in pain and pleasure, the steady one, is fit for immortality."},{"ref":"Gita 2.16","orig":"नासतो विद्यते भावो नाभावो विद्यते सतः।\nउभयोरपि दृष्टोऽन्तस्त्वनयोस्तत्त्वदर्शिभिः॥","tr":"nāsato vidyate bhāvo nābhāvo vidyate sataḥ\nubhayorapi dṛiṣhṭo ’nta stvanayos tattva-darśhibhiḥ","en":"What is unreal never comes to be, and what is real never stops being. Those who see the truth have understood where both end."},{"ref":"Gita 2.17","orig":"अविनाशि तु तद्विद्धि येन सर्वमिदं ततम्।\nविनाशमव्ययस्यास्य न कश्चित् कर्तुमर्हति॥","tr":"avināśhi tu tadviddhi yena sarvam idaṁ tatam\nvināśham avyayasyāsya na kaśhchit kartum arhati","en":"Know that what pervades all this cannot be destroyed. No one can destroy what does not perish."},{"ref":"Gita 2.18","orig":"अन्तवन्त इमे देहा नित्यस्योक्ताः शरीरिणः।\nअनाशिनोऽप्रमेयस्य तस्माद्युध्यस्व भारत॥","tr":"antavanta ime dehā nityasyoktāḥ śharīriṇaḥ\nanāśhino ’prameyasya tasmād yudhyasva bhārata","en":"These bodies of the eternal, indestructible, immeasurable self are said to come to an end. So fight, Arjuna."},{"ref":"Gita 2.19","orig":"य एनं वेत्ति हन्तारं यश्चैनं मन्यते हतम्।\nउभौ तौ न विजानीतो नायं हन्ति न हन्यते॥","tr":"ya enaṁ vetti hantāraṁ yaśh chainaṁ manyate hatam\nubhau tau na vijānīto nāyaṁ hanti na hanyate","en":"Whoever thinks this self is a killer, and whoever thinks it is killed, both fail to understand. It does not kill, and it is not killed."},{"ref":"Gita 2.20","orig":"न जायते म्रियते वा कदाचि\nन्नायं भूत्वा भविता वा न भूयः।\nअजो नित्यः शाश्वतोऽयं पुराणो\nन हन्यते हन्यमाने शरीरे॥","tr":"na jāyate mriyate vā kadāchin\nnāyaṁ bhūtvā bhavitā vā na bhūyaḥ\najo nityaḥ śhāśhvato ’yaṁ purāṇo\nna hanyate hanyamāne śharīre","en":"It is never born and it never dies. It did not come into being and will not stop being. Unborn, eternal, everlasting and ancient, it is not killed when the body is killed."},{"ref":"Gita 2.21","orig":"वेदाविनाशिनं नित्यं य एनमजमव्ययम्।\nकथं स पुरुषः पार्थ कं घातयति हन्ति कम्॥","tr":"vedāvināśhinaṁ nityaṁ ya enam ajam avyayam\nkathaṁ sa puruṣhaḥ pārtha kaṁ ghātayati hanti kam","en":"Arjuna, if someone knows this self to be indestructible, eternal, unborn and unchanging, how can that person kill anyone, or cause anyone to kill?"},{"ref":"Gita 2.22","orig":"वासांसि जीर्णानि यथा विहाय\nनवानि गृह्णाति नरोऽपराणि।\nतथा शरीराणि विहाय जीर्णा\nन्यन्यानि संयाति नवानि देही॥","tr":"vāsānsi jīrṇāni yathā vihāya\nnavāni gṛihṇāti naro ’parāṇi\ntathā śharīrāṇi vihāya jīrṇānya\nnyāni sanyāti navāni dehī","en":"As a person throws away worn-out clothes and puts on new ones, so the one who lives in the body throws away worn-out bodies and enters new ones."},{"ref":"Gita 2.23","orig":"नैनं छिन्दन्ति शस्त्राणि नैनं दहति पावकः।\nन चैनं क्लेदयन्त्यापो न शोषयति मारुतः॥","tr":"nainaṁ chhindanti śhastrāṇi nainaṁ dahati pāvakaḥ\nna chainaṁ kledayantyāpo na śhoṣhayati mārutaḥ","en":"Weapons do not cut it, fire does not burn it, water does not wet it, and wind does not dry it."},{"ref":"Gita 2.24","orig":"अच्छेद्योऽयमदाह्योऽयमक्लेद्योऽशोष्य एव च।\nनित्यः सर्वगतः स्थाणुरचलोऽयं सनातनः॥","tr":"achchhedyo ’yam adāhyo ’yam akledyo ’śhoṣhya eva cha\nnityaḥ sarva-gataḥ sthāṇur achalo ’yaṁ sanātanaḥ","en":"It cannot be cut, burned, wetted or dried. It is eternal, present everywhere, stable, unmoving and everlasting."},{"ref":"Gita 2.25","orig":"अव्यक्तोऽयमचिन्त्योऽयमविकार्योऽयमुच्यते।\nतस्मादेवं विदित्वैनं नानुशोचितुमर्हसि॥","tr":"avyakto ’yam achintyo ’yam avikāryo ’yam uchyate\ntasmādevaṁ viditvainaṁ nānuśhochitum arhasi","en":"It is said to be unseen, beyond thought and unchanging. So, knowing it to be like this, you should not grieve."},{"ref":"Gita 2.26","orig":"अथ चैनं नित्यजातं नित्यं वा मन्यसे मृतम्।\nतथापि त्वं महाबाहो नैवं शोचितुमर्हसि॥","tr":"atha chainaṁ nitya-jātaṁ nityaṁ vā manyase mṛitam\ntathāpi tvaṁ mahā-bāho naivaṁ śhochitum arhasi","en":"And even if you think it is constantly born and constantly dies, you still should not grieve, mighty-armed one."},{"ref":"Gita 2.27","orig":"जातस्य हि ध्रुवो मृत्युर्ध्रुवं जन्म मृतस्य च।\nतस्मादपरिहार्येऽर्थे न त्वं शोचितुमर्हसि॥","tr":"jātasya hi dhruvo mṛityur dhruvaṁ janma mṛitasya cha\ntasmād aparihārye ’rthe na tvaṁ śhochitum arhasi","en":"Death is certain for whoever is born, and birth is certain for whoever dies. So you should not grieve over what cannot be avoided."},{"ref":"Gita 2.28","orig":"अव्यक्तादीनि भूतानि व्यक्तमध्यानि भारत।\nअव्यक्तनिधनान्येव तत्र का परिदेवना॥","tr":"avyaktādīni bhūtāni vyakta-madhyāni bhārata\navyakta-nidhanānyeva tatra kā paridevanā","en":"Beings are unseen in their beginning, seen in their middle, and unseen again in their end, Arjuna. What is there to mourn in that?"},{"ref":"Gita 2.29","orig":"आश्चर्यवत्पश्यति कश्चिदेन\nमाश्चर्यवद्वदति तथैव चान्यः।\nआश्चर्यवच्चैनमन्यः श्रृणोति\nश्रुत्वाप्येनं वेद न चैव कश्चित्॥","tr":"āśhcharya-vat paśhyati kaśhchid enan\nāśhcharya-vad vadati tathaiva chānyaḥ\nāśhcharya-vach chainam anyaḥ śhṛiṇoti\nśhrutvāpyenaṁ veda na chaiva kaśhchit","en":"Some see it as a wonder, some speak of it as a wonder, and others hear of it as a wonder. Yet even after hearing, no one truly knows it."},{"ref":"Gita 2.30","orig":"देही नित्यमवध्योऽयं देहे सर्वस्य भारत।\nतस्मात्सर्वाणि भूतानि न त्वं शोचितुमर्हसि॥","tr":"dehī nityam avadhyo ’yaṁ dehe sarvasya bhārata\ntasmāt sarvāṇi bhūtāni na tvaṁ śhochitum arhasi","en":"The one who lives in every body can never be killed, Arjuna. So you should not grieve for any being."},{"ref":"Gita 2.31","orig":"स्वधर्ममपि चावेक्ष्य न विकम्पितुमर्हसि।\nधर्म्याद्धि युद्धाछ्रेयोऽन्यत्क्षत्रियस्य न विद्यते॥","tr":"swa-dharmam api chāvekṣhya na vikampitum arhasi\ndharmyāddhi yuddhāch chhreyo ’nyat kṣhatriyasya na vidyate","en":"Think of your own duty too, and you should not waver. For a warrior there is nothing better than a righteous battle."},{"ref":"Gita 2.32","orig":"यदृच्छया चोपपन्नं स्वर्गद्वारमपावृतम्।\nसुखिनः क्षत्रियाः पार्थ लभन्ते युद्धमीदृशम्॥","tr":"yadṛichchhayā chopapannaṁ swarga-dvāram apāvṛitam\nsukhinaḥ kṣhatriyāḥ pārtha labhante yuddham īdṛiśham","en":"Happy are the warriors, Arjuna, who come upon a battle like this by chance. It is an open door to heaven."},{"ref":"Gita 2.33","orig":"अथ चैत्त्वमिमं धर्म्यं संग्रामं न करिष्यसि।\nततः स्वधर्मं कीर्तिं च हित्वा पापमवाप्स्यसि॥","tr":"atha chet tvam imaṁ dharmyaṁ saṅgrāmaṁ na kariṣhyasi\ntataḥ sva-dharmaṁ kīrtiṁ cha hitvā pāpam avāpsyasi","en":"But if you do not fight this righteous battle, you will abandon your duty and your honour, and you will do wrong."},{"ref":"Gita 2.34","orig":"अकीर्तिं चापि भूतानि कथयिष्यन्ति तेऽव्ययाम्।\nसंभावितस्य चाकीर्तिर्मरणादतिरिच्यते॥","tr":"akīrtiṁ chāpi bhūtāni\nkathayiṣhyanti te ’vyayām\nsambhāvitasya chākīrtir\nmaraṇād atirichyate","en":"People will speak of your disgrace forever, and for someone who has been honoured, disgrace is worse than death."},{"ref":"Gita 2.35","orig":"भयाद्रणादुपरतं मंस्यन्ते त्वां महारथाः।\nयेषां च त्वं बहुमतो भूत्वा यास्यसि लाघवम्॥","tr":"bhayād raṇād uparataṁ mansyante tvāṁ mahā-rathāḥ\nyeṣhāṁ cha tvaṁ bahu-mato bhūtvā yāsyasi lāghavam","en":"The great chariot warriors will think you fled the battle out of fear, and those who once held you in high regard will think little of you."},{"ref":"Gita 2.36","orig":"अवाच्यवादांश्च बहून् वदिष्यन्ति तवाहिताः।\nनिन्दन्तस्तव सामर्थ्यं ततो दुःखतरं नु किम्॥","tr":"avāchya-vādānśh cha bahūn vadiṣhyanti tavāhitāḥ\nnindantastava sāmarthyaṁ tato duḥkhataraṁ nu kim","en":"Your enemies will say many unspeakable things, mocking your strength. What could be more painful than that?"},{"ref":"Gita 2.37","orig":"हतो वा प्राप्स्यसि स्वर्गं जित्वा वा भोक्ष्यसे महीम्।\nतस्मादुत्तिष्ठ कौन्तेय युद्धाय कृतनिश्चयः॥","tr":"hato vā prāpsyasi swargaṁ jitvā vā bhokṣhyase mahīm\ntasmād uttiṣhṭha kaunteya yuddhāya kṛita-niśhchayaḥ","en":"If you are killed, you will reach heaven. If you win, you will enjoy the earth. So stand up, son of Kunti, determined to fight."},{"ref":"Gita 2.38","orig":"सुखदुःखे समे कृत्वा लाभालाभौ जयाजयौ।\nततो युद्धाय युज्यस्व नैवं पापमवाप्स्यसि॥","tr":"sukha-duḥkhe same kṛitvā lābhālābhau jayājayau\ntato yuddhāya yujyasva naivaṁ pāpam avāpsyasi","en":"Treat pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat as the same. Then get ready for battle. That way you will do no wrong."},{"ref":"Gita 2.39","orig":"एषा तेऽभिहिता सांख्ये बुद्धिर्योगे त्विमां श्रृणु।\nबुद्ध्यायुक्तो यया पार्थ कर्मबन्धं प्रहास्यसि॥","tr":"eṣhā te ’bhihitā sānkhye\nbuddhir yoge tvimāṁ śhṛiṇu\nbuddhyā yukto yayā pārtha\nkarma-bandhaṁ prahāsyasi","en":"This is the understanding of Sankhya, the path of knowledge, that I have explained to you. Now hear the understanding of yoga. Joined to it, Arjuna, you will break free of the bonds of action."},{"ref":"Gita 2.40","orig":"नेहाभिक्रमनाशोऽस्ति प्रत्यवायो न विद्यते।\nस्वल्पमप्यस्य धर्मस्य त्रायते महतो भयात्॥","tr":"nehābhikrama-nāśho ’sti pratyavāyo na vidyate\nsvalpam apyasya dharmasya trāyate mahato bhayāt","en":"On this path no effort is wasted and nothing works against you. Even a little of this practice protects you from great fear."},{"ref":"Gita 2.41","orig":"व्यवसायात्मिका बुद्धिरेकेह कुरुनन्दन।\nबहुशाखा ह्यनन्ताश्च बुद्धयोऽव्यवसायिनाम्॥","tr":"vyavasāyātmikā buddhir ekeha kuru-nandana\nbahu-śhākhā hyanantāśh cha buddhayo ’vyavasāyinām","en":"Here, Arjuna, the determined mind is single. The minds of the undecided branch out endlessly in every direction."},{"ref":"Gita 2.42","orig":"यामिमां पुष्पितां वाचं प्रवदन्त्यविपश्चितः।\nवेदवादरताः पार्थ नान्यदस्तीति वादिनः॥","tr":"yāmimāṁ puṣhpitāṁ vāchaṁ pravadanty-avipaśhchitaḥ\nveda-vāda-ratāḥ pārtha nānyad astīti vādinaḥ","en":"Arjuna, unwise people speak flowery words. They delight in the letter of the Vedas and say there is nothing else."},{"ref":"Gita 2.43","orig":"कामात्मानः स्वर्गपरा जन्मकर्मफलप्रदाम्।\nक्रियाविशेषबहुलां भोगैश्वर्यगतिं प्रति॥","tr":"kāmātmānaḥ svarga-parā\njanma-karma-phala-pradām\nkriyā-viśeṣa-bahulāṁ\nbhogaiśvarya-gatiṁ prati","en":"Full of desire and set on heaven, they praise many special rites that promise rebirth as the reward for action, all aimed at pleasure and power."},{"ref":"Gita 2.44","orig":"भोगैश्वर्यप्रसक्तानां तयापहृतचेतसाम्।\nव्यवसायात्मिका बुद्धिः समाधौ न विधीयते॥","tr":"bhogaiśwvarya-prasaktānāṁ tayāpahṛita-chetasām\nvyavasāyātmikā buddhiḥ samādhau na vidhīyate","en":"Those attached to pleasure and power, whose minds are carried away by such talk, do not reach the steady, determined understanding of deep meditation."},{"ref":"Gita 2.45","orig":"त्रैगुण्यविषया वेदा निस्त्रैगुण्यो भवार्जुन।\nनिर्द्वन्द्वो नित्यसत्त्वस्थो निर्योगक्षेम आत्मवान्॥","tr":"trai-guṇya-viṣhayā vedā nistrai-guṇyo bhavārjuna\nnirdvandvo nitya-sattva-stho niryoga-kṣhema ātmavān","en":"The Vedas deal with the three qualities of nature. Rise above those three, Arjuna. Be free of the pairs of opposites, always rooted in what is real, free of the urge to acquire and hold on, and grounded in the self."},{"ref":"Gita 2.46","orig":"यावानर्थ उदपाने सर्वतः संप्लुतोदके।\nतावान्सर्वेषु वेदेषु ब्राह्मणस्य विजानतः॥","tr":"yāvān artha udapāne sarvataḥ samplutodake\ntāvānsarveṣhu vedeṣhu brāhmaṇasya vijānataḥ","en":"As much use as a small well has when water floods everywhere, that is how much use all the Vedas have for someone who truly knows."},{"ref":"Gita 2.47","orig":"कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन।\nमा कर्मफलहेतुर्भूर्मा ते सङ्गोऽस्त्वकर्मणि॥","tr":"karmaṇy-evādhikāras te mā phaleṣhu kadāchana\nmā karma-phala-hetur bhūr mā te saṅgo ’stvakarmaṇi","en":"You have a right to your work, and only to your work, never to its results. Do not let results be your motive, and do not cling to doing nothing."},{"ref":"Gita 2.48","orig":"योगस्थः कुरु कर्माणि सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा धनञ्जय।\nसिद्ध्यसिद्ध्योः समो भूत्वा समत्वं योग उच्यते॥","tr":"yoga-sthaḥ kuru karmāṇi saṅgaṁ tyaktvā dhanañjaya\nsiddhy-asiddhyoḥ samo bhūtvā samatvaṁ yoga uchyate","en":"Do your work steady in yoga, Arjuna, letting go of attachment and staying even in success and failure. This evenness is called yoga."},{"ref":"Gita 2.49","orig":"दूरेण ह्यवरं कर्म बुद्धियोगाद्धनञ्जय।\nबुद्धौ शरणमन्विच्छ कृपणाः फलहेतवः॥","tr":"dūreṇa hy-avaraṁ karma buddhi-yogād dhanañjaya\nbuddhau śharaṇam anvichchha kṛipaṇāḥ phala-hetavaḥ","en":"Action done from desire is far below action done with this steady understanding, Arjuna. Take refuge in that understanding. Those who work only for results are to be pitied."},{"ref":"Gita 2.50","orig":"बुद्धियुक्तो जहातीह उभे सुकृतदुष्कृते।\nतस्माद्योगाय युज्यस्व योगः कर्मसु कौशलम्॥","tr":"buddhi-yukto jahātīha ubhe sukṛita-duṣhkṛite\ntasmād yogāya yujyasva yogaḥ karmasu kauśhalam","en":"A person joined to this understanding leaves behind both good and bad deeds, even here in this life. So commit yourself to yoga. Yoga is skill in action."},{"ref":"Gita 2.51","orig":"कर्मजं बुद्धियुक्ता हि फलं त्यक्त्वा मनीषिणः।\nजन्मबन्धविनिर्मुक्ताः पदं गच्छन्त्यनामयम्॥","tr":"karma-jaṁ buddhi-yuktā hi phalaṁ tyaktvā manīṣhiṇaḥ\njanma-bandha-vinirmuktāḥ padaṁ gachchhanty-anāmayam","en":"The wise, joined to this understanding, give up the fruits that action produces. Freed from the bondage of birth, they reach the state beyond all sorrow."},{"ref":"Gita 2.52","orig":"यदा ते मोहकलिलं बुद्धिर्व्यतितरिष्यति।\nतदा गन्तासि निर्वेदं श्रोतव्यस्य श्रुतस्य च॥","tr":"yadā te moha-kalilaṁ buddhir vyatitariṣhyati\ntadā gantāsi nirvedaṁ śhrotavyasya śhrutasya cha","en":"When your understanding crosses beyond the thicket of confusion, you will no longer care about what you have heard or what you have yet to hear."},{"ref":"Gita 2.53","orig":"श्रुतिविप्रतिपन्ना ते यदा स्थास्यति निश्चला।\nसमाधावचला बुद्धिस्तदा योगमवाप्स्यसि॥","tr":"śhruti-vipratipannā te yadā sthāsyati niśhchalā\nsamādhāv-achalā buddhis tadā yogam avāpsyasi","en":"When your understanding, now unsettled by conflicting teachings, stands firm and unmoving in deep meditation, then you will reach yoga."},{"ref":"Gita 2.54","orig":"अर्जुन उवाच\nस्थितप्रज्ञस्य का भाषा समाधिस्थस्य केशव।\nस्थितधीः किं प्रभाषेत किमासीत व्रजेत किम्॥","tr":"arjuna uvācha\nsthita-prajñasya kā bhāṣhā samādhi-sthasya keśhava\nsthita-dhīḥ kiṁ prabhāṣheta kim āsīta vrajeta kim","en":"Arjuna said: Krishna, what marks a person whose wisdom is steady, who is settled in deep meditation? How does someone steady in mind speak? How do they sit? How do they walk?"},{"ref":"Gita 2.55","orig":"श्री भगवानुवाच\nप्रजहाति यदा कामान् सर्वान् पार्थ मनोगतान्।\nआत्मन्येवात्मना तुष्टः स्थितप्रज्ञस्तदोच्यते॥","tr":"śhrī bhagavān uvācha\nprajahāti yadā kāmān sarvān pārtha mano-gatān\nātmany-evātmanā tuṣhṭaḥ sthita-prajñas tadochyate","en":"Krishna said: Arjuna, when someone lets go of every desire that rises in the mind and is content in the self, through the self, that person is called steady in wisdom."},{"ref":"Gita 2.56","orig":"दुःखेष्वनुद्विग्नमनाः सुखेषु विगतस्पृहः।\nवीतरागभयक्रोधः स्थितधीर्मुनिरुच्यते॥","tr":"duḥkheṣhv-anudvigna-manāḥ sukheṣhu vigata-spṛihaḥ\nvīta-rāga-bhaya-krodhaḥ sthita-dhīr munir uchyate","en":"Someone whose mind is not shaken in sorrow, who does not crave pleasure, who is free of attachment, fear and anger, is called a sage of steady mind."},{"ref":"Gita 2.57","orig":"यः सर्वत्रानभिस्नेहस्तत्तत्प्राप्य शुभाशुभम्।\nनाभिनन्दति न द्वेष्टि तस्य प्रज्ञा प्रतिष्ठिता॥","tr":"yaḥ sarvatrānabhisnehas tat tat prāpya śhubhāśhubham\nnābhinandati na dveṣhṭi tasya prajñā pratiṣhṭhitā","en":"Someone with no attachment anywhere, who neither celebrates good things nor resents bad things when they come, has wisdom that is firmly established."},{"ref":"Gita 2.58","orig":"यदा संहरते चायं कूर्मोऽङ्गानीव सर्वशः।\nइन्द्रियाणीन्द्रियार्थेभ्यस्तस्य प्रज्ञा प्रतिष्ठिता॥","tr":"yadā sanharate chāyaṁ kūrmo ’ṅgānīva sarvaśhaḥ\nindriyāṇīndriyārthebhyas tasya prajñā pratiṣhṭhitā","en":"When a person can draw the senses back from their objects on every side, the way a tortoise draws in its limbs, their wisdom is firmly established."},{"ref":"Gita 2.59","orig":"विषया विनिवर्तन्ते निराहारस्य देहिनः।\nरसवर्जं रसोऽप्यस्य परं दृष्ट्वा निवर्तते॥","tr":"viṣhayā vinivartante nirāhārasya dehinaḥ\nrasa-varjaṁ raso ’pyasya paraṁ dṛiṣhṭvā nivartate","en":"When someone goes without, the objects of the senses fall away, but the taste for them remains. Even that taste falls away once the Supreme has been seen."},{"ref":"Gita 2.60","orig":"यततो ह्यपि कौन्तेय पुरुषस्य विपश्चितः।\nइन्द्रियाणि प्रमाथीनि हरन्ति प्रसभं मनः॥","tr":"yatato hyapi kaunteya puruṣhasya vipaśhchitaḥ\nindriyāṇi pramāthīni haranti prasabhaṁ manaḥ","en":"Arjuna, the turbulent senses can forcibly carry away the mind of even a wise person who is making the effort."},{"ref":"Gita 2.61","orig":"तानि सर्वाणि संयम्य युक्त आसीत मत्परः।\nवशे हि यस्येन्द्रियाणि तस्य प्रज्ञा प्रतिष्ठिता॥","tr":"tāni sarvāṇi sanyamya yukta āsīta mat-paraḥ\nvaśhe hi yasyendriyāṇi tasya prajñā pratiṣhṭhitā","en":"Restraining them all, one should sit disciplined, focused on me. Someone whose senses are under control has wisdom that is firmly established."},{"ref":"Gita 2.62","orig":"ध्यायतो विषयान्पुंसः सङ्गस्तेषूपजायते।\nसङ्गात् संजायते कामः कामात्क्रोधोऽभिजायते॥","tr":"dhyāyato viṣhayān puṁsaḥ saṅgas teṣhūpajāyate\nsaṅgāt sañjāyate kāmaḥ kāmāt krodho ’bhijāyate","en":"When a person dwells on the objects of the senses, attachment to them grows. From attachment comes desire, and from desire comes anger."},{"ref":"Gita 2.63","orig":"क्रोधाद्भवति संमोहः संमोहात्स्मृतिविभ्रमः।\nस्मृतिभ्रंशाद् बुद्धिनाशो बुद्धिनाशात्प्रणश्यति॥","tr":"krodhād bhavati sammohaḥ sammohāt smṛiti-vibhramaḥ\nsmṛiti-bhranśhād buddhi-nāśho buddhi-nāśhāt praṇaśhyati","en":"From anger comes delusion, and from delusion, confused memory. When memory is confused, understanding is lost, and when understanding is lost, the person is ruined."},{"ref":"Gita 2.64","orig":"रागद्वेषवियुक्तैस्तु विषयानिन्द्रियैश्चरन्।\nआत्मवश्यैर्विधेयात्मा प्रसादमधिगच्छति॥","tr":"rāga-dveṣha-viyuktais tu viṣhayān indriyaiśh charan\nātma-vaśhyair-vidheyātmā prasādam adhigachchhati","en":"But someone self-controlled, who moves among the objects of the senses with senses free of attraction and aversion and under their own control, reaches clarity and calm."},{"ref":"Gita 2.65","orig":"प्रसादे सर्वदुःखानां हानिरस्योपजायते।\nप्रसन्नचेतसो ह्याशु बुद्धिः पर्यवतिष्ठते॥","tr":"prasāde sarva-duḥkhānāṁ hānir asyopajāyate\nprasanna-chetaso hyāśhu buddhiḥ paryavatiṣhṭhate","en":"In that calm, every sorrow comes to an end. For someone whose mind is calm, understanding soon becomes steady."},{"ref":"Gita 2.66","orig":"नास्ति बुद्धिरयुक्तस्य न चायुक्तस्य भावना।\nन चाभावयतः शान्तिरशान्तस्य कुतः सुखम्॥","tr":"nāsti buddhir-ayuktasya na chāyuktasya bhāvanā\nna chābhāvayataḥ śhāntir aśhāntasya kutaḥ sukham","en":"Someone undisciplined has no understanding and no focus. Without focus there is no peace, and without peace, how can there be happiness?"},{"ref":"Gita 2.67","orig":"इन्द्रियाणां हि चरतां यन्मनोऽनुविधीयते।\nतदस्य हरति प्रज्ञां वायुर्नावमिवाम्भसि॥","tr":"indriyāṇāṁ hi charatāṁ yan mano ’nuvidhīyate\ntadasya harati prajñāṁ vāyur nāvam ivāmbhasi","en":"When the mind follows the wandering senses, it carries away one's understanding, the way the wind carries away a boat on the water."},{"ref":"Gita 2.68","orig":"तस्माद्यस्य महाबाहो निगृहीतानि सर्वशः।\nइन्द्रियाणीन्द्रियार्थेभ्यस्तस्य प्रज्ञा प्रतिष्ठिता॥","tr":"tasmād yasya mahā-bāho nigṛihītāni sarvaśhaḥ\nindriyāṇīndriyārthebhyas tasya prajñā pratiṣhṭhitā","en":"So, mighty-armed one, someone whose senses are fully drawn back from their objects has wisdom that is firmly established."},{"ref":"Gita 2.69","orig":"या निशा सर्वभूतानां तस्यां जागर्ति संयमी।\nयस्यां जाग्रति भूतानि सा निशा पश्यतो मुनेः॥","tr":"yā niśhā sarva-bhūtānāṁ tasyāṁ jāgarti sanyamī\nyasyāṁ jāgrati bhūtāni sā niśhā paśhyato muneḥ","en":"What is night for all beings is when the self-controlled person is awake. And when all beings are awake, that is night for the sage who sees."},{"ref":"Gita 2.70","orig":"आपूर्यमाणमचलप्रतिष्ठं\nसमुद्रमापः प्रविशन्ति यद्वत्।\nतद्वत्कामा यं प्रविशन्ति सर्वे\nस शान्तिमाप्नोति न कामकामी॥","tr":"āpūryamāṇam achala-pratiṣhṭhaṁ\nsamudram āpaḥ praviśhanti yadvat\ntadvat kāmā yaṁ praviśhanti sarve\nsa śhāntim āpnoti na kāma-kāmī","en":"Water keeps flowing into the ocean, which is always being filled yet stays still and unmoved. In the same way, the person into whom all desires flow finds peace, not the one who chases desires."},{"ref":"Gita 2.71","orig":"विहाय कामान्यः सर्वान्पुमांश्चरति निःस्पृहः।\nनिर्ममो निरहंकारः स शांतिमधिगच्छति॥","tr":"vihāya kāmān yaḥ sarvān pumānśh charati niḥspṛihaḥ\nnirmamo nirahankāraḥ sa śhāntim adhigachchhati","en":"A person who gives up all desires and moves through life without craving, without a sense of \"mine\", and without ego, reaches peace."},{"ref":"Gita 2.72","orig":"एषा ब्राह्मी स्थितिः पार्थ नैनां प्राप्य विमुह्यति।\nस्थित्वाऽस्यामन्तकालेऽपि ब्रह्मनिर्वाणमृच्छति॥","tr":"eṣhā brāhmī sthitiḥ pārtha naināṁ prāpya vimuhyati\nsthitvāsyām anta-kāle ’pi brahma-nirvāṇam ṛichchhati","en":"This is the divine state, Arjuna. Once someone reaches it, they are no longer confused. Staying in it even at the hour of death, they reach the peace of Brahman."}],"3":[{"ref":"Gita 3.1","orig":"अर्जुन उवाच\nज्यायसी चेत्कर्मणस्ते मता बुद्धिर्जनार्दन।\nतत्किं कर्मणि घोरे मां नियोजयसि केशव॥","tr":"arjuna uvācha\njyāyasī chet karmaṇas te matā buddhir janārdana\ntat kiṁ karmaṇi ghore māṁ niyojayasi keśhava","en":"Arjuna said: Krishna, if you think understanding is better than action, why do you urge me into this terrible deed?"},{"ref":"Gita 3.2","orig":"व्यामिश्रेणेव वाक्येन बुद्धिं मोहयसीव मे।\nतदेकं वद निश्चित्य येन श्रेयोऽहमाप्नुयाम्॥","tr":"vyāmiśhreṇeva vākyena buddhiṁ mohayasīva me\ntad ekaṁ vada niśhchitya yena śhreyo ’ham āpnuyām","en":"Your mixed words seem to confuse my mind. Tell me one thing for certain, the one by which I can reach what is best."},{"ref":"Gita 3.3","orig":"श्री भगवानुवाच\nलोकेऽस्मिन्द्विविधा निष्ठा पुरा प्रोक्ता मयानघ।\nज्ञानयोगेन सांख्यानां कर्मयोगेन योगिनाम्॥","tr":"śhrī bhagavān uvācha\nloke’smin dvi-vidhā niṣhṭhā purā proktā mayānagha\njñāna-yogena sāṅkhyānāṁ karma-yogena yoginām","en":"Krishna said: Arjuna, as I explained before, there are two paths in this world: the path of knowledge for those given to reflection, and the path of action for those given to action."},{"ref":"Gita 3.4","orig":"न कर्मणामनारम्भान्नैष्कर्म्यं पुरुषोऽश्नुते।\nन च संन्यसनादेव सिद्धिं समधिगच्छति॥","tr":"na karmaṇām anārambhān naiṣhkarmyaṁ puruṣho ’śhnute\nna cha sannyasanād eva siddhiṁ samadhigachchhati","en":"A person does not reach freedom from action simply by not acting, and does not reach perfection simply by renouncing."},{"ref":"Gita 3.5","orig":"न हि कश्चित्क्षणमपि जातु तिष्ठत्यकर्मकृत्।\nकार्यते ह्यवशः कर्म सर्वः प्रकृतिजैर्गुणैः॥","tr":"na hi kaśhchit kṣhaṇam api jātu tiṣhṭhatyakarma-kṛit\nkāryate hyavaśhaḥ karma sarvaḥ prakṛiti-jair guṇaiḥ","en":"No one can stay without acting even for a moment. Everyone is driven to act, whether they like it or not, by the qualities born of nature."},{"ref":"Gita 3.6","orig":"कर्मेन्द्रियाणि संयम्य य आस्ते मनसा स्मरन्।\nइन्द्रियार्थान्विमूढात्मा मिथ्याचारः स उच्यते॥","tr":"karmendriyāṇi sanyamya ya āste manasā smaran\nindriyārthān vimūḍhātmā mithyāchāraḥ sa uchyate","en":"Someone who holds back the organs of action but sits dwelling in the mind on the objects of the senses is fooling themselves and is called a hypocrite."},{"ref":"Gita 3.7","orig":"यस्त्विन्द्रियाणि मनसा नियम्यारभतेऽर्जुन।\nकर्मेन्द्रियैः कर्मयोगमसक्तः स विशिष्यते॥","tr":"yas tvindriyāṇi manasā niyamyārabhate ’rjuna\nkarmendriyaiḥ karma-yogam asaktaḥ sa viśhiṣhyate","en":"But someone who reins in the senses with the mind and, without attachment, puts the organs of action to work in the yoga of action, stands out, Arjuna."},{"ref":"Gita 3.8","orig":"नियतं कुरु कर्म त्वं कर्म ज्यायो ह्यकर्मणः।\nशरीरयात्रापि च ते न प्रसिद्ध्येदकर्मणः॥","tr":"niyataṁ kuru karma tvaṁ karma jyāyo hyakarmaṇaḥ\nśharīra-yātrāpi cha te na prasiddhyed akarmaṇaḥ","en":"Do the work that is yours to do. Action is better than inaction. Without action you could not even keep your body alive."},{"ref":"Gita 3.9","orig":"यज्ञार्थात्कर्मणोऽन्यत्र लोकोऽयं कर्मबन्धनः।\nतदर्थं कर्म कौन्तेय मुक्तसंगः समाचर॥","tr":"yajñārthāt karmaṇo ’nyatra loko ’yaṁ karma-bandhanaḥ\ntad-arthaṁ karma kaunteya mukta-saṅgaḥ samāchara","en":"This world is bound by action, except for action done as an offering. So act for that purpose, son of Kunti, free of attachment."},{"ref":"Gita 3.10","orig":"सहयज्ञाः प्रजाः सृष्ट्वा पुरोवाच प्रजापतिः।\nअनेन प्रसविष्यध्वमेष वोऽस्त्विष्टकामधुक्॥","tr":"saha-yajñāḥ prajāḥ sṛiṣhṭvā purovācha prajāpatiḥ\nanena prasaviṣhyadhvam eṣha vo ’stviṣhṭa-kāma-dhuk","en":"In the beginning, the Creator made human beings together with sacrifice and said: \"By this you will prosper. Let this be the cow that gives you whatever you wish for.\""},{"ref":"Gita 3.11","orig":"देवान्भावयतानेन ते देवा भावयन्तु वः।\nपरस्परं भावयन्तः श्रेयः परमवाप्स्यथ॥","tr":"devān bhāvayatānena te devā bhāvayantu vaḥ\nparasparaṁ bhāvayantaḥ śhreyaḥ param avāpsyatha","en":"Nourish the gods with this, and let the gods nourish you. Nourishing each other, you will reach the highest good."},{"ref":"Gita 3.12","orig":"इष्टान्भोगान्हि वो देवा दास्यन्ते यज्ञभाविताः।\nतैर्दत्तानप्रदायैभ्यो यो भुङ्क्ते स्तेन एव सः॥","tr":"iṣhṭān bhogān hi vo devā dāsyante yajña-bhāvitāḥ\ntair dattān apradāyaibhyo yo bhuṅkte stena eva saḥ","en":"Nourished by sacrifice, the gods will give you the pleasures you desire. Whoever enjoys their gifts without giving anything back is simply a thief."},{"ref":"Gita 3.13","orig":"यज्ञशिष्टाशिनः सन्तो मुच्यन्ते सर्वकिल्बिषैः।\nभुञ्जते ते त्वघं पापा ये पचन्त्यात्मकारणात्॥","tr":"yajña-śhiṣhṭāśhinaḥ santo muchyante sarva-kilbiṣhaiḥ\nbhuñjate te tvaghaṁ pāpā ye pachantyātma-kāraṇāt","en":"Good people who eat what remains of the sacrifice are freed from all wrongs. But the wicked, who cook only for themselves, are eating wrongdoing."},{"ref":"Gita 3.14","orig":"अन्नाद्भवन्ति भूतानि पर्जन्यादन्नसम्भवः।\nयज्ञाद्भवति पर्जन्यो यज्ञः कर्मसमुद्भवः॥","tr":"annād bhavanti bhūtāni parjanyād anna-sambhavaḥ\nyajñād bhavati parjanyo yajñaḥ karma-samudbhavaḥ","en":"Beings come from food, and food comes from rain. Rain comes from sacrifice, and sacrifice is born of action."},{"ref":"Gita 3.15","orig":"कर्म ब्रह्मोद्भवं विद्धि ब्रह्माक्षरसमुद्भवम्।\nतस्मात्सर्वगतं ब्रह्म नित्यं यज्ञे प्रतिष्ठितम्॥","tr":"karma brahmodbhavaṁ viddhi brahmākṣhara-samudbhavam\ntasmāt sarva-gataṁ brahma nityaṁ yajñe pratiṣhṭhitam","en":"Know that action comes from Brahman, and Brahman comes from the Imperishable. So the all-pervading Brahman is always present in sacrifice."},{"ref":"Gita 3.16","orig":"एवं प्रवर्तितं चक्रं नानुवर्तयतीह यः।\nअघायुरिन्द्रियारामो मोघं पार्थ स जीवति॥","tr":"evaṁ pravartitaṁ chakraṁ nānuvartayatīha yaḥ\naghāyur indriyārāmo moghaṁ pārtha sa jīvati","en":"Whoever does not help turn the wheel set in motion here, Arjuna, lives a wasted life, indulging the senses and living in wrong."},{"ref":"Gita 3.17","orig":"यस्त्वात्मरतिरेव स्यादात्मतृप्तश्च मानवः।\nआत्मन्येव च सन्तुष्टस्तस्य कार्यं न विद्यते॥","tr":"yas tvātma-ratir eva syād ātma-tṛiptaśh cha mānavaḥ\nātmanyeva cha santuṣhṭas tasya kāryaṁ na vidyate","en":"But the person who delights in the self, is satisfied with the self, and is content in the self alone has nothing left that must be done."},{"ref":"Gita 3.18","orig":"नैव तस्य कृतेनार्थो नाकृतेनेह कश्चन।\nन चास्य सर्वभूतेषु कश्चिदर्थव्यपाश्रयः॥","tr":"naiva tasya kṛitenārtho nākṛiteneha kaśhchana\nna chāsya sarva-bhūteṣhu kaśhchid artha-vyapāśhrayaḥ","en":"Such a person has nothing to gain here by acting and nothing to gain by not acting. They depend on no being for anything."},{"ref":"Gita 3.19","orig":"तस्मादसक्तः सततं कार्यं कर्म समाचर।\nअसक्तो ह्याचरन्कर्म परमाप्नोति पूरुषः॥","tr":"tasmād asaktaḥ satataṁ kāryaṁ karma samāchara\nasakto hyācharan karma param āpnoti pūruṣhaḥ","en":"So, without attachment, always do the work that needs to be done. By acting without attachment, a person reaches the Supreme."},{"ref":"Gita 3.20","orig":"कर्मणैव हि संसिद्धिमास्थिता जनकादयः।\nलोकसंग्रहमेवापि संपश्यन्कर्तुमर्हसि॥","tr":"karmaṇaiva hi sansiddhim āsthitā janakādayaḥ\nloka-saṅgraham evāpi sampaśhyan kartum arhasi","en":"Janaka and others reached perfection through action alone. And just with an eye to holding the world together, you should act."},{"ref":"Gita 3.21","orig":"यद्यदाचरति श्रेष्ठस्तत्तदेवेतरो जनः।\nस यत्प्रमाणं कुरुते लोकस्तदनुवर्तते॥","tr":"yad yad ācharati śhreṣhṭhas tat tad evetaro janaḥ\nsa yat pramāṇaṁ kurute lokas tad anuvartate","en":"Whatever a great person does, others copy. Whatever standard they set, the world follows."},{"ref":"Gita 3.22","orig":"न मे पार्थास्ति कर्तव्यं त्रिषु लोकेषु किञ्चन।\nनानवाप्तमवाप्तव्यं वर्त एव च कर्मणि॥","tr":"na me pārthāsti kartavyaṁ triṣhu lokeṣhu kiñchana\nnānavāptam avāptavyaṁ varta eva cha karmaṇi","en":"Arjuna, there is nothing in the three worlds that I must do, and nothing I lack or need to gain. Yet I keep acting."},{"ref":"Gita 3.23","orig":"यदि ह्यहं न वर्तेयं जातु कर्मण्यतन्द्रितः।\nमम वर्त्मानुवर्तन्ते मनुष्याः पार्थ सर्वशः॥","tr":"yadi hyahaṁ na varteyaṁ jātu karmaṇyatandritaḥ\nmama vartmānuvartante manuṣhyāḥ pārtha sarvaśhaḥ","en":"If I ever stopped working tirelessly, Arjuna, people everywhere would follow my path."},{"ref":"Gita 3.24","orig":"उत्सीदेयुरिमे लोका न कुर्यां कर्म चेदहम्।\nसङ्करस्य च कर्ता स्यामुपहन्यामिमाः प्रजाः॥","tr":"utsīdeyur ime lokā na kuryāṁ karma ched aham\nsankarasya cha kartā syām upahanyām imāḥ prajāḥ","en":"If I did not act, these worlds would fall into ruin. I would be the cause of chaos and would destroy these people."},{"ref":"Gita 3.25","orig":"सक्ताः कर्मण्यविद्वांसो यथा कुर्वन्ति भारत।\nकुर्याद्विद्वांस्तथासक्तश्चिकीर्षुर्लोकसंग्रहम्॥","tr":"saktāḥ karmaṇyavidvānso yathā kurvanti bhārata\nkuryād vidvāns tathāsaktaśh chikīrṣhur loka-saṅgraham","en":"Just as the ignorant act out of attachment to their work, Arjuna, the wise should act without attachment, wanting to hold the world together."},{"ref":"Gita 3.26","orig":"न बुद्धिभेदं जनयेदज्ञानां कर्मसङ्गिनाम्।\nजोषयेत्सर्वकर्माणि विद्वान् युक्तः समाचरन्॥","tr":"na buddhi-bhedaṁ janayed ajñānāṁ karma-saṅginām\njoṣhayet sarva-karmāṇi vidvān yuktaḥ samācharan","en":"The wise should not unsettle the minds of ignorant people who are attached to action. Acting with discipline themselves, they should encourage others to do all their work."},{"ref":"Gita 3.27","orig":"प्रकृतेः क्रियमाणानि गुणैः कर्माणि सर्वशः।\nअहङ्कारविमूढात्मा कर्ताऽहमिति मन्यते॥","tr":"prakṛiteḥ kriyamāṇāni guṇaiḥ karmāṇi sarvaśhaḥ\nahankāra-vimūḍhātmā kartāham iti manyate","en":"All actions are carried out by the qualities of nature. But someone deluded by ego thinks, \"I am the doer.\""},{"ref":"Gita 3.28","orig":"तत्त्ववित्तु महाबाहो गुणकर्मविभागयोः।\nगुणा गुणेषु वर्तन्त इति मत्वा न सज्जते॥","tr":"tattva-vit tu mahā-bāho guṇa-karma-vibhāgayoḥ\nguṇā guṇeṣhu vartanta iti matvā na sajjate","en":"But someone who knows the truth about how qualities and actions divide, mighty-armed one, sees that the qualities are simply acting on qualities, and does not get attached."},{"ref":"Gita 3.29","orig":"प्रकृतेर्गुणसम्मूढाः सज्जन्ते गुणकर्मसु।\nतानकृत्स्नविदो मन्दान्कृत्स्नविन्न विचालयेत्॥","tr":"prakṛiter guṇa-sammūḍhāḥ sajjante guṇa-karmasu\ntān akṛitsna-vido mandān kṛitsna-vin na vichālayet","en":"People deluded by the qualities of nature get attached to the workings of those qualities. Those who see the whole should not unsettle the slow, who see only part."},{"ref":"Gita 3.30","orig":"मयि सर्वाणि कर्माणि संन्यस्याध्यात्मचेतसा।\nनिराशीर्निर्ममो भूत्वा युध्यस्व विगतज्वरः॥","tr":"mayi sarvāṇi karmāṇi sannyasyādhyātma-chetasā\nnirāśhīr nirmamo bhūtvā yudhyasva vigata-jvaraḥ","en":"Hand all your actions over to me, with your mind on the self. Free of desire and of the sense of \"mine\", with your fever gone, fight."},{"ref":"Gita 3.31","orig":"ये मे मतमिदं नित्यमनुतिष्ठन्ति मानवाः।\nश्रद्धावन्तोऽनसूयन्तो मुच्यन्ते तेऽपि कर्मभिः॥","tr":"ye me matam idaṁ nityam anutiṣhṭhanti mānavāḥ\nśhraddhāvanto ’nasūyanto muchyante te ’pi karmabhiḥ","en":"People who always follow this teaching of mine with faith and without finding fault are freed from the bonds of action."},{"ref":"Gita 3.32","orig":"ये त्वेतदभ्यसूयन्तो नानुतिष्ठन्ति मे मतम्।\nसर्वज्ञानविमूढांस्तान्विद्धि नष्टानचेतसः॥","tr":"ye tvetad abhyasūyanto nānutiṣhṭhanti me matam\nsarva-jñāna-vimūḍhāns tān viddhi naṣhṭān achetasaḥ","en":"But those who find fault and do not follow my teaching, confused about all knowledge and without sense, know that they are lost."},{"ref":"Gita 3.33","orig":"सदृशं चेष्टते स्वस्याः प्रकृतेर्ज्ञानवानपि।\nप्रकृतिं यान्ति भूतानि निग्रहः किं करिष्यति॥","tr":"sadṛiśhaṁ cheṣhṭate svasyāḥ prakṛiter jñānavān api\nprakṛitiṁ yānti bhūtāni nigrahaḥ kiṁ kariṣhyati","en":"Even a wise person acts according to their own nature. Beings follow their nature. What can forcing it achieve?"},{"ref":"Gita 3.34","orig":"इन्द्रियस्येन्द्रियस्यार्थे रागद्वेषौ व्यवस्थितौ।\nतयोर्न वशमागच्छेत्तौ ह्यस्य परिपन्थिनौ॥","tr":"indriyasyendriyasyārthe rāga-dveṣhau vyavasthitau\ntayor na vaśham āgachchhet tau hyasya paripanthinau","en":"Attraction and aversion are fixed in the senses toward their objects. Do not fall under their power, for they are the roadblocks on your path."},{"ref":"Gita 3.35","orig":"श्रेयान्स्वधर्मो विगुणः परधर्मात्स्वनुष्ठितात्।\nस्वधर्मे निधनं श्रेयः परधर्मो भयावहः॥","tr":"śhreyān swa-dharmo viguṇaḥ para-dharmāt sv-anuṣhṭhitāt\nswa-dharme nidhanaṁ śhreyaḥ para-dharmo bhayāvahaḥ","en":"Your own duty, even done imperfectly, is better than another's duty done well. Better to die in your own duty. Another's duty is full of danger."},{"ref":"Gita 3.36","orig":"अर्जुन उवाच\nअथ केन प्रयुक्तोऽयं पापं चरति पूरुषः।\nअनिच्छन्नपि वार्ष्णेय बलादिव नियोजितः॥","tr":"arjuna uvācha\natha kena prayukto ’yaṁ pāpaṁ charati pūruṣhaḥ\nanichchhann api vārṣhṇeya balād iva niyojitaḥ","en":"Arjuna said: Krishna, then what drives a person to do wrong, even against their will, as if forced?"},{"ref":"Gita 3.37","orig":"श्री भगवानुवाच\nकाम एष क्रोध एष रजोगुणसमुद्भवः।\nमहाशनो महापाप्मा विद्ध्येनमिह वैरिणम्॥","tr":"śhrī bhagavān uvācha\nkāma eṣha krodha eṣha rajo-guṇa-samudbhavaḥ\nmahāśhano mahā-pāpmā viddhyenam iha vairiṇam","en":"Krishna said: It is desire, it is anger, born of the quality of passion. It devours everything and does great harm. Know that this is the enemy here."},{"ref":"Gita 3.38","orig":"धूमेनाव्रियते वह्निर्यथाऽऽदर्शो मलेन च।\nयथोल्बेनावृतो गर्भस्तथा तेनेदमावृतम्॥","tr":"dhūmenāvriyate vahnir yathādarśho malena cha\nyatholbenāvṛito garbhas tathā tenedam āvṛitam","en":"As fire is covered by smoke, a mirror by dust, and an unborn child by the womb, so this is covered by desire."},{"ref":"Gita 3.39","orig":"आवृतं ज्ञानमेतेन ज्ञानिनो नित्यवैरिणा।\nकामरूपेण कौन्तेय दुष्पूरेणानलेन च॥","tr":"āvṛitaṁ jñānam etena jñānino nitya-vairiṇā\nkāma-rūpeṇa kaunteya duṣhpūreṇānalena cha","en":"Knowledge is covered, Arjuna, by this constant enemy of the wise: desire, a fire that is never satisfied."},{"ref":"Gita 3.40","orig":"इन्द्रियाणि मनो बुद्धिरस्याधिष्ठानमुच्यते।\nएतैर्विमोहयत्येष ज्ञानमावृत्य देहिनम्॥","tr":"indriyāṇi mano buddhir asyādhiṣhṭhānam uchyate\netair vimohayatyeṣha jñānam āvṛitya dehinam","en":"The senses, the mind and the intellect are said to be its home. Through them it covers knowledge and confuses the one who lives in the body."},{"ref":"Gita 3.41","orig":"तस्मात्त्वमिन्द्रियाण्यादौ नियम्य भरतर्षभ।\nपाप्मानं प्रजहि ह्येनं ज्ञानविज्ञाननाशनम्॥","tr":"tasmāt tvam indriyāṇyādau niyamya bharatarṣhabha\npāpmānaṁ prajahi hyenaṁ jñāna-vijñāna-nāśhanam","en":"So first control your senses, Arjuna, and then kill this evil thing that destroys knowledge and insight."},{"ref":"Gita 3.42","orig":"इन्द्रियाणि पराण्याहुरिन्द्रियेभ्यः परं मनः।\nमनसस्तु परा बुद्धिर्यो बुद्धेः परतस्तु सः॥","tr":"indriyāṇi parāṇyāhur indriyebhyaḥ paraṁ manaḥ\nmanasas tu parā buddhir yo buddheḥ paratas tu saḥ","en":"The senses are said to be high. Higher than the senses is the mind. Higher than the mind is the intellect. And higher than the intellect is the self."},{"ref":"Gita 3.43","orig":"एवं बुद्धेः परं बुद्ध्वा संस्तभ्यात्मानमात्मना।\nजहि शत्रुं महाबाहो कामरूपं दुरासदम्॥","tr":"evaṁ buddheḥ paraṁ buddhvā sanstabhyātmānam ātmanā\njahi śhatruṁ mahā-bāho kāma-rūpaṁ durāsadam","en":"So, knowing the self to be higher than the intellect, and steadying yourself by the self, mighty-armed one, kill this enemy that takes the form of desire and is so hard to overcome."}],"4":[{"ref":"Gita 4.1","orig":"श्री भगवानुवाच\nइमं विवस्वते योगं प्रोक्तवानहमव्ययम्।\nविवस्वान् मनवे प्राह मनुरिक्ष्वाकवेऽब्रवीत्॥","tr":"śhrī bhagavān uvācha\nimaṁ vivasvate yogaṁ proktavān aham avyayam\nvivasvān manave prāha manur ikṣhvākave ’bravīt","en":"Krishna said: I taught this timeless yoga to Vivasvan, the sun. Vivasvan taught it to Manu, and Manu taught it to Ikshvaku."},{"ref":"Gita 4.2","orig":"एवं परम्पराप्राप्तमिमं राजर्षयो विदुः।\nस कालेनेह महता योगो नष्टः परन्तप॥","tr":"evaṁ paramparā-prāptam imaṁ rājarṣhayo viduḥ\nsa kāleneha mahatā yogo naṣhṭaḥ parantapa","en":"Handed down like this from one to the next, the royal sages knew it. But over a long stretch of time, Arjuna, this yoga was lost to the world."},{"ref":"Gita 4.3","orig":"स एवायं मया तेऽद्य योगः प्रोक्तः पुरातनः।\nभक्तोऽसि मे सखा चेति रहस्यं ह्येतदुत्तमम्॥","tr":"sa evāyaṁ mayā te ’dya yogaḥ proktaḥ purātanaḥ\nbhakto ’si me sakhā cheti rahasyaṁ hyetad uttamam","en":"That same ancient yoga I have explained to you today, because you are my devotee and my friend. It is the highest secret."},{"ref":"Gita 4.4","orig":"अर्जुन उवाच\nअपरं भवतो जन्म परं जन्म विवस्वतः।\nकथमेतद्विजानीयां त्वमादौ प्रोक्तवानिति॥","tr":"arjuna uvācha\naparaṁ bhavato janma paraṁ janma vivasvataḥ\nkatham etad vijānīyāṁ tvam ādau proktavān iti","en":"Arjuna said: You were born later, and Vivasvan was born long before. How am I to understand that you taught it in the beginning?"},{"ref":"Gita 4.5","orig":"श्री भगवानुवाच\nबहूनि मे व्यतीतानि जन्मानि तव चार्जुन।\nतान्यहं वेद सर्वाणि न त्वं वेत्थ परन्तप॥","tr":"śhrī bhagavān uvācha\nbahūni me vyatītāni janmāni tava chārjuna\ntānyahaṁ veda sarvāṇi na tvaṁ vettha parantapa","en":"Krishna said: I have passed through many births, and so have you, Arjuna. I know them all, but you do not know yours."},{"ref":"Gita 4.6","orig":"अजोऽपि सन्नव्ययात्मा भूतानामीश्वरोऽपि सन्।\nप्रकृतिं स्वामधिष्ठाय संभवाम्यात्ममायया॥","tr":"ajo ’pi sannavyayātmā bhūtānām īśhvaro ’pi san\nprakṛitiṁ svām adhiṣhṭhāya sambhavāmyātma-māyayā","en":"Though I am unborn and my self never perishes, though I am lord of all beings, I take charge of my own nature and come into being through my own power."},{"ref":"Gita 4.7","orig":"यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत।\nअभ्युत्थानमधर्मस्य तदाऽऽत्मानं सृजाम्यहम्॥","tr":"yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati bhārata\nabhyutthānam adharmasya tadātmānaṁ sṛijāmyaham","en":"Whenever goodness declines and wrong is on the rise, Arjuna, I bring myself forth."},{"ref":"Gita 4.8","orig":"परित्राणाय साधूनां विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम्।\nधर्मसंस्थापनार्थाय संभवामि युगे युगे॥","tr":"paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ vināśhāya cha duṣhkṛitām\ndharma-sansthāpanārthāya sambhavāmi yuge yuge","en":"To protect the good, to destroy those who do evil, and to firmly establish what is right, I come into being age after age."},{"ref":"Gita 4.9","orig":"जन्म कर्म च मे दिव्यमेवं यो वेत्ति तत्त्वतः।\nत्यक्त्वा देहं पुनर्जन्म नैति मामेति सोऽर्जुन॥","tr":"janma karma cha me divyam evaṁ yo vetti tattvataḥ\ntyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti so ’rjuna","en":"Whoever truly understands my divine birth and actions does not take birth again after leaving the body. They come to me, Arjuna."},{"ref":"Gita 4.10","orig":"वीतरागभयक्रोधा मन्मया मामुपाश्रिताः।\nबहवो ज्ञानतपसा पूता मद्भावमागताः॥","tr":"vīta-rāga-bhaya-krodhā man-mayā mām upāśhritāḥ\nbahavo jñāna-tapasā pūtā mad-bhāvam āgatāḥ","en":"Free of craving, fear and anger, absorbed in me and taking refuge in me, many have been purified by the fire of knowledge and have come to my state of being."},{"ref":"Gita 4.11","orig":"ये यथा मां प्रपद्यन्ते तांस्तथैव भजाम्यहम्।\nमम वर्त्मानुवर्तन्ते मनुष्याः पार्थ सर्वशः॥","tr":"ye yathā māṁ prapadyante tāns tathaiva bhajāmyaham\nmama vartmānuvartante manuṣhyāḥ pārtha sarvaśhaḥ","en":"However people come to me, I receive them in that same way. Everywhere, Arjuna, people follow my path."},{"ref":"Gita 4.12","orig":"काङ्क्षन्तः कर्मणां सिद्धिं यजन्त इह देवताः।\nक्षिप्रं हि मानुषे लोके सिद्धिर्भवति कर्मजा॥","tr":"kāṅkṣhantaḥ karmaṇāṁ siddhiṁ yajanta iha devatāḥ\nkṣhipraṁ hi mānuṣhe loke siddhir bhavati karmajā","en":"Those who want success from their actions worship the gods here, because in the human world success from action comes quickly."},{"ref":"Gita 4.13","orig":"चातुर्वर्ण्यं मया सृष्टं गुणकर्मविभागशः।\nतस्य कर्तारमपि मां विद्ध्यकर्तारमव्ययम्॥","tr":"chātur-varṇyaṁ mayā sṛiṣhṭaṁ guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśhaḥ\ntasya kartāram api māṁ viddhyakartāram avyayam","en":"I created the four social orders according to the division of qualities and actions. Though I am their maker, know me as one who does not act and does not change."},{"ref":"Gita 4.14","orig":"न मां कर्माणि लिम्पन्ति न मे कर्मफले स्पृहा।\nइति मां योऽभिजानाति कर्मभिर्न स बध्यते॥","tr":"na māṁ karmāṇi limpanti na me karma-phale spṛihā\niti māṁ yo ’bhijānāti karmabhir na sa badhyate","en":"Actions do not stain me, and I have no longing for their fruits. Whoever knows me this way is not bound by actions."},{"ref":"Gita 4.15","orig":"एवं ज्ञात्वा कृतं कर्म पूर्वैरपि मुमुक्षुभिः।\nकुरु कर्मैव तस्मात्त्वं पूर्वैः पूर्वतरं कृतम्॥","tr":"evaṁ jñātvā kṛitaṁ karma pūrvair api mumukṣhubhiḥ\nkuru karmaiva tasmāttvaṁ pūrvaiḥ pūrvataraṁ kṛitam","en":"Knowing this, seekers of freedom in ancient times still acted. So you too should act, as the ancients did long ago."},{"ref":"Gita 4.16","orig":"किं कर्म किमकर्मेति कवयोऽप्यत्र मोहिताः।\nतत्ते कर्म प्रवक्ष्यामि यज्ज्ञात्वा मोक्ष्यसेऽशुभात्॥","tr":"kiṁ karma kim akarmeti kavayo ’pyatra mohitāḥ\ntat te karma pravakṣhyāmi yaj jñātvā mokṣhyase ’śhubhāt","en":"What is action? What is inaction? Even the wise are confused about this. I will explain action to you, and knowing it you will be freed from harm."},{"ref":"Gita 4.17","orig":"कर्मणो ह्यपि बोद्धव्यं बोद्धव्यं च विकर्मणः।\nअकर्मणश्च बोद्धव्यं गहना कर्मणो गतिः॥","tr":"karmaṇo hyapi boddhavyaṁ boddhavyaṁ cha vikarmaṇaḥ\nakarmaṇaśh cha boddhavyaṁ gahanā karmaṇo gatiḥ","en":"You need to understand action, you need to understand wrong action, and you need to understand inaction. The way of action is hard to fathom."},{"ref":"Gita 4.18","orig":"कर्मण्यकर्म यः पश्येदकर्मणि च कर्म यः।\nस बुद्धिमान् मनुष्येषु स युक्तः कृत्स्नकर्मकृत्॥","tr":"karmaṇyakarma yaḥ paśhyed akarmaṇi cha karma yaḥ\nsa buddhimān manuṣhyeṣhu sa yuktaḥ kṛitsna-karma-kṛit","en":"Whoever sees inaction in action and action in inaction is wise among people. They are disciplined even while doing all their work."},{"ref":"Gita 4.19","orig":"यस्य सर्वे समारम्भाः कामसङ्कल्पवर्जिताः।\nज्ञानाग्निदग्धकर्माणं तमाहुः पण्डितं बुधाः॥","tr":"yasya sarve samārambhāḥ kāma-saṅkalpa-varjitāḥ\njñānāgni-dagdha-karmāṇaṁ tam āhuḥ paṇḍitaṁ budhāḥ","en":"Someone whose every undertaking is free of desire and selfish plans, whose actions are burned up in the fire of knowledge, is called wise by the wise."},{"ref":"Gita 4.20","orig":"त्यक्त्वा कर्मफलासङ्गं नित्यतृप्तो निराश्रयः।\nकर्मण्यभिप्रवृत्तोऽपि नैव किञ्चित्करोति सः॥","tr":"tyaktvā karma-phalāsaṅgaṁ nitya-tṛipto nirāśhrayaḥ\nkarmaṇyabhipravṛitto ’pi naiva kiñchit karoti saḥ","en":"Having given up attachment to the fruits of action, always content and depending on nothing, such a person does nothing at all, even while fully engaged in action."},{"ref":"Gita 4.21","orig":"निराशीर्यतचित्तात्मा त्यक्तसर्वपरिग्रहः।\nशारीरं केवलं कर्म कुर्वन्नाप्नोति किल्बिषम्॥","tr":"nirāśhīr yata-chittātmā tyakta-sarva-parigrahaḥ\nśhārīraṁ kevalaṁ karma kurvan nāpnoti kilbiṣham","en":"Wanting nothing, with mind and self held in check, giving up every claim to possessions, doing only what the body needs, such a person does no wrong."},{"ref":"Gita 4.22","orig":"यदृच्छालाभसन्तुष्टो द्वन्द्वातीतो विमत्सरः।\nसमः सिद्धावसिद्धौ च कृत्वापि न निबध्यते॥","tr":"yadṛichchhā-lābha-santuṣhṭo dvandvātīto vimatsaraḥ\nsamaḥ siddhāvasiddhau cha kṛitvāpi na nibadhyate","en":"Content with whatever comes on its own, beyond the pairs of opposites, free of envy, and the same in success and failure, such a person is not bound even when acting."},{"ref":"Gita 4.23","orig":"गतसङ्गस्य मुक्तस्य ज्ञानावस्थितचेतसः।\nयज्ञायाचरतः कर्म समग्रं प्रविलीयते॥","tr":"gata-saṅgasya muktasya jñānāvasthita-chetasaḥ\nyajñāyācharataḥ karma samagraṁ pravilīyate","en":"For someone free of attachment and set free, whose mind is rooted in knowledge, who acts as an offering, all action melts away completely."},{"ref":"Gita 4.24","orig":"ब्रह्मार्पणं ब्रह्महविर्ब्रह्माग्नौ ब्रह्मणा हुतम्।\nब्रह्मैव तेन गन्तव्यं ब्रह्मकर्मसमाधिना॥","tr":"brahmārpaṇaṁ brahma havir brahmāgnau brahmaṇā hutam\nbrahmaiva tena gantavyaṁ brahma-karma-samādhinā","en":"The offering is Brahman, the oblation is Brahman, poured by Brahman into the fire that is Brahman. Whoever sees Brahman in every action reaches Brahman."},{"ref":"Gita 4.25","orig":"दैवमेवापरे यज्ञं योगिनः पर्युपासते।\nब्रह्माग्नावपरे यज्ञं यज्ञेनैवोपजुह्वति॥","tr":"daivam evāpare yajñaṁ yoginaḥ paryupāsate\nbrahmāgnāvapare yajñaṁ yajñenaivopajuhvati","en":"Some yogis offer sacrifice to the gods alone. Others offer sacrifice itself as the offering in the fire of Brahman."},{"ref":"Gita 4.26","orig":"श्रोत्रादीनीन्द्रियाण्यन्ये संयमाग्निषु जुह्वति।\nशब्दादीन्विषयानन्य इन्द्रियाग्निषु जुह्वति॥","tr":"śhrotrādīnīndriyāṇyanye sanyamāgniṣhu juhvati\nśhabdādīn viṣhayānanya indriyāgniṣhu juhvati","en":"Some offer hearing and the other senses into the fires of restraint. Others offer sound and the other objects of the senses into the fires of the senses."},{"ref":"Gita 4.27","orig":"सर्वाणीन्द्रियकर्माणि प्राणकर्माणि चापरे।\nआत्मसंयमयोगाग्नौ जुह्वति ज्ञानदीपिते॥","tr":"sarvāṇīndriya-karmāṇi prāṇa-karmāṇi chāpare\nātma-sanyama-yogāgnau juhvati jñāna-dīpite","en":"Others offer all the actions of the senses and of the life breath into the fire of self-control, lit by knowledge."},{"ref":"Gita 4.28","orig":"द्रव्ययज्ञास्तपोयज्ञा योगयज्ञास्तथापरे।\nस्वाध्यायज्ञानयज्ञाश्च यतयः संशितव्रताः॥","tr":"dravya-yajñās tapo-yajñā yoga-yajñās tathāpare\nswādhyāya-jñāna-yajñāśh cha yatayaḥ sanśhita-vratāḥ","en":"Others offer their wealth, their austerity or their yoga practice as sacrifice, while others, disciplined and firm in their vows, offer study and knowledge."},{"ref":"Gita 4.29","orig":"अपाने जुह्वति प्राण प्राणेऽपानं तथाऽपरे।\nप्राणापानगती रुद्ध्वा प्राणायामपरायणाः॥","tr":"apāne juhvati prāṇaṁ prāṇe ’pānaṁ tathāpare\nprāṇāpāna-gatī ruddhvā prāṇāyāma-parāyaṇāḥ","en":"Others, devoted to breath control, offer the outgoing breath into the incoming breath and the incoming breath into the outgoing, holding back the flow of both."},{"ref":"Gita 4.30","orig":"अपरे नियताहाराः प्राणान्प्राणेषु जुह्वति।\nसर्वेऽप्येते यज्ञविदो यज्ञक्षपितकल्मषाः॥","tr":"apare niyatāhārāḥ prāṇān prāṇeṣu juhvati\nsarve py 'ete yajña-vido yajña-kṣapita-kalmaṣāḥ","en":"Others, limiting what they eat, offer their life breaths into the life breaths. All of these know what sacrifice is, and through sacrifice their wrongs are wiped away."},{"ref":"Gita 4.31","orig":"यज्ञशिष्टामृतभुजो यान्ति ब्रह्म सनातनम्।\nनायं लोकोऽस्त्ययज्ञस्य कुतो़ऽन्यः कुरुसत्तम॥","tr":"yajña-śhiṣhṭāmṛita-bhujo yānti brahma sanātanam\nnāyaṁ loko ’styayajñasya kuto ’nyaḥ kuru-sattama","en":"Those who eat the nectar left from sacrifice reach eternal Brahman. This world is not for someone who does not sacrifice, Arjuna, let alone any other world."},{"ref":"Gita 4.32","orig":"एवं बहुविधा यज्ञा वितता ब्रह्मणो मुखे।\nकर्मजान्विद्धि तान्सर्वानेवं ज्ञात्वा विमोक्ष्यसे॥","tr":"evaṁ bahu-vidhā yajñā vitatā brahmaṇo mukhe\nkarma-jān viddhi tān sarvān evaṁ jñātvā vimokṣhyase","en":"Many kinds of sacrifice like these are laid out in the words of the Veda. Know that they are all born of action. Knowing this, you will be set free."},{"ref":"Gita 4.33","orig":"श्रेयान्द्रव्यमयाद्यज्ञाज्ज्ञानयज्ञः परन्तप।\nसर्वं कर्माखिलं पार्थ ज्ञाने परिसमाप्यते॥","tr":"śhreyān dravya-mayād yajñāj jñāna-yajñaḥ parantapa\nsarvaṁ karmākhilaṁ pārtha jñāne parisamāpyate","en":"The sacrifice of knowledge is better than any sacrifice of material things, Arjuna. All action, without exception, finds its fulfilment in knowledge."},{"ref":"Gita 4.34","orig":"तद्विद्धि प्रणिपातेन परिप्रश्नेन सेवया।\nउपदेक्ष्यन्ति ते ज्ञानं ज्ञानिनस्तत्त्वदर्शिनः॥","tr":"tad viddhi praṇipātena paripraśhnena sevayā\nupadekṣhyanti te jñānaṁ jñāninas tattva-darśhinaḥ","en":"Learn this by bowing down, by asking questions, and by serving. The wise who have seen the truth will teach you this knowledge."},{"ref":"Gita 4.35","orig":"यज्ज्ञात्वा न पुनर्मोहमेवं यास्यसि पाण्डव।\nयेन भूतान्यशेषेण द्रक्ष्यस्यात्मन्यथो मयि॥","tr":"yaj jñātvā na punar moham evaṁ yāsyasi pāṇḍava\nyena bhūtānyaśheṣheṇa drakṣhyasyātmanyatho mayi","en":"Once you know it, Arjuna, you will never fall into confusion like this again. Through it you will see all beings in yourself, and then in me."},{"ref":"Gita 4.36","orig":"अपि चेदसि पापेभ्यः सर्वेभ्यः पापकृत्तमः।\nसर्वं ज्ञानप्लवेनैव वृजिनं सन्तरिष्यसि॥","tr":"api ched asi pāpebhyaḥ sarvebhyaḥ pāpa-kṛit-tamaḥ\nsarvaṁ jñāna-plavenaiva vṛijinaṁ santariṣhyasi","en":"Even if you were the worst wrongdoer of all, you would cross over all wrongdoing on the raft of knowledge."},{"ref":"Gita 4.37","orig":"यथैधांसि समिद्धोऽग्निर्भस्मसात्कुरुतेऽर्जुन।\nज्ञानाग्निः सर्वकर्माणि भस्मसात्कुरुते तथा॥","tr":"yathaidhānsi samiddho ’gnir bhasma-sāt kurute ’rjuna\njñānāgniḥ sarva-karmāṇi bhasma-sāt kurute tathā","en":"Just as a blazing fire burns wood to ash, Arjuna, the fire of knowledge burns all actions to ash."},{"ref":"Gita 4.38","orig":"न हि ज्ञानेन सदृशं पवित्रमिह विद्यते।\nतत्स्वयं योगसंसिद्धः कालेनात्मनि विन्दति॥","tr":"na hi jñānena sadṛiśhaṁ pavitramiha vidyate\ntatsvayaṁ yogasansiddhaḥ kālenātmani vindati","en":"Nothing in this world purifies like knowledge. Someone made perfect in yoga finds it within themselves in time."},{"ref":"Gita 4.39","orig":"श्रद्धावाँल्लभते ज्ञानं तत्परः संयतेन्द्रियः।\nज्ञानं लब्ध्वा परां शान्तिमचिरेणाधिगच्छति॥","tr":"śhraddhāvān labhate jñānaṁ tat-paraḥ sanyatendriyaḥ\njñānaṁ labdhvā parāṁ śhāntim achireṇādhigachchhati","en":"Someone with faith, devoted to it and with the senses under control, gains knowledge. Having gained knowledge, they soon reach supreme peace."},{"ref":"Gita 4.40","orig":"अज्ञश्चाश्रद्दधानश्च संशयात्मा विनश्यति।\nनायं लोकोऽस्ति न परो न सुखं संशयात्मनः॥","tr":"ajñaśh chāśhraddadhānaśh cha sanśhayātmā vinaśhyati\nnāyaṁ loko ’sti na paro na sukhaṁ sanśhayātmanaḥ","en":"But someone ignorant, without faith and full of doubt, is ruined. For the doubter there is neither this world nor the next, nor any happiness."},{"ref":"Gita 4.41","orig":"योगसंन्यस्तकर्माणं ज्ञानसंछिन्नसंशयम्।\nआत्मवन्तं न कर्माणि निबध्नन्ति धनञ्जय॥","tr":"yoga-sannyasta-karmāṇaṁ jñāna-sañchhinna-sanśhayam\nātmavantaṁ na karmāṇi nibadhnanti dhanañjaya","en":"Actions do not bind someone who has given up action through yoga, whose doubts are cut away by knowledge, and who is in possession of the self, Arjuna."},{"ref":"Gita 4.42","orig":"तस्मादज्ञानसंभूतं हृत्स्थं ज्ञानासिनाऽऽत्मनः।\nछित्त्वैनं संशयं योगमातिष्ठोत्तिष्ठ भारत॥","tr":"tasmād ajñāna-sambhūtaṁ hṛit-sthaṁ jñānāsinātmanaḥ\nchhittvainaṁ sanśhayaṁ yogam ātiṣhṭhottiṣhṭha bhārata","en":"So cut away this doubt in your heart, born of ignorance, with the sword of knowledge. Take up yoga, Arjuna, and stand up."}],"5":[{"ref":"Gita 5.1","orig":"अर्जुन उवाच\nसंन्यासं कर्मणां कृष्ण पुनर्योगं च शंससि।\nयच्छ्रेय एतयोरेकं तन्मे ब्रूहि सुनिश्चितम्॥","tr":"arjuna uvācha\nsannyāsaṁ karmaṇāṁ kṛiṣhṇa punar yogaṁ cha śhansasi\nyach chhreya etayor ekaṁ tan me brūhi su-niśhchitam","en":"Arjuna said: Krishna, you praise giving up action, and then again you praise yoga through action. Tell me for certain which of the two is better."},{"ref":"Gita 5.2","orig":"श्री भगवानुवाच\nसंन्यासः कर्मयोगश्च निःश्रेयसकरावुभौ।\nतयोस्तु कर्मसंन्यासात्कर्मयोगो विशिष्यते॥","tr":"śhrī bhagavān uvācha\nsannyāsaḥ karma-yogaśh cha niḥśhreyasa-karāvubhau\ntayos tu karma-sannyāsāt karma-yogo viśhiṣhyate","en":"Krishna said: Giving up action and the yoga of action both lead to the highest good. But of the two, the yoga of action is better than giving up action."},{"ref":"Gita 5.3","orig":"ज्ञेयः स नित्यसंन्यासी यो न द्वेष्टि न काङ्क्षति।\nनिर्द्वन्द्वो हि महाबाहो सुखं बन्धात्प्रमुच्यते॥","tr":"jñeyaḥ sa nitya-sannyāsī yo na dveṣhṭi na kāṅkṣhati\nnirdvandvo hi mahā-bāho sukhaṁ bandhāt pramuchyate","en":"Know that the true renunciant is the person who neither hates nor craves. Free of the pairs of opposites, mighty-armed one, they are easily released from bondage."},{"ref":"Gita 5.4","orig":"सांख्ययोगौ पृथग्बालाः प्रवदन्ति न पण्डिताः।\nएकमप्यास्थितः सम्यगुभयोर्विन्दते फलम्॥","tr":"sānkhya-yogau pṛithag bālāḥ pravadanti na paṇḍitāḥ\nekamapyāsthitaḥ samyag ubhayor vindate phalam","en":"Children, not the wise, speak of Sankhya and yoga as different. Someone truly established in even one of them gains the fruit of both."},{"ref":"Gita 5.5","orig":"यत्सांख्यैः प्राप्यते स्थानं तद्योगैरपि गम्यते।\nएकं सांख्यं च योगं च यः पश्यति स पश्यति॥","tr":"yat sānkhyaiḥ prāpyate sthānaṁ tad yogair api gamyate\nekaṁ sānkhyaṁ cha yogaṁ cha yaḥ paśhyati sa paśhyati","en":"The state reached by followers of Sankhya is also reached by followers of yoga. Whoever sees Sankhya and yoga as one truly sees."},{"ref":"Gita 5.6","orig":"संन्यासस्तु महाबाहो दुःखमाप्तुमयोगतः।\nयोगयुक्तो मुनिर्ब्रह्म नचिरेणाधिगच्छति॥","tr":"sannyāsas tu mahā-bāho duḥkham āptum ayogataḥ\nyoga-yukto munir brahma na chireṇādhigachchhati","en":"But renunciation is hard to reach without yoga, mighty-armed one. A sage disciplined in yoga soon reaches Brahman."},{"ref":"Gita 5.7","orig":"योगयुक्तो विशुद्धात्मा विजितात्मा जितेन्द्रियः।\nसर्वभूतात्मभूतात्मा कुर्वन्नपि न लिप्यते॥","tr":"yoga-yukto viśhuddhātmā vijitātmā jitendriyaḥ\nsarva-bhūtātma-bhūtātmā kurvann api na lipyate","en":"Disciplined in yoga, pure in heart, master of self and senses, whose self has become the self of all beings, such a person is not stained even while acting."},{"ref":"Gita 5.8","orig":"नैव किंचित्करोमीति युक्तो मन्येत तत्त्ववित्।\nपश्यन् श्रृणवन्स्पृशञ्जिघ्रन्नश्नन्गच्छन्स्वपन् श्वसन्॥","tr":"naiva kiñchit karomīti yukto manyeta tattva-vit\npaśhyañ śhṛiṇvan spṛiśhañjighrann aśhnangachchhan svapañśhvasan","en":"Someone disciplined who knows the truth thinks, \"I do nothing at all,\" while seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, walking, sleeping and breathing,"},{"ref":"Gita 5.9","orig":"प्रलपन्विसृजन्गृह्णन्नुन्मिषन्निमिषन्नपि।\nइन्द्रियाणीन्द्रियार्थेषु वर्तन्त इति धारयन्॥","tr":"pralapan visṛjan gṛhṇann unmiṣan nimiṣann api\nindriyāṇīndriyārtheṣu vartanta iti dhārayan","en":"while speaking, letting go, taking hold, and even opening and closing the eyes. They understand that the senses are simply moving among their objects."},{"ref":"Gita 5.10","orig":"ब्रह्मण्याधाय कर्माणि सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा करोति यः।\nलिप्यते न स पापेन पद्मपत्रमिवाम्भसा॥","tr":"brahmaṇyādhāya karmāṇi saṅgaṁ tyaktvā karoti yaḥ\nlipyate na sa pāpena padma-patram ivāmbhasā","en":"Someone who acts by offering their actions to Brahman and giving up attachment is not stained by wrong, just as a lotus leaf is not wetted by water."},{"ref":"Gita 5.11","orig":"कायेन मनसा बुद्ध्या केवलैरिन्द्रियैरपि।\nयोगिनः कर्म कुर्वन्ति सङ्गं त्यक्त्वाऽऽत्मशुद्धये॥","tr":"kāyena manasā buddhyā kevalair indriyair api\nyoginaḥ karma kurvanti saṅgaṁ tyaktvātma-śhuddhaye","en":"Yogis act with the body, the mind, the intellect, even the senses alone, giving up attachment, in order to purify themselves."},{"ref":"Gita 5.12","orig":"युक्तः कर्मफलं त्यक्त्वा शान्तिमाप्नोति नैष्ठिकीम्।\nअयुक्तः कामकारेण फले सक्तो निबध्यते॥","tr":"yuktaḥ karma-phalaṁ tyaktvā śhāntim āpnoti naiṣhṭhikīm\nayuktaḥ kāma-kāreṇa phale sakto nibadhyate","en":"A disciplined person who gives up the fruits of action reaches lasting peace. An undisciplined person, attached to the fruits and driven by desire, is bound."},{"ref":"Gita 5.13","orig":"सर्वकर्माणि मनसा संन्यस्यास्ते सुखं वशी।\nनवद्वारे पुरे देही नैव कुर्वन्न कारयन्॥","tr":"sarva-karmāṇi manasā sannyasyāste sukhaṁ vaśhī\nnava-dvāre pure dehī naiva kurvan na kārayan","en":"Having let go of all actions in the mind, the one who lives in the body rests happily in the city of nine gates as its master, neither acting nor causing anything to act."},{"ref":"Gita 5.14","orig":"न कर्तृत्वं न कर्माणि लोकस्य सृजति प्रभुः।\nन कर्मफलसंयोगं स्वभावस्तु प्रवर्तते॥","tr":"na kartṛitvaṁ na karmāṇi lokasya sṛijati prabhuḥ\nna karma-phala-saṅyogaṁ svabhāvas tu pravartate","en":"The Lord does not create people's sense of being the doer, or their actions, or the link between action and its fruit. It is nature that does this."},{"ref":"Gita 5.15","orig":"नादत्ते कस्यचित्पापं न चैव सुकृतं विभुः।\nअज्ञानेनावृतं ज्ञानं तेन मुह्यन्ति जन्तवः॥","tr":"nādatte kasyachit pāpaṁ na chaiva sukṛitaṁ vibhuḥ\najñānenāvṛitaṁ jñānaṁ tena muhyanti jantavaḥ","en":"The all-pervading one takes on no one's wrong or good deeds. Knowledge is covered by ignorance, and that is why beings are confused."},{"ref":"Gita 5.16","orig":"ज्ञानेन तु तदज्ञानं येषां नाशितमात्मनः।\nतेषामादित्यवज्ज्ञानं प्रकाशयति तत्परम्॥","tr":"jñānena tu tad ajñānaṁ yeṣhāṁ nāśhitam ātmanaḥ\nteṣhām āditya-vaj jñānaṁ prakāśhayati tat param","en":"But for those whose ignorance is destroyed by knowledge of the self, that knowledge lights up the Supreme like the sun."},{"ref":"Gita 5.17","orig":"तद्बुद्धयस्तदात्मानस्तन्निष्ठास्तत्परायणाः।\nगच्छन्त्यपुनरावृत्तिं ज्ञाननिर्धूतकल्मषाः॥","tr":"tad-buddhayas tad-ātmānas tan-niṣhṭhās tat-parāyaṇāḥ\ngachchhantyapunar-āvṛittiṁ jñāna-nirdhūta-kalmaṣhāḥ","en":"Their minds on That, their selves in That, grounded in That and devoted to That, their wrongs washed away by knowledge, they go where there is no return."},{"ref":"Gita 5.18","orig":"विद्याविनयसंपन्ने ब्राह्मणे गवि हस्तिनि।\nशुनि चैव श्वपाके च पण्डिताः समदर्शिनः॥","tr":"vidyā-vinaya-sampanne brāhmaṇe gavi hastini\nśhuni chaiva śhva-pāke cha paṇḍitāḥ sama-darśhinaḥ","en":"The wise see with an equal eye a Brahmin rich in learning and humility, a cow, an elephant, a dog and an outcaste."},{"ref":"Gita 5.19","orig":"इहैव तैर्जितः सर्गो येषां साम्ये स्थितं मनः।\nनिर्दोषं हि समं ब्रह्म तस्माद्ब्रह्मणि ते स्थिताः॥","tr":"ihaiva tair jitaḥ sargo yeṣhāṁ sāmye sthitaṁ manaḥ\nnirdoṣhaṁ hi samaṁ brahma tasmād brahmaṇi te sthitāḥ","en":"Even here in this life, those whose minds are settled in sameness have conquered birth. Brahman is flawless and the same in all, so they are established in Brahman."},{"ref":"Gita 5.20","orig":"न प्रहृष्येत्प्रियं प्राप्य नोद्विजेत्प्राप्य चाप्रियम्।\nस्थिरबुद्धिरसम्मूढो ब्रह्मविद्ब्रह्मणि स्थितः॥","tr":"na prahṛiṣhyet priyaṁ prāpya nodvijet prāpya chāpriyam\nsthira-buddhir asammūḍho brahma-vid brahmaṇi sthitaḥ","en":"Someone should not rejoice at getting what they like, nor be upset at getting what they dislike. With a steady mind and free of confusion, the knower of Brahman is established in Brahman."},{"ref":"Gita 5.21","orig":"बाह्यस्पर्शेष्वसक्तात्मा विन्दत्यात्मनि यत्सुखम्।\nस ब्रह्मयोगयुक्तात्मा सुखमक्षयमश्नुते॥","tr":"bāhya-sparśheṣhvasaktātmā vindatyātmani yat sukham\nsa brahma-yoga-yuktātmā sukham akṣhayam aśhnute","en":"Someone not attached to outside contacts finds the happiness that is in the self. Joined in yoga with Brahman, they enjoy a happiness that never fades."},{"ref":"Gita 5.22","orig":"ये हि संस्पर्शजा भोगा दुःखयोनय एव ते।\nआद्यन्तवन्तः कौन्तेय न तेषु रमते बुधः॥","tr":"ye hi sansparśha-jā bhogā duḥkha-yonaya eva te\nādyantavantaḥ kaunteya na teṣhu ramate budhaḥ","en":"The pleasures born of contact with the senses are sources of pain. They have a beginning and an end, son of Kunti. The wise take no delight in them."},{"ref":"Gita 5.23","orig":"शक्नोतीहैव यः सोढुं प्राक्शरीरविमोक्षणात्।\nकामक्रोधोद्भवं वेगं स युक्तः स सुखी नरः॥","tr":"śhaknotīhaiva yaḥ soḍhuṁ prāk śharīra-vimokṣhaṇāt\nkāma-krodhodbhavaṁ vegaṁ sa yuktaḥ sa sukhī naraḥ","en":"Whoever can withstand the force of desire and anger here, before leaving the body, is disciplined and happy."},{"ref":"Gita 5.24","orig":"योऽन्तःसुखोऽन्तरारामस्तथान्तर्ज्योतिरेव यः।\nस योगी ब्रह्मनिर्वाणं ब्रह्मभूतोऽधिगच्छति॥","tr":"yo 'ntaḥ-sukho 'ntar-ārāmas tathāntar-jyotir eva yaḥ\nsa yogī brahma-nirvāṇaṁ brahma-bhūto 'dhigachchhati","en":"Someone whose happiness is within, whose joy is within, and whose light is within, that yogi becomes Brahman and reaches the peace of Brahman."},{"ref":"Gita 5.25","orig":"लभन्ते ब्रह्मनिर्वाणमृषयः क्षीणकल्मषाः।\nछिन्नद्वैधा यतात्मानः सर्वभूतहिते रताः॥","tr":"labhante brahma-nirvāṇam ṛiṣhayaḥ kṣhīṇa-kalmaṣhāḥ\nchhinna-dvaidhā yatātmānaḥ sarva-bhūta-hite ratāḥ","en":"Seers whose wrongs are wiped away, whose doubts are cut through, who are self-controlled and who delight in the good of all beings, reach the peace of Brahman."},{"ref":"Gita 5.26","orig":"कामक्रोधवियुक्तानां यतीनां यतचेतसाम्।\nअभितो ब्रह्मनिर्वाणं वर्तते विदितात्मनाम्॥","tr":"kāma-krodha-viyuktānāṁ yatīnāṁ yata-chetasām\nabhito brahma-nirvāṇaṁ vartate viditātmanām","en":"For those free of desire and anger, who have controlled their minds and know the self, the peace of Brahman is near on every side."},{"ref":"Gita 5.27","orig":"स्पर्शान्कृत्वा बहिर्बाह्यांश्चक्षुश्चैवान्तरे भ्रुवोः।\nप्राणापानौ समौ कृत्वा नासाभ्यन्तरचारिणौ॥","tr":"sparśhān kṛitvā bahir bāhyānśh chakṣhuśh chaivāntare bhruvoḥ\nprāṇāpānau samau kṛitvā nāsābhyantara-chāriṇau","en":"Shutting out outside contacts, fixing the gaze between the eyebrows, and evening out the in-breath and out-breath as they move through the nostrils,"},{"ref":"Gita 5.28","orig":"यतेन्द्रियमनोबुद्धिर्मुनिर्मोक्षपरायणः।\nविगतेच्छाभयक्रोधो यः सदा मुक्त एव सः॥","tr":"yatendriya-mano-buddhir munir mokṣa-parāyaṇaḥ\nvigatecchā-bhaya-krodho yaḥ sadā mukta eva saḥ","en":"the sage who has controlled senses, mind and intellect, who is set on freedom, and from whom desire, fear and anger have gone, is truly free forever."},{"ref":"Gita 5.29","orig":"भोक्तारं यज्ञतपसां सर्वलोकमहेश्वरम्।\nसुहृदं सर्वभूतानां ज्ञात्वा मां शान्तिमृच्छति॥","tr":"bhoktāraṁ yajña-tapasāṁ sarva-loka-maheśhvaram\nsuhṛidaṁ sarva-bhūtānāṁ jñātvā māṁ śhāntim ṛichchhati","en":"Knowing me as the one who receives all sacrifices and austerities, the great lord of all the worlds, and the friend of all beings, a person reaches peace."}],"6":[{"ref":"Gita 6.1","orig":"श्री भगवानुवाच\nअनाश्रितः कर्मफलं कार्यं कर्म करोति यः।\nस संन्यासी च योगी च न निरग्निर्न चाक्रियः॥","tr":"śhrī bhagavān uvācha\nanāśhritaḥ karma-phalaṁ kāryaṁ karma karoti yaḥ\nsa sannyāsī cha yogī cha na niragnir na chākriyaḥ","en":"Krishna said: Someone who does the work they should do without depending on its fruits is a renunciant and a yogi, not someone who merely stops tending the sacred fire or stops acting."},{"ref":"Gita 6.2","orig":"यं संन्यासमिति प्राहुर्योगं तं विद्धि पाण्डव।\nन ह्यसंन्यस्तसङ्कल्पो योगी भवति कश्चन॥","tr":"yaṁ sannyāsam iti prāhur yogaṁ taṁ viddhi pāṇḍava\nna hyasannyasta-saṅkalpo yogī bhavati kaśhchana","en":"Know that what they call renunciation is yoga, Arjuna. No one becomes a yogi without renouncing selfish plans."},{"ref":"Gita 6.3","orig":"आरुरुक्षोर्मुनेर्योगं कर्म कारणमुच्यते।\nयोगारूढस्य तस्यैव शमः कारणमुच्यते॥","tr":"ārurukṣhor muner yogaṁ karma kāraṇam uchyate\nyogārūḍhasya tasyaiva śhamaḥ kāraṇam uchyate","en":"For a sage who wants to climb to yoga, action is said to be the means. For the same sage, once they have climbed to yoga, calm is said to be the means."},{"ref":"Gita 6.4","orig":"यदा हि नेन्द्रियार्थेषु न कर्मस्वनुषज्जते।\nसर्वसङ्कल्पसंन्यासी योगारूढस्तदोच्यते॥","tr":"yadā hi nendriyārtheṣhu na karmasv-anuṣhajjate\nsarva-saṅkalpa-sannyāsī yogārūḍhas tadochyate","en":"When someone is not attached to the objects of the senses or to actions, and has renounced all selfish plans, they are said to have climbed to yoga."},{"ref":"Gita 6.5","orig":"उद्धरेदात्मनाऽऽत्मानं नात्मानमवसादयेत्।\nआत्मैव ह्यात्मनो बन्धुरात्मैव रिपुरात्मनः॥","tr":"uddhared ātmanātmānaṁ nātmānam avasādayet\nātmaiva hyātmano bandhur ātmaiva ripur ātmanaḥ","en":"Lift yourself up by your own self. Do not let yourself sink. You alone are your own friend, and you alone are your own enemy."},{"ref":"Gita 6.6","orig":"बन्धुरात्माऽऽत्मनस्तस्य येनात्मैवात्मना जितः।\nअनात्मनस्तु शत्रुत्वे वर्तेतात्मैव शत्रुवत्॥","tr":"bandhur ātmātmanas tasya yenātmaivātmanā jitaḥ\nanātmanas tu śhatrutve vartetātmaiva śhatru-vat","en":"For someone who has mastered themselves, the self is their friend. But for someone who has not, their own self turns on them like an enemy."},{"ref":"Gita 6.7","orig":"जितात्मनः प्रशान्तस्य परमात्मा समाहितः।\nशीतोष्णसुखदुःखेषु तथा मानापमानयोः॥","tr":"jitātmanaḥ praśhāntasya paramātmā samāhitaḥ\nśhītoṣhṇa-sukha-duḥkheṣhu tathā mānāpamānayoḥ","en":"For someone who has mastered themselves and is at peace, the highest self stays composed in cold and heat, pleasure and pain, honour and dishonour."},{"ref":"Gita 6.8","orig":"ज्ञानविज्ञानतृप्तात्मा कूटस्थो विजितेन्द्रियः।\nयुक्त इत्युच्यते योगी समलोष्टाश्मकाञ्चनः॥","tr":"jñāna-vijñāna-tṛiptātmā kūṭa-stho vijitendriyaḥ\nyukta ityuchyate yogī sama-loṣhṭāśhma-kāñchanaḥ","en":"A yogi satisfied with knowledge and insight, unshaken, with the senses mastered, to whom a lump of earth, a stone and gold are all the same, is said to be disciplined."},{"ref":"Gita 6.9","orig":"सुहृन्मित्रार्युदासीनमध्यस्थद्वेष्यबन्धुषु।\nसाधुष्वपि च पापेषु समबुद्धिर्विशिष्यते॥","tr":"suhṛin-mitrāryudāsīna-madhyastha-dveṣhya-bandhuṣhu\nsādhuṣhvapi cha pāpeṣhu sama-buddhir viśhiṣhyate","en":"Someone who looks with an equal mind on well-wishers, friends and enemies, the indifferent and the neutral, the hateful and relatives, the good and even the wicked, stands out."},{"ref":"Gita 6.10","orig":"योगी युञ्जीत सततमात्मानं रहसि स्थितः।\nएकाकी यतचित्तात्मा निराशीरपरिग्रहः॥","tr":"yogī yuñjīta satatam ātmānaṁ rahasi sthitaḥ\nekākī yata-chittātmā nirāśhīr aparigrahaḥ","en":"A yogi should keep concentrating the mind, staying in a secluded place, alone, with mind and body controlled, wanting nothing and owning nothing."},{"ref":"Gita 6.11","orig":"शुचौ देशे प्रतिष्ठाप्य स्थिरमासनमात्मनः।\nनात्युच्छ्रितं नातिनीचं चैलाजिनकुशोत्तरम्॥","tr":"śhuchau deśhe pratiṣhṭhāpya sthiram āsanam ātmanaḥ\nnātyuchchhritaṁ nāti-nīchaṁ chailājina-kuśhottaram","en":"In a clean place they should set up a firm seat for themselves, not too high and not too low, covered with cloth, deerskin and kusha grass."},{"ref":"Gita 6.12","orig":"तत्रैकाग्रं मनः कृत्वा यतचित्तेन्द्रियक्रियः।\nउपविश्यासने युञ्ज्याद्योगमात्मविशुद्धये॥","tr":"tatraikāgraṁ manaḥ kṛitvā yata-chittendriya-kriyaḥ\nupaviśhyāsane yuñjyād yogam ātma-viśhuddhaye","en":"Sitting there on that seat, making the mind one-pointed and reining in the activity of thought and senses, they should practise yoga to purify the self."},{"ref":"Gita 6.13","orig":"समं कायशिरोग्रीवं धारयन्नचलं स्थिरः।\nसंप्रेक्ष्य नासिकाग्रं स्वं दिशश्चानवलोकयन्॥","tr":"samaṁ kāya-śhiro-grīvaṁ dhārayann achalaṁ sthiraḥ\nsamprekṣhya nāsikāgraṁ svaṁ diśhaśh chānavalokayan","en":"Holding body, head and neck straight and still, steady, gazing at the tip of the nose without looking around,"},{"ref":"Gita 6.14","orig":"प्रशान्तात्मा विगतभीर्ब्रह्मचारिव्रते स्थितः।\nमनः संयम्य मच्चित्तो युक्त आसीत मत्परः॥","tr":"praśhāntātmā vigata-bhīr brahmachāri-vrate sthitaḥ\nmanaḥ sanyamya mach-chitto yukta āsīta mat-paraḥ","en":"calm, free of fear, firm in the vow of celibacy, reining in the mind, thinking of me, they should sit disciplined, with me as their highest goal."},{"ref":"Gita 6.15","orig":"युञ्जन्नेवं सदाऽऽत्मानं योगी नियतमानसः।\nशान्तिं निर्वाणपरमां मत्संस्थामधिगच्छति॥","tr":"yuñjann evaṁ sadātmānaṁ yogī niyata-mānasaḥ\nśhantiṁ nirvāṇa-paramāṁ mat-sansthām adhigachchhati","en":"Always disciplining themselves this way, the yogi with a controlled mind reaches peace, the supreme freedom that rests in me."},{"ref":"Gita 6.16","orig":"नात्यश्नतस्तु योगोऽस्ति न चैकान्तमनश्नतः।\nन चातिस्वप्नशीलस्य जाग्रतो नैव चार्जुन॥","tr":"nātyaśhnatastu yogo ’sti na chaikāntam anaśhnataḥ\nna chāti-svapna-śhīlasya jāgrato naiva chārjuna","en":"Yoga is not for someone who eats too much or who does not eat at all, Arjuna, nor for someone who sleeps too much or stays awake too long."},{"ref":"Gita 6.17","orig":"युक्ताहारविहारस्य युक्तचेष्टस्य कर्मसु।\nयुक्तस्वप्नावबोधस्य योगो भवति दुःखहा॥","tr":"yuktāhāra-vihārasya yukta-cheṣhṭasya karmasu\nyukta-svapnāvabodhasya yogo bhavati duḥkha-hā","en":"For someone moderate in food and leisure, moderate in effort at work, moderate in sleep and waking, yoga brings an end to suffering."},{"ref":"Gita 6.18","orig":"यदा विनियतं चित्तमात्मन्येवावतिष्ठते।\nनिःस्पृहः सर्वकामेभ्यो युक्त इत्युच्यते तदा॥","tr":"yadā viniyataṁ chittam ātmanyevāvatiṣhṭhate\nniḥspṛihaḥ sarva-kāmebhyo yukta ityuchyate tadā","en":"When the well-controlled mind rests in the self alone, free of longing for anything it could desire, the person is said to be disciplined."},{"ref":"Gita 6.19","orig":"यथा दीपो निवातस्थो नेङ्गते सोपमा स्मृता।\nयोगिनो यतचित्तस्य युञ्जतो योगमात्मनः॥","tr":"yathā dīpo nivāta-stho neṅgate sopamā smṛitā\nyogino yata-chittasya yuñjato yogam ātmanaḥ","en":"\"A lamp in a windless place that does not flicker\": that is the picture of a yogi whose mind is controlled, practising the yoga of the self."},{"ref":"Gita 6.20","orig":"यत्रोपरमते चित्तं निरुद्धं योगसेवया।\nयत्र चैवात्मनाऽऽत्मानं पश्यन्नात्मनि तुष्यति॥","tr":"yatroparamate chittaṁ niruddhaṁ yoga-sevayā\nyatra chaivātmanātmānaṁ paśhyann ātmani tuṣhyati","en":"When the mind comes to rest, stilled by the practice of yoga, and seeing the self through the self, one finds contentment in the self,"},{"ref":"Gita 6.21","orig":"सुखमात्यन्तिकं यत्तद्बुद्धिग्राह्यमतीन्द्रियम्।\nवेत्ति यत्र न चैवायं स्थितश्चलति तत्त्वतः॥","tr":"sukham ātyantikaṁ yat tad buddhi-grāhyam atīndriyam\nvetti yatra na chaivāyaṁ sthitaśh chalati tattvataḥ","en":"when one knows that endless happiness which the intellect can grasp but which lies beyond the senses, and, established there, never moves from the truth,"},{"ref":"Gita 6.22","orig":"यं लब्ध्वा चापरं लाभं मन्यते नाधिकं ततः।\nयस्मिन्स्थितो न दुःखेन गुरुणापि विचाल्यते॥","tr":"yaṁ labdhvā chāparaṁ lābhaṁ manyate nādhikaṁ tataḥ\nyasmin sthito na duḥkhena guruṇāpi vichālyate","en":"having gained which one thinks no other gain is greater, and established in which one is not shaken even by great sorrow,"},{"ref":"Gita 6.23","orig":"तं विद्याद् दुःखसंयोगवियोगं योगसंज्ञितम्।\nस निश्चयेन योक्तव्यो योगोऽनिर्विण्णचेतसा॥","tr":"taṁ vidyād duḥkha-sanyoga-viyogaṁ yogasaṅjñitam\nsa niśhchayena yoktavyo yogo ’nirviṇṇa-chetasā","en":"know that this breaking of the bond with suffering is called yoga. This yoga should be practised with determination and a mind that does not lose heart."},{"ref":"Gita 6.24","orig":"सङ्कल्पप्रभवान्कामांस्त्यक्त्वा सर्वानशेषतः।\nमनसैवेन्द्रियग्रामं विनियम्य समन्ततः॥","tr":"saṅkalpa-prabhavān kāmāns tyaktvā sarvān aśheṣhataḥ\nmanasaivendriya-grāmaṁ viniyamya samantataḥ","en":"Giving up completely all desires born of selfish plans, and reining in the whole crowd of senses from every side with the mind,"},{"ref":"Gita 6.25","orig":"शनैः शनैरुपरमेद् बुद्ध्या धृतिगृहीतया।\nआत्मसंस्थं मनः कृत्वा न किञ्चिदपि चिन्तयेत्॥","tr":"śhanaiḥ śhanair uparamed buddhyā dhṛiti-gṛihītayā\nātma-sansthaṁ manaḥ kṛitvā na kiñchid api chintayet","en":"little by little one should come to rest, with understanding held firmly. Fixing the mind in the self, one should think of nothing else."},{"ref":"Gita 6.26","orig":"यतो यतो निश्चरति मनश्चञ्चलमस्थिरम्।\nततस्ततो नियम्यैतदात्मन्येव वशं नयेत्॥","tr":"yato yato niśhcharati manaśh chañchalam asthiram\ntatas tato niyamyaitad ātmanyeva vaśhaṁ nayet","en":"Wherever the restless, unsteady mind wanders off, one should draw it back from there and bring it under the control of the self."},{"ref":"Gita 6.27","orig":"प्रशान्तमनसं ह्येनं योगिनं सुखमुत्तमम्।\nउपैति शान्तरजसं ब्रह्मभूतमकल्मषम्॥","tr":"praśhānta-manasaṁ hyenaṁ yoginaṁ sukham uttamam\nupaiti śhānta-rajasaṁ brahma-bhūtam akalmaṣham","en":"Supreme happiness comes to the yogi whose mind is calm, whose passions are quieted, who is free of wrong and has become Brahman."},{"ref":"Gita 6.28","orig":"युञ्जन्नेवं सदाऽऽत्मानं योगी विगतकल्मषः।\nसुखेन ब्रह्मसंस्पर्शमत्यन्तं सुखमश्नुते॥","tr":"yuñjann evaṁ sadātmānaṁ yogī vigata-kalmaṣhaḥ\nsukhena brahma-sansparśham atyantaṁ sukham aśhnute","en":"Always disciplining the self like this, the yogi free of wrong easily enjoys the endless happiness of contact with Brahman."},{"ref":"Gita 6.29","orig":"सर्वभूतस्थमात्मानं सर्वभूतानि चात्मनि।\nईक्षते योगयुक्तात्मा सर्वत्र समदर्शनः॥","tr":"sarva-bhūta-stham ātmānaṁ sarva-bhūtāni chātmani\nīkṣhate yoga-yuktātmā sarvatra sama-darśhanaḥ","en":"Someone disciplined in yoga sees the self in all beings and all beings in the self. They see the same everywhere."},{"ref":"Gita 6.30","orig":"यो मां पश्यति सर्वत्र सर्वं च मयि पश्यति।\nतस्याहं न प्रणश्यामि स च मे न प्रणश्यति॥","tr":"yo māṁ paśhyati sarvatra sarvaṁ cha mayi paśhyati\ntasyāhaṁ na praṇaśhyāmi sa cha me na praṇaśhyati","en":"Whoever sees me everywhere and sees everything in me, I am never lost to them, and they are never lost to me."},{"ref":"Gita 6.31","orig":"सर्वभूतस्थितं यो मां भजत्येकत्वमास्थितः।\nसर्वथा वर्तमानोऽपि स योगी मयि वर्तते॥","tr":"sarva-bhūta-sthitaṁ yo māṁ bhajatyekatvam āsthitaḥ\nsarvathā vartamāno ’pi sa yogī mayi vartate","en":"The yogi who is established in oneness and worships me as the one living in all beings lives in me, however they live."},{"ref":"Gita 6.32","orig":"आत्मौपम्येन सर्वत्र समं पश्यति योऽर्जुन।\nसुखं वा यदि वा दुःखं सः योगी परमो मतः॥","tr":"ātmaupamyena sarvatra samaṁ paśhyati yo ’rjuna\nsukhaṁ vā yadi vā duḥkhaṁ sa yogī paramo mataḥ","en":"Arjuna, the one who sees everything as equal, measuring by their own self, whether in pleasure or in pain, is considered the highest yogi."},{"ref":"Gita 6.33","orig":"अर्जुन उवाच\nयोऽयं योगस्त्वया प्रोक्तः साम्येन मधुसूदन।\nएतस्याहं न पश्यामि चञ्चलत्वात् स्थितिं स्थिराम्॥","tr":"arjuna uvācha\nyo ’yaṁ yogas tvayā proktaḥ sāmyena madhusūdana\netasyāhaṁ na paśhyāmi chañchalatvāt sthitiṁ sthirām","en":"Arjuna said: Krishna, you have described this yoga of evenness, but because the mind is restless I do not see how it can hold steady."},{"ref":"Gita 6.34","orig":"चञ्चलं हि मनः कृष्ण प्रमाथि बलवद्दृढम्।\nतस्याहं निग्रहं मन्ये वायोरिव सुदुष्करम्॥","tr":"chañchalaṁ hi manaḥ kṛiṣhṇa pramāthi balavad dṛiḍham\ntasyāhaṁ nigrahaṁ manye vāyor iva su-duṣhkaram","en":"The mind is restless, Krishna, turbulent, strong and stubborn. I think it is as hard to hold as the wind."},{"ref":"Gita 6.35","orig":"श्री भगवानुवाच\nअसंशयं महाबाहो मनो दुर्निग्रहं चलं।\nअभ्यासेन तु कौन्तेय वैराग्येण च गृह्यते॥","tr":"śhrī bhagavān uvācha\nasanśhayaṁ mahā-bāho mano durnigrahaṁ chalam\nabhyāsena tu kaunteya vairāgyeṇa cha gṛihyate","en":"Krishna said: No doubt, mighty-armed one, the mind is restless and hard to hold. But it can be held through practice and letting go, son of Kunti."},{"ref":"Gita 6.36","orig":"असंयतात्मना योगो दुष्प्राप इति मे मतिः।\nवश्यात्मना तु यतता शक्योऽवाप्तुमुपायतः॥","tr":"asaṅyatātmanā yogo duṣhprāpa iti me matiḥ\nvaśhyātmanā tu yatatā śhakyo ’vāptum upāyataḥ","en":"Yoga is hard to reach for someone who cannot control the self, I agree. But someone self-controlled who keeps striving can reach it by the right means."},{"ref":"Gita 6.37","orig":"अर्जुन उवाच\nअयतिः श्रद्धयोपेतो योगाच्चलितमानसः।\nअप्राप्य योगसंसिद्धिं कां गतिं कृष्ण गच्छति॥","tr":"arjuna uvācha\nayatiḥ śhraddhayopeto yogāch chalita-mānasaḥ\naprāpya yoga-sansiddhiṁ kāṅ gatiṁ kṛiṣhṇa gachchhati","en":"Arjuna said: Krishna, what happens to someone who has faith but lacks self-control, whose mind strays from yoga before reaching its perfection? Where do they end up?"},{"ref":"Gita 6.38","orig":"कच्चिन्नोभयविभ्रष्टश्छिन्नाभ्रमिव नश्यति।\nअप्रतिष्ठो महाबाहो विमूढो ब्रह्मणः पथि॥","tr":"kachchin nobhaya-vibhraṣhṭaśh chhinnābhram iva naśhyati\napratiṣhṭho mahā-bāho vimūḍho brahmaṇaḥ pathi","en":"Fallen from both, mighty-armed Krishna, do they not vanish like a scattered cloud, with no footing, lost on the path to Brahman?"},{"ref":"Gita 6.39","orig":"एतन्मे संशयं कृष्ण छेत्तुमर्हस्यशेषतः।\nत्वदन्यः संशयस्यास्य छेत्ता न ह्युपपद्यते॥","tr":"etan me sanśhayaṁ kṛiṣhṇa chhettum arhasyaśheṣhataḥ\ntvad-anyaḥ sanśhayasyāsya chhettā na hyupapadyate","en":"Krishna, please clear away this doubt of mine completely. There is no one but you who can remove it."},{"ref":"Gita 6.40","orig":"श्री भगवानुवाच\nपार्थ नैवेह नामुत्र विनाशस्तस्य विद्यते।\nनहि कल्याणकृत्कश्चिद्दुर्गतिं तात गच्छति॥","tr":"śhrī bhagavān uvācha\npārtha naiveha nāmutra vināśhas tasya vidyate\nna hi kalyāṇa-kṛit kaśhchid durgatiṁ tāta gachchhati","en":"Krishna said: Arjuna, there is no ruin for such a person, neither in this world nor in the next. No one who does good ever comes to a bad end, my friend."},{"ref":"Gita 6.41","orig":"प्राप्य पुण्यकृतां लोकानुषित्वा शाश्वतीः समाः।\nशुचीनां श्रीमतां गेहे योगभ्रष्टोऽभिजायते॥","tr":"prāpya puṇya-kṛitāṁ lokān uṣhitvā śhāśhvatīḥ samāḥ\nśhuchīnāṁ śhrīmatāṁ gehe yoga-bhraṣhṭo’bhijāyate","en":"Having reached the worlds of those who do good and lived there for countless years, the one who fell from yoga is born into the home of pure and prosperous people."},{"ref":"Gita 6.42","orig":"अथवा योगिनामेव कुले भवति धीमताम्।\nएतद्धि दुर्लभतरं लोके जन्म यदीदृशम्॥","tr":"atha vā yoginām eva kule bhavati dhīmatām\netad dhi durlabhataraṁ loke janma yad īdṛiśham","en":"Or they are born into a family of wise yogis. But a birth like that is very hard to come by in this world."},{"ref":"Gita 6.43","orig":"तत्र तं बुद्धिसंयोगं लभते पौर्वदेहिकम्।\nयतते च ततो भूयः संसिद्धौ कुरुनन्दन॥","tr":"tatra taṁ buddhi-sanyogaṁ labhate paurva-dehikam\nyatate cha tato bhūyaḥ sansiddhau kuru-nandana","en":"There they regain the understanding they had in their former body, and from there they strive again toward perfection, Arjuna."},{"ref":"Gita 6.44","orig":"पूर्वाभ्यासेन तेनैव ह्रियते ह्यवशोऽपि सः।\nजिज्ञासुरपि योगस्य शब्दब्रह्मातिवर्तते॥","tr":"pūrvābhyāsena tenaiva hriyate hyavaśho ’pi saḥ\njijñāsur api yogasya śhabda-brahmātivartate","en":"That earlier practice carries them along even without their choosing. Even someone who only wants to know about yoga goes beyond the ritual words of the Vedas."},{"ref":"Gita 6.45","orig":"प्रयत्नाद्यतमानस्तु योगी संशुद्धकिल्बिषः।\nअनेकजन्मसंसिद्धस्ततो याति परां गतिम्॥","tr":"prayatnād yatamānas tu yogī sanśhuddha-kilbiṣhaḥ\naneka-janma-sansiddhas tato yāti parāṁ gatim","en":"But the yogi who strives hard, cleansed of wrongs and perfected over many births, then reaches the highest goal."},{"ref":"Gita 6.46","orig":"तपस्विभ्योऽधिको योगी ज्ञानिभ्योऽपि मतोऽधिकः।\nकर्मिभ्यश्चाधिको योगी तस्माद्योगी भवार्जुन॥","tr":"tapasvibhyo ’dhiko yogī\njñānibhyo ’pi mato ’dhikaḥ\nkarmibhyaśh chādhiko yogī\ntasmād yogī bhavārjuna","en":"The yogi is greater than those who practise austerity, is considered greater than those with book learning, and is greater than those who perform rituals. So be a yogi, Arjuna."},{"ref":"Gita 6.47","orig":"योगिनामपि सर्वेषां मद्गतेनान्तरात्मना।\nश्रद्धावान्भजते यो मां स मे युक्ततमो मतः॥","tr":"yoginām api sarveṣhāṁ mad-gatenāntar-ātmanā\nśhraddhāvān bhajate yo māṁ sa me yuktatamo mataḥ","en":"And of all yogis, the one who worships me with faith, their inner self absorbed in me, I consider the most closely joined to me."}],"7":[{"ref":"Gita 7.1","orig":"श्री भगवानुवाच\nमय्यासक्तमनाः पार्थ योगं युञ्जन्मदाश्रयः।\nअसंशयं समग्रं मां यथा ज्ञास्यसि तच्छृणु॥","tr":"śhrī bhagavān uvācha\nmayyāsakta-manāḥ pārtha yogaṁ yuñjan mad-āśhrayaḥ\nasanśhayaṁ samagraṁ māṁ yathā jñāsyasi tach chhṛiṇu","en":"Krishna said: Now hear, Arjuna, how you will come to know me fully and without doubt, by practising yoga with your mind fixed on me and your refuge in me."},{"ref":"Gita 7.2","orig":"ज्ञानं तेऽहं सविज्ञानमिदं वक्ष्याम्यशेषतः।\nयज्ज्ञात्वा नेह भूयोऽन्यज्ज्ञातव्यमवशिष्यते॥","tr":"jñānaṁ te ’haṁ sa-vijñānam idaṁ vakṣhyāmyaśheṣhataḥ\nyaj jñātvā neha bhūyo ’nyaj jñātavyam-avaśhiṣhyate","en":"I will teach you this knowledge together with its direct realisation, holding nothing back. Once you know it, nothing else here remains to be known."},{"ref":"Gita 7.3","orig":"मनुष्याणां सहस्रेषु कश्चिद्यतति सिद्धये।\nयततामपि सिद्धानां कश्चिन्मां वेत्ति तत्त्वतः॥","tr":"manuṣhyāṇāṁ sahasreṣhu kaśhchid yatati siddhaye\nyatatām api siddhānāṁ kaśhchin māṁ vetti tattvataḥ","en":"Among thousands of people, hardly one strives for perfection. And among those who strive and succeed, hardly one knows me as I truly am."},{"ref":"Gita 7.4","orig":"भूमिरापोऽनलो वायुः खं मनो बुद्धिरेव च।\nअहङ्कार इतीयं मे भिन्ना प्रकृतिरष्टधा॥","tr":"bhūmir-āpo ’nalo vāyuḥ khaṁ mano buddhir eva cha\nahankāra itīyaṁ me bhinnā prakṛitir aṣhṭadhā","en":"Earth, water, fire, air, space, mind, intellect and ego: these are the eight parts into which my material nature is divided."},{"ref":"Gita 7.5","orig":"अपरेयमितस्त्वन्यां प्रकृतिं विद्धि मे पराम्।\nजीवभूतां महाबाहो ययेदं धार्यते जगत्॥","tr":"apareyam itas tvanyāṁ prakṛitiṁ viddhi me parām\njīva-bhūtāṁ mahā-bāho yayedaṁ dhāryate jagat","en":"That is my lower nature. But know that I have another, higher nature, mighty Arjuna: the living souls, by which this whole world is held up."},{"ref":"Gita 7.6","orig":"एतद्योनीनि भूतानि सर्वाणीत्युपधारय।\nअहं कृत्स्नस्य जगतः प्रभवः प्रलयस्तथा॥","tr":"etad-yonīni bhūtāni sarvāṇītyupadhāraya\nahaṁ kṛitsnasya jagataḥ prabhavaḥ pralayas tathā","en":"Understand that every being comes from these two natures. I am the origin of the entire universe, and I am also where it dissolves."},{"ref":"Gita 7.7","orig":"मत्तः परतरं नान्यत्किञ्चिदस्ति धनञ्जय।\nमयि सर्वमिदं प्रोतं सूत्रे मणिगणा इव॥","tr":"mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat kiñchid asti dhanañjaya\nmayi sarvam idaṁ protaṁ sūtre maṇi-gaṇā iva","en":"There is nothing at all higher than me, Arjuna. Everything is strung on me, like pearls on a thread."},{"ref":"Gita 7.8","orig":"रसोऽहमप्सु कौन्तेय प्रभास्मि शशिसूर्ययोः।\nप्रणवः सर्ववेदेषु शब्दः खे पौरुषं नृषु॥","tr":"raso ’ham apsu kaunteya prabhāsmi śhaśhi-sūryayoḥ\npraṇavaḥ sarva-vedeṣhu śhabdaḥ khe pauruṣhaṁ nṛiṣhu","en":"I am the taste in water, son of Kunti, and the light of the moon and the sun. I am the sacred syllable Om in all the Vedas, the sound in space, and the strength in human beings."},{"ref":"Gita 7.9","orig":"पुण्यो गन्धः पृथिव्यां च तेजश्चास्मि विभावसौ।\nजीवनं सर्वभूतेषु तपश्चास्मि तपस्विषु॥","tr":"puṇyo gandhaḥ pṛithivyāṁ cha tejaśh chāsmi vibhāvasau\njīvanaṁ sarva-bhūteṣhu tapaśh chāsmi tapasviṣhu","en":"I am the pure scent of the earth and the brightness in fire. I am the life in all living things, and the discipline of those who practise austerity."},{"ref":"Gita 7.10","orig":"बीजं मां सर्वभूतानां विद्धि पार्थ सनातनम्।\nबुद्धिर्बुद्धिमतामस्मि तेजस्तेजस्विनामहम्॥","tr":"bījaṁ māṁ sarva-bhūtānāṁ viddhi pārtha sanātanam\nbuddhir buddhimatām asmi tejas tejasvinām aham","en":"Know me, Arjuna, as the eternal seed of all beings. I am the intelligence of the intelligent and the brilliance of the brilliant."},{"ref":"Gita 7.11","orig":"बलं बलवतां चाहं कामरागविवर्जितम्।\nधर्माविरुद्धो भूतेषु कामोऽस्मि भरतर्षभ॥","tr":"balaṁ balavatāṁ chāhaṁ kāma-rāga-vivarjitam\ndharmāviruddho bhūteṣhu kāmo ’smi bharatarṣhabha","en":"I am the strength of the strong, free from craving and attachment. And in all beings, best of the Bharatas, I am desire that does not go against dharma."},{"ref":"Gita 7.12","orig":"ये चैव सात्त्विका भावा राजसास्तामसाश्च ये।\nमत्त एवेति तान्विद्धि नत्वहं तेषु ते मयि॥","tr":"ye chaiva sāttvikā bhāvā rājasās tāmasāśh cha ye\nmatta eveti tān viddhi na tvahaṁ teṣhu te mayi","en":"Whatever states of being there are, whether calm and pure, restless and driven, or dull and heavy, know that they all come from me. But I am not in them; they are in me."},{"ref":"Gita 7.13","orig":"त्रिभिर्गुणमयैर्भावैरेभिः सर्वमिदं जगत्।\nमोहितं नाभिजानाति मामेभ्यः परमव्ययम्॥","tr":"tribhir guṇa-mayair bhāvair ebhiḥ sarvam idaṁ jagat\nmohitaṁ nābhijānāti māmebhyaḥ param avyayam","en":"Deluded by these three qualities of nature, the whole world fails to recognise me, who stand beyond them and never change."},{"ref":"Gita 7.14","orig":"दैवी ह्येषा गुणमयी मम माया दुरत्यया।\nमामेव ये प्रपद्यन्ते मायामेतां तरन्ति ते॥","tr":"daivī hyeṣhā guṇa-mayī mama māyā duratyayā\nmām eva ye prapadyante māyām etāṁ taranti te","en":"This divine power of illusion of mine, woven from the three qualities, is hard to get past. But those who take refuge in me alone cross beyond it."},{"ref":"Gita 7.15","orig":"न मां दुष्कृतिनो मूढाः प्रपद्यन्ते नराधमाः।\nमाययापहृतज्ञाना आसुरं भावमाश्रिताः॥","tr":"na māṁ duṣhkṛitino mūḍhāḥ prapadyante narādhamāḥ\nmāyayāpahṛita-jñānā āsuraṁ bhāvam āśhritāḥ","en":"Evildoers, the deluded and the lowest of people do not turn to me. Illusion has stolen their understanding, and they have taken on a demonic nature."},{"ref":"Gita 7.16","orig":"चतुर्विधा भजन्ते मां जनाः सुकृतिनोऽर्जुन।\nआर्तो जिज्ञासुरर्थार्थी ज्ञानी च भरतर्षभ॥","tr":"chatur-vidhā bhajante māṁ janāḥ sukṛitino ’rjuna\nārto jijñāsur arthārthī jñānī cha bharatarṣhabha","en":"Four kinds of good people worship me, Arjuna: the distressed, those who seek knowledge, those who want something, and the wise."},{"ref":"Gita 7.17","orig":"तेषां ज्ञानी नित्ययुक्त एकभक्तिर्विशिष्यते।\nप्रियो हि ज्ञानिनोऽत्यर्थमहं स च मम प्रियः॥","tr":"teṣhāṁ jñānī nitya-yukta eka-bhaktir viśhiṣhyate\npriyo hi jñānino ’tyartham ahaṁ sa cha mama priyaḥ","en":"Of these, the wise one stands out, always united with me and devoted to me alone. I am extremely dear to the wise, and they are dear to me."},{"ref":"Gita 7.18","orig":"उदाराः सर्व एवैते ज्ञानी त्वात्मैव मे मतम्।\nआस्थितः स हि युक्तात्मा मामेवानुत्तमां गतिम्॥","tr":"udārāḥ sarva evaite jñānī tvātmaiva me matam\nāsthitaḥ sa hi yuktātmā mām evānuttamāṁ gatim","en":"All of these are noble, but I regard the wise one as my very self. With a steady mind, that person rests in me as the highest goal."},{"ref":"Gita 7.19","orig":"बहूनां जन्मनामन्ते ज्ञानवान्मां प्रपद्यते।\nवासुदेवः सर्वमिति स महात्मा सुदुर्लभः॥","tr":"bahūnāṁ janmanām ante jñānavān māṁ prapadyate\nvāsudevaḥ sarvam iti sa mahātmā su-durlabhaḥ","en":"At the end of many lifetimes, the wise person comes to me, realising that Vasudeva, Krishna, is everything. Such a great soul is very rare."},{"ref":"Gita 7.20","orig":"कामैस्तैस्तैर्हृतज्ञानाः प्रपद्यन्तेऽन्यदेवताः।\nतं तं नियममास्थाय प्रकृत्या नियताः स्वया॥","tr":"kāmais tais tair hṛita-jñānāḥ prapadyante ’nya-devatāḥ\ntaṁ taṁ niyamam āsthāya prakṛityā niyatāḥ svayā","en":"Others, whose understanding has been carried off by various desires, turn to other gods. They follow this or that rite, driven by their own nature."},{"ref":"Gita 7.21","orig":"यो यो यां यां तनुं भक्तः श्रद्धयार्चितुमिच्छति।\nतस्य तस्याचलां श्रद्धां तामेव विदधाम्यहम्॥","tr":"yo yo yāṁ yāṁ tanuṁ bhaktaḥ śhraddhayārchitum ichchhati\ntasya tasyāchalāṁ śhraddhāṁ tām eva vidadhāmyaham","en":"Whatever form a devotee wishes to worship with faith, I make that person's faith in it steady."},{"ref":"Gita 7.22","orig":"स तया श्रद्धया युक्तस्तस्याराधनमीहते।\nलभते च ततः कामान्मयैव विहितान् हि तान्॥","tr":"sa tayā śhraddhayā yuktas tasyārādhanam īhate\nlabhate cha tataḥ kāmān mayaiva vihitān hi tān","en":"Filled with that faith, they worship that form and receive what they desire from it. But in truth, those rewards are granted by me alone."},{"ref":"Gita 7.23","orig":"अन्तवत्तु फलं तेषां तद्भवत्यल्पमेधसाम्।\nदेवान्देवयजो यान्ति मद्भक्ता यान्ति मामपि॥","tr":"antavat tu phalaṁ teṣhāṁ tad bhavatyalpa-medhasām\ndevān deva-yajo yānti mad-bhaktā yānti mām api","en":"Yet the reward that such people of small understanding gain does not last. Those who worship the gods go to the gods; my devotees come to me."},{"ref":"Gita 7.24","orig":"अव्यक्तं व्यक्तिमापन्नं मन्यन्ते मामबुद्धयः।\nपरं भावमजानन्तो ममाव्ययमनुत्तमम्॥","tr":"avyaktaṁ vyaktim āpannaṁ manyante mām abuddhayaḥ\nparaṁ bhāvam ajānanto mamāvyayam anuttamam","en":"The unwise think that I, the unmanifest, have simply taken on a visible form. They do not know my higher nature, which is changeless and supreme."},{"ref":"Gita 7.25","orig":"नाहं प्रकाशः सर्वस्य योगमायासमावृतः।\nमूढोऽयं नाभिजानाति लोको मामजमव्ययम्॥","tr":"nāhaṁ prakāśhaḥ sarvasya yoga-māyā-samāvṛitaḥ\nmūḍho ’yaṁ nābhijānāti loko mām ajam avyayam","en":"I am not revealed to everyone, since I am veiled by my own creative power. This deluded world does not know me, the unborn and unchanging."},{"ref":"Gita 7.26","orig":"वेदाहं समतीतानि वर्तमानानि चार्जुन।\nभविष्याणि च भूतानि मां तु वेद न कश्चन॥","tr":"vedāhaṁ samatītāni vartamānāni chārjuna\nbhaviṣhyāṇi cha bhūtāni māṁ tu veda na kaśhchana","en":"I know all beings, Arjuna: those of the past, those of the present and those still to come. But no one knows me."},{"ref":"Gita 7.27","orig":"इच्छाद्वेषसमुत्थेन द्वन्द्वमोहेन भारत।\nसर्वभूतानि संमोहं सर्गे यान्ति परन्तप॥","tr":"ichchhā-dveṣha-samutthena dvandva-mohena bhārata\nsarva-bhūtāni sammohaṁ sarge yānti parantapa","en":"From the moment they are born, Arjuna, all beings fall into confusion, bewildered by the pairs of opposites that spring from liking and disliking."},{"ref":"Gita 7.28","orig":"येषां त्वन्तगतं पापं जनानां पुण्यकर्मणाम्।\nते द्वन्द्वमोहनिर्मुक्ता भजन्ते मां दृढव्रताः॥","tr":"yeṣhāṁ tvanta-gataṁ pāpaṁ janānāṁ puṇya-karmaṇām\nte dvandva-moha-nirmuktā bhajante māṁ dṛiḍha-vratāḥ","en":"But people of good deeds, whose wrongdoing has come to an end, are freed from the confusion of opposites. Firm in their resolve, they worship me."},{"ref":"Gita 7.29","orig":"जरामरणमोक्षाय मामाश्रित्य यतन्ति ये।\nते ब्रह्म तद्विदुः कृत्स्नमध्यात्मं कर्म चाखिलम्॥","tr":"jarā-maraṇa-mokṣhāya mām āśhritya yatanti ye\nte brahma tadviduḥ kṛitsnam adhyātmaṁ karma chākhilam","en":"Those who take refuge in me and strive for freedom from old age and death come to know Brahman completely, along with the inner self and the whole of action."},{"ref":"Gita 7.30","orig":"साधिभूताधिदैवं मां साधियज्ञं च ये विदुः।\nप्रयाणकालेऽपि च मां ते विदुर्युक्तचेतसः॥","tr":"sādhibhūtādhidaivaṁ māṁ sādhiyajñaṁ cha ye viduḥ\nprayāṇa-kāle ’pi cha māṁ te vidur yukta-chetasaḥ","en":"Those who know me as the ground of the material world, of the divine and of all sacrifice keep their minds on me even at the hour of death, and they know me then."}],"8":[{"ref":"Gita 8.1","orig":"अर्जुन उवाच\nकिं तद्ब्रह्म किमध्यात्मं किं कर्म पुरुषोत्तम।\nअधिभूतं च किं प्रोक्तमधिदैवं किमुच्यते॥","tr":"arjuna uvācha\nkiṁ tad brahma kim adhyātmaṁ kiṁ karma puruṣhottama\nadhibhūtaṁ cha kiṁ proktam adhidaivaṁ kim uchyate","en":"Arjuna said: What is Brahman? What is the inner self, and what is action, greatest of persons? What is meant by the material realm, and what is called the divine realm?"},{"ref":"Gita 8.2","orig":"अधियज्ञः कथं कोऽत्र देहेऽस्मिन्मधुसूदन।\nप्रयाणकाले च कथं ज्ञेयोऽसि नियतात्मभिः॥","tr":"adhiyajñaḥ kathaṁ ko ’tra dehe ’smin madhusūdana\nprayāṇa-kāle cha kathaṁ jñeyo ’si niyatātmabhiḥ","en":"Who is the lord of sacrifice here in this body, and how does he dwell in it, Krishna? And at the hour of death, how can those with disciplined minds know you?"},{"ref":"Gita 8.3","orig":"श्री भगवानुवाच\nअक्षरं ब्रह्म परमं स्वभावोऽध्यात्ममुच्यते।\nभूतभावोद्भवकरो विसर्गः कर्मसंज्ञितः॥","tr":"śhrī bhagavān uvācha\nakṣharaṁ brahma paramaṁ svabhāvo ’dhyātmam uchyate\nbhūta-bhāvodbhava-karo visargaḥ karma-sanjñitaḥ","en":"Krishna said: Brahman is the supreme, the imperishable. A being's own essential nature is called the inner self. The creative act that brings beings into existence is called action."},{"ref":"Gita 8.4","orig":"अधिभूतं क्षरो भावः पुरुषश्चाधिदैवतम्।\nअधियज्ञोऽहमेवात्र देहे देहभृतां वर॥","tr":"adhibhūtaṁ kṣharo bhāvaḥ puruṣhaśh chādhidaivatam\nadhiyajño ’ham evātra dehe deha-bhṛitāṁ vara","en":"The material realm is everything that perishes. The divine realm is the cosmic Person. And I myself, present here in the body, am the lord of sacrifice, best of embodied beings."},{"ref":"Gita 8.5","orig":"अन्तकाले च मामेव स्मरन्मुक्त्वा कलेवरम्।\nयः प्रयाति स मद्भावं याति नास्त्यत्र संशयः॥","tr":"anta-kāle cha mām eva smaran muktvā kalevaram\nyaḥ prayāti sa mad-bhāvaṁ yāti nāstyatra sanśhayaḥ","en":"Whoever leaves the body at the time of death remembering me alone comes to my state of being. Of this there is no doubt."},{"ref":"Gita 8.6","orig":"यं यं वापि स्मरन्भावं त्यजत्यन्ते कलेवरम्।\nतं तमेवैति कौन्तेय सदा तद्भावभावितः॥","tr":"yaṁ yaṁ vāpi smaran bhāvaṁ tyajatyante kalevaram\ntaṁ tam evaiti kaunteya sadā tad-bhāva-bhāvitaḥ","en":"Whatever a person remembers at the end, as they leave the body, son of Kunti, that is what they go to, because they were always absorbed in it."},{"ref":"Gita 8.7","orig":"तस्मात्सर्वेषु कालेषु मामनुस्मर युध्य च।\nमय्यर्पितमनोबुद्धिर्मामेवैष्यस्यसंशयम्॥","tr":"tasmāt sarveṣhu kāleṣhu mām anusmara yudhya cha\nmayyarpita-mano-buddhir mām evaiṣhyasyasanśhayam","en":"So remember me at all times, and fight. With your mind and understanding given to me, you will surely come to me."},{"ref":"Gita 8.8","orig":"अभ्यासयोगयुक्तेन चेतसा नान्यगामिना।\nपरमं पुरुषं दिव्यं याति पार्थानुचिन्तयन्॥","tr":"abhyāsa-yoga-yuktena chetasā nānya-gāminā\nparamaṁ puruṣhaṁ divyaṁ yāti pārthānuchintayan","en":"With a mind trained by constant practice and not wandering elsewhere, a person who keeps meditating on the supreme divine Person reaches that Person, Arjuna."},{"ref":"Gita 8.9","orig":"कविं पुराणमनुशासितार\nमणोरणीयांसमनुस्मरेद्यः।\nसर्वस्य धातारमचिन्त्यरूप\nमादित्यवर्णं तमसः परस्तात्॥","tr":"kaviṁ purāṇam anuśhāsitāram\naṇor aṇīyānsam anusmared yaḥ\nsarvasya dhātāram achintya-rūpam\nāditya-varṇaṁ tamasaḥ parastāt","en":"Remember the one who is all-seeing and ancient, the ruler of all, smaller than the smallest atom, the upholder of everything, beyond imagining, radiant as the sun, beyond all darkness."},{"ref":"Gita 8.10","orig":"प्रयाणकाले मनसाऽचलेन\nभक्त्या युक्तो योगबलेन चैव।\nभ्रुवोर्मध्ये प्राणमावेश्य सम्यक्\nस तं परं पुरुषमुपैति दिव्यम्॥","tr":"prayāṇa-kāle manasāchalena\nbhaktyā yukto yoga-balena chaiva\nbhruvor madhye prāṇam āveśhya samyak\nsa taṁ paraṁ puruṣham upaiti divyam","en":"At the time of death, with an unmoving mind, full of devotion and the strength of yoga, a person who fixes the life-breath between the eyebrows reaches that supreme divine Person."},{"ref":"Gita 8.11","orig":"यदक्षरं वेदविदो वदन्ति\nविशन्ति यद्यतयो वीतरागाः।\nयदिच्छन्तो ब्रह्मचर्यं चरन्ति\nतत्ते पदं संग्रहेण प्रवक्ष्ये॥","tr":"yad akṣharaṁ veda-vido vadanti\nviśhanti yad yatayo vīta-rāgāḥ\nyad ichchhanto brahmacharyaṁ charanti\ntat te padaṁ saṅgraheṇa pravakṣhye","en":"I will tell you briefly about the goal that knowers of the Veda call imperishable, that ascetics free from passion enter, and for whose sake people live in celibacy."},{"ref":"Gita 8.12","orig":"सर्वद्वाराणि संयम्य मनो हृदि निरुध्य च।\nमूर्ध्न्याधायात्मनः प्राणमास्थितो योगधारणाम्॥","tr":"sarva-dvārāṇi sanyamya mano hṛidi nirudhya cha\nmūrdhnyādhāyātmanaḥ prāṇam āsthito yoga-dhāraṇām","en":"Closing all the gates of the body, holding the mind within the heart, drawing the life-breath up into the head, and staying firm in yogic concentration,"},{"ref":"Gita 8.13","orig":"ओमित्येकाक्षरं ब्रह्म व्याहरन्मामनुस्मरन्।\nयः प्रयाति त्यजन्देहं स याति परमां गतिम्॥","tr":"oṁ ityekākṣharaṁ brahma vyāharan mām anusmaran\nyaḥ prayāti tyajan dehaṁ sa yāti paramāṁ gatim","en":"whoever departs, leaving the body while uttering Om, the one syllable that is Brahman, and remembering me, reaches the highest goal."},{"ref":"Gita 8.14","orig":"अनन्यचेताः सततं यो मां स्मरति नित्यशः।\nतस्याहं सुलभः पार्थ नित्ययुक्तस्य योगिनः॥","tr":"ananya-chetāḥ satataṁ yo māṁ smarati nityaśhaḥ\ntasyāhaṁ sulabhaḥ pārtha nitya-yuktasya yoginaḥ","en":"For the yogi who remembers me constantly, every day, with a mind on nothing else, I am easy to reach, Arjuna, since that yogi is always united with me."},{"ref":"Gita 8.15","orig":"मामुपेत्य पुनर्जन्म दुःखालयमशाश्वतम्।\nनाप्नुवन्ति महात्मानः संसिद्धिं परमां गताः॥","tr":"mām upetya punar janma duḥkhālayam aśhāśhvatam\nnāpnuvanti mahātmānaḥ sansiddhiṁ paramāṁ gatāḥ","en":"Having come to me, great souls are not born again into this passing home of sorrow. They have reached the highest perfection."},{"ref":"Gita 8.16","orig":"आब्रह्मभुवनाल्लोकाः पुनरावर्तिनोऽर्जुन।\nमामुपेत्य तु कौन्तेय पुनर्जन्म न विद्यते॥","tr":"ā-brahma-bhuvanāl lokāḥ punar āvartino ’rjuna\nmām upetya tu kaunteya punar janma na vidyate","en":"From the world of Brahma downward, every world is one you return from, Arjuna. But once someone reaches me, son of Kunti, there is no rebirth."},{"ref":"Gita 8.17","orig":"सहस्रयुगपर्यन्तमहर्यद्ब्रह्मणो विदुः।\nरात्रिं युगसहस्रान्तां तेऽहोरात्रविदो जनाः॥","tr":"sahasra-yuga-paryantam ahar yad brahmaṇo viduḥ\nrātriṁ yuga-sahasrāntāṁ te ’ho-rātra-vido janāḥ","en":"Those who truly understand day and night know that a day of Brahma lasts a thousand ages, and his night also lasts a thousand ages."},{"ref":"Gita 8.18","orig":"अव्यक्ताद्व्यक्तयः सर्वाः प्रभवन्त्यहरागमे।\nरात्र्यागमे प्रलीयन्ते तत्रैवाव्यक्तसंज्ञके॥","tr":"avyaktād vyaktayaḥ sarvāḥ prabhavantyahar-āgame\nrātryāgame pralīyante tatraivāvyakta-sanjñake","en":"When Brahma's day dawns, all visible things come forth from the unmanifest. When his night falls, they dissolve back into that same unmanifest."},{"ref":"Gita 8.19","orig":"भूतग्रामः स एवायं भूत्वा भूत्वा प्रलीयते।\nरात्र्यागमेऽवशः पार्थ प्रभवत्यहरागमे॥","tr":"bhūta-grāmaḥ sa evāyaṁ bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate\nrātryāgame ’vaśhaḥ pārtha prabhavatyahar-āgame","en":"This same multitude of beings, coming into being again and again, dissolves helplessly as night arrives, Arjuna, and comes forth again as day begins."},{"ref":"Gita 8.20","orig":"परस्तस्मात्तु भावोऽन्योऽव्यक्तोऽव्यक्तात्सनातनः।\nयः स सर्वेषु भूतेषु नश्यत्सु न विनश्यति॥","tr":"paras tasmāt tu bhāvo ’nyo ’vyakto ’vyaktāt sanātanaḥ\nyaḥ sa sarveṣhu bhūteṣhu naśhyatsu na vinaśhyati","en":"But beyond that unmanifest there is another unmanifest, eternal reality, which does not perish when all beings perish."},{"ref":"Gita 8.21","orig":"अव्यक्तोऽक्षर इत्युक्तस्तमाहुः परमां गतिम्।\nयं प्राप्य न निवर्तन्ते तद्धाम परमं मम॥","tr":"avyakto ’kṣhara ityuktas tam āhuḥ paramāṁ gatim\nyaṁ prāpya na nivartante tad dhāma paramaṁ mama","en":"This unmanifest is called the imperishable, and it is said to be the highest goal. Those who reach it do not return. That is my supreme home."},{"ref":"Gita 8.22","orig":"पुरुषः स परः पार्थ भक्त्या लभ्यस्त्वनन्यया।\nयस्यान्तःस्थानि भूतानि येन सर्वमिदं ततम्॥","tr":"puruṣhaḥ sa paraḥ pārtha bhaktyā labhyas tvananyayā\nyasyāntaḥ-sthāni bhūtāni yena sarvam idaṁ tatam","en":"That supreme Person, Arjuna, in whom all beings dwell and by whom all this is pervaded, is reached through undivided devotion."},{"ref":"Gita 8.23","orig":"यत्र काले त्वनावृत्तिमावृत्तिं चैव योगिनः।\nप्रयाता यान्ति तं कालं वक्ष्यामि भरतर्षभ॥","tr":"yatra kāle tvanāvṛittim āvṛittiṁ chaiva yoginaḥ\nprayātā yānti taṁ kālaṁ vakṣhyāmi bharatarṣhabha","en":"Now, best of the Bharatas, I will tell you the times at which yogis depart and do not return, and the times at which they depart and do return."},{"ref":"Gita 8.24","orig":"अग्निर्ज्योतिरहः शुक्लः षण्मासा उत्तरायणम्।\nतत्र प्रयाता गच्छन्ति ब्रह्म ब्रह्मविदो जनाः॥","tr":"agnir jyotir ahaḥ śhuklaḥ ṣhaṇ-māsā uttarāyaṇam\ntatra prayātā gachchhanti brahma brahma-vido janāḥ","en":"Fire, light, daytime, the bright half of the month, the six months of the sun's northern course: those who know Brahman and depart then go to Brahman."},{"ref":"Gita 8.25","orig":"धूमो रात्रिस्तथा कृष्णः षण्मासा दक्षिणायनम्।\nतत्र चान्द्रमसं ज्योतिर्योगी प्राप्य निवर्तते॥","tr":"dhūmo rātris tathā kṛiṣhṇaḥ ṣhaṇ-māsā dakṣhiṇāyanam\ntatra chāndramasaṁ jyotir yogī prāpya nivartate","en":"Smoke, night, the dark half of the month, the six months of the sun's southern course: the yogi who departs then reaches the light of the moon and comes back."},{"ref":"Gita 8.26","orig":"शुक्लकृष्णे गती ह्येते जगतः शाश्वते मते।\nएकया यात्यनावृत्तिमन्ययाऽऽवर्तते पुनः॥","tr":"śhukla-kṛiṣhṇe gatī hyete jagataḥ śhāśhvate mate\nekayā yātyanāvṛittim anyayāvartate punaḥ","en":"These two paths, the bright and the dark, are held to be eternal in this world. By one a person goes and does not return; by the other a person comes back again."},{"ref":"Gita 8.27","orig":"नैते सृती पार्थ जानन्योगी मुह्यति कश्चन।\nतस्मात्सर्वेषु कालेषु योगयुक्तो भवार्जुन॥","tr":"naite sṛitī pārtha jānan yogī muhyati kaśhchana\ntasmāt sarveṣhu kāleṣhu yoga-yukto bhavārjuna","en":"Knowing these two paths, Arjuna, no yogi is ever confused. So at all times, stay steady in yoga."},{"ref":"Gita 8.28","orig":"वेदेषु यज्ञेषु तपःसु चैव\nदानेषु यत्पुण्यफलं प्रदिष्टम्।\nअत्येति तत्सर्वमिदं विदित्वा\nयोगी परं स्थानमुपैति चाद्यम्॥","tr":"vedeṣhu yajñeṣhu tapaḥsu chaiva\ndāneṣhu yat puṇya-phalaṁ pradiṣhṭam\natyeti tat sarvam idaṁ viditvā\nyogī paraṁ sthānam upaiti chādyam","en":"Whatever merit is promised for studying the Vedas, for sacrifice, austerity and giving, the yogi who knows this goes beyond it all and reaches the supreme, original home."}],"9":[{"ref":"Gita 9.1","orig":"श्री भगवानुवाच\nइदं तु ते गुह्यतमं प्रवक्ष्याम्यनसूयवे।\nज्ञानं विज्ञानसहितं यज्ज्ञात्वा मोक्ष्यसेऽशुभात्॥","tr":"śhrī bhagavān uvācha\nidaṁ tu te guhyatamaṁ pravakṣhyāmyanasūyave\njñānaṁ vijñāna-sahitaṁ yaj jñātvā mokṣhyase ’śhubhāt","en":"Krishna said: Since you do not look for faults, I will now tell you this deepest secret: knowledge together with realisation. Knowing it, you will be freed from all that is harmful."},{"ref":"Gita 9.2","orig":"राजविद्या राजगुह्यं पवित्रमिदमुत्तमम्।\nप्रत्यक्षावगमं धर्म्यं सुसुखं कर्तुमव्ययम्॥","tr":"rāja-vidyā rāja-guhyaṁ pavitram idam uttamam\npratyakṣhāvagamaṁ dharmyaṁ su-sukhaṁ kartum avyayam","en":"This is the king of knowledge, the king of secrets, supremely pure. It is grasped by direct experience, it is in keeping with dharma, it is joyful to practise, and it never fades."},{"ref":"Gita 9.3","orig":"अश्रद्दधानाः पुरुषा धर्मस्यास्य परन्तप।\nअप्राप्य मां निवर्तन्ते मृत्युसंसारवर्त्मनि॥","tr":"aśhraddadhānāḥ puruṣhā dharmasyāsya parantapa\naprāpya māṁ nivartante mṛityu-samsāra-vartmani","en":"People who have no faith in this dharma, Arjuna, do not reach me. They come back to the path of death and rebirth."},{"ref":"Gita 9.4","orig":"मया ततमिदं सर्वं जगदव्यक्तमूर्तिना।\nमत्स्थानि सर्वभूतानि न चाहं तेष्ववस्थितः॥","tr":"mayā tatam idaṁ sarvaṁ jagad avyakta-mūrtinā\nmat-sthāni sarva-bhūtāni na chāhaṁ teṣhvavasthitaḥ","en":"This whole world is pervaded by me in my unmanifest form. All beings rest in me, but I do not rest in them."},{"ref":"Gita 9.5","orig":"न च मत्स्थानि भूतानि पश्य मे योगमैश्वरम्।\nभूतभृन्न च भूतस्थो ममात्मा भूतभावनः॥","tr":"na cha mat-sthāni bhūtāni paśhya me yogam aiśhwaram\nbhūta-bhṛin na cha bhūta-stho mamātmā bhūta-bhāvanaḥ","en":"And yet beings do not rest in me. See my divine power! My self sustains beings and brings them into being, yet it does not dwell in them."},{"ref":"Gita 9.6","orig":"यथाऽऽकाशस्थितो नित्यं वायुः सर्वत्रगो महान्।\nतथा सर्वाणि भूतानि मत्स्थानीत्युपधारय॥","tr":"yathākāśha-sthito nityaṁ vāyuḥ sarvatra-go mahān\ntathā sarvāṇi bhūtāni mat-sthānītyupadhāraya","en":"Just as the mighty wind, moving everywhere, always rests in space, understand that all beings rest in me in the same way."},{"ref":"Gita 9.7","orig":"सर्वभूतानि कौन्तेय प्रकृतिं यान्ति मामिकाम्।\nकल्पक्षये पुनस्तानि कल्पादौ विसृजाम्यहम्॥","tr":"sarva-bhūtāni kaunteya prakṛitiṁ yānti māmikām\nkalpa-kṣhaye punas tāni kalpādau visṛijāmyaham","en":"At the end of a cosmic age, son of Kunti, all beings return into my nature. At the start of the next age, I send them forth again."},{"ref":"Gita 9.8","orig":"प्रकृतिं स्वामवष्टभ्य विसृजामि पुनः पुनः।\nभूतग्राममिमं कृत्स्नमवशं प्रकृतेर्वशात्॥","tr":"prakṛitiṁ svām avaṣhṭabhya visṛijāmi punaḥ punaḥ\nbhūta-grāmam imaṁ kṛitsnam avaśhaṁ prakṛiter vaśhāt","en":"Taking hold of my own nature, I send forth this whole multitude of beings again and again. They are powerless, carried along by the force of nature."},{"ref":"Gita 9.9","orig":"न च मां तानि कर्माणि निबध्नन्ति धनञ्जय।\nउदासीनवदासीनमसक्तं तेषु कर्मसु॥","tr":"na cha māṁ tāni karmāṇi nibadhnanti dhanañjaya\nudāsīna-vad āsīnam asaktaṁ teṣhu karmasu","en":"These actions do not bind me, Arjuna. I sit as if unconcerned, unattached to any of them."},{"ref":"Gita 9.10","orig":"मयाऽध्यक्षेण प्रकृतिः सूयते सचराचरम्।\nहेतुनाऽनेन कौन्तेय जगद्विपरिवर्तते॥","tr":"mayādhyakṣheṇa prakṛitiḥ sūyate sa-charācharam\nhetunānena kaunteya jagad viparivartate","en":"With me as overseer, nature gives birth to everything that moves and everything that does not. That is why, son of Kunti, the world keeps turning."},{"ref":"Gita 9.11","orig":"अवजानन्ति मां मूढा मानुषीं तनुमाश्रितम्।\nपरं भावमजानन्तो मम भूतमहेश्वरम्॥","tr":"avajānanti māṁ mūḍhā mānuṣhīṁ tanum āśhritam\nparaṁ bhāvam ajānanto mama bhūta-maheśhvaram","en":"Fools look down on me when I take a human body. They do not know my higher nature as the great lord of all beings."},{"ref":"Gita 9.12","orig":"मोघाशा मोघकर्माणो मोघज्ञाना विचेतसः।\nराक्षसीमासुरीं चैव प्रकृतिं मोहिनीं श्रिताः॥","tr":"moghāśhā mogha-karmāṇo mogha-jñānā vichetasaḥ\nrākṣhasīm āsurīṁ chaiva prakṛitiṁ mohinīṁ śhritāḥ","en":"Their hopes are empty, their actions empty, their knowledge empty, and their minds confused. They cling to a deluding nature, cruel and demonic."},{"ref":"Gita 9.13","orig":"महात्मानस्तु मां पार्थ दैवीं प्रकृतिमाश्रिताः।\nभजन्त्यनन्यमनसो ज्ञात्वा भूतादिमव्ययम्॥","tr":"mahātmānas tu māṁ pārtha daivīṁ prakṛitim āśhritāḥ\nbhajantyananya-manaso jñātvā bhūtādim avyayam","en":"But great souls, Arjuna, who take refuge in the divine nature, worship me with minds on nothing else, knowing me as the unchanging source of all beings."},{"ref":"Gita 9.14","orig":"सततं कीर्तयन्तो मां यतन्तश्च दृढव्रताः।\nनमस्यन्तश्च मां भक्त्या नित्ययुक्ता उपासते॥","tr":"satataṁ kīrtayanto māṁ yatantaśh cha dṛiḍha-vratāḥ\nnamasyantaśh cha māṁ bhaktyā nitya-yuktā upāsate","en":"Always singing my praises, striving with firm resolve, bowing to me in devotion, they worship me, forever united with me."},{"ref":"Gita 9.15","orig":"ज्ञानयज्ञेन चाप्यन्ये यजन्तो मामुपासते।\nएकत्वेन पृथक्त्वेन बहुधा विश्वतोमुखम्॥","tr":"jñāna-yajñena chāpyanye yajanto mām upāsate\nekatvena pṛithaktvena bahudhā viśhvato-mukham","en":"Others worship me by offering the sacrifice of knowledge: as the One, as many separate things, and in many ways as the one whose face is everywhere."},{"ref":"Gita 9.16","orig":"अहं क्रतुरहं यज्ञः स्वधाऽहमहमौषधम्।\nमंत्रोऽहमहमेवाज्यमहमग्निरहं हुतम्॥","tr":"ahaṁ kratur ahaṁ yajñaḥ svadhāham aham auṣhadham\nmantro ’ham aham evājyam aham agnir ahaṁ hutam","en":"I am the ritual, I am the sacrifice, I am the offering to the ancestors, I am the healing herb. I am the sacred chant, I am the clarified butter, I am the fire, and I am the act of offering."},{"ref":"Gita 9.17","orig":"पिताऽहमस्य जगतो माता धाता पितामहः।\nवेद्यं पवित्रमोंकार ऋक् साम यजुरेव च॥","tr":"pitāham asya jagato mātā dhātā pitāmahaḥ\nvedyaṁ pavitram oṁkāra ṛik sāma yajur eva cha","en":"I am the father of this world, its mother, its sustainer and its grandfather. I am what is to be known, the purifier, the syllable Om, and the Rig, Sama and Yajur Vedas."},{"ref":"Gita 9.18","orig":"गतिर्भर्ता प्रभुः साक्षी निवासः शरणं सुहृत्।\nप्रभवः प्रलयः स्थानं निधानं बीजमव्ययम्॥","tr":"gatir bhartā prabhuḥ sākṣhī nivāsaḥ śharaṇaṁ suhṛit\nprabhavaḥ pralayaḥ sthānaṁ nidhānaṁ bījam avyayam","en":"I am the goal, the support, the lord, the witness, the home, the refuge and the friend. I am the origin and the dissolution, the ground, the storehouse and the seed that never perishes."},{"ref":"Gita 9.19","orig":"तपाम्यहमहं वर्षं निगृह्णाम्युत्सृजामि च।\nअमृतं चैव मृत्युश्च सदसच्चाहमर्जुन॥","tr":"tapāmyaham ahaṁ varṣhaṁ nigṛihṇāmyutsṛijāmi cha\namṛitaṁ chaiva mṛityuśh cha sad asach chāham arjuna","en":"I give heat. I hold back the rain and send it down. I am immortality and also death, Arjuna. I am both what is and what is not."},{"ref":"Gita 9.20","orig":"त्रैविद्या मां सोमपाः पूतपापा\nयज्ञैरिष्ट्वा स्वर्गतिं प्रार्थयन्ते।\nते पुण्यमासाद्य सुरेन्द्रलोक\nमश्नन्ति दिव्यान्दिवि देवभोगान्॥","tr":"trai-vidyā māṁ soma-pāḥ pūta-pāpā\nyajñair iṣhṭvā svar-gatiṁ prārthayante\nte puṇyam āsādya surendra-lokam\naśhnanti divyān divi deva-bhogān","en":"Those who know the three Vedas and drink the soma, cleansed of wrongdoing, worship me with sacrifices and pray to reach heaven. They reach the holy world of the king of the gods and enjoy the gods' divine pleasures there."},{"ref":"Gita 9.21","orig":"ते तं भुक्त्वा स्वर्गलोकं विशालं\nक्षीणे पुण्ये मर्त्यलोकं विशन्ति।\nएव त्रयीधर्ममनुप्रपन्ना\nगतागतं कामकामा लभन्ते॥","tr":"te taṁ bhuktvā swarga-lokaṁ viśhālaṁ\nkṣhīṇe puṇye martya-lokaṁ viśhanti\nevaṁ trayī-dharmam anuprapannā\ngatāgataṁ kāma-kāmā labhante","en":"Having enjoyed that vast heavenly world, they return to the world of mortals once their merit runs out. So those who follow the rites of the three Vedas out of desire for pleasures keep coming and going."},{"ref":"Gita 9.22","orig":"अनन्याश्चिन्तयन्तो मां ये जनाः पर्युपासते।\nतेषां नित्याभियुक्तानां योगक्षेमं वहाम्यहम्॥","tr":"ananyāśh chintayanto māṁ ye janāḥ paryupāsate\nteṣhāṁ nityābhiyuktānāṁ yoga-kṣhemaṁ vahāmyaham","en":"But those who worship me, thinking of nothing else, always devoted to me: for them I bring what they lack and protect what they have."},{"ref":"Gita 9.23","orig":"येऽप्यन्यदेवता भक्ता यजन्ते श्रद्धयाऽन्विताः।\nतेऽपि मामेव कौन्तेय यजन्त्यविधिपूर्वकम्॥","tr":"ye ’pyanya-devatā-bhaktā yajante śhraddhayānvitāḥ\nte ’pi mām eva kaunteya yajantyavidhi-pūrvakam","en":"Even those devoted to other gods, who worship them with faith, are really worshipping me alone, son of Kunti, though not in the proper way."},{"ref":"Gita 9.24","orig":"अहं हि सर्वयज्ञानां भोक्ता च प्रभुरेव च।\nन तु मामभिजानन्ति तत्त्वेनातश्च्यवन्ति ते॥","tr":"ahaṁ hi sarva-yajñānāṁ bhoktā cha prabhureva cha\nna tu mām abhijānanti tattvenātaśh chyavanti te","en":"For I am the one who enjoys every sacrifice, and its lord. But they do not know me as I truly am, and so they fall back."},{"ref":"Gita 9.25","orig":"यान्ति देवव्रता देवान् पितृ़न्यान्ति पितृव्रताः।\nभूतानि यान्ति भूतेज्या यान्ति मद्याजिनोऽपि माम्॥","tr":"yānti deva-vratā devān pitṝīn yānti pitṛi-vratāḥ\nbhūtāni yānti bhūtejyā yānti mad-yājino ’pi mām","en":"Those devoted to the gods go to the gods. Those devoted to the ancestors go to the ancestors. Those who worship spirits go to the spirits. And those who worship me come to me."},{"ref":"Gita 9.26","orig":"पत्रं पुष्पं फलं तोयं यो मे भक्त्या प्रयच्छति।\nतदहं भक्त्युपहृतमश्नामि प्रयतात्मनः॥","tr":"patraṁ puṣhpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ yo me bhaktyā prayachchhati\ntadahaṁ bhaktyupahṛitam aśhnāmi prayatātmanaḥ","en":"If someone offers me a leaf, a flower, a fruit or a little water with love, I accept that loving gift from one whose heart is pure."},{"ref":"Gita 9.27","orig":"यत्करोषि यदश्नासि यज्जुहोषि ददासि यत्।\nयत्तपस्यसि कौन्तेय तत्कुरुष्व मदर्पणम्॥","tr":"yat karoṣhi yad aśhnāsi yaj juhoṣhi dadāsi yat\nyat tapasyasi kaunteya tat kuruṣhva mad-arpaṇam","en":"Whatever you do, whatever you eat, whatever you offer in sacrifice, whatever you give, whatever discipline you practise, son of Kunti, do it as an offering to me."},{"ref":"Gita 9.28","orig":"शुभाशुभफलैरेवं मोक्ष्यसे कर्मबन्धनैः।\nसंन्यासयोगयुक्तात्मा विमुक्तो मामुपैष्यसि॥","tr":"śhubhāśhubha-phalair evaṁ mokṣhyase karma-bandhanaiḥ\nsannyāsa-yoga-yuktātmā vimukto mām upaiṣhyasi","en":"In this way you will be freed from the bonds of action and their good and bad results. With your heart set on renunciation and yoga, you will be free and come to me."},{"ref":"Gita 9.29","orig":"समोऽहं सर्वभूतेषु न मे द्वेष्योऽस्ति न प्रियः।\nये भजन्ति तु मां भक्त्या मयि ते तेषु चाप्यहम्॥","tr":"samo ’haṁ sarva-bhūteṣhu na me dveṣhyo ’sti na priyaḥ\nye bhajanti tu māṁ bhaktyā mayi te teṣhu chāpyaham","en":"I am the same towards all beings. No one is hateful to me and no one is my favourite. But those who worship me with devotion are in me, and I am in them."},{"ref":"Gita 9.30","orig":"अपि चेत्सुदुराचारो भजते मामनन्यभाक्।\nसाधुरेव स मन्तव्यः सम्यग्व्यवसितो हि सः॥","tr":"api chet su-durāchāro bhajate mām ananya-bhāk\nsādhur eva sa mantavyaḥ samyag vyavasito hi saḥ","en":"Even if someone who has behaved very badly worships me with undivided devotion, that person should be seen as good, because they have made the right decision."},{"ref":"Gita 9.31","orig":"क्षिप्रं भवति धर्मात्मा शश्वच्छान्तिं निगच्छति।\nकौन्तेय प्रतिजानीहि न मे भक्तः प्रणश्यति॥","tr":"kṣhipraṁ bhavati dharmātmā śhaśhvach-chhāntiṁ nigachchhati\nkaunteya pratijānīhi na me bhaktaḥ praṇaśhyati","en":"They quickly become righteous and reach lasting peace. Son of Kunti, declare it boldly: my devotee never perishes."},{"ref":"Gita 9.32","orig":"मां हि पार्थ व्यपाश्रित्य येऽपि स्युः पापयोनयः।\nस्त्रियो वैश्यास्तथा शूद्रास्तेऽपि यान्ति परां गतिम्॥","tr":"māṁ hi pārtha vyapāśhritya ye ’pi syuḥ pāpa-yonayaḥ\nstriyo vaiśhyās tathā śhūdrās te ’pi yānti parāṁ gatim","en":"Those who take refuge in me, Arjuna, even those of lowly birth, women, merchants and labourers, all reach the highest goal."},{"ref":"Gita 9.33","orig":"किं पुनर्ब्राह्मणाः पुण्या भक्ता राजर्षयस्तथा।\nअनित्यमसुखं लोकमिमं प्राप्य भजस्व माम्॥","tr":"kiṁ punar brāhmaṇāḥ puṇyā bhaktā rājarṣhayas tathā\nanityam asukhaṁ lokam imaṁ prāpya bhajasva mām","en":"How much more, then, the pure-hearted priests and devoted royal sages! Since you have come into this passing, joyless world, worship me."},{"ref":"Gita 9.34","orig":"मन्मना भव मद्भक्तो मद्याजी मां नमस्कुरु।\nमामेवैष्यसि युक्त्वैवमात्मानं मत्परायणः॥","tr":"man-manā bhava mad-bhakto mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru\nmām evaiṣhyasi yuktvaivam ātmānaṁ mat-parāyaṇaḥ","en":"Fix your mind on me, be devoted to me, make your offerings to me, bow to me. Uniting yourself with me this way, with me as your goal, you will come to me."}],"10":[{"ref":"Gita 10.1","orig":"श्री भगवानुवाच\nभूय एव महाबाहो श्रृणु मे परमं वचः।\nयत्तेऽहं प्रीयमाणाय वक्ष्यामि हितकाम्यया॥","tr":"śhrī bhagavān uvācha\nbhūya eva mahā-bāho śhṛiṇu me paramaṁ vachaḥ\nyatte ’haṁ prīyamāṇāya vakṣhyāmi hita-kāmyayā","en":"Krishna said: Listen once more, mighty Arjuna, to my supreme word. Because you take delight in it, I will tell you this for your good."},{"ref":"Gita 10.2","orig":"न मे विदुः सुरगणाः प्रभवं न महर्षयः।\nअहमादिर्हि देवानां महर्षीणां च सर्वशः॥","tr":"na me viduḥ sura-gaṇāḥ prabhavaṁ na maharṣhayaḥ\naham ādir hi devānāṁ maharṣhīṇāṁ cha sarvaśhaḥ","en":"Neither the hosts of gods nor the great sages know my origin, since I am the source of the gods and the great sages in every way."},{"ref":"Gita 10.3","orig":"यो मामजमनादिं च वेत्ति लोकमहेश्वरम्।\nअसम्मूढः स मर्त्येषु सर्वपापैः प्रमुच्यते॥","tr":"yo māmajam anādiṁ cha vetti loka-maheśhvaram\nasammūḍhaḥ sa martyeṣhu sarva-pāpaiḥ pramuchyate","en":"Whoever knows me as unborn and without beginning, the great lord of the worlds, is free from delusion among mortals and is released from all wrongdoing."},{"ref":"Gita 10.4","orig":"बुद्धिर्ज्ञानमसंमोहः क्षमा सत्यं दमः शमः।\nसुखं दुःखं भवोऽभावो भयं चाभयमेव च॥","tr":"buddhir jñānam asammohaḥ kṣhamā satyaṁ damaḥ śhamaḥ\nsukhaṁ duḥkhaṁ bhavo ’bhāvo bhayaṁ chābhayameva cha","en":"Intelligence, knowledge, clarity of mind, patience, truthfulness, self-control, calm, pleasure and pain, birth and death, fear and fearlessness,"},{"ref":"Gita 10.5","orig":"अहिंसा समता तुष्टिस्तपो दानं यशोऽयशः।\nभवन्ति भावा भूतानां मत्त एव पृथग्विधाः॥","tr":"ahiṁsā samatā tuṣṭis tapo dānaṁ yaśo 'yaśaḥ\nbhavanti bhāvā bhūtānāṁ matta eva pṛthag-vidhāḥ","en":"non-violence, even-mindedness, contentment, austerity, generosity, fame and disgrace: all these different states of beings come from me alone."},{"ref":"Gita 10.6","orig":"महर्षयः सप्त पूर्वे चत्वारो मनवस्तथा।\nमद्भावा मानसा जाता येषां लोक इमाः प्रजाः॥","tr":"maharṣhayaḥ sapta pūrve chatvāro manavas tathā\nmad-bhāvā mānasā jātā yeṣhāṁ loka imāḥ prajāḥ","en":"The seven great sages of old and the four Manus before them were born from my mind and share my nature. All the creatures in the world descend from them."},{"ref":"Gita 10.7","orig":"एतां विभूतिं योगं च मम यो वेत्ति तत्त्वतः।\nसोऽविकम्पेन योगेन युज्यते नात्र संशयः॥","tr":"etāṁ vibhūtiṁ yogaṁ cha mama yo vetti tattvataḥ\nso ’vikampena yogena yujyate nātra sanśhayaḥ","en":"Whoever truly knows this glory and power of mine is united with me in unshakeable yoga. Of this there is no doubt."},{"ref":"Gita 10.8","orig":"अहं सर्वस्य प्रभवो मत्तः सर्वं प्रवर्तते।\nइति मत्वा भजन्ते मां बुधा भावसमन्विताः॥","tr":"ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavo mattaḥ sarvaṁ pravartate\niti matvā bhajante māṁ budhā bhāva-samanvitāḥ","en":"I am the source of everything; everything comes forth from me. Understanding this, the wise worship me with all their heart."},{"ref":"Gita 10.9","orig":"मच्चित्ता मद्गतप्राणा बोधयन्तः परस्परम्।\nकथयन्तश्च मां नित्यं तुष्यन्ति च रमन्ति च॥","tr":"mach-chittā mad-gata-prāṇā bodhayantaḥ parasparam\nkathayantaśh cha māṁ nityaṁ tuṣhyanti cha ramanti cha","en":"With their minds on me and their lives given to me, they enlighten one another and speak of me constantly, finding contentment and joy in it."},{"ref":"Gita 10.10","orig":"तेषां सततयुक्तानां भजतां प्रीतिपूर्वकम्।\nददामि बुद्धियोगं तं येन मामुपयान्ति ते॥","tr":"teṣhāṁ satata-yuktānāṁ bhajatāṁ prīti-pūrvakam\ndadāmi buddhi-yogaṁ taṁ yena mām upayānti te","en":"To those who are always devoted and worship me with love, I give the understanding by which they come to me."},{"ref":"Gita 10.11","orig":"तेषामेवानुकम्पार्थमहमज्ञानजं तमः।\nनाशयाम्यात्मभावस्थो ज्ञानदीपेन भास्वता॥","tr":"teṣhām evānukampārtham aham ajñāna-jaṁ tamaḥ\nnāśhayāmyātma-bhāva-stho jñāna-dīpena bhāsvatā","en":"Out of compassion for them, I, dwelling in their hearts, destroy the darkness born of ignorance with the shining lamp of knowledge."},{"ref":"Gita 10.12","orig":"अर्जुन उवाच\nपरं ब्रह्म परं धाम पवित्रं परमं भवान्।\nपुरुषं शाश्वतं दिव्यमादिदेवमजं विभुम्॥","tr":"arjuna uvācha\nparaṁ brahma paraṁ dhāma pavitraṁ paramaṁ bhavān\npuruṣhaṁ śhāśhvataṁ divyam ādi-devam ajaṁ vibhum","en":"Arjuna said: You are the supreme Brahman, the supreme home, the supreme purifier: the eternal divine Person, the first god, unborn and all-pervading."},{"ref":"Gita 10.13","orig":"आहुस्त्वामृषयः सर्वे देवर्षिर्नारदस्तथा।\nअसितो देवलो व्यासः स्वयं चैव ब्रवीषि मे॥","tr":"āhus tvām ṛiṣhayaḥ sarve devarṣhir nāradas tathā\nasito devalo vyāsaḥ svayaṁ chaiva bravīṣhi me","en":"All the sages say this of you, as do the divine sage Narada, and Asita, Devala and Vyasa. And now you tell me so yourself."},{"ref":"Gita 10.14","orig":"सर्वमेतदृतं मन्ये यन्मां वदसि केशव।\nन हि ते भगवन् व्यक्तिं विदुर्देवा न दानवाः॥","tr":"sarvam etad ṛitaṁ manye yan māṁ vadasi keśhava\nna hi te bhagavan vyaktiṁ vidur devā na dānavāḥ","en":"I accept everything you have told me as true, Krishna. Truly, Lord, neither the gods nor the demons understand how you appear."},{"ref":"Gita 10.15","orig":"स्वयमेवात्मनाऽत्मानं वेत्थ त्वं पुरुषोत्तम।\nभूतभावन भूतेश देवदेव जगत्पते॥","tr":"swayam evātmanātmānaṁ vettha tvaṁ puruṣhottama\nbhūta-bhāvana bhūteśha deva-deva jagat-pate","en":"You alone know yourself through yourself, supreme Person, source and lord of beings, god of gods, master of the world."},{"ref":"Gita 10.16","orig":"वक्तुमर्हस्यशेषेण दिव्या ह्यात्मविभूतयः।\nयाभिर्विभूतिभिर्लोकानिमांस्त्वं व्याप्य तिष्ठसि॥","tr":"vaktum arhasyaśheṣheṇa divyā hyātma-vibhūtayaḥ\nyābhir vibhūtibhir lokān imāṁs tvaṁ vyāpya tiṣhṭhasi","en":"Please tell me in full about your divine glories, the powers by which you pervade these worlds and abide in them."},{"ref":"Gita 10.17","orig":"कथं विद्यामहं योगिंस्त्वां सदा परिचिन्तयन्।\nकेषु केषु च भावेषु चिन्त्योऽसि भगवन्मया॥","tr":"kathaṁ vidyām ahaṁ yogins tvāṁ sadā parichintayan\nkeṣhu keṣhu cha bhāveṣhu chintyo ’si bhagavan mayā","en":"How may I come to know you, master of yoga, as I meditate on you constantly? In what forms should I think of you, Lord?"},{"ref":"Gita 10.18","orig":"विस्तरेणात्मनो योगं विभूतिं च जनार्दन।\nभूयः कथय तृप्तिर्हि श्रृण्वतो नास्ति मेऽमृतम्॥","tr":"vistareṇātmano yogaṁ vibhūtiṁ cha janārdana\nbhūyaḥ kathaya tṛiptir hi śhṛiṇvato nāsti me ’mṛitam","en":"Tell me again in detail about your power and your glories, Krishna. I can never hear enough of your words; they are like nectar to me."},{"ref":"Gita 10.19","orig":"श्री भगवानुवाच\nहन्त ते कथयिष्यामि दिव्या ह्यात्मविभूतयः।\nप्राधान्यतः कुरुश्रेष्ठ नास्त्यन्तो विस्तरस्य मे॥","tr":"śhrī bhagavān uvācha\nhanta te kathayiṣhyāmi divyā hyātma-vibhūtayaḥ\nprādhānyataḥ kuru-śhreṣhṭha nāstyanto vistarasya me","en":"Krishna said: Very well, I will tell you of my divine glories, but only the main ones, best of the Kurus, for there is no end to them."},{"ref":"Gita 10.20","orig":"अहमात्मा गुडाकेश सर्वभूताशयस्थितः।\nअहमादिश्च मध्यं च भूतानामन्त एव च॥","tr":"aham ātmā guḍākeśha sarva-bhūtāśhaya-sthitaḥ\naham ādiśh cha madhyaṁ cha bhūtānām anta eva cha","en":"I am the self, Arjuna, seated in the heart of every being. I am the beginning, the middle and the end of all beings."},{"ref":"Gita 10.21","orig":"आदित्यानामहं विष्णुर्ज्योतिषां रविरंशुमान्।\nमरीचिर्मरुतामस्मि नक्षत्राणामहं शशी॥","tr":"ādityānām ahaṁ viṣhṇur jyotiṣhāṁ ravir anśhumān\nmarīchir marutām asmi nakṣhatrāṇām ahaṁ śhaśhī","en":"Among the Adityas I am Vishnu; among lights I am the radiant sun. Among the Maruts I am Marichi; among the stars I am the moon."},{"ref":"Gita 10.22","orig":"वेदानां सामवेदोऽस्मि देवानामस्मि वासवः।\nइन्द्रियाणां मनश्चास्मि भूतानामस्मि चेतना॥","tr":"vedānāṁ sāma-vedo ’smi devānām asmi vāsavaḥ\nindriyāṇāṁ manaśh chāsmi bhūtānām asmi chetanā","en":"Among the Vedas I am the Sama Veda; among the gods I am Indra. Among the senses I am the mind; in living beings I am consciousness."},{"ref":"Gita 10.23","orig":"रुद्राणां शङ्करश्चास्मि वित्तेशो यक्षरक्षसाम्।\nवसूनां पावकश्चास्मि मेरुः शिखरिणामहम्॥","tr":"rudrāṇāṁ śhaṅkaraśh chāsmi vitteśho yakṣha-rakṣhasām\nvasūnāṁ pāvakaśh chāsmi meruḥ śhikhariṇām aham","en":"Among the Rudras I am Shankara; among yakshas and rakshasas I am Kubera, lord of wealth. Among the Vasus I am fire; among mountain peaks I am Meru."},{"ref":"Gita 10.24","orig":"पुरोधसां च मुख्यं मां विद्धि पार्थ बृहस्पतिम्।\nसेनानीनामहं स्कन्दः सरसामस्मि सागरः॥","tr":"purodhasāṁ cha mukhyaṁ māṁ viddhi pārtha bṛihaspatim\nsenānīnām ahaṁ skandaḥ sarasām asmi sāgaraḥ","en":"Among priests, Arjuna, know me as their chief, Brihaspati. Among army commanders I am Skanda; among bodies of water I am the ocean."},{"ref":"Gita 10.25","orig":"महर्षीणां भृगुरहं गिरामस्म्येकमक्षरम्।\nयज्ञानां जपयज्ञोऽस्मि स्थावराणां हिमालयः॥","tr":"maharṣhīṇāṁ bhṛigur ahaṁ girām asmyekam akṣharam\nyajñānāṁ japa-yajño ’smi sthāvarāṇāṁ himālayaḥ","en":"Among the great sages I am Bhrigu; among words I am the single syllable Om. Among sacrifices I am the quiet repetition of prayer; among things that do not move I am the Himalaya."},{"ref":"Gita 10.26","orig":"अश्वत्थः सर्ववृक्षाणां देवर्षीणां च नारदः।\nगन्धर्वाणां चित्ररथः सिद्धानां कपिलो मुनिः॥","tr":"aśhvatthaḥ sarva-vṛikṣhāṇāṁ devarṣhīṇāṁ cha nāradaḥ\ngandharvāṇāṁ chitrarathaḥ siddhānāṁ kapilo muniḥ","en":"Among all trees I am the sacred fig; among divine sages I am Narada. Among the celestial musicians I am Chitraratha; among the perfected ones I am the sage Kapila."},{"ref":"Gita 10.27","orig":"उच्चैःश्रवसमश्वानां विद्धि माममृतोद्भवम्।\nऐरावतं गजेन्द्राणां नराणां च नराधिपम्॥","tr":"uchchaiḥśhravasam aśhvānāṁ viddhi mām amṛitodbhavam\nairāvataṁ gajendrāṇāṁ narāṇāṁ cha narādhipam","en":"Among horses, know me as Uchchaihshravas, born from the nectar of the churned ocean. Among lordly elephants I am Airavata, and among men I am the king."},{"ref":"Gita 10.28","orig":"आयुधानामहं वज्रं धेनूनामस्मि कामधुक्।\nप्रजनश्चास्मि कन्दर्पः सर्पाणामस्मि वासुकिः॥","tr":"āyudhānām ahaṁ vajraṁ dhenūnām asmi kāmadhuk\nprajanaśh chāsmi kandarpaḥ sarpāṇām asmi vāsukiḥ","en":"Among weapons I am the thunderbolt; among cows I am the wish-granting cow. Among those who beget I am Kandarpa, the god of love; among serpents I am Vasuki."},{"ref":"Gita 10.29","orig":"अनन्तश्चास्मि नागानां वरुणो यादसामहम्।\nपितृ़णामर्यमा चास्मि यमः संयमतामहम्॥","tr":"anantaśh chāsmi nāgānāṁ varuṇo yādasām aham\npitṝīṇām aryamā chāsmi yamaḥ sanyamatām aham","en":"Among the nagas I am Ananta; among the beings of the waters I am Varuna. Among the ancestors I am Aryaman; among those who keep order I am Yama."},{"ref":"Gita 10.30","orig":"प्रह्लादश्चास्मि दैत्यानां कालः कलयतामहम्।\nमृगाणां च मृगेन्द्रोऽहं वैनतेयश्च पक्षिणाम्॥","tr":"prahlādaśh chāsmi daityānāṁ kālaḥ kalayatām aham\nmṛigāṇāṁ cha mṛigendro ’haṁ vainateyaśh cha pakṣhiṇām","en":"Among the Daityas I am Prahlada; among those who count I am time. Among beasts I am the lion, and among birds I am Garuda, son of Vinata."},{"ref":"Gita 10.31","orig":"पवनः पवतामस्मि रामः शस्त्रभृतामहम्।\nझषाणां मकरश्चास्मि स्रोतसामस्मि जाह्नवी॥","tr":"pavanaḥ pavatām asmi rāmaḥ śhastra-bhṛitām aham\njhaṣhāṇāṁ makaraśh chāsmi srotasām asmi jāhnavī","en":"Among purifiers I am the wind; among warriors I am Rama. Among sea creatures I am the makara, and among rivers I am the Ganges."},{"ref":"Gita 10.32","orig":"सर्गाणामादिरन्तश्च मध्यं चैवाहमर्जुन।\nअध्यात्मविद्या विद्यानां वादः प्रवदतामहम्॥","tr":"sargāṇām ādir antaśh cha madhyaṁ chaivāham arjuna\nadhyātma-vidyā vidyānāṁ vādaḥ pravadatām aham","en":"Of all creations I am the beginning, the end and the middle, Arjuna. Of all kinds of knowledge I am knowledge of the self, and in those who debate I am the reasoning."},{"ref":"Gita 10.33","orig":"अक्षराणामकारोऽस्मि द्वन्द्वः सामासिकस्य च।\nअहमेवाक्षयः कालो धाताऽहं विश्वतोमुखः॥","tr":"akṣharāṇām a-kāro ’smi dvandvaḥ sāmāsikasya cha\naham evākṣhayaḥ kālo dhātāhaṁ viśhvato-mukhaḥ","en":"Among letters I am the letter A, and among compound words I am the pairing compound. I alone am unending time, and I am the sustainer whose face is everywhere."},{"ref":"Gita 10.34","orig":"मृत्युः सर्वहरश्चाहमुद्भवश्च भविष्यताम्।\nकीर्तिः श्रीर्वाक्च नारीणां स्मृतिर्मेधा धृतिः क्षमा॥","tr":"mṛityuḥ sarva-haraśh chāham udbhavaśh cha bhaviṣhyatām\nkīrtiḥ śhrīr vāk cha nārīṇāṁ smṛitir medhā dhṛitiḥ kṣhamā","en":"I am death that carries off all, and the source of all that is yet to be. Among feminine qualities I am fame, fortune, speech, memory, intelligence, steadfastness and patience."},{"ref":"Gita 10.35","orig":"बृहत्साम तथा साम्नां गायत्री छन्दसामहम्।\nमासानां मार्गशीर्षोऽहमृतूनां कुसुमाकरः॥","tr":"bṛihat-sāma tathā sāmnāṁ gāyatrī chhandasām aham\nmāsānāṁ mārga-śhīrṣho ’ham ṛitūnāṁ kusumākaraḥ","en":"Among hymns I am the Brihat Saman; among metres I am the Gayatri. Among months I am Margashirsha, and among seasons I am spring, the bringer of flowers."},{"ref":"Gita 10.36","orig":"द्यूतं छलयतामस्मि तेजस्तेजस्विनामहम्।\nजयोऽस्मि व्यवसायोऽस्मि सत्त्वं सत्त्ववतामहम्॥","tr":"dyūtaṁ chhalayatām asmi tejas tejasvinām aham\njayo ’smi vyavasāyo ’smi sattvaṁ sattvavatām aham","en":"Of cheats I am gambling; of the splendid I am the splendour. I am victory, I am resolve, and I am the goodness of the good."},{"ref":"Gita 10.37","orig":"वृष्णीनां वासुदेवोऽस्मि पाण्डवानां धनंजयः।\nमुनीनामप्यहं व्यासः कवीनामुशना कविः॥","tr":"vṛiṣhṇīnāṁ vāsudevo ’smi pāṇḍavānāṁ dhanañjayaḥ\nmunīnām apyahaṁ vyāsaḥ kavīnām uśhanā kaviḥ","en":"Among the Vrishnis I am Vasudeva; among the Pandavas I am Arjuna. Among sages I am Vyasa, and among poets I am the poet Ushana."},{"ref":"Gita 10.38","orig":"दण्डो दमयतामस्मि नीतिरस्मि जिगीषताम्।\nमौनं चैवास्मि गुह्यानां ज्ञानं ज्ञानवतामहम्॥","tr":"daṇḍo damayatām asmi nītir asmi jigīṣhatām\nmaunaṁ chaivāsmi guhyānāṁ jñānaṁ jñānavatām aham","en":"Of those who punish I am the rod; of those who seek victory I am wise strategy. Of secrets I am silence, and of the wise I am their wisdom."},{"ref":"Gita 10.39","orig":"यच्चापि सर्वभूतानां बीजं तदहमर्जुन।\nन तदस्ति विना यत्स्यान्मया भूतं चराचरम्॥","tr":"yach chāpi sarva-bhūtānāṁ bījaṁ tad aham arjuna\nna tad asti vinā yat syān mayā bhūtaṁ charācharam","en":"Whatever is the seed of all beings, that too am I, Arjuna. Nothing, moving or unmoving, could exist without me."},{"ref":"Gita 10.40","orig":"नान्तोऽस्ति मम दिव्यानां विभूतीनां परंतप।\nएष तूद्देशतः प्रोक्तो विभूतेर्विस्तरो मया॥","tr":"nānto ’sti mama divyānāṁ vibhūtīnāṁ parantapa\neṣha tūddeśhataḥ prokto vibhūter vistaro mayā","en":"There is no end to my divine glories, Arjuna. What I have told you is only a small sample of their full extent."},{"ref":"Gita 10.41","orig":"यद्यद्विभूतिमत्सत्त्वं श्रीमदूर्जितमेव वा।\nतत्तदेवावगच्छ त्वं मम तेजोंऽशसंभवम्॥","tr":"yad yad vibhūtimat sattvaṁ śhrīmad ūrjitam eva vā\ntat tad evāvagachchha tvaṁ mama tejo ’nśha-sambhavam","en":"Whatever is glorious, beautiful or mighty, know that it springs from a mere spark of my splendour."},{"ref":"Gita 10.42","orig":"अथवा बहुनैतेन किं ज्ञातेन तवार्जुन।\nविष्टभ्याहमिदं कृत्स्नमेकांशेन स्थितो जगत्॥","tr":"atha vā bahunaitena kiṁ jñātena tavārjuna\nviṣhṭabhyāham idaṁ kṛitsnam ekānśhena sthito jagat","en":"But what use is all this detail to you, Arjuna? I hold up this entire universe with a single fraction of myself."}],"11":[{"ref":"Gita 11.1","orig":"अर्जुन उवाच\nमदनुग्रहाय परमं गुह्यमध्यात्मसंज्ञितम्।\nयत्त्वयोक्तं वचस्तेन मोहोऽयं विगतो मम॥","tr":"arjuna uvācha\nmad-anugrahāya paramaṁ guhyam adhyātma-sanjñitam\nyat tvayoktaṁ vachas tena moho ’yaṁ vigato mama","en":"Arjuna said: Out of kindness to me, you have spoken the supreme secret about the self. Your words have cleared away my confusion."},{"ref":"Gita 11.2","orig":"भवाप्ययौ हि भूतानां श्रुतौ विस्तरशो मया।\nत्वत्तः कमलपत्राक्ष माहात्म्यमपि चाव्ययम्॥","tr":"bhavāpyayau hi bhūtānāṁ śhrutau vistaraśho mayā\ntvattaḥ kamala-patrākṣha māhātmyam api chāvyayam","en":"I have heard from you in detail how beings come into existence and pass away, lotus-eyed Krishna, and I have heard of your own unending greatness."},{"ref":"Gita 11.3","orig":"एवमेतद्यथात्थ त्वमात्मानं परमेश्वर।\nद्रष्टुमिच्छामि ते रूपमैश्वरं पुरुषोत्तम॥","tr":"evam etad yathāttha tvam ātmānaṁ parameśhvara\ndraṣhṭum ichchhāmi te rūpam aiśhwaraṁ puruṣhottama","en":"It is just as you have described yourself, supreme Lord. Yet I long to see your divine form, supreme Person."},{"ref":"Gita 11.4","orig":"मन्यसे यदि तच्छक्यं मया द्रष्टुमिति प्रभो।\nयोगेश्वर ततो मे त्वं दर्शयाऽत्मानमव्ययम्॥","tr":"manyase yadi tach chhakyaṁ mayā draṣhṭum iti prabho\nyogeśhvara tato me tvaṁ darśhayātmānam avyayam","en":"Lord, if you think it is possible for me to see it, then, master of yoga, show me your eternal self."},{"ref":"Gita 11.5","orig":"श्री भगवानुवाच\nपश्य मे पार्थ रूपाणि शतशोऽथ सहस्रशः।\nनानाविधानि दिव्यानि नानावर्णाकृतीनि च॥","tr":"śhrī-bhagavān uvācha\npaśhya me pārtha rūpāṇi śhataśho ’tha sahasraśhaḥ\nnānā-vidhāni divyāni nānā-varṇākṛitīni cha","en":"Krishna said: Behold, Arjuna, my forms by the hundreds and the thousands: many kinds of divine forms, of many colours and shapes."},{"ref":"Gita 11.6","orig":"पश्यादित्यान्वसून्रुद्रानश्विनौ मरुतस्तथा।\nबहून्यदृष्टपूर्वाणि पश्याऽश्चर्याणि भारत॥","tr":"paśhyādityān vasūn rudrān aśhvinau marutas tathā\nbahūny adṛiṣhṭa-pūrvāṇi paśhyāśhcharyāṇi bhārata","en":"See the Adityas, the Vasus, the Rudras, the two Ashvins and the Maruts. See many wonders never seen before, Arjuna."},{"ref":"Gita 11.7","orig":"इहैकस्थं जगत्कृत्स्नं पश्याद्य सचराचरम्।\nमम देहे गुडाकेश यच्चान्यद्द्रष्टुमिच्छसि॥","tr":"ihaika-sthaṁ jagat kṛitsnaṁ paśhyādya sa-charācharam\nmama dehe guḍākeśha yach chānyad draṣhṭum ichchhasi","en":"See now the entire universe, moving and unmoving, gathered in one place here in my body, Arjuna, along with anything else you wish to see."},{"ref":"Gita 11.8","orig":"न तु मां शक्यसे द्रष्टुमनेनैव स्वचक्षुषा।\nदिव्यं ददामि ते चक्षुः पश्य मे योगमैश्वरम्॥","tr":"na tu māṁ śhakyase draṣhṭum anenaiva sva-chakṣhuṣhā\ndivyaṁ dadāmi te chakṣhuḥ paśhya me yogam aiśhwaram","en":"But you cannot see me with these eyes of yours. I give you divine sight. Behold my majestic power!"},{"ref":"Gita 11.9","orig":"सञ्जय उवाच\nएवमुक्त्वा ततो राजन्महायोगेश्वरो हरिः।\nदर्शयामास पार्थाय परमं रूपमैश्वरम्॥","tr":"sañjaya uvācha\nevam uktvā tato rājan mahā-yogeśhvaro hariḥ\ndarśhayām āsa pārthāya paramaṁ rūpam aiśhwaram","en":"Sanjaya said: Having said this, O king, Hari, the great lord of yoga, revealed to Arjuna his supreme, majestic form."},{"ref":"Gita 11.10","orig":"अनेकवक्त्रनयनमनेकाद्भुतदर्शनम्।\nअनेकदिव्याभरणं दिव्यानेकोद्यतायुधम्॥","tr":"aneka-vaktra-nayanam anekādbhuta-darśhanam\naneka-divyābharaṇaṁ divyānekodyatāyudham","en":"It had countless mouths and eyes, countless wondrous sights, countless divine ornaments, and countless divine weapons raised high."},{"ref":"Gita 11.11","orig":"दिव्यमाल्याम्बरधरं दिव्यगन्धानुलेपनम्।\nसर्वाश्चर्यमयं देवमनन्तं विश्वतोमुखम्॥","tr":"divya-mālyāmbara-dharaṁ divya-gandhānulepanam\nsarvāśhcharya-mayaṁ devam anantaṁ viśhvato-mukham","en":"He wore divine garlands and garments and was anointed with divine fragrances. He was full of every wonder: the infinite god, facing in every direction."},{"ref":"Gita 11.12","orig":"दिवि सूर्यसहस्रस्य भवेद्युगपदुत्थिता।\nयदि भाः सदृशी सा स्याद्भासस्तस्य महात्मनः॥","tr":"divi sūrya-sahasrasya bhaved yugapad utthitā\nyadi bhāḥ sadṛiśhī sā syād bhāsas tasya mahātmanaḥ","en":"If the light of a thousand suns were to blaze up in the sky all at once, it might come close to the splendour of that great being."},{"ref":"Gita 11.13","orig":"तत्रैकस्थं जगत्कृत्स्नं प्रविभक्तमनेकधा।\nअपश्यद्देवदेवस्य शरीरे पाण्डवस्तदा॥","tr":"tatraika-sthaṁ jagat kṛitsnaṁ pravibhaktam anekadhā\napaśhyad deva-devasya śharīre pāṇḍavas tadā","en":"There Arjuna saw the whole universe, with all its many divisions, gathered together in the body of the god of gods."},{"ref":"Gita 11.14","orig":"ततः स विस्मयाविष्टो हृष्टरोमा धनञ्जयः।\nप्रणम्य शिरसा देवं कृताञ्जलिरभाषत॥","tr":"tataḥ sa vismayāviṣhṭo hṛiṣhṭa-romā dhanañjayaḥ\npraṇamya śhirasā devaṁ kṛitāñjalir abhāṣhata","en":"Then Arjuna, overcome with wonder, his hair standing on end, bowed his head to the Lord and spoke with his palms joined."},{"ref":"Gita 11.15","orig":"अर्जुन उवाच\nपश्यामि देवांस्तव देव देहे\nसर्वांस्तथा भूतविशेषसङ्घान्।\nब्रह्माणमीशं कमलासनस्थ\nमृषींश्च सर्वानुरगांश्च दिव्यान्॥","tr":"arjuna uvācha\npaśhyāmi devāns tava deva dehe\nsarvāns tathā bhūta-viśheṣha-saṅghān\nbrahmāṇam īśhaṁ kamalāsana-stham\nṛiṣhīnśh cha sarvān uragānśh cha divyān","en":"Arjuna said: I see all the gods in your body, Lord, and every kind of being gathered together: Brahma the creator seated on his lotus, all the sages, and the divine serpents."},{"ref":"Gita 11.16","orig":"अनेकबाहूदरवक्त्रनेत्रं\nपश्यामि त्वां सर्वतोऽनन्तरूपम्।\nनान्तं न मध्यं न पुनस्तवादिं\nपश्यामि विश्वेश्वर विश्वरूप॥","tr":"aneka-bāhūdara-vaktra-netraṁ\npaśhyāmi tvāṁ sarvato ’nanta-rūpam\nnāntaṁ na madhyaṁ na punas tavādiṁ\npaśhyāmi viśhveśhvara viśhva-rūpa","en":"I see you everywhere, infinite in form, with countless arms, bellies, mouths and eyes. I see no end, no middle and no beginning to you, lord of the universe, whose form is the universe."},{"ref":"Gita 11.17","orig":"किरीटिनं गदिनं चक्रिणं च\nतेजोराशिं सर्वतोदीप्तिमन्तम्।\nपश्यामि त्वां दुर्निरीक्ष्यं समन्ता\nद्दीप्तानलार्कद्युतिमप्रमेयम्॥","tr":"kirīṭinaṁ gadinaṁ chakriṇaṁ cha\ntejo-rāśhiṁ sarvato dīptimantam\npaśhyāmi tvāṁ durnirīkṣhyaṁ samantād\ndīptānalārka-dyutim aprameyam","en":"I see you with crown, mace and discus, a mass of light shining everywhere, hard to look at, blazing on every side like burning fire and the sun, beyond measure."},{"ref":"Gita 11.18","orig":"त्वमक्षरं परमं वेदितव्यं\nत्वमस्य विश्वस्य परं निधानम्।\nत्वमव्ययः शाश्वतधर्मगोप्ता\nसनातनस्त्वं पुरुषो मतो मे॥","tr":"tvam akṣharaṁ paramaṁ veditavyaṁ\ntvam asya viśhvasya paraṁ nidhānam\ntvam avyayaḥ śhāśhvata-dharma-goptā\nsanātanas tvaṁ puruṣho mato me","en":"You are the imperishable, the supreme one to be known. You are the final resting place of this universe. You are unchanging, the guardian of the eternal dharma. I believe you are the eternal Person."},{"ref":"Gita 11.19","orig":"अनादिमध्यान्तमनन्तवीर्य\nमनन्तबाहुं शशिसूर्यनेत्रम्।\nपश्यामि त्वां दीप्तहुताशवक्त्रम्\nस्वतेजसा विश्वमिदं तपन्तम्॥","tr":"anādi-madhyāntam ananta-vīryam\nananta-bāhuṁ śhaśhi-sūrya-netram\npaśhyāmi tvāṁ dīpta-hutāśha-vaktraṁ\nsva-tejasā viśhvam idaṁ tapantam","en":"I see you without beginning, middle or end, infinite in power, with countless arms, the sun and moon as your eyes, your mouth a blazing fire, scorching this universe with your radiance."},{"ref":"Gita 11.20","orig":"द्यावापृथिव्योरिदमन्तरं हि\nव्याप्तं त्वयैकेन दिशश्च सर्वाः।\nदृष्ट्वाऽद्भुतं रूपमुग्रं तवेदं\nलोकत्रयं प्रव्यथितं महात्मन्॥","tr":"dyāv ā-pṛithivyor idam antaraṁ hi\nvyāptaṁ tvayaikena diśhaśh cha sarvāḥ\ndṛiṣhṭvādbhutaṁ rūpam ugraṁ tavedaṁ\nloka-trayaṁ pravyathitaṁ mahātman","en":"The space between heaven and earth, and every direction, is filled by you alone. Seeing this wondrous, terrible form of yours, great one, the three worlds tremble."},{"ref":"Gita 11.21","orig":"अमी हि त्वां सुरसङ्घाः विशन्ति\nकेचिद्भीताः प्राञ्जलयो गृणन्ति।\nस्वस्तीत्युक्त्वा महर्षिसिद्धसङ्घाः\nस्तुवन्ति त्वां स्तुतिभिः पुष्कलाभिः॥","tr":"amī hi tvāṁ sura-saṅghā viśhanti\nkechid bhītāḥ prāñjalayo gṛiṇanti\nsvastīty uktvā maharṣhi-siddha-saṅghāḥ\nstuvanti tvāṁ stutibhiḥ puṣhkalābhiḥ","en":"Hosts of gods are entering you. Some, afraid, praise you with joined palms. Crowds of great sages and perfected ones cry \"May all be well!\" and praise you with hymn after hymn."},{"ref":"Gita 11.22","orig":"रुद्रादित्या वसवो ये च साध्या\nविश्वेऽश्विनौ मरुतश्चोष्मपाश्च।\nगन्धर्वयक्षासुरसिद्धसङ्घा\nवीक्षन्ते त्वां विस्मिताश्चैव सर्वे॥","tr":"rudrādityā vasavo ye cha sādhyā\nviśhve ’śhvinau marutaśh choṣhmapāśh cha\ngandharva-yakṣhāsura-siddha-saṅghā\nvīkṣhante tvāṁ vismitāśh chaiva sarve","en":"The Rudras, Adityas, Vasus and Sadhyas, the Vishvedevas, the two Ashvins, the Maruts and the ancestors, and hosts of gandharvas, yakshas, asuras and perfected ones all gaze at you in amazement."},{"ref":"Gita 11.23","orig":"रूपं महत्ते बहुवक्त्रनेत्रं\nमहाबाहो बहुबाहूरुपादम्।\nबहूदरं बहुदंष्ट्राकरालं\nदृष्ट्वा लोकाः प्रव्यथितास्तथाऽहम्॥","tr":"rūpaṁ mahat te bahu-vaktra-netraṁ\nmahā-bāho bahu-bāhūru-pādam\nbahūdaraṁ bahu-danṣhṭrā-karālaṁ\ndṛiṣhṭvā lokāḥ pravyathitās tathāham","en":"Seeing your immense form, mighty one, with its many mouths and eyes, many arms, thighs and feet, many bellies and many terrible tusks, the worlds are shaken, and so am I."},{"ref":"Gita 11.24","orig":"नभःस्पृशं दीप्तमनेकवर्णं\nव्यात्ताननं दीप्तविशालनेत्रम्।\nदृष्ट्वा हि त्वां प्रव्यथितान्तरात्मा\nधृतिं न विन्दामि शमं च विष्णो॥","tr":"nabhaḥ-spṛiśhaṁ dīptam aneka-varṇaṁ\nvyāttānanaṁ dīpta-viśhāla-netram\ndṛiṣhṭvā hi tvāṁ pravyathitāntar-ātmā\ndhṛitiṁ na vindāmi śhamaṁ cha viṣhṇo","en":"Seeing you touching the sky, blazing in many colours, mouths wide open, huge eyes flaming, my heart trembles, Vishnu, and I find no courage and no calm."},{"ref":"Gita 11.25","orig":"दंष्ट्राकरालानि च ते मुखानि\nदृष्ट्वैव कालानलसन्निभानि।\nदिशो न जाने न लभे च शर्म\nप्रसीद देवेश जगन्निवास॥","tr":"danṣhṭrā-karālāni cha te mukhāni\ndṛiṣhṭvaiva kālānala-sannibhāni\ndiśho na jāne na labhe cha śharma\nprasīda deveśha jagan-nivāsa","en":"Seeing your mouths with their terrible tusks, like the fire at the end of time, I lose all sense of direction and find no peace. Be gracious, lord of gods, home of the universe!"},{"ref":"Gita 11.26","orig":"अमी च त्वां धृतराष्ट्रस्य पुत्राः\nसर्वे सहैवावनिपालसङ्घैः।\nभीष्मो द्रोणः सूतपुत्रस्तथाऽसौ\nसहास्मदीयैरपि योधमुख्यैः॥","tr":"amī cha tvāṁ dhṛitarāśhtrasya putrāḥ\nsarve sahaivāvani-pāla-saṅghaiḥ\nbhīṣhmo droṇaḥ sūta-putras tathāsau\nsahāsmadīyair api yodha-mukhyaiḥ","en":"All these sons of Dhritarashtra, together with the hosts of kings, and Bhishma, Drona and Karna, the charioteer's son, along with the leading warriors on our own side,"},{"ref":"Gita 11.27","orig":"वक्त्राणि ते त्वरमाणा विशन्ति\nदंष्ट्राकरालानि भयानकानि।\nकेचिद्विलग्ना दशनान्तरेषु\nसंदृश्यन्ते चूर्णितैरुत्तमाङ्गैः॥","tr":"vaktrāṇi te tvaramāṇā viśhanti\ndanṣhṭrā-karālāni bhayānakāni\nkechid vilagnā daśhanāntareṣhu\nsandṛiśhyante chūrṇitair uttamāṅgaiḥ","en":"are rushing into your terrifying mouths with their fearful tusks. Some can be seen caught between your teeth, their heads crushed to powder."},{"ref":"Gita 11.28","orig":"यथा नदीनां बहवोऽम्बुवेगाः\nसमुद्रमेवाभिमुखाः द्रवन्ति।\nतथा तवामी नरलोकवीरा\nविशन्ति वक्त्राण्यभिविज्वलन्ति॥","tr":"yathā nadīnāṁ bahavo ’mbu-vegāḥ\nsamudram evābhimukhā dravanti\ntathā tavāmī nara-loka-vīrā\nviśhanti vaktrāṇy abhivijvalanti","en":"As the many currents of rivers race towards the ocean, so these heroes of the human world pour into your blazing mouths."},{"ref":"Gita 11.29","orig":"यथा प्रदीप्तं ज्वलनं पतङ्गा\nविशन्ति नाशाय समृद्धवेगाः।\nतथैव नाशाय विशन्ति लोका\nस्तवापि वक्त्राणि समृद्धवेगाः॥","tr":"yathā pradīptaṁ jvalanaṁ pataṅgā\nviśhanti nāśhāya samṛiddha-vegāḥ\ntathaiva nāśhāya viśhanti lokās\ntavāpi vaktrāṇi samṛiddha-vegāḥ","en":"As moths rush at full speed into a blazing fire to their destruction, so these worlds rush at full speed into your mouths to their destruction."},{"ref":"Gita 11.30","orig":"लेलिह्यसे ग्रसमानः समन्ता\nल्लोकान्समग्रान्वदनैर्ज्वलद्भिः।\nतेजोभिरापूर्य जगत्समग्रं\nभासस्तवोग्राः प्रतपन्ति विष्णो॥","tr":"lelihyase grasamānaḥ samantāl\nlokān samagrān vadanair jvaladbhiḥ\ntejobhir āpūrya jagat samagraṁ\nbhāsas tavogrāḥ pratapanti viṣhṇo","en":"Swallowing all the worlds on every side with your flaming mouths, you lick your lips. Your fierce rays fill the whole universe with their brilliance and scorch it, Vishnu."},{"ref":"Gita 11.31","orig":"आख्याहि मे को भवानुग्ररूपो\nनमोऽस्तु ते देववर प्रसीद।\nविज्ञातुमिच्छामि भवन्तमाद्यं\nन हि प्रजानामि तव प्रवृत्तिम्॥","tr":"ākhyāhi me ko bhavān ugra-rūpo\nnamo ’stu te deva-vara prasīda\nvijñātum ichchhāmi bhavantam ādyaṁ\nna hi prajānāmi tava pravṛittim","en":"Tell me who you are, in this terrible form. I bow to you, greatest of gods; be gracious. I want to understand you, the primal one, for I do not know what you are doing."},{"ref":"Gita 11.32","orig":"श्री भगवानुवाच\nकालोऽस्मि लोकक्षयकृत्प्रवृद्धो\nलोकान्समाहर्तुमिह प्रवृत्तः।\nऋतेऽपि त्वां न भविष्यन्ति सर्वे\nयेऽवस्थिताः प्रत्यनीकेषु योधाः॥","tr":"śhrī-bhagavān uvācha\nkālo ’smi loka-kṣhaya-kṛit pravṛiddho\nlokān samāhartum iha pravṛittaḥ\nṛite ’pi tvāṁ na bhaviṣhyanti sarve\nye ’vasthitāḥ pratyanīkeṣhu yodhāḥ","en":"Krishna said: I am time, the mighty destroyer of worlds, come forth here to sweep the worlds away. Even without you, none of the warriors lined up in the opposing armies will survive."},{"ref":"Gita 11.33","orig":"तस्मात्त्वमुत्तिष्ठ यशो लभस्व\nजित्वा शत्रून् भुङ्क्ष्व राज्यं समृद्धम्।\nमयैवैते निहताः पूर्वमेव\nनिमित्तमात्रं भव सव्यसाचिन्॥","tr":"tasmāt tvam uttiṣhṭha yaśho labhasva\njitvā śhatrūn bhuṅkṣhva rājyaṁ samṛiddham\nmayaivaite nihatāḥ pūrvam eva\nnimitta-mātraṁ bhava savya-sāchin","en":"So stand up and win glory. Conquer your enemies and enjoy a flourishing kingdom. They have already been slain by me. Be only the instrument, Arjuna, you who can shoot with either hand."},{"ref":"Gita 11.34","orig":"द्रोणं च भीष्मं च जयद्रथं च\nकर्णं तथाऽन्यानपि योधवीरान्।\nमया हतांस्त्वं जहि मा व्यथिष्ठा\nयुध्यस्व जेतासि रणे सपत्नान्॥","tr":"droṇaṁ cha bhīṣhmaṁ cha jayadrathaṁ cha\nkarṇaṁ tathānyān api yodha-vīrān\nmayā hatāṁs tvaṁ jahi mā vyathiṣhṭhā\nyudhyasva jetāsi raṇe sapatnān","en":"Drona, Bhishma, Jayadratha, Karna and the other great warriors have already been slain by me. Kill them, and do not be troubled. Fight! You will defeat your rivals in battle."},{"ref":"Gita 11.35","orig":"सञ्जय उवाच\nएतच्छ्रुत्वा वचनं केशवस्य\nकृताञ्जलिर्वेपमानः किरीटी।\nनमस्कृत्वा भूय एवाह कृष्णं\nसगद्गदं भीतभीतः प्रणम्य॥","tr":"sañjaya uvācha\netach chhrutvā vachanaṁ keśhavasya\nkṛitāñjalir vepamānaḥ kirīṭī\nnamaskṛitvā bhūya evāha kṛiṣhṇaṁ\nsa-gadgadaṁ bhīta-bhītaḥ praṇamya","en":"Sanjaya said: Hearing these words of Krishna, Arjuna, the crowned one, trembling and with palms joined, bowed down. Overwhelmed with fear, he bowed again and spoke to Krishna in a faltering voice."},{"ref":"Gita 11.36","orig":"अर्जुन उवाच\nस्थाने हृषीकेश तव प्रकीर्त्या\nजगत् प्रहृष्यत्यनुरज्यते च।\nरक्षांसि भीतानि दिशो द्रवन्ति\nसर्वे नमस्यन्ति च सिद्धसङ्घाः॥","tr":"arjuna uvācha\nsthāne hṛiṣhīkeśha tava prakīrtyā\njagat prahṛiṣhyaty anurajyate cha\nrakṣhānsi bhītāni diśho dravanti\nsarve namasyanti cha siddha-saṅghāḥ","en":"Arjuna said: It is right, Krishna, that the world rejoices and delights in praising you. The demons flee in fear in every direction, and the hosts of perfected ones all bow to you."},{"ref":"Gita 11.37","orig":"कस्माच्च ते न नमेरन्महात्मन्\nगरीयसे ब्रह्मणोऽप्यादिकर्त्रे।\nअनन्त देवेश जगन्निवास\nत्वमक्षरं सदसत्तत्परं यत्॥","tr":"kasmāch cha te na nameran mahātman\ngarīyase brahmaṇo ’py ādi-kartre\nananta deveśha jagan-nivāsa\ntvam akṣharaṁ sad-asat tat paraṁ yat","en":"And why should they not bow to you, great one? You are greater even than Brahma, the first creator. Infinite one, lord of gods, home of the universe, you are the imperishable: what is, what is not, and what lies beyond both."},{"ref":"Gita 11.38","orig":"त्वमादिदेवः पुरुषः पुराण\nस्त्वमस्य विश्वस्य परं निधानम्।\nवेत्तासि वेद्यं च परं च धाम\nत्वया ततं विश्वमनन्तरूप॥","tr":"tvam ādi-devaḥ puruṣhaḥ purāṇas\ntvam asya viśhvasya paraṁ nidhānam\nvettāsi vedyaṁ cha paraṁ cha dhāma\ntvayā tataṁ viśhvam ananta-rūpa","en":"You are the first of gods, the ancient Person, the final resting place of this universe. You are the knower and the known, and the supreme home. The universe is pervaded by you, whose form is infinite."},{"ref":"Gita 11.39","orig":"वायुर्यमोऽग्निर्वरुणः शशाङ्कः\nप्रजापतिस्त्वं प्रपितामहश्च।\nनमो नमस्तेऽस्तु सहस्रकृत्वः\nपुनश्च भूयोऽपि नमो नमस्ते॥","tr":"vāyur yamo ’gnir varuṇaḥ śhaśhāṅkaḥ\nprajāpatis tvaṁ prapitāmahaśh cha\nnamo namas te ’stu sahasra-kṛitvaḥ\npunaśh cha bhūyo ’pi namo namas te","en":"You are the wind, death, fire, the lord of the waters and the moon. You are the lord of creatures and the great-grandfather of all. I bow to you a thousand times, and again and again I bow to you."},{"ref":"Gita 11.40","orig":"नमः पुरस्तादथ पृष्ठतस्ते\nनमोऽस्तु ते सर्वत एव सर्व।\nअनन्तवीर्यामितविक्रमस्त्वं\nसर्वं समाप्नोषि ततोऽसि सर्वः॥","tr":"namaḥ purastād atha pṛiṣhṭhatas te\nnamo ’stu te sarvata eva sarva\nananta-vīryāmita-vikramas tvaṁ\nsarvaṁ samāpnoṣhi tato ’si sarvaḥ","en":"I bow to you in front and behind, and on every side, you who are all. Your might is infinite and your power beyond measure. You pervade everything, and so you are everything."},{"ref":"Gita 11.41","orig":"सखेति मत्वा प्रसभं यदुक्तं\nहे कृष्ण हे यादव हे सखेति।\nअजानता महिमानं तवेदं\nमया प्रमादात्प्रणयेन वापि॥","tr":"sakheti matvā prasabhaṁ yad uktaṁ\nhe kṛiṣhṇa he yādava he sakheti\najānatā mahimānaṁ tavedaṁ\nmayā pramādāt praṇayena vāpi","en":"Thinking of you as a friend, I carelessly called out \"Hey Krishna, hey Yadava, hey friend!\", not knowing your greatness, out of thoughtlessness or affection."},{"ref":"Gita 11.42","orig":"यच्चावहासार्थमसत्कृतोऽसि\nविहारशय्यासनभोजनेषु।\nएकोऽथवाप्यच्युत तत्समक्षं\nतत्क्षामये त्वामहमप्रमेयम्॥","tr":"yach chāvahāsārtham asat-kṛito ’si\nvihāra-śhayyāsana-bhojaneṣhu\neko ’tha vāpy achyuta tat-samakṣhaṁ\ntat kṣhāmaye tvām aham aprameyam","en":"And if, as a joke, I treated you with disrespect while playing, resting, sitting or eating, alone or in front of others, unshakeable one, I ask your forgiveness, you who are beyond measure."},{"ref":"Gita 11.43","orig":"पितासि लोकस्य चराचरस्य\nत्वमस्य पूज्यश्च गुरुर्गरीयान्।\nन त्वत्समोऽस्त्यभ्यधिकः कुतोऽन्यो\nलोकत्रयेऽप्यप्रतिमप्रभाव॥","tr":"pitāsi lokasya charācharasya\ntvam asya pūjyaśh cha gurur garīyān\nna tvat-samo ’sty abhyadhikaḥ kuto ’nyo\nloka-traye ’py apratima-prabhāva","en":"You are the father of this world, of all that moves and does not move. You are the one it worships and its most honoured teacher. No one in the three worlds equals you, so how could anyone surpass you, whose power has no match?"},{"ref":"Gita 11.44","orig":"तस्मात्प्रणम्य प्रणिधाय कायं\nप्रसादये त्वामहमीशमीड्यम्।\nपितेव पुत्रस्य सखेव सख्युः\nप्रियः प्रियायार्हसि देव सोढुम्॥","tr":"tasmāt praṇamya praṇidhāya kāyaṁ\nprasādaye tvām aham īśham īḍyam\npiteva putrasya sakheva sakhyuḥ\npriyaḥ priyāyārhasi deva soḍhum","en":"So I bow down, lay my body before you, and ask for your grace, Lord worthy of praise. Bear with me, God, as a father with his son, as a friend with a friend, as a lover with the beloved."},{"ref":"Gita 11.45","orig":"अदृष्टपूर्वं हृषितोऽस्मि दृष्ट्वा\nभयेन च प्रव्यथितं मनो मे।\nतदेव मे दर्शय देव रूपं\nप्रसीद देवेश जगन्निवास॥","tr":"adṛiṣhṭa-pūrvaṁ hṛiṣhito ’smi dṛiṣhṭvā\nbhayena cha pravyathitaṁ mano me\ntad eva me darśhaya deva rūpaṁ\nprasīda deveśha jagan-nivāsa","en":"I am thrilled to have seen what no one has seen before, yet my mind is shaken with fear. Show me your other form, God. Be gracious, lord of gods, home of the universe."},{"ref":"Gita 11.46","orig":"किरीटिनं गदिनं चक्रहस्त\nमिच्छामि त्वां द्रष्टुमहं तथैव।\nतेनैव रूपेण चतुर्भुजेन\nसहस्रबाहो भव विश्वमूर्ते॥","tr":"kirīṭinaṁ gadinaṁ chakra-hastam\nichchhāmi tvāṁ draṣhṭum ahaṁ tathaiva\ntenaiva rūpeṇa chatur-bhujena\nsahasra-bāho bhava viśhva-mūrte","en":"I want to see you as before, wearing your crown and holding mace and discus. Take on that four-armed form again, thousand-armed one, whose body is the universe."},{"ref":"Gita 11.47","orig":"श्री भगवानुवाच\nमया प्रसन्नेन तवार्जुनेदं\nरूपं परं दर्शितमात्मयोगात्।\nतेजोमयं विश्वमनन्तमाद्यं\nयन्मे त्वदन्येन न दृष्टपूर्वम्॥","tr":"śhrī-bhagavān uvācha\nmayā prasannena tavārjunedaṁ\nrūpaṁ paraṁ darśhitam ātma-yogāt\ntejo-mayaṁ viśhvam anantam ādyaṁ\nyan me tvad anyena na dṛiṣhṭa-pūrvam","en":"Krishna said: Out of my grace, Arjuna, by my own power I have shown you this supreme form: radiant, universal, infinite and primal. No one but you has seen it before."},{"ref":"Gita 11.48","orig":"न वेदयज्ञाध्ययनैर्न दानै\nर्न च क्रियाभिर्न तपोभिरुग्रैः।\nएवंरूपः शक्य अहं नृलोके\nद्रष्टुं त्वदन्येन कुरुप्रवीर॥","tr":"na veda-yajñādhyayanair na dānair\nna cha kriyābhir na tapobhir ugraiḥ\nevaṁ-rūpaḥ śhakya ahaṁ nṛi-loke\ndraṣhṭuṁ tvad anyena kuru-pravīra","en":"Not by the Vedas, sacrifice or study, not by gifts, rituals or severe austerities can anyone in the human world see me in this form, except you, great hero of the Kurus."},{"ref":"Gita 11.49","orig":"मा ते व्यथा मा च विमूढभावो\nदृष्ट्वा रूपं घोरमीदृङ्ममेदम्।\nव्यपेतभीः प्रीतमनाः पुनस्त्वं\nतदेव मे रूपमिदं प्रपश्य॥","tr":"mā te vyathā mā cha vimūḍha-bhāvo\ndṛiṣhṭvā rūpaṁ ghoram īdṛiṅ mamedam\nvyapeta-bhīḥ prīta-manāḥ punas tvaṁ\ntad eva me rūpam idaṁ prapaśhya","en":"Do not be afraid or bewildered at seeing this terrible form of mine. Free from fear and glad at heart, look once more at my familiar form."},{"ref":"Gita 11.50","orig":"सञ्जय उवाच\nइत्यर्जुनं वासुदेवस्तथोक्त्वा\nस्वकं रूपं दर्शयामास भूयः।\nआश्वासयामास च भीतमेनं\nभूत्वा पुनः सौम्यवपुर्महात्मा॥","tr":"sañjaya uvācha\nity arjunaṁ vāsudevas tathoktvā\nsvakaṁ rūpaṁ darśhayām āsa bhūyaḥ\nāśhvāsayām āsa cha bhītam enaṁ\nbhūtvā punaḥ saumya-vapur mahātmā","en":"Sanjaya said: Having spoken this way to Arjuna, Krishna showed his own form again. The great one took on his gentle appearance once more and comforted the frightened Arjuna."},{"ref":"Gita 11.51","orig":"अर्जुन उवाच\nदृष्ट्वेदं मानुषं रूपं तवसौम्यं जनार्दन।\nइदानीमस्मि संवृत्तः सचेताः प्रकृतिं गतः॥","tr":"arjuna uvācha\ndṛiṣhṭvedaṁ mānuṣhaṁ rūpaṁ tava saumyaṁ janārdana\nidānīm asmi saṁvṛittaḥ sa-chetāḥ prakṛitiṁ gataḥ","en":"Arjuna said: Seeing this gentle human form of yours, Krishna, I am calm again and have come back to myself."},{"ref":"Gita 11.52","orig":"श्री भगवानुवाच\nसुदुर्दर्शमिदं रूपं दृष्टवानसि यन्मम।\nदेवा अप्यस्य रूपस्य नित्यं दर्शनकाङ्क्षिणः॥","tr":"śhrī-bhagavān uvācha\nsu-durdarśham idaṁ rūpaṁ dṛiṣhṭavān asi yan mama\ndevā apy asya rūpasya nityaṁ darśhana-kāṅkṣhiṇaḥ","en":"Krishna said: This form of mine that you have seen is very hard to see. Even the gods constantly long for a glimpse of it."},{"ref":"Gita 11.53","orig":"नाहं वेदैर्न तपसा न दानेन न चेज्यया।\nशक्य एवंविधो द्रष्टुं दृष्टवानसि मां यथा॥","tr":"nāhaṁ vedair na tapasā na dānena na chejyayā\nśhakya evaṁ-vidho draṣhṭuṁ dṛiṣhṭavān asi māṁ yathā","en":"Not by the Vedas, not by austerity, not by charity and not by sacrifice can I be seen as you have seen me."},{"ref":"Gita 11.54","orig":"भक्त्या त्वनन्यया शक्यमहमेवंविधोऽर्जुन।\nज्ञातुं दृष्टुं च तत्त्वेन प्रवेष्टुं च परंतप॥","tr":"bhaktyā tv ananyayā śhakya aham evaṁ-vidho ’rjuna\njñātuṁ draṣhṭuṁ cha tattvena praveṣhṭuṁ cha parantapa","en":"Only by undivided devotion, Arjuna, can I be known like this, seen as I truly am, and entered into."},{"ref":"Gita 11.55","orig":"मत्कर्मकृन्मत्परमो मद्भक्तः सङ्गवर्जितः।\nनिर्वैरः सर्वभूतेषु यः स मामेति पाण्डव॥","tr":"mat-karma-kṛin mat-paramo mad-bhaktaḥ saṅga-varjitaḥ\nnirvairaḥ sarva-bhūteṣhu yaḥ sa mām eti pāṇḍava","en":"Whoever works for me, holds me as the highest, is devoted to me, free from attachment and without hatred towards any being, comes to me, Arjuna."}],"12":[{"ref":"Gita 12.1","orig":"अर्जुन उवाच\nएवं सततयुक्ता ये भक्तास्त्वां पर्युपासते।\nयेचाप्यक्षरमव्यक्तं तेषां के योगवित्तमाः॥","tr":"arjuna uvācha\nevaṁ satata-yuktā ye bhaktās tvāṁ paryupāsate\nye chāpy akṣharam avyaktaṁ teṣhāṁ ke yoga-vittamāḥ","en":"Arjuna said: Some devotees worship you with constant devotion, while others worship the imperishable, the unmanifest. Which of them know yoga best?"},{"ref":"Gita 12.2","orig":"श्री भगवानुवाच\nमय्यावेश्य मनो ये मां नित्ययुक्ता उपासते।\nश्रद्धया परयोपेतास्ते मे युक्ततमा मताः॥","tr":"śhrī-bhagavān uvācha\nmayy āveśhya mano ye māṁ nitya-yuktā upāsate\nśhraddhayā parayopetās te me yuktatamā matāḥ","en":"Krishna said: Those who fix their minds on me and worship me, always devoted and filled with supreme faith, I consider the most perfect in yoga."},{"ref":"Gita 12.3","orig":"ये त्वक्षरमनिर्देश्यमव्यक्तं पर्युपासते।\nसर्वत्रगमचिन्त्यं च कूटस्थमचलं ध्रुवम्॥","tr":"ye tv akṣharam anirdeśhyam avyaktaṁ paryupāsate\nsarvatra-gam achintyañcha kūṭa-stham achalandhruvam","en":"But those who worship the imperishable, which cannot be defined, the unmanifest, present everywhere, beyond thought, unchanging, unmoving and constant,"},{"ref":"Gita 12.4","orig":"संनियम्येन्द्रियग्रामं सर्वत्र समबुद्धयः।\nते प्राप्नुवन्ति मामेव सर्वभूतहिते रताः॥","tr":"sanniyamyendriya-grāmaṁ sarvatra sama-buddhayaḥ\nte prāpnuvanti mām eva sarva-bhūta-hite ratāḥ","en":"who restrain all their senses, stay even-minded in every situation and delight in the welfare of all beings, they also reach me."},{"ref":"Gita 12.5","orig":"क्लेशोऽधिकतरस्तेषामव्यक्तासक्तचेतसाम्।\nअव्यक्ता हि गतिर्दुःखं देहवद्भिरवाप्यते॥","tr":"kleśho ’dhikataras teṣhām avyaktāsakta-chetasām\navyaktā hi gatir duḥkhaṁ dehavadbhir avāpyate","en":"But the struggle is greater for those whose minds are set on the unmanifest. For beings with a body, the unmanifest goal is hard to reach."},{"ref":"Gita 12.6","orig":"ये तु सर्वाणि कर्माणि मयि संन्यस्य मत्पराः।\nअनन्येनैव योगेन मां ध्यायन्त उपासते॥","tr":"ye tu sarvāṇi karmāṇi mayi sannyasya mat-paraḥ\nananyenaiva yogena māṁ dhyāyanta upāsate","en":"But those who dedicate all their actions to me, hold me as their highest goal and worship me, meditating on me with single-minded yoga,"},{"ref":"Gita 12.7","orig":"तेषामहं समुद्धर्ता मृत्युसंसारसागरात्।\nभवामि नचिरात्पार्थ मय्यावेशितचेतसाम्॥","tr":"teṣhām ahaṁ samuddhartā mṛityu-saṁsāra-sāgarāt\nbhavāmi na chirāt pārtha mayy āveśhita-chetasām","en":"for them, whose minds are absorbed in me, I soon become the one who lifts them out of the ocean of death and rebirth, Arjuna."},{"ref":"Gita 12.8","orig":"मय्येव मन आधत्स्व मयि बुद्धिं निवेशय।\nनिवसिष्यसि मय्येव अत ऊर्ध्वं न संशयः॥","tr":"mayy eva mana ādhatsva mayi buddhiṁ niveśhaya\nnivasiṣhyasi mayy eva ata ūrdhvaṁ na sanśhayaḥ","en":"Fix your mind on me alone and let your understanding rest in me. Then from now on you will live in me. Of this there is no doubt."},{"ref":"Gita 12.9","orig":"अथ चित्तं समाधातुं न शक्नोषि मयि स्थिरम्।\nअभ्यासयोगेन ततो मामिच्छाप्तुं धनञ्जय॥","tr":"atha chittaṁ samādhātuṁ na śhaknoṣhi mayi sthiram\nabhyāsa-yogena tato mām ichchhāptuṁ dhanañjaya","en":"If you cannot hold your mind steadily on me, Arjuna, then seek to reach me through the yoga of steady practice."},{"ref":"Gita 12.10","orig":"अभ्यासेऽप्यसमर्थोऽसि मत्कर्मपरमो भव।\nमदर्थमपि कर्माणि कुर्वन् सिद्धिमवाप्स्यसि॥","tr":"abhyāse ’py asamartho ’si mat-karma-paramo bhava\nmad-artham api karmāṇi kurvan siddhim avāpsyasi","en":"If you cannot even practise, make working for me your highest aim. By doing your actions for my sake, you too will reach perfection."},{"ref":"Gita 12.11","orig":"अथैतदप्यशक्तोऽसि कर्तुं मद्योगमाश्रितः।\nसर्वकर्मफलत्यागं ततः कुरु यतात्मवान्॥","tr":"athaitad apy aśhakto ’si kartuṁ mad-yogam āśhritaḥ\nsarva-karma-phala-tyāgaṁ tataḥ kuru yatātmavān","en":"If you cannot even do this, then take refuge in my yoga, master yourself, and let go of the results of all your actions."},{"ref":"Gita 12.12","orig":"श्रेयो हि ज्ञानमभ्यासाज्ज्ञानाद्ध्यानं विशिष्यते।\nध्यानात्कर्मफलत्यागस्त्यागाच्छान्तिरनन्तरम्॥","tr":"śhreyo hi jñānam abhyāsāj jñānād dhyānaṁ viśhiṣhyate\ndhyānāt karma-phala-tyāgas tyāgāch chhāntir anantaram","en":"Knowledge is better than mere practice, and meditation is better than knowledge. Letting go of the results of action is better than meditation, because peace follows letting go straight away."},{"ref":"Gita 12.13","orig":"अद्वेष्टा सर्वभूतानां मैत्रः करुण एव च।\nनिर्ममो निरहङ्कारः समदुःखसुखः क्षमी॥","tr":"adveṣhṭā sarva-bhūtānāṁ maitraḥ karuṇa eva cha\nnirmamo nirahankāraḥ sama-duḥkha-sukhaḥ kṣhamī","en":"Whoever bears no ill will towards any being, is friendly and compassionate, free from possessiveness and ego, the same in pain and pleasure, and forgiving,"},{"ref":"Gita 12.14","orig":"सन्तुष्टः सततं योगी यतात्मा दृढनिश्चयः।\nमय्यर्पितमनोबुद्धिर्यो मद्भक्तः स मे प्रियः॥","tr":"santuṣhṭaḥ satataṁ yogī yatātmā dṛiḍha-niśhchayaḥ\nmayy arpita-mano-buddhir yo mad-bhaktaḥ sa me priyaḥ","en":"always content, steady in yoga, self-controlled and firm in resolve, with mind and understanding given to me: that devotee of mine is dear to me."},{"ref":"Gita 12.15","orig":"यस्मान्नोद्विजते लोको लोकान्नोद्विजते च यः।\nहर्षामर्षभयोद्वेगैर्मुक्तो यः स च मे प्रियः॥","tr":"yasmān nodvijate loko lokān nodvijate cha yaḥ\nharṣhāmarṣha-bhayodvegair mukto yaḥ sa cha me priyaḥ","en":"One who does not disturb the world and is not disturbed by the world, who is free from excitement, envy, fear and anxiety, is dear to me."},{"ref":"Gita 12.16","orig":"अनपेक्षः शुचिर्दक्ष उदासीनो गतव्यथः।\nसर्वारम्भपरित्यागी यो मद्भक्तः स मे प्रियः॥","tr":"anapekṣhaḥ śhuchir dakṣha udāsīno gata-vyathaḥ\nsarvārambha-parityāgī yo mad-bhaktaḥ sa me priyaḥ","en":"One who expects nothing, is pure, capable, unconcerned and untroubled, and has given up all self-serving undertakings: that devotee of mine is dear to me."},{"ref":"Gita 12.17","orig":"यो न हृष्यति न द्वेष्टि न शोचति न काङ्क्षति।\nशुभाशुभपरित्यागी भक्तिमान्यः स मे प्रियः॥","tr":"yo na hṛiṣhyati na dveṣhṭi na śhochati na kāṅkṣhati\nśhubhāśhubha-parityāgī bhaktimān yaḥ sa me priyaḥ","en":"One who neither rejoices nor hates, neither grieves nor craves, who has let go of both good and bad outcomes and is full of devotion, is dear to me."},{"ref":"Gita 12.18","orig":"समः शत्रौ च मित्रे च तथा मानापमानयोः।\nशीतोष्णसुखदुःखेषु समः सङ्गविवर्जितः॥","tr":"samaḥ śhatrau cha mitre cha tathā mānāpamānayoḥ\nśhītoṣhṇa-sukha-duḥkheṣhu samaḥ saṅga-vivarjitaḥ","en":"One who is the same towards enemy and friend, in honour and dishonour, in cold and heat, pleasure and pain, and who is free from attachment,"},{"ref":"Gita 12.19","orig":"तुल्यनिन्दास्तुतिर्मौनी सन्तुष्टो येनकेनचित्।\nअनिकेतः स्थिरमतिर्भक्तिमान्मे प्रियो नरः॥","tr":"tulya-nindā-stutir maunī santuṣhṭo yena kenachit\naniketaḥ sthira-matir bhaktimān me priyo naraḥ","en":"who takes blame and praise alike, is quiet, content with whatever comes, has no fixed home, and whose mind is steady and full of devotion: that person is dear to me."},{"ref":"Gita 12.20","orig":"ये तु धर्म्यामृतमिदं यथोक्तं पर्युपासते।\nश्रद्दधाना मत्परमा भक्तास्तेऽतीव मे प्रियाः॥","tr":"ye tu dharmyāmṛitam idaṁ yathoktaṁ paryupāsate\nśhraddadhānā mat-paramā bhaktās te ’tīva me priyāḥ","en":"But those who follow this immortal teaching of dharma just as I have given it, with faith and holding me as their highest, those devotees are exceedingly dear to me."}],"13":[{"ref":"Gita 13.1","orig":"अर्जुन उवाच\nप्रकृतिं पुरुषं चैव क्षेत्रं क्षेत्रज्ञमेव च।\nएतद्वेदितुमिच्छामि ज्ञानं ज्ञेयं च केशव॥","tr":"arjuna uvācha\nprakṛitiṁ puruṣhaṁ chaiva kṣhetraṁ kṣhetra-jñam eva cha\netad veditum ichchhāmi jñānaṁ jñeyaṁ cha keśhava","en":"Arjuna said: Krishna, I want to understand nature and spirit, the field and the one who knows the field. I want to know what knowledge is, and what is worth knowing."},{"ref":"Gita 13.2","orig":"श्री भगवानुवाच\nइदं शरीरं कौन्तेय क्षेत्रमित्यभिधीयते।\nएतद्यो वेत्ति तं प्राहुः क्षेत्रज्ञ इति तद्विदः॥","tr":"śhrī-bhagavān uvācha\nidaṁ śharīraṁ kaunteya kṣhetram ity abhidhīyate\netad yo vetti taṁ prāhuḥ kṣhetra-jña iti tad-vidaḥ","en":"Krishna said: This body, Arjuna, is called the field. Those who understand these things call the one who knows it the knower of the field."},{"ref":"Gita 13.3","orig":"क्षेत्रज्ञं चापि मां विद्धि सर्वक्षेत्रेषु भारत।\nक्षेत्रक्षेत्रज्ञयोर्ज्ञानं यत्तज्ज्ञानं मतं मम॥","tr":"kṣhetra-jñaṁ chāpi māṁ viddhi sarva-kṣhetreṣhu bhārata\nkṣhetra-kṣhetrajñayor jñānaṁ yat taj jñānaṁ mataṁ mama","en":"Know that I am the knower in every field. Understanding both the field and its knower is what I count as real knowledge."},{"ref":"Gita 13.4","orig":"तत्क्षेत्रं यच्च यादृक् च यद्विकारि यतश्च यत्।\nस च यो यत्प्रभावश्च तत्समासेन मे श्रृणु॥","tr":"tat kṣhetraṁ yach cha yādṛik cha yad-vikāri yataśh cha yat\nsa cha yo yat-prabhāvaśh cha tat samāsena me śhṛiṇu","en":"Hear from me in brief what the field is, what it is like, how it changes and where it comes from. Hear too who its knower is and what powers he has."},{"ref":"Gita 13.5","orig":"ऋषिभिर्बहुधा गीतं छन्दोभिर्विविधैः पृथक्।\nब्रह्मसूत्रपदैश्चैव हेतुमद्भिर्विनिश्चितैः॥","tr":"ṛiṣhibhir bahudhā gītaṁ chhandobhir vividhaiḥ pṛithak\nbrahma-sūtra-padaiśh chaiva hetumadbhir viniśhchitaiḥ","en":"Sages have sung of this in many ways, in many separate hymns. It is also set out clearly, with sound reasoning, in the verses about Brahman."},{"ref":"Gita 13.6","orig":"महाभूतान्यहङ्कारो बुद्धिरव्यक्तमेव च।\nइन्द्रियाणि दशैकं च पञ्च चेन्द्रियगोचराः॥","tr":"mahā-bhūtāny ahankāro buddhir avyaktam eva cha\nindriyāṇi daśhaikaṁ cha pañcha chendriya-gocharāḥ","en":"The great elements, the sense of self, the intellect and unseen nature; the ten senses and the mind, and the five things the senses reach for."},{"ref":"Gita 13.7","orig":"इच्छा द्वेषः सुखं दुःखं सङ्घातश्चेतनाधृतिः।\nएतत्क्षेत्रं समासेन सविकारमुदाहृतम्॥","tr":"ichchhā dveṣhaḥ sukhaṁ duḥkhaṁ saṅghātaśh chetanā dhṛitiḥ\netat kṣhetraṁ samāsena sa-vikāram udāhṛitam","en":"Desire and dislike, pleasure and pain, the body as a whole, awareness and endurance. That, in short, is the field with all its changes."},{"ref":"Gita 13.8","orig":"अमानित्वमदम्भित्वमहिंसा क्षान्तिरार्जवम्।\nआचार्योपासनं शौचं स्थैर्यमात्मविनिग्रहः॥","tr":"amānitvam adambhitvam ahinsā kṣhāntir ārjavam\nāchāryopāsanaṁ śhauchaṁ sthairyam ātma-vinigrahaḥ","en":"Humility, no pretending, not harming anyone, patience and honesty. Serving a teacher, staying clean, being steady and keeping yourself in check."},{"ref":"Gita 13.9","orig":"इन्द्रियार्थेषु वैराग्यमनहङ्कार एव च।\nजन्ममृत्युजराव्याधिदुःखदोषानुदर्शनम्॥","tr":"indriyārtheṣhu vairāgyam anahankāra eva cha\njanma-mṛityu-jarā-vyādhi-duḥkha-doṣhānudarśhanam","en":"Not chasing what the senses want, and letting go of ego. Seeing clearly the pain and flaws in birth, death, old age and sickness."},{"ref":"Gita 13.10","orig":"असक्तिरनभिष्वङ्गः पुत्रदारगृहादिषु।\nनित्यं च समचित्तत्वमिष्टानिष्टोपपत्तिषु॥","tr":"asaktir anabhiṣhvaṅgaḥ putra-dāra-gṛihādiṣhu\nnityaṁ cha sama-chittatvam iṣhṭāniṣhṭopapattiṣhu","en":"Not clinging, not getting tangled up in children, spouse, home and the rest. Keeping an even mind whether wanted or unwanted things happen."},{"ref":"Gita 13.11","orig":"मयि चानन्ययोगेन भक्तिरव्यभिचारिणी।\nविविक्तदेशसेवित्वमरतिर्जनसंसदि॥","tr":"mayi chānanya-yogena bhaktir avyabhichāriṇī\nvivikta-deśha-sevitvam aratir jana-sansadi","en":"Devotion to me that never wavers, with a mind fixed on nothing else. Liking quiet places and having no taste for crowds."},{"ref":"Gita 13.12","orig":"अध्यात्मज्ञाननित्यत्वं तत्त्वज्ञानार्थदर्शनम्।\nएतज्ज्ञानमिति प्रोक्तमज्ञानं यदतोन्यथा॥","tr":"adhyātma-jñāna-nityatvaṁ tattva-jñānārtha-darśhanam\netaj jñānam iti proktam ajñānaṁ yad ato ’nyathā","en":"Staying with the knowledge of the self, and keeping in view what real knowledge is for. This is called knowledge. Anything opposed to it is ignorance."},{"ref":"Gita 13.13","orig":"ज्ञेयं यत्तत्प्रवक्ष्यामि यज्ज्ञात्वाऽमृतमश्नुते।\nअनादिमत्परं ब्रह्म न सत्तन्नासदुच्यते॥","tr":"jñeyaṁ yat tat pravakṣhyāmi yaj jñātvāmṛitam aśhnute\nanādi mat-paraṁ brahma na sat tan nāsad uchyate","en":"Now I will tell you what must be known, the thing that, once known, brings you the taste of the deathless. It is the highest Brahman, without beginning, which cannot be called either being or non-being."},{"ref":"Gita 13.14","orig":"सर्वतः पाणिपादं तत्सर्वतोऽक्षिशिरोमुखम्।\nसर्वतः श्रुतिमल्लोके सर्वमावृत्य तिष्ठति॥","tr":"sarvataḥ pāṇi-pādaṁ tat sarvato ’kṣhi-śhiro-mukham\nsarvataḥ śhrutimal loke sarvam āvṛitya tiṣhṭhati","en":"Its hands and feet are everywhere, its eyes, heads and faces are everywhere. Its ears are everywhere in the world. It stands wrapping around everything."},{"ref":"Gita 13.15","orig":"सर्वेन्द्रियगुणाभासं सर्वेन्द्रियविवर्जितम्।\nअसक्तं सर्वभृच्चैव निर्गुणं गुणभोक्तृ च॥","tr":"sarvendriya-guṇābhāsaṁ sarvendriya-vivarjitam\nasaktaṁ sarva-bhṛich chaiva nirguṇaṁ guṇa-bhoktṛi cha","en":"It shines through all the senses, yet has no senses of its own. It is unattached, yet holds everything up. It is beyond the qualities of nature, yet it experiences them."},{"ref":"Gita 13.16","orig":"बहिरन्तश्च भूतानामचरं चरमेव च।\nसूक्ष्मत्वात्तदविज्ञेयं दूरस्थं चान्तिके च तत्॥","tr":"bahir antaśh cha bhūtānām acharaṁ charam eva cha\nsūkṣhmatvāt tad avijñeyaṁ dūra-sthaṁ chāntike cha tat","en":"It is outside and inside every being, still and moving. Too subtle to be grasped, it is far away and yet very near."},{"ref":"Gita 13.17","orig":"अविभक्तं च भूतेषु विभक्तमिव च स्थितम्।\nभूतभर्तृ च तज्ज्ञेयं ग्रसिष्णु प्रभविष्णु च॥","tr":"avibhaktaṁ cha bhūteṣhu vibhaktam iva cha sthitam\nbhūta-bhartṛi cha taj jñeyaṁ grasiṣhṇu prabhaviṣhṇu cha","en":"It is undivided, yet seems divided among beings. Know it as what sustains all beings, what swallows them up and what brings them forth."},{"ref":"Gita 13.18","orig":"ज्योतिषामपि तज्ज्योतिस्तमसः परमुच्यते।\nज्ञानं ज्ञेयं ज्ञानगम्यं हृदि सर्वस्य विष्ठितम्॥","tr":"jyotiṣhām api taj jyotis tamasaḥ param uchyate\njñānaṁ jñeyaṁ jñāna-gamyaṁ hṛidi sarvasya viṣhṭhitam","en":"It is the light of all lights, said to be beyond darkness. It is knowledge, what is to be known and the goal of knowing, and it sits in the heart of everyone."},{"ref":"Gita 13.19","orig":"इति क्षेत्रं तथा ज्ञानं ज्ञेयं चोक्तं समासतः।\nमद्भक्त एतद्विज्ञाय मद्भावायोपपद्यते॥","tr":"iti kṣhetraṁ tathā jñānaṁ jñeyaṁ choktaṁ samāsataḥ\nmad-bhakta etad vijñāya mad-bhāvāyopapadyate","en":"So I have briefly described the field, knowledge and what is to be known. My devotee who understands this comes to share my nature."},{"ref":"Gita 13.20","orig":"प्रकृतिं पुरुषं चैव विद्ध्यनादी उभावपि।\nविकारांश्च गुणांश्चैव विद्धि प्रकृतिसंभवान्॥","tr":"prakṛitiṁ puruṣhaṁ chaiva viddhy anādī ubhāv api\nvikārānśh cha guṇānśh chaiva viddhi prakṛiti-sambhavān","en":"Know that nature and spirit both have no beginning. Know too that all changes and all the qualities are born from nature."},{"ref":"Gita 13.21","orig":"कार्यकारणकर्तृत्वे हेतुः प्रकृतिरुच्यते।\nपुरुषः सुखदुःखानां भोक्तृत्वे हेतुरुच्यते॥","tr":"kārya-kāraṇa-kartṛitve hetuḥ prakṛitir uchyate\npuruṣhaḥ sukha-duḥkhānāṁ bhoktṛitve hetur uchyate","en":"Nature is said to be the cause of the body, the senses and all doing. Spirit is said to be the cause of experiencing pleasure and pain."},{"ref":"Gita 13.22","orig":"पुरुषः प्रकृतिस्थो हि भुङ्क्ते प्रकृतिजान्गुणान्।\nकारणं गुणसङ्गोऽस्य सदसद्योनिजन्मसु॥","tr":"puruṣhaḥ prakṛiti-stho hi bhuṅkte prakṛiti-jān guṇān\nkāraṇaṁ guṇa-saṅgo ’sya sad-asad-yoni-janmasu","en":"Spirit, living in nature, experiences the qualities that nature produces. Its attachment to those qualities is why it is born in good and bad wombs."},{"ref":"Gita 13.23","orig":"उपद्रष्टाऽनुमन्ता च भर्ता भोक्ता महेश्वरः।\nपरमात्मेति चाप्युक्तो देहेऽस्मिन्पुरुषः परः॥","tr":"upadraṣhṭānumantā cha bhartā bhoktā maheśhvaraḥ\nparamātmeti chāpy ukto dehe ’smin puruṣhaḥ paraḥ","en":"In this body there is also a higher spirit. It is called the witness, the one who consents, who sustains, who experiences, the great lord and the supreme self."},{"ref":"Gita 13.24","orig":"य एवं वेत्ति पुरुषं प्रकृतिं च गुणैःसह।\nसर्वथा वर्तमानोऽपि न स भूयोऽभिजायते॥","tr":"ya evaṁ vetti puruṣhaṁ prakṛitiṁ cha guṇaiḥ saha\nsarvathā vartamāno ’pi na sa bhūyo ’bhijāyate","en":"Whoever understands spirit, and nature with its qualities, in this way will not be born again, however they happen to live."},{"ref":"Gita 13.25","orig":"ध्यानेनात्मनि पश्यन्ति केचिदात्मानमात्मना।\nअन्ये सांख्येन योगेन कर्मयोगेन चापरे॥","tr":"dhyānenātmani paśhyanti kechid ātmānam ātmanā\nanye sānkhyena yogena karma-yogena chāpare","en":"Some see the self within themselves through meditation. Others see it through the path of knowledge, and others through the path of action."},{"ref":"Gita 13.26","orig":"अन्ये त्वेवमजानन्तः श्रुत्वाऽन्येभ्य उपासते।\nतेऽपि चातितरन्त्येव मृत्युं श्रुतिपरायणाः॥","tr":"anye tv evam ajānantaḥ śhrutvānyebhya upāsate\nte ’pi chātitaranty eva mṛityuṁ śhruti-parāyaṇāḥ","en":"Others do not know this directly, but they worship after hearing it from others. They too cross beyond death, by holding fast to what they have heard."},{"ref":"Gita 13.27","orig":"यावत्सञ्जायते किञ्चित्सत्त्वं स्थावरजङ्गमम्।\nक्षेत्रक्षेत्रज्ञसंयोगात्तद्विद्धि भरतर्षभ॥","tr":"yāvat sañjāyate kiñchit sattvaṁ sthāvara-jaṅgamam\nkṣhetra-kṣhetrajña-sanyogāt tad viddhi bharatarṣhabha","en":"Whatever is born, Arjuna, still or moving, comes from the union of the field and the knower of the field."},{"ref":"Gita 13.28","orig":"समं सर्वेषु भूतेषु तिष्ठन्तं परमेश्वरम्।\nविनश्यत्स्वविनश्यन्तं यः पश्यति स पश्यति॥","tr":"samaṁ sarveṣhu bhūteṣhu tiṣhṭhantaṁ parameśhvaram\nvinaśhyatsv avinaśhyantaṁ yaḥ paśhyati sa paśhyati","en":"The one who sees the supreme Lord present equally in all beings, the undying within the dying, really sees."},{"ref":"Gita 13.29","orig":"समं पश्यन्हि सर्वत्र समवस्थितमीश्वरम्।\nन हिनस्त्यात्मनाऽऽत्मानं ततो याति परां गतिम्॥","tr":"samaṁ paśhyan hi sarvatra samavasthitam īśhvaram\nna hinasty ātmanātmānaṁ tato yāti parāṁ gatim","en":"Seeing the same Lord present everywhere, such a person does not harm the self by the self, and so reaches the highest goal."},{"ref":"Gita 13.30","orig":"प्रकृत्यैव च कर्माणि क्रियमाणानि सर्वशः।\nयः पश्यति तथाऽऽत्मानमकर्तारं स पश्यति॥","tr":"prakṛityaiva cha karmāṇi kriyamāṇāni sarvaśhaḥ\nyaḥ paśhyati tathātmānam akartāraṁ sa paśhyati","en":"The one who sees that all actions are done by nature alone, and that the self is not the doer, really sees."},{"ref":"Gita 13.31","orig":"यदा भूतपृथग्भावमेकस्थमनुपश्यति।\nतत एव च विस्तारं ब्रह्म सम्पद्यते तदा॥","tr":"yadā bhūta-pṛithag-bhāvam eka-stham anupaśhyati\ntata eva cha vistāraṁ brahma sampadyate tadā","en":"When someone sees the separate lives of beings as resting in the One, and spreading out from it, they become Brahman."},{"ref":"Gita 13.32","orig":"अनादित्वान्निर्गुणत्वात्परमात्मायमव्ययः।\nशरीरस्थोऽपि कौन्तेय न करोति न लिप्यते॥","tr":"anāditvān nirguṇatvāt paramātmāyam avyayaḥ\nśharīra-stho ’pi kaunteya na karoti na lipyate","en":"This supreme self has no beginning and is beyond the qualities, so it never decays. Though it dwells in the body, Arjuna, it does nothing and is stained by nothing."},{"ref":"Gita 13.33","orig":"यथा सर्वगतं सौक्ष्म्यादाकाशं नोपलिप्यते।\nसर्वत्रावस्थितो देहे तथाऽऽत्मा नोपलिप्यते॥","tr":"yathā sarva-gataṁ saukṣhmyād ākāśhaṁ nopalipyate\nsarvatrāvasthito dehe tathātmā nopalipyate","en":"Space is everywhere, yet because it is so subtle nothing stains it. In the same way the self, present all through the body, is never stained."},{"ref":"Gita 13.34","orig":"यथा प्रकाशयत्येकः कृत्स्नं लोकमिमं रविः।\nक्षेत्रं क्षेत्री तथा कृत्स्नं प्रकाशयति भारत॥","tr":"yathā prakāśhayaty ekaḥ kṛitsnaṁ lokam imaṁ raviḥ\nkṣhetraṁ kṣhetrī tathā kṛitsnaṁ prakāśhayati bhārata","en":"Just as one sun lights up this whole world, Arjuna, the lord of the field lights up the whole field."},{"ref":"Gita 13.35","orig":"क्षेत्रक्षेत्रज्ञयोरेवमन्तरं ज्ञानचक्षुषा।\nभूतप्रकृतिमोक्षं च ये विदुर्यान्ति ते परम्॥","tr":"kṣhetra-kṣhetrajñayor evam antaraṁ jñāna-chakṣhuṣhā\nbhūta-prakṛiti-mokṣhaṁ cha ye vidur yānti te param","en":"Those who see with the eye of knowledge the difference between the field and its knower, and how beings are freed from nature, reach the highest."}],"14":[{"ref":"Gita 14.1","orig":"श्री भगवानुवाच\nपरं भूयः प्रवक्ष्यामि ज्ञानानां ज्ञानमुत्तमम्।\nयज्ज्ञात्वा मुनयः सर्वे परां सिद्धिमितो गताः॥","tr":"śhrī-bhagavān uvācha\nparaṁ bhūyaḥ pravakṣhyāmi jñānānāṁ jñānam uttamam\nyaj jñātvā munayaḥ sarve parāṁ siddhim ito gatāḥ","en":"Krishna said: Again I will tell you the highest knowledge, the best of all knowledge. Knowing it, all the sages have gone from here to supreme perfection."},{"ref":"Gita 14.2","orig":"इदं ज्ञानमुपाश्रित्य मम साधर्म्यमागताः।\nसर्गेऽपि नोपजायन्ते प्रलये न व्यथन्ति च॥","tr":"idaṁ jñānam upāśhritya mama sādharmyam āgatāḥ\nsarge ’pi nopajāyante pralaye na vyathanti cha","en":"Those who take refuge in this knowledge come to share my nature. They are not born at the creation of the world, and they are not shaken at its end."},{"ref":"Gita 14.3","orig":"मम योनिर्महद्ब्रह्म तस्मिन् गर्भं दधाम्यहम्।\nसंभवः सर्वभूतानां ततो भवति भारत॥","tr":"mama yonir mahad brahma tasmin garbhaṁ dadhāmy aham\nsambhavaḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ tato bhavati bhārata","en":"Great nature is my womb, Arjuna, and in it I place the seed. From that, all beings are born."},{"ref":"Gita 14.4","orig":"सर्वयोनिषु कौन्तेय मूर्तयः सम्भवन्ति याः।\nतासां ब्रह्म महद्योनिरहं बीजप्रदः पिता॥","tr":"sarva-yoniṣhu kaunteya mūrtayaḥ sambhavanti yāḥ\ntāsāṁ brahma mahad yonir ahaṁ bīja-pradaḥ pitā","en":"Whatever forms are born in any womb, Arjuna, great nature is their womb and I am the father who gives the seed."},{"ref":"Gita 14.5","orig":"सत्त्वं रजस्तम इति गुणाः प्रकृतिसंभवाः।\nनिबध्नन्ति महाबाहो देहे देहिनमव्ययम्॥","tr":"sattvaṁ rajas tama iti guṇāḥ prakṛiti-sambhavāḥ\nnibadhnanti mahā-bāho dehe dehinam avyayam","en":"Goodness, passion and dullness: these qualities are born of nature. They bind the undying self to the body, Arjuna."},{"ref":"Gita 14.6","orig":"तत्र सत्त्वं निर्मलत्वात्प्रकाशकमनामयम्।\nसुखसङ्गेन बध्नाति ज्ञानसङ्गेन चानघ॥","tr":"tatra sattvaṁ nirmalatvāt prakāśhakam anāmayam\nsukha-saṅgena badhnāti jñāna-saṅgena chānagha","en":"Of these, goodness is pure, so it gives light and health. It binds you through attachment to happiness and attachment to knowledge."},{"ref":"Gita 14.7","orig":"रजो रागात्मकं विद्धि तृष्णासङ्गसमुद्भवम्।\nतन्निबध्नाति कौन्तेय कर्मसङ्गेन देहिनम्॥","tr":"rajo rāgātmakaṁ viddhi tṛiṣhṇā-saṅga-samudbhavam\ntan nibadhnāti kaunteya karma-saṅgena dehinam","en":"Know that passion is the nature of craving, born from thirst and attachment. It binds the self through attachment to action."},{"ref":"Gita 14.8","orig":"तमस्त्वज्ञानजं विद्धि मोहनं सर्वदेहिनाम्।\nप्रमादालस्यनिद्राभिस्तन्निबध्नाति भारत॥","tr":"tamas tv ajñāna-jaṁ viddhi mohanaṁ sarva-dehinām\npramādālasya-nidrābhis tan nibadhnāti bhārata","en":"Know that dullness is born of ignorance and confuses everyone who has a body. It binds through carelessness, laziness and sleep."},{"ref":"Gita 14.9","orig":"सत्त्वं सुखे सञ्जयति रजः कर्मणि भारत।\nज्ञानमावृत्य तु तमः प्रमादे सञ्जयत्युत॥","tr":"sattvaṁ sukhe sañjayati rajaḥ karmaṇi bhārata\njñānam āvṛitya tu tamaḥ pramāde sañjayaty uta","en":"Goodness ties you to happiness, passion to action, Arjuna. Dullness covers up knowledge and ties you to carelessness."},{"ref":"Gita 14.10","orig":"रजस्तमश्चाभिभूय सत्त्वं भवति भारत।\nरजः सत्त्वं तमश्चैव तमः सत्त्वं रजस्तथा॥","tr":"rajas tamaśh chābhibhūya sattvaṁ bhavati bhārata\nrajaḥ sattvaṁ tamaśh chaiva tamaḥ sattvaṁ rajas tathā","en":"Sometimes goodness rises and overpowers passion and dullness. Sometimes passion overpowers goodness and dullness, and sometimes dullness overpowers goodness and passion."},{"ref":"Gita 14.11","orig":"सर्वद्वारेषु देहेऽस्मिन्प्रकाश उपजायते।\nज्ञानं यदा तदा विद्याद्विवृद्धं सत्त्वमित्युत॥","tr":"sarva-dvāreṣhu dehe ’smin prakāśha upajāyate\njñānaṁ yadā tadā vidyād vivṛiddhaṁ sattvam ity uta","en":"When the light of knowledge shines through every gate of this body, you can tell that goodness has grown strong."},{"ref":"Gita 14.12","orig":"लोभः प्रवृत्तिरारम्भः कर्मणामशमः स्पृहा।\nरजस्येतानि जायन्ते विवृद्धे भरतर्षभ॥","tr":"lobhaḥ pravṛittir ārambhaḥ karmaṇām aśhamaḥ spṛihā\nrajasy etāni jāyante vivṛiddhe bharatarṣhabha","en":"Greed, restless activity, taking on new projects, unease and longing: these appear when passion grows strong, Arjuna."},{"ref":"Gita 14.13","orig":"अप्रकाशोऽप्रवृत्तिश्च प्रमादो मोह एव च।\nतमस्येतानि जायन्ते विवृद्धे कुरुनन्दन॥","tr":"aprakāśho ’pravṛittiśh cha pramādo moha eva cha\ntamasy etāni jāyante vivṛiddhe kuru-nandana","en":"Darkness, inertia, carelessness and confusion: these appear when dullness grows strong, Arjuna."},{"ref":"Gita 14.14","orig":"यदा सत्त्वे प्रवृद्धे तु प्रलयं याति देहभृत्।\nतदोत्तमविदां लोकानमलान्प्रतिपद्यते॥","tr":"yadā sattve pravṛiddhe tu pralayaṁ yāti deha-bhṛit\ntadottama-vidāṁ lokān amalān pratipadyate","en":"If someone dies when goodness is strong, they go to the pure worlds of those who know the highest."},{"ref":"Gita 14.15","orig":"रजसि प्रलयं गत्वा कर्मसङ्गिषु जायते।\nतथा प्रलीनस्तमसि मूढयोनिषु जायते॥","tr":"rajasi pralayaṁ gatvā karma-saṅgiṣhu jāyate\ntathā pralīnas tamasi mūḍha-yoniṣhu jāyate","en":"Dying in passion, a person is born among those attached to action. Dying in dullness, they are born into dull, unaware wombs."},{"ref":"Gita 14.16","orig":"कर्मणः सुकृतस्याहुः सात्त्विकं निर्मलं फलम्।\nरजसस्तु फलं दुःखमज्ञानं तमसः फलम्॥","tr":"karmaṇaḥ sukṛitasyāhuḥ sāttvikaṁ nirmalaṁ phalam\nrajasas tu phalaṁ duḥkham ajñānaṁ tamasaḥ phalam","en":"The fruit of good action is said to be pure and full of goodness. The fruit of passion is pain, and the fruit of dullness is ignorance."},{"ref":"Gita 14.17","orig":"सत्त्वात्सञ्जायते ज्ञानं रजसो लोभ एव च।\nप्रमादमोहौ तमसो भवतोऽज्ञानमेव च॥","tr":"sattvāt sañjāyate jñānaṁ rajaso lobha eva cha\npramāda-mohau tamaso bhavato ’jñānam eva cha","en":"From goodness comes knowledge, and from passion comes greed. From dullness come carelessness, confusion and ignorance."},{"ref":"Gita 14.18","orig":"ऊर्ध्वं गच्छन्ति सत्त्वस्था मध्ये तिष्ठन्ति राजसाः।\nजघन्यगुणवृत्तिस्था अधो गच्छन्ति तामसाः॥","tr":"ūrdhvaṁ gachchhanti sattva-sthā madhye tiṣhṭhanti rājasāḥ\njaghanya-guṇa-vṛitti-sthā adho gachchhanti tāmasāḥ","en":"Those rooted in goodness rise upward. Those in passion stay in the middle. Those in dullness, living by the lowest quality, sink down."},{"ref":"Gita 14.19","orig":"नान्यं गुणेभ्यः कर्तारं यदा द्रष्टानुपश्यति।\nगुणेभ्यश्च परं वेत्ति मद्भावं सोऽधिगच्छति॥","tr":"nānyaṁ guṇebhyaḥ kartāraṁ yadā draṣhṭānupaśhyati\nguṇebhyaśh cha paraṁ vetti mad-bhāvaṁ so ’dhigachchhati","en":"When the watcher sees that nothing but the qualities is doing the acting, and knows what is beyond them, that person comes to my state."},{"ref":"Gita 14.20","orig":"गुणानेतानतीत्य त्रीन्देही देहसमुद्भवान्।\nजन्ममृत्युजरादुःखैर्विमुक्तोऽमृतमश्नुते॥","tr":"guṇān etān atītya trīn dehī deha-samudbhavān\njanma-mṛityu-jarā-duḥkhair vimukto ’mṛitam aśhnute","en":"When the embodied self rises beyond these three qualities that make up the body, it is freed from birth, death, old age and pain, and tastes the deathless."},{"ref":"Gita 14.21","orig":"अर्जुन उवाच\nकैर्लिंगैस्त्रीन्गुणानेतानतीतो भवति प्रभो।\nकिमाचारः कथं चैतांस्त्रीन्गुणानतिवर्तते॥","tr":"arjuna uvācha\nkair liṅgais trīn guṇān etān atīto bhavati prabho\nkim āchāraḥ kathaṁ chaitāns trīn guṇān ativartate","en":"Arjuna said: Lord, what are the signs of someone who has gone beyond these three qualities? How do they live, and how do they rise above them?"},{"ref":"Gita 14.22","orig":"श्री भगवानुवाच\nप्रकाशं च प्रवृत्तिं च मोहमेव च पाण्डव।\nन द्वेष्टि सम्प्रवृत्तानि न निवृत्तानि काङ्क्षति॥","tr":"śhrī-bhagavān uvācha\nprakāśhaṁ cha pravṛittiṁ cha moham eva cha pāṇḍava\nna dveṣhṭi sampravṛittāni na nivṛittāni kāṅkṣhati","en":"Krishna said: Such a person does not resent light, activity or confusion when they come, Arjuna, and does not long for them when they go."},{"ref":"Gita 14.23","orig":"उदासीनवदासीनो गुणैर्यो न विचाल्यते।\nगुणा वर्तन्त इत्येव योऽवतिष्ठति नेङ्गते॥","tr":"udāsīna-vad āsīno guṇair yo na vichālyate\nguṇā vartanta ity evaṁ yo ’vatiṣhṭhati neṅgate","en":"They sit like someone watching from the side, not shaken by the qualities. They know it is only the qualities at work, so they stay steady and do not waver."},{"ref":"Gita 14.24","orig":"समदुःखसुखः स्वस्थः समलोष्टाश्मकाञ्चनः।\nतुल्यप्रियाप्रियो धीरस्तुल्यनिन्दात्मसंस्तुतिः॥","tr":"sama-duḥkha-sukhaḥ sva-sthaḥ sama-loṣhṭāśhma-kāñchanaḥ\ntulya-priyāpriyo dhīras tulya-nindātma-sanstutiḥ","en":"They are the same in pain and pleasure and at home in themselves. A lump of earth, a stone and gold are equal to them. They are steady, the same toward the pleasant and the unpleasant, toward blame and praise."},{"ref":"Gita 14.25","orig":"मानापमानयोस्तुल्यस्तुल्यो मित्रारिपक्षयोः।\nसर्वारम्भपरित्यागी गुणातीतः स उच्यते॥","tr":"mānāpamānayos tulyas tulyo mitrāri-pakṣhayoḥ\nsarvārambha-parityāgī guṇātītaḥ sa uchyate","en":"The same in honour and dishonour, the same to friend and enemy, they have given up chasing new ventures for themselves. Such a person is said to have gone beyond the qualities."},{"ref":"Gita 14.26","orig":"मां च योऽव्यभिचारेण भक्तियोगेन सेवते।\nस गुणान्समतीत्यैतान् ब्रह्मभूयाय कल्पते॥","tr":"māṁ cha yo ’vyabhichāreṇa bhakti-yogena sevate\nsa guṇān samatītyaitān brahma-bhūyāya kalpate","en":"Whoever serves me with devotion that never strays goes beyond these qualities and is ready to become Brahman."},{"ref":"Gita 14.27","orig":"ब्रह्मणो हि प्रतिष्ठाऽहममृतस्याव्ययस्य च।\nशाश्वतस्य च धर्मस्य सुखस्यैकान्तिकस्य च॥","tr":"brahmaṇo hi pratiṣhṭhāham amṛitasyāvyayasya cha\nśhāśhvatasya cha dharmasya sukhasyaikāntikasya cha","en":"For I am the ground of Brahman, of the deathless that never decays, of the eternal law and of perfect happiness."}],"15":[{"ref":"Gita 15.1","orig":"श्री भगवानुवाच\nऊर्ध्वमूलमधःशाखमश्वत्थं प्राहुरव्ययम्।\nछन्दांसि यस्य पर्णानि यस्तं वेद स वेदवित्॥","tr":"śhrī-bhagavān uvācha\nūrdhva-mūlam adhaḥ-śhākham aśhvatthaṁ prāhur avyayam\nchhandānsi yasya parṇāni yas taṁ veda sa veda-vit","en":"Krishna said: They speak of an undying fig tree with its roots above and its branches below. Its leaves are the Vedic hymns. Whoever knows this tree knows the Vedas."},{"ref":"Gita 15.2","orig":"अधश्चोर्ध्वं प्रसृतास्तस्य शाखा\nगुणप्रवृद्धा विषयप्रवालाः।\nअधश्च मूलान्यनुसन्ततानि\nकर्मानुबन्धीनि मनुष्यलोके॥","tr":"adhaśh chordhvaṁ prasṛitās tasya śhākhā\nguṇa-pravṛiddhā viṣhaya-pravālāḥ\nadhaśh cha mūlāny anusantatāni\nkarmānubandhīni manuṣhya-loke","en":"Its branches spread below and above, fed by the qualities, with the objects of the senses as their buds. Below, its roots stretch down, binding people to action in the human world."},{"ref":"Gita 15.3","orig":"न रूपमस्येह तथोपलभ्यते\nनान्तो न चादिर्न च संप्रतिष्ठा।\nअश्वत्थमेनं सुविरूढमूल\nमसङ्गशस्त्रेण दृढेन छित्त्वा॥","tr":"na rūpam asyeha tathopalabhyate\nnānto na chādir na cha sampratiṣhṭhā\naśhvattham enaṁ su-virūḍha-mūlam\nasaṅga-śhastreṇa dṛiḍhena chhittvā","en":"Its real form cannot be seen here, nor its end, its beginning or what it stands on. Cut down this deep-rooted tree with the strong axe of detachment."},{"ref":"Gita 15.4","orig":"ततः पदं तत्परिमार्गितव्यं\nयस्मिन्गता न निवर्तन्ति भूयः।\nतमेव चाद्यं पुरुषं प्रपद्ये\nयतः प्रवृत्तिः प्रसृता पुराणी॥","tr":"tataḥ padaṁ tat parimārgitavyaṁ\nyasmin gatā na nivartanti bhūyaḥ\ntam eva chādyaṁ puruṣhaṁ prapadye\nyataḥ pravṛittiḥ prasṛitā purāṇī","en":"Then seek out the place from which those who reach it never come back. Say: I take refuge in that first Person, from whom this ancient flow of life streamed out."},{"ref":"Gita 15.5","orig":"निर्मानमोहा जितसङ्गदोषा\nअध्यात्मनित्या विनिवृत्तकामाः।\nद्वन्द्वैर्विमुक्ताः सुखदुःखसंज्ञै\nर्गच्छन्त्यमूढाः पदमव्ययं तत्॥","tr":"nirmāna-mohā jita-saṅga-doṣhā\nadhyātma-nityā vinivṛitta-kāmāḥ\ndvandvair vimuktāḥ sukha-duḥkha-sanjñair\ngachchhanty amūḍhāḥ padam avyayaṁ tat","en":"Free of pride and confusion, having beaten the fault of attachment, always turned to the self, with desires gone quiet, released from the pairs called pleasure and pain, the clear-sighted reach that undying place."},{"ref":"Gita 15.6","orig":"न तद्भासयते सूर्यो न शशाङ्को न पावकः।\nयद्गत्वा न निवर्तन्ते तद्धाम परमं मम॥","tr":"na tad bhāsayate sūryo na śhaśhāṅko na pāvakaḥ\nyad gatvā na nivartante tad dhāma paramaṁ mama","en":"The sun does not light it, nor the moon, nor fire. Those who go there do not return. That is my supreme home."},{"ref":"Gita 15.7","orig":"ममैवांशो जीवलोके जीवभूतः सनातनः।\nमनःषष्ठानीन्द्रियाणि प्रकृतिस्थानि कर्षति॥","tr":"mamaivānśho jīva-loke jīva-bhūtaḥ sanātanaḥ\nmanaḥ-ṣhaṣhṭhānīndriyāṇi prakṛiti-sthāni karṣhati","en":"A part of me, eternal, has become the living soul in the world of the living. It draws to itself the five senses and the mind, which rest in nature."},{"ref":"Gita 15.8","orig":"शरीरं यदवाप्नोति यच्चाप्युत्क्रामतीश्वरः।\nगृहीत्वैतानि संयाति वायुर्गन्धानिवाशयात्॥","tr":"śharīraṁ yad avāpnoti yach chāpy utkrāmatīśhvaraḥ\ngṛihītvaitāni sanyāti vāyur gandhān ivāśhayāt","en":"When the soul, the lord of the body, takes a body and when it leaves one, it carries these along, the way the wind carries scents from their source."},{"ref":"Gita 15.9","orig":"श्रोत्रं चक्षुः स्पर्शनं च रसनं घ्राणमेव च।\nअधिष्ठाय मनश्चायं विषयानुपसेवते॥","tr":"śhrotraṁ chakṣhuḥ sparśhanaṁ cha rasanaṁ ghrāṇam eva cha\nadhiṣhṭhāya manaśh chāyaṁ viṣhayān upasevate","en":"Presiding over hearing, sight, touch, taste and smell, and over the mind, it enjoys the objects of the senses."},{"ref":"Gita 15.10","orig":"उत्क्रामन्तं स्थितं वापि भुञ्जानं वा गुणान्वितम्।\nविमूढा नानुपश्यन्ति पश्यन्ति ज्ञानचक्षुषः॥","tr":"utkrāmantaṁ sthitaṁ vāpi bhuñjānaṁ vā guṇānvitam\nvimūḍhā nānupaśhyanti paśhyanti jñāna-chakṣhuṣhaḥ","en":"The deluded do not see it leaving, staying or enjoying while bound up with the qualities. Those with the eye of knowledge see it."},{"ref":"Gita 15.11","orig":"यतन्तो योगिनश्चैनं पश्यन्त्यात्मन्यवस्थितम्।\nयतन्तोऽप्यकृतात्मानो नैनं पश्यन्त्यचेतसः॥","tr":"yatanto yoginaśh chainaṁ paśhyanty ātmany avasthitam\nyatanto ‘py akṛitātmāno nainaṁ paśhyanty achetasaḥ","en":"Yogis who make the effort see it dwelling within themselves. But those who have not shaped themselves, careless in mind, do not see it even when they try."},{"ref":"Gita 15.12","orig":"यदादित्यगतं तेजो जगद्भासयतेऽखिलम्।\nयच्चन्द्रमसि यच्चाग्नौ तत्तेजो विद्धि मामकम्॥","tr":"yad āditya-gataṁ tejo jagad bhāsayate ’khilam\nyach chandramasi yach chāgnau tat tejo viddhi māmakam","en":"The brilliance in the sun that lights the whole world, the brilliance in the moon and in fire: know that it is mine."},{"ref":"Gita 15.13","orig":"गामाविश्य च भूतानि धारयाम्यहमोजसा।\nपुष्णामि चौषधीः सर्वाः सोमो भूत्वा रसात्मकः॥","tr":"gām āviśhya cha bhūtāni dhārayāmy aham ojasā\npuṣhṇāmi chauṣhadhīḥ sarvāḥ somo bhūtvā rasātmakaḥ","en":"Entering the earth, I hold up all beings with my strength. Becoming the moon, full of sap, I nourish every plant."},{"ref":"Gita 15.14","orig":"अहं वैश्वानरो भूत्वा प्राणिनां देहमाश्रितः।\nप्राणापानसमायुक्तः पचाम्यन्नं चतुर्विधम्॥","tr":"ahaṁ vaiśhvānaro bhūtvā prāṇināṁ deham āśhritaḥ\nprāṇāpāna-samāyuktaḥ pachāmy annaṁ chatur-vidham","en":"Becoming the fire of digestion, I live in the bodies of breathing creatures. Joined with the in-breath and out-breath, I digest the four kinds of food."},{"ref":"Gita 15.15","orig":"सर्वस्य चाहं हृदि सन्निविष्टो\nमत्तः स्मृतिर्ज्ञानमपोहनं च।\nवेदैश्च सर्वैरहमेव वेद्यो\nवेदान्तकृद्वेदविदेव चाहम्॥","tr":"sarvasya chāhaṁ hṛidi sanniviṣhṭo\nmattaḥ smṛitir jñānam apohanaṁ cha\nvedaiśh cha sarvair aham eva vedyo\nvedānta-kṛid veda-vid eva chāham","en":"I am seated in the heart of everyone. From me come memory, knowledge and their loss. I am what all the Vedas seek to know. I made the Vedanta, and I am the one who knows the Vedas."},{"ref":"Gita 15.16","orig":"द्वाविमौ पुरुषौ लोके क्षरश्चाक्षर एव च।\nक्षरः सर्वाणि भूतानि कूटस्थोऽक्षर उच्यते॥","tr":"dvāv imau puruṣhau loke kṣharaśh chākṣhara eva cha\nkṣharaḥ sarvāṇi bhūtāni kūṭa-stho ’kṣhara uchyate","en":"There are two kinds of being in this world, the perishable and the imperishable. All creatures are perishable. The unchanging one is called imperishable."},{"ref":"Gita 15.17","orig":"उत्तमः पुरुषस्त्वन्यः परमात्मेत्युदाहृतः।\nयो लोकत्रयमाविश्य बिभर्त्यव्यय ईश्वरः॥","tr":"uttamaḥ puruṣhas tv anyaḥ paramātmety udāhṛitaḥ\nyo loka-trayam āviśhya bibharty avyaya īśhvaraḥ","en":"But there is another, the highest Person, called the supreme self. As the undying Lord, he enters the three worlds and holds them up."},{"ref":"Gita 15.18","orig":"यस्मात्क्षरमतीतोऽहमक्षरादपि चोत्तमः।\nअतोऽस्मि लोके वेदे च प्रथितः पुरुषोत्तमः॥","tr":"yasmāt kṣharam atīto ’ham akṣharād api chottamaḥ\nato ’smi loke vede cha prathitaḥ puruṣhottamaḥ","en":"Because I am beyond the perishable and higher even than the imperishable, I am known in the world and in the Vedas as the Supreme Person."},{"ref":"Gita 15.19","orig":"यो मामेवमसम्मूढो जानाति पुरुषोत्तमम्।\nस सर्वविद्भजति मां सर्वभावेन भारत॥","tr":"yo mām evam asammūḍho jānāti puruṣhottamam\nsa sarva-vid bhajati māṁ sarva-bhāvena bhārata","en":"Whoever, free of confusion, knows me as the Supreme Person knows everything, Arjuna, and worships me with their whole being."},{"ref":"Gita 15.20","orig":"इति गुह्यतमं शास्त्रमिदमुक्तं मयाऽनघ।\nएतद्बुद्ध्वा बुद्धिमान्स्यात्कृतकृत्यश्च भारत॥","tr":"iti guhyatamaṁ śhāstram idam uktaṁ mayānagha\netad buddhvā buddhimān syāt kṛita-kṛityaśh cha bhārata","en":"So I have taught you this most secret teaching, sinless Arjuna. Whoever understands it becomes truly wise and has done all there is to do."}],"16":[{"ref":"Gita 16.1","orig":"श्री भगवानुवाच\nअभयं सत्त्वसंशुद्धिः ज्ञानयोगव्यवस्थितिः।\nदानं दमश्च यज्ञश्च स्वाध्यायस्तप आर्जवम्॥","tr":"śhrī-bhagavān uvācha\nabhayaṁ sattva-sanśhuddhir jñāna-yoga-vyavasthitiḥ\ndānaṁ damaśh cha yajñaśh cha svādhyāyas tapa ārjavam","en":"Krishna said: Fearlessness, a pure heart, steadiness in the path of knowledge, generosity, self-control, sacrifice, study of scripture, discipline and honesty."},{"ref":"Gita 16.2","orig":"अहिंसा सत्यमक्रोधस्त्यागः शान्तिरपैशुनम्।\nदया भूतेष्वलोलुप्त्वं मार्दवं ह्रीरचापलम्॥","tr":"ahinsā satyam akrodhas tyāgaḥ śhāntir apaiśhunam\ndayā bhūteṣhv aloluptvaṁ mārdavaṁ hrīr achāpalam","en":"Not harming, truthfulness, freedom from anger, letting go, calm, not speaking ill of others, kindness to all beings, not being greedy, gentleness, modesty and not being fickle."},{"ref":"Gita 16.3","orig":"तेजः क्षमा धृतिः शौचमद्रोहो नातिमानिता।\nभवन्ति सम्पदं दैवीमभिजातस्य भारत॥","tr":"tejaḥ kṣhamā dhṛitiḥ śhaucham adroho nāti-mānitā\nbhavanti sampadaṁ daivīm abhijātasya bhārata","en":"Vigour, forgiveness, endurance, cleanness, no malice and no excess pride: these are the gifts of someone born with the divine nature, Arjuna."},{"ref":"Gita 16.4","orig":"दम्भो दर्पोऽभिमानश्च क्रोधः पारुष्यमेव च।\nअज्ञानं चाभिजातस्य पार्थ सम्पदमासुरीम्॥","tr":"dambho darpo ’bhimānaśh cha krodhaḥ pāruṣhyam eva cha\najñānaṁ chābhijātasya pārtha sampadam āsurīm","en":"Hypocrisy, arrogance, conceit, anger, harshness and ignorance: these belong to someone born with the demonic nature, Arjuna."},{"ref":"Gita 16.5","orig":"दैवी सम्पद्विमोक्षाय निबन्धायासुरी मता।\nमा शुचः सम्पदं दैवीमभिजातोऽसि पाण्डव॥","tr":"daivī sampad vimokṣhāya nibandhāyāsurī matā\nmā śhuchaḥ sampadaṁ daivīm abhijāto ’si pāṇḍava","en":"The divine nature leads to freedom, and the demonic nature to bondage. Don't worry, Arjuna. You were born with the divine nature."},{"ref":"Gita 16.6","orig":"द्वौ भूतसर्गौ लोकेऽस्मिन् दैव आसुर एव च।\nदैवो विस्तरशः प्रोक्त आसुरं पार्थ मे श्रृणु॥","tr":"dvau bhūta-sargau loke ’smin daiva āsura eva cha\ndaivo vistaraśhaḥ prokta āsuraṁ pārtha me śhṛiṇu","en":"There are two kinds of beings created in this world, the divine and the demonic. I have described the divine at length. Now hear about the demonic from me, Arjuna."},{"ref":"Gita 16.7","orig":"प्रवृत्तिं च निवृत्तिं च जना न विदुरासुराः।\nन शौचं नापि चाचारो न सत्यं तेषु विद्यते॥","tr":"pravṛittiṁ cha nivṛittiṁ cha janā na vidur āsurāḥ\nna śhauchaṁ nāpi chāchāro na satyaṁ teṣhu vidyate","en":"People of demonic nature do not know when to act and when to hold back. There is no cleanness in them, no good conduct and no truth."},{"ref":"Gita 16.8","orig":"असत्यमप्रतिष्ठं ते जगदाहुरनीश्वरम्।\nअपरस्परसम्भूतं किमन्यत्कामहैतुकम्॥","tr":"asatyam apratiṣhṭhaṁ te jagad āhur anīśhvaram\naparaspara-sambhūtaṁ kim anyat kāma-haitukam","en":"They say the world is unreal, with no foundation and no God. They say it came about by chance, with nothing behind it but desire."},{"ref":"Gita 16.9","orig":"एतां दृष्टिमवष्टभ्य नष्टात्मानोऽल्पबुद्धयः।\nप्रभवन्त्युग्रकर्माणः क्षयाय जगतोऽहिताः॥","tr":"etāṁ dṛiṣhṭim avaṣhṭabhya naṣhṭātmāno ’lpa-buddhayaḥ\nprabhavanty ugra-karmāṇaḥ kṣhayāya jagato ’hitāḥ","en":"Holding to this view, these lost souls of little understanding do cruel deeds. They rise up as enemies of the world, bent on its destruction."},{"ref":"Gita 16.10","orig":"काममाश्रित्य दुष्पूरं दम्भमानमदान्विताः।\nमोहाद्गृहीत्वासद्ग्राहान्प्रवर्तन्तेऽशुचिव्रताः॥","tr":"kāmam āśhritya duṣhpūraṁ dambha-māna-madānvitāḥ\nmohād gṛihītvāsad-grāhān pravartante ’śhuchi-vratāḥ","en":"Giving themselves to desire that can never be filled, full of hypocrisy, pride and arrogance, they grab hold of false ideas out of delusion and live by impure vows."},{"ref":"Gita 16.11","orig":"चिन्तामपरिमेयां च प्रलयान्तामुपाश्रिताः।\nकामोपभोगपरमा एतावदिति निश्चिताः॥","tr":"chintām aparimeyāṁ cha pralayāntām upāśhritāḥ\nkāmopabhoga-paramā etāvad iti niśhchitāḥ","en":"They are caught up in endless worries that last until death. For them, satisfying desire is the highest aim, and they are sure that this is all there is."},{"ref":"Gita 16.12","orig":"आशापाशशतैर्बद्धाः कामक्रोधपरायणाः।\nईहन्ते कामभोगार्थमन्यायेनार्थसञ्चयान्॥","tr":"āśhā-pāśha-śhatair baddhāḥ kāma-krodha-parāyaṇāḥ\nīhante kāma-bhogārtham anyāyenārtha-sañchayān","en":"Bound by hundreds of ropes of hope, given over to lust and anger, they try to pile up wealth by wrong means to feed their appetites."},{"ref":"Gita 16.13","orig":"इदमद्य मया लब्धमिमं प्राप्स्ये मनोरथम्।\nइदमस्तीदमपि मे भविष्यति पुनर्धनम्॥","tr":"idam adya mayā labdham imaṁ prāpsye manoratham\nidam astīdam api me bhaviṣhyati punar dhanam","en":"\"I got this today. I will get that wish next. This is mine already, and that wealth will be mine too.\""},{"ref":"Gita 16.14","orig":"असौ मया हतः शत्रुर्हनिष्ये चापरानपि।\nईश्वरोऽहमहं भोगी सिद्धोऽहं बलवान्सुखी॥","tr":"asau mayā hataḥ śhatrur haniṣhye chāparān api\nīśhvaro ’ham ahaṁ bhogī siddho ’haṁ balavān sukhī","en":"\"I have killed that enemy, and I will kill the others too. I am the master, I enjoy life. I am successful, strong and happy.\""},{"ref":"Gita 16.15","orig":"आढ्योऽभिजनवानस्मि कोऽन्योऽस्ति सदृशो मया।\nयक्ष्ये दास्यामि मोदिष्य इत्यज्ञानविमोहिताः॥","tr":"āḍhyo ’bhijanavān asmi ko ’nyo ’sti sadṛiśho mayā\nyakṣhye dāsyāmi modiṣhya ity ajñāna-vimohitāḥ","en":"\"I am rich and well born. Who else is like me? I will make offerings, I will give gifts, I will celebrate.\" So they talk, fooled by ignorance."},{"ref":"Gita 16.16","orig":"अनेकचित्तविभ्रान्ता मोहजालसमावृताः।\nप्रसक्ताः कामभोगेषु पतन्ति नरकेऽशुचौ॥","tr":"aneka-chitta-vibhrāntā moha-jāla-samāvṛitāḥ\nprasaktāḥ kāma-bhogeṣhu patanti narake ’śhuchau","en":"Pulled this way and that by countless thoughts, caught in a net of delusion, addicted to pleasures, they fall into a foul hell."},{"ref":"Gita 16.17","orig":"आत्मसम्भाविताः स्तब्धा धनमानमदान्विताः।\nयजन्ते नामयज्ञैस्ते दम्भेनाविधिपूर्वकम्॥","tr":"ātma-sambhāvitāḥ stabdhā dhana-māna-madānvitāḥ\nyajante nāma-yajñais te dambhenāvidhi-pūrvakam","en":"Full of self-importance and stubborn, drunk on wealth and status, they perform sacrifices in name only, for show, ignoring the proper rules."},{"ref":"Gita 16.18","orig":"अहङ्कारं बलं दर्पं कामं क्रोधं च संश्रिताः।\nमामात्मपरदेहेषु प्रद्विषन्तोऽभ्यसूयकाः॥","tr":"ahankāraṁ balaṁ darpaṁ kāmaṁ krodhaṁ cha sanśhritāḥ\nmām ātma-para-deheṣhu pradviṣhanto ’bhyasūyakāḥ","en":"Clinging to ego, force, arrogance, lust and anger, these spiteful people hate me, present in their own bodies and in the bodies of others."},{"ref":"Gita 16.19","orig":"तानहं द्विषतः क्रूरान्संसारेषु नराधमान्।\nक्षिपाम्यजस्रमशुभानासुरीष्वेव योनिषु॥","tr":"tān ahaṁ dviṣhataḥ krūrān sansāreṣhu narādhamān\nkṣhipāmy ajasram aśhubhān āsurīṣhv eva yoniṣhu","en":"These cruel, hateful people, the lowest of humankind, I throw again and again into demonic births in the cycle of worlds."},{"ref":"Gita 16.20","orig":"असुरीं योनिमापन्ना मूढा जन्मनि जन्मनि।\nमामप्राप्यैव कौन्तेय ततो यान्त्यधमां गतिम्॥","tr":"āsurīṁ yonim āpannā mūḍhā janmani janmani\nmām aprāpyaiva kaunteya tato yānty adhamāṁ gatim","en":"Falling into demonic births, deluded life after life, they never reach me, Arjuna. They sink to the lowest state."},{"ref":"Gita 16.21","orig":"त्रिविधं नरकस्येदं द्वारं नाशनमात्मनः।\nकामः क्रोधस्तथा लोभस्तस्मादेतत्त्रयं त्यजेत्॥","tr":"tri-vidhaṁ narakasyedaṁ dvāraṁ nāśhanam ātmanaḥ\nkāmaḥ krodhas tathā lobhas tasmād etat trayaṁ tyajet","en":"There are three gates to this hell, and they destroy the self: lust, anger and greed. So let go of all three."},{"ref":"Gita 16.22","orig":"एतैर्विमुक्तः कौन्तेय तमोद्वारैस्त्रिभिर्नरः।\nआचरत्यात्मनः श्रेयस्ततो याति परां गतिम्॥","tr":"etair vimuktaḥ kaunteya tamo-dvārais tribhir naraḥ\nācharaty ātmanaḥ śhreyas tato yāti parāṁ gatim","en":"Someone freed from these three gates of darkness, Arjuna, does what is truly good for the self and then reaches the highest goal."},{"ref":"Gita 16.23","orig":"यः शास्त्रविधिमुत्सृज्य वर्तते कामकारतः।\nन स सिद्धिमवाप्नोति न सुखं न परां गतिम्॥","tr":"yaḥ śhāstra-vidhim utsṛijya vartate kāma-kārataḥ\nna sa siddhim avāpnoti na sukhaṁ na parāṁ gatim","en":"Whoever throws aside the guidance of scripture and does whatever desire dictates does not reach perfection, or happiness, or the highest goal."},{"ref":"Gita 16.24","orig":"तस्माच्छास्त्रं प्रमाणं ते कार्याकार्यव्यवस्थितौ।\nज्ञात्वा शास्त्रविधानोक्तं कर्म कर्तुमिहार्हसि॥","tr":"tasmāch chhāstraṁ pramāṇaṁ te kāryākārya-vyavasthitau\njñātvā śhāstra-vidhānoktaṁ karma kartum ihārhasi","en":"So let scripture be your guide in deciding what to do and what not to do. Know what its guidance says, and do your work in this world."}],"17":[{"ref":"Gita 17.1","orig":"अर्जुन उवाच\nये शास्त्रविधिमुत्सृज्य यजन्ते श्रद्धयाऽन्विताः।\nतेषां निष्ठा तु का कृष्ण सत्त्वमाहो रजस्तमः॥","tr":"arjuna uvācha\nye śhāstra-vidhim utsṛijya yajante śhraddhayānvitāḥ\nteṣhāṁ niṣhṭhā tu kā kṛiṣhṇa sattvam āho rajas tamaḥ","en":"Arjuna said: Krishna, what about people who set aside the rules of scripture but still worship with faith? Where do they stand: in goodness, passion or dullness?"},{"ref":"Gita 17.2","orig":"श्री भगवानुवाच\nत्रिविधा भवति श्रद्धा देहिनां सा स्वभावजा।\nसात्त्विकी राजसी चैव तामसी चेति तां श्रृणु॥","tr":"śhrī-bhagavān uvācha\ntri-vidhā bhavati śhraddhā dehināṁ sā svabhāva-jā\nsāttvikī rājasī chaiva tāmasī cheti tāṁ śhṛiṇu","en":"Krishna said: The faith of embodied beings is of three kinds, born from their own nature: good, passionate and dull. Hear about them."},{"ref":"Gita 17.3","orig":"सत्त्वानुरूपा सर्वस्य श्रद्धा भवति भारत।\nश्रद्धामयोऽयं पुरुषो यो यच्छ्रद्धः स एव सः॥","tr":"sattvānurūpā sarvasya śhraddhā bhavati bhārata\nśhraddhā-mayo ‘yaṁ puruṣho yo yach-chhraddhaḥ sa eva saḥ","en":"Everyone's faith takes the shape of their inner nature, Arjuna. A person is made of their faith. Whatever someone puts their faith in, that is what they are."},{"ref":"Gita 17.4","orig":"यजन्ते सात्त्विका देवान्यक्षरक्षांसि राजसाः।\nप्रेतान्भूतगणांश्चान्ये यजन्ते तामसा जनाः॥","tr":"yajante sāttvikā devān yakṣha-rakṣhānsi rājasāḥ\npretān bhūta-gaṇānśh chānye yajante tāmasā janāḥ","en":"People of goodness worship the gods. People of passion worship spirits of power and wealth. People of dullness worship ghosts and hosts of spirits."},{"ref":"Gita 17.5","orig":"अशास्त्रविहितं घोरं तप्यन्ते ये तपो जनाः।\nदम्भाहङ्कारसंयुक्ताः कामरागबलान्विताः॥","tr":"aśhāstra-vihitaṁ ghoraṁ tapyante ye tapo janāḥ\ndambhāhankāra-sanyuktāḥ kāma-rāga-balānvitāḥ","en":"Some people put themselves through harsh austerities that scripture never asked for. They are driven by hypocrisy and ego, and by the force of lust and attachment."},{"ref":"Gita 17.6","orig":"कर्षयन्तः शरीरस्थं भूतग्राममचेतसः।\nमां चैवान्तःशरीरस्थं तान्विद्ध्यासुरनिश्चयान्॥","tr":"karṣhayantaḥ śharīra-sthaṁ bhūta-grāmam achetasaḥ\nmāṁ chaivāntaḥ śharīra-sthaṁ tān viddhy āsura-niśhchayān","en":"Foolishly, they torment the elements that make up the body, and me as well, who dwells within the body. Know that their resolve is demonic."},{"ref":"Gita 17.7","orig":"आहारस्त्वपि सर्वस्य त्रिविधो भवति प्रियः।\nयज्ञस्तपस्तथा दानं तेषां भेदमिमं श्रृणु॥","tr":"āhāras tv api sarvasya tri-vidho bhavati priyaḥ\nyajñas tapas tathā dānaṁ teṣhāṁ bhedam imaṁ śhṛiṇu","en":"Even the food that people like is of three kinds. So are their sacrifice, discipline and giving. Hear how they differ."},{"ref":"Gita 17.8","orig":"आयुःसत्त्वबलारोग्यसुखप्रीतिविवर्धनाः।\nरस्याः स्निग्धाः स्थिरा हृद्या आहाराः सात्त्विकप्रियाः॥","tr":"āyuḥ-sattva-balārogya-sukha-prīti-vivardhanāḥ\nrasyāḥ snigdhāḥ sthirā hṛidyā āhārāḥ sāttvika-priyāḥ","en":"People of goodness like food that adds to life, clarity, strength, health, happiness and contentment. It is tasty, rich, nourishing and pleasing to the heart."},{"ref":"Gita 17.9","orig":"कट्वम्ललवणात्युष्णतीक्ष्णरूक्षविदाहिनः।\nआहारा राजसस्येष्टा दुःखशोकामयप्रदाः॥","tr":"kaṭv-amla-lavaṇāty-uṣhṇa- tīkṣhṇa-rūkṣha-vidāhinaḥ\nāhārā rājasasyeṣhṭā duḥkha-śhokāmaya-pradāḥ","en":"People of passion like food that is bitter, sour, salty, very hot, sharp, dry and burning. It brings pain, sorrow and sickness."},{"ref":"Gita 17.10","orig":"यातयामं गतरसं पूति पर्युषितं च यत्।\nउच्छिष्टमपि चामेध्यं भोजनं तामसप्रियम्॥","tr":"yāta-yāmaṁ gata-rasaṁ pūti paryuṣhitaṁ cha yat\nuchchhiṣhṭam api chāmedhyaṁ bhojanaṁ tāmasa-priyam","en":"People of dullness like food that is stale, tasteless, rotten and left over from the day before, food that is spoiled or unclean."},{"ref":"Gita 17.11","orig":"अफलाकाङ्क्षिभिर्यज्ञो विधिदृष्टो य इज्यते।\nयष्टव्यमेवेति मनः समाधाय स सात्त्विकः॥","tr":"aphalākāṅkṣhibhir yajño vidhi-driṣhṭo ya ijyate\nyaṣhṭavyam eveti manaḥ samādhāya sa sāttvikaḥ","en":"Sacrifice is of goodness when it is offered as scripture directs, by people who want nothing back, with the mind settled on the thought: this is simply what should be done."},{"ref":"Gita 17.12","orig":"अभिसंधाय तु फलं दम्भार्थमपि चैव यत्।\nइज्यते भरतश्रेष्ठ तं यज्ञं विद्धि राजसम्॥","tr":"abhisandhāya tu phalaṁ dambhārtham api chaiva yat\nijyate bharata-śhreṣhṭha taṁ yajñaṁ viddhi rājasam","en":"But a sacrifice offered with an eye on the reward, or just for show, Arjuna, is of passion."},{"ref":"Gita 17.13","orig":"विधिहीनमसृष्टान्नं मन्त्रहीनमदक्षिणम्।\nश्रद्धाविरहितं यज्ञं तामसं परिचक्षते॥","tr":"vidhi-hīnam asṛiṣhṭānnaṁ mantra-hīnam adakṣhiṇam\nśhraddhā-virahitaṁ yajñaṁ tāmasaṁ parichakṣhate","en":"A sacrifice that ignores the rules, shares no food, has no sacred words, gives no gift to the priests and has no faith is called one of dullness."},{"ref":"Gita 17.14","orig":"देवद्विजगुरुप्राज्ञपूजनं शौचमार्जवम्।\nब्रह्मचर्यमहिंसा च शारीरं तप उच्यते॥","tr":"deva-dwija-guru-prājña- pūjanaṁ śhaucham ārjavam\nbrahmacharyam ahinsā cha śhārīraṁ tapa uchyate","en":"Honouring the gods, the twice-born, teachers and the wise, along with cleanness, honesty, self-restraint and not harming: this is called discipline of the body."},{"ref":"Gita 17.15","orig":"अनुद्वेगकरं वाक्यं सत्यं प्रियहितं च यत्।\nस्वाध्यायाभ्यसनं चैव वाङ्मयं तप उच्यते॥","tr":"anudvega-karaṁ vākyaṁ satyaṁ priya-hitaṁ cha yat\nsvādhyāyābhyasanaṁ chaiva vāṅ-mayaṁ tapa uchyate","en":"Words that cause no distress, that are true, kind and helpful, and the regular recitation of scripture: this is called discipline of speech."},{"ref":"Gita 17.16","orig":"मनःप्रसादः सौम्यत्वं मौनमात्मविनिग्रहः।\nभावसंशुद्धिरित्येतत्तपो मानसमुच्यते॥","tr":"manaḥ-prasādaḥ saumyatvaṁ maunam ātma-vinigrahaḥ\nbhāva-sanśhuddhir ity etat tapo mānasam uchyate","en":"A calm mind, gentleness, silence, self-control and a pure heart: this is called discipline of the mind."},{"ref":"Gita 17.17","orig":"श्रद्धया परया तप्तं तपस्तत्ति्रविधं नरैः।\nअफलाकाङ्क्षिभिर्युक्तैः सात्त्विकं परिचक्षते॥","tr":"śhraddhayā parayā taptaṁ tapas tat tri-vidhaṁ naraiḥ\naphalākāṅkṣhibhir yuktaiḥ sāttvikaṁ parichakṣhate","en":"When people practise this threefold discipline with deep faith, steady and wanting nothing in return, it is called discipline of goodness."},{"ref":"Gita 17.18","orig":"सत्कारमानपूजार्थं तपो दम्भेन चैव यत्।\nक्रियते तदिह प्रोक्तं राजसं चलमध्रुवम्॥","tr":"satkāra-māna-pūjārthaṁ tapo dambhena chaiva yat\nkriyate tad iha proktaṁ rājasaṁ chalam adhruvam","en":"Discipline done for respect, honour and praise, or for show, is called passionate. It is unsteady and does not last."},{"ref":"Gita 17.19","orig":"मूढग्राहेणात्मनो यत्पीडया क्रियते तपः।\nपरस्योत्सादनार्थं वा तत्तामसमुदाहृतम्॥","tr":"mūḍha-grāheṇātmano yat pīḍayā kriyate tapaḥ\nparasyotsādanārthaṁ vā tat tāmasam udāhṛitam","en":"Discipline done out of foolish stubbornness, by tormenting oneself or to bring harm to someone else, is called discipline of dullness."},{"ref":"Gita 17.20","orig":"दातव्यमिति यद्दानं दीयतेऽनुपकारिणे।\nदेशे काले च पात्रे च तद्दानं सात्त्विकं स्मृतम्॥","tr":"dātavyam iti yad dānaṁ dīyate ‘nupakāriṇe\ndeśhe kāle cha pātre cha tad dānaṁ sāttvikaṁ smṛitam","en":"A gift given because giving is right, to someone who cannot repay it, at the right place and time and to a worthy person, is a gift of goodness."},{"ref":"Gita 17.21","orig":"यत्तु प्रत्युपकारार्थं फलमुद्दिश्य वा पुनः।\nदीयते च परिक्लिष्टं तद्दानं राजसं स्मृतम्॥","tr":"yat tu pratyupakārārthaṁ phalam uddiśhya vā punaḥ\ndīyate cha parikliṣhṭaṁ tad dānaṁ rājasaṁ smṛitam","en":"But a gift given to get something back, or with a reward in mind, or given grudgingly, is a gift of passion."},{"ref":"Gita 17.22","orig":"अदेशकाले यद्दानमपात्रेभ्यश्च दीयते।\nअसत्कृतमवज्ञातं तत्तामसमुदाहृतम्॥","tr":"adeśha-kāle yad dānam apātrebhyaśh cha dīyate\nasat-kṛitam avajñātaṁ tat tāmasam udāhṛitam","en":"A gift given at the wrong place and time to unworthy people, without respect and with contempt, is called a gift of dullness."},{"ref":"Gita 17.23","orig":"ॐ तत्सदिति निर्देशो ब्रह्मणस्त्रिविधः स्मृतः।\nब्राह्मणास्तेन वेदाश्च यज्ञाश्च विहिताः पुरा॥","tr":"oṁ tat sad iti nirdeśho brahmaṇas tri-vidhaḥ smṛitaḥ\nbrāhmaṇās tena vedāśh cha yajñāśh cha vihitāḥ purā","en":"\"Om Tat Sat\": these three words are said to point to Brahman. Long ago they gave rise to the priests, the Vedas and the sacrifices."},{"ref":"Gita 17.24","orig":"तस्मादोमित्युदाहृत्य यज्ञदानतपःक्रियाः।\nप्रवर्तन्ते विधानोक्ताः सततं ब्रह्मवादिनाम्॥","tr":"tasmād oṁ ity udāhṛitya yajña-dāna-tapaḥ-kriyāḥ\npravartante vidhānoktāḥ satataṁ brahma-vādinām","en":"So those who speak of Brahman always say \"Om\" as they begin the acts of sacrifice, giving and discipline laid down in scripture."},{"ref":"Gita 17.25","orig":"तदित्यनभिसन्धाय फलं यज्ञतपःक्रियाः।\nदानक्रियाश्च विविधाः क्रियन्ते मोक्षकाङ्क्षि॥","tr":"tad ity anabhisandhāya phalaṁ yajña-tapaḥ-kriyāḥ\ndāna-kriyāśh cha vividhāḥ kriyante mokṣha-kāṅkṣhibhiḥ","en":"With the word \"Tat\", those who seek freedom carry out sacrifice, discipline and all kinds of giving without aiming at any reward."},{"ref":"Gita 17.26","orig":"सद्भावे साधुभावे च सदित्येतत्प्रयुज्यते।\nप्रशस्ते कर्मणि तथा सच्छब्दः पार्थ युज्यते॥","tr":"sad-bhāve sādhu-bhāve cha sad ity etat prayujyate\npraśhaste karmaṇi tathā sach-chhabdaḥ pārtha yujyate","en":"The word \"Sat\" is used for what is real and what is good. It is also used for any praiseworthy act, Arjuna."},{"ref":"Gita 17.27","orig":"यज्ञे तपसि दाने च स्थितिः सदिति चोच्यते।\nकर्म चैव तदर्थीयं सदित्येवाभिधीयते॥","tr":"yajñe tapasi dāne cha sthitiḥ sad iti chochyate\nkarma chaiva tad-arthīyaṁ sad ity evābhidhīyate","en":"Steadfastness in sacrifice, discipline and giving is also called \"Sat\". And any action done for these purposes is called \"Sat\" too."},{"ref":"Gita 17.28","orig":"अश्रद्धया हुतं दत्तं तपस्तप्तं कृतं च यत्।\nअसदित्युच्यते पार्थ न च तत्प्रेत्य नो इह॥","tr":"aśhraddhayā hutaṁ dattaṁ tapas taptaṁ kṛitaṁ cha yat\nasad ity uchyate pārtha na cha tat pretya no iha","en":"Whatever is offered, given, practised or done without faith is called \"Asat\", unreal, Arjuna. It is worth nothing here or hereafter."}],"18":[{"ref":"Gita 18.1","orig":"अर्जुन उवाच\nसंन्यासस्य महाबाहो तत्त्वमिच्छामि वेदितुम्।\nत्यागस्य च हृषीकेश पृथक्केशिनिषूदन॥","tr":"arjuna uvācha\nsannyāsasya mahā-bāho tattvam ichchhāmi veditum\ntyāgasya cha hṛiṣhīkeśha pṛithak keśhi-niṣhūdana","en":"Arjuna said: Krishna, mighty one, I want to understand the truth of renunciation, and of letting go, and how the two differ."},{"ref":"Gita 18.2","orig":"श्री भगवानुवाच\nकाम्यानां कर्मणां न्यासं संन्यासं कवयो विदुः।\nसर्वकर्मफलत्यागं प्राहुस्त्यागं विचक्षणाः॥","tr":"śhrī-bhagavān uvācha\nkāmyānāṁ karmaṇāṁ nyāsaṁ sannyāsaṁ kavayo viduḥ\nsarva-karma-phala-tyāgaṁ prāhus tyāgaṁ vichakṣhaṇāḥ","en":"Krishna said: The wise say renunciation means giving up actions driven by desire. The discerning say letting go means giving up the fruits of all actions."},{"ref":"Gita 18.3","orig":"त्याज्यं दोषवदित्येके कर्म प्राहुर्मनीषिणः।\nयज्ञदानतपःकर्म न त्याज्यमिति चापरे॥","tr":"tyājyaṁ doṣha-vad ity eke karma prāhur manīṣhiṇaḥ\nyajña-dāna-tapaḥ-karma na tyājyam iti chāpare","en":"Some thinkers say all action should be given up as faulty. Others say acts of sacrifice, giving and discipline should never be given up."},{"ref":"Gita 18.4","orig":"निश्चयं श्रृणु मे तत्र त्यागे भरतसत्तम।\nत्यागो हि पुरुषव्याघ्र त्रिविधः संप्रकीर्तितः॥","tr":"niśhchayaṁ śhṛiṇu me tatra tyāge bharata-sattama\ntyāgo hi puruṣha-vyāghra tri-vidhaḥ samprakīrtitaḥ","en":"Hear my conclusion about letting go, best of the Bharatas. Letting go, tiger among men, is said to be of three kinds."},{"ref":"Gita 18.5","orig":"यज्ञदानतपःकर्म न त्याज्यं कार्यमेव तत्।\nयज्ञो दानं तपश्चैव पावनानि मनीषिणाम्॥","tr":"yajña-dāna-tapaḥ-karma na tyājyaṁ kāryam eva tat\nyajño dānaṁ tapaśh chaiva pāvanāni manīṣhiṇām","en":"Acts of sacrifice, giving and discipline should not be given up. They should be done, because they purify even the wise."},{"ref":"Gita 18.6","orig":"एतान्यपि तु कर्माणि सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा फलानि च।\nकर्तव्यानीति मे पार्थ निश्चितं मतमुत्तमम्॥","tr":"etāny api tu karmāṇi saṅgaṁ tyaktvā phalāni cha\nkartavyānīti me pārtha niśhchitaṁ matam uttamam","en":"But even these should be done without attachment and without wanting their fruits, Arjuna. That is my settled and final view."},{"ref":"Gita 18.7","orig":"नियतस्य तु संन्यासः कर्मणो नोपपद्यते।\nमोहात्तस्य परित्यागस्तामसः परिकीर्तितः॥","tr":"niyatasya tu sannyāsaḥ karmaṇo nopapadyate\nmohāt tasya parityāgas tāmasaḥ parikīrtitaḥ","en":"Giving up a duty that is yours to do is not right. Dropping it out of confusion is called the dull kind of letting go."},{"ref":"Gita 18.8","orig":"दुःखमित्येव यत्कर्म कायक्लेशभयात्त्यजेत्।\nस कृत्वा राजसं त्यागं नैव त्यागफलं लभेत्॥","tr":"duḥkham ity eva yat karma kāya-kleśha-bhayāt tyajet\nsa kṛitvā rājasaṁ tyāgaṁ naiva tyāga-phalaṁ labhet","en":"Someone who drops an action because it is hard, out of fear of physical strain, is letting go in the passionate way. They do not get the fruit of letting go."},{"ref":"Gita 18.9","orig":"कार्यमित्येव यत्कर्म नियतं क्रियतेऽर्जुन।\nसङ्गं त्यक्त्वा फलं चैव स त्यागः सात्त्विको मतः॥","tr":"kāryam ity eva yat karma niyataṁ kriyate ‘rjuna\nsaṅgaṁ tyaktvā phalaṁ chaiva sa tyāgaḥ sāttviko mataḥ","en":"When you do your duty simply because it should be done, Arjuna, giving up attachment and the fruit, that letting go is of goodness."},{"ref":"Gita 18.10","orig":"न द्वेष्ट्यकुशलं कर्म कुशले नानुषज्जते।\nत्यागी सत्त्वसमाविष्टो मेधावी छिन्नसंशयः॥","tr":"na dveṣhṭy akuśhalaṁ karma kuśhale nānuṣhajjate\ntyāgī sattva-samāviṣhṭo medhāvī chhinna-sanśhayaḥ","en":"The one who truly lets go, filled with goodness, wise and free of doubt, does not hate unpleasant work or cling to pleasant work."},{"ref":"Gita 18.11","orig":"न हि देहभृता शक्यं त्यक्तुं कर्माण्यशेषतः।\nयस्तु कर्मफलत्यागी स त्यागीत्यभिधीयते॥","tr":"na hi deha-bhṛitā śhakyaṁ tyaktuṁ karmāṇy aśheṣhataḥ\nyas tu karma-phala-tyāgī sa tyāgīty abhidhīyate","en":"No one with a body can give up action completely. But whoever gives up the fruits of action is called someone who has truly let go."},{"ref":"Gita 18.12","orig":"अनिष्टमिष्टं मिश्रं च त्रिविधं कर्मणः फलम्।\nभवत्यत्यागिनां प्रेत्य न तु संन्यासिनां क्वचित्॥","tr":"aniṣhṭam iṣhṭaṁ miśhraṁ cha tri-vidhaṁ karmaṇaḥ phalam\nbhavaty atyāgināṁ pretya na tu sannyāsināṁ kvachit","en":"For those who have not let go, the fruit of action comes after death in three kinds: unwanted, wanted and mixed. For those who have renounced, it never comes."},{"ref":"Gita 18.13","orig":"पञ्चैतानि महाबाहो कारणानि निबोध मे।\nसांख्ये कृतान्ते प्रोक्तानि सिद्धये सर्वकर्मणाम्॥","tr":"pañchaitāni mahā-bāho kāraṇāni nibodha me\nsānkhye kṛitānte proktāni siddhaye sarva-karmaṇām","en":"Learn from me, Arjuna, the five causes of every action, as set out in the Sankhya teaching."},{"ref":"Gita 18.14","orig":"अधिष्ठानं तथा कर्ता करणं च पृथग्विधम्।\nविविधाश्च पृथक्चेष्टा दैवं चैवात्र पञ्चमम्॥","tr":"adhiṣhṭhānaṁ tathā kartā karaṇaṁ cha pṛithag-vidham\nvividhāśh cha pṛithak cheṣhṭā daivaṁ chaivātra pañchamam","en":"The body, the doer, the various instruments, the many different kinds of effort, and the fifth, providence."},{"ref":"Gita 18.15","orig":"शरीरवाङ्मनोभिर्यत्कर्म प्रारभते नरः।\nन्याय्यं वा विपरीतं वा पञ्चैते तस्य हेतवः॥","tr":"śharīra-vāṅ-manobhir yat karma prārabhate naraḥ\nnyāyyaṁ vā viparītaṁ vā pañchaite tasya hetavaḥ","en":"Whatever a person sets out to do with body, speech or mind, right or wrong, these five are its causes."},{"ref":"Gita 18.16","orig":"तत्रैवं सति कर्तारमात्मानं केवलं तु यः।\nपश्यत्यकृतबुद्धित्वान्न स पश्यति दुर्मतिः॥","tr":"tatraivaṁ sati kartāram ātmānaṁ kevalaṁ tu yaḥ\npaśhyaty akṛita-buddhitvān na sa paśhyati durmatiḥ","en":"That being so, whoever sees the self alone as the doer has not understood. With such a crude view, they do not see."},{"ref":"Gita 18.17","orig":"यस्य नाहंकृतो भावो बुद्धिर्यस्य न लिप्यते।\nहत्वापि स इमाँल्लोकान्न हन्ति न निबध्यते॥","tr":"yasya nāhankṛito bhāvo buddhir yasya na lipyate\nhatvā ‘pi sa imāl lokān na hanti na nibadhyate","en":"Someone free of the sense of \"I am doing this\", whose understanding is not stained, does not kill even if they kill these people, and is not bound."},{"ref":"Gita 18.18","orig":"ज्ञानं ज्ञेयं परिज्ञाता त्रिविधा कर्मचोदना।\nकरणं कर्म कर्तेति त्रिविधः कर्मसंग्रहः॥","tr":"jñānaṁ jñeyaṁ parijñātā tri-vidhā karma-chodanā\nkaraṇaṁ karma karteti tri-vidhaḥ karma-saṅgrahaḥ","en":"Knowledge, the thing known and the knower are the three things that prompt action. The instrument, the action and the doer are the three parts of action."},{"ref":"Gita 18.19","orig":"ज्ञानं कर्म च कर्ता च त्रिधैव गुणभेदतः।\nप्रोच्यते गुणसंख्याने यथावच्छृणु तान्यपि॥","tr":"jñānaṁ karma cha kartā cha tridhaiva guṇa-bhedataḥ\nprochyate guṇa-saṅkhyāne yathāvach chhṛiṇu tāny api","en":"In the teaching of the qualities, knowledge, action and the doer are each said to be of three kinds, depending on the quality. Hear about these as they really are."},{"ref":"Gita 18.20","orig":"सर्वभूतेषु येनैकं भावमव्ययमीक्षते।\nअविभक्तं विभक्तेषु तज्ज्ञानं विद्धि सात्त्विकम्॥","tr":"sarva-bhūteṣhu yenaikaṁ bhāvam avyayam īkṣhate\navibhaktaṁ vibhakteṣhu taj jñānaṁ viddhi sāttvikam","en":"The knowledge that sees one undying reality in all beings, undivided in the divided, is knowledge of goodness."},{"ref":"Gita 18.21","orig":"पृथक्त्वेन तु यज्ज्ञानं नानाभावान्पृथग्विधान्।\nवेत्ति सर्वेषु भूतेषु तज्ज्ञानं विद्धि राजसम्॥","tr":"pṛithaktvena tu yaj jñānaṁ nānā-bhāvān pṛithag-vidhān\nvetti sarveṣhu bhūteṣhu taj jñānaṁ viddhi rājasam","en":"The knowledge that sees all beings as separate, with different natures of their own, is knowledge of passion."},{"ref":"Gita 18.22","orig":"यत्तु कृत्स्नवदेकस्मिन्कार्ये सक्तमहैतुकम्।\nअतत्त्वार्थवदल्पं च तत्तामसमुदाहृतम्॥","tr":"yat tu kṛitsna-vad ekasmin kārye saktam ahaitukam\natattvārtha-vad alpaṁ cha tat tāmasam udāhṛitam","en":"The knowledge that clings to one small thing as if it were everything, without reason, missing the truth and narrow, is called knowledge of dullness."},{"ref":"Gita 18.23","orig":"नियतं सङ्गरहितमरागद्वेषतः कृतम्।\nअफलप्रेप्सुना कर्म यत्तत्सात्त्विकमुच्यते॥","tr":"niyataṁ saṅga-rahitam arāga-dveṣhataḥ kṛitam\naphala-prepsunā karma yat tat sāttvikam uchyate","en":"Action that is required, done without attachment, without liking or disliking, by someone who does not want the fruit, is called action of goodness."},{"ref":"Gita 18.24","orig":"यत्तु कामेप्सुना कर्म साहङ्कारेण वा पुनः।\nक्रियते बहुलायासं तद्राजसमुदाहृतम्॥","tr":"yat tu kāmepsunā karma sāhankāreṇa vā punaḥ\nkriyate bahulāyāsaṁ tad rājasam udāhṛitam","en":"Action done with great strain by someone chasing their desires, or driven by ego, is called action of passion."},{"ref":"Gita 18.25","orig":"अनुबन्धं क्षयं हिंसामनपेक्ष्य च पौरुषम्।\nमोहादारभ्यते कर्म यत्तत्तामसमुच्यते॥","tr":"anubandhaṁ kṣhayaṁ hinsām anapekṣhya cha pauruṣham\nmohād ārabhyate karma yat tat tāmasam uchyate","en":"Action started out of delusion, with no thought for the consequences, the loss, the harm to others or one's own ability, is called action of dullness."},{"ref":"Gita 18.26","orig":"मुक्तसङ्गोऽनहंवादी धृत्युत्साहसमन्वितः।\nसिद्ध्यसिद्ध्योर्निर्विकारः कर्ता सात्त्विक उच्यते॥","tr":"mukta-saṅgo ‘nahaṁ-vādī dhṛity-utsāha-samanvitaḥ\nsiddhy-asiddhyor nirvikāraḥ kartā sāttvika uchyate","en":"A doer free of attachment, who does not boast, who is full of resolve and energy, and who is the same in success and failure, is called a doer of goodness."},{"ref":"Gita 18.27","orig":"रागी कर्मफलप्रेप्सुर्लुब्धो हिंसात्मकोऽशुचिः।\nहर्षशोकान्वितः कर्ता राजसः परिकीर्तितः॥","tr":"rāgī karma-phala-prepsur lubdho hinsātmako ‘śhuchiḥ\nharṣha-śhokānvitaḥ kartā rājasaḥ parikīrtitaḥ","en":"A doer who is attached, hungry for the fruits of action, greedy, harmful, impure and swept by joy and sorrow is called a doer of passion."},{"ref":"Gita 18.28","orig":"अयुक्तः प्राकृतः स्तब्धः शठो नैष्कृतिकोऽलसः।\nविषादी दीर्घसूत्री च कर्ता तामस उच्यते॥","tr":"ayuktaḥ prākṛitaḥ stabdhaḥ śhaṭho naiṣhkṛitiko ‘lasaḥ\nviṣhādī dīrgha-sūtrī cha kartā tāmasa uchyate","en":"A doer who is undisciplined, crude, stubborn, deceitful, spiteful, lazy, gloomy and always putting things off is called a doer of dullness."},{"ref":"Gita 18.29","orig":"बुद्धेर्भेदं धृतेश्चैव गुणतस्त्रिविधं श्रृणु।\nप्रोच्यमानमशेषेण पृथक्त्वेन धनञ्जय॥","tr":"buddher bhedaṁ dhṛiteśh chaiva guṇatas tri-vidhaṁ śhṛiṇu\nprochyamānam aśheṣheṇa pṛithaktvena dhanañjaya","en":"Now hear in full, Arjuna, how intellect and resolve are each of three kinds, according to the qualities."},{"ref":"Gita 18.30","orig":"प्रवृत्तिं च निवृत्तिं च कार्याकार्ये भयाभये।\nबन्धं मोक्षं च या वेत्ति बुद्धिः सा पार्थ सात्त्विकी॥","tr":"pravṛittiṁ cha nivṛittiṁ cha kāryākārye bhayābhaye\nbandhaṁ mokṣhaṁ cha yā vetti buddhiḥ sā pārtha sāttvikī","en":"The intellect that knows when to act and when to refrain, what should and should not be done, what to fear and what not to fear, what binds and what frees, is of goodness, Arjuna."},{"ref":"Gita 18.31","orig":"यया धर्ममधर्मं च कार्यं चाकार्यमेव च।\nअयथावत्प्रजानाति बुद्धिः सा पार्थ राजसी॥","tr":"yayā dharmam adharmaṁ cha kāryaṁ chākāryam eva cha\nayathāvat prajānāti buddhiḥ sā pārtha rājasī","en":"The intellect that gets right and wrong, and what should and should not be done, muddled is of passion, Arjuna."},{"ref":"Gita 18.32","orig":"अधर्मं धर्ममिति या मन्यते तमसाऽऽवृता।\nसर्वार्थान्विपरीतांश्च बुद्धिः सा पार्थ तामसी॥","tr":"adharmaṁ dharmam iti yā manyate tamasāvṛitā\nsarvārthān viparītānśh cha buddhiḥ sā pārtha tāmasī","en":"The intellect wrapped in darkness, which takes wrong for right and sees everything backwards, is of dullness, Arjuna."},{"ref":"Gita 18.33","orig":"धृत्या यया धारयते मनःप्राणेन्द्रियक्रियाः।\nयोगेनाव्यभिचारिण्या धृतिः सा पार्थ सात्त्विकी॥","tr":"dhṛityā yayā dhārayate manaḥ-prāṇendriya-kriyāḥ\nyogenāvyabhichāriṇyā dhṛitiḥ sā pārtha sāttvikī","en":"The resolve that holds steady the workings of the mind, the breath and the senses, through unwavering practice, is of goodness, Arjuna."},{"ref":"Gita 18.34","orig":"यया तु धर्मकामार्थान् धृत्या धारयतेऽर्जुन।\nप्रसङ्गेन फलाकाङ्क्षी धृतिः सा पार्थ राजसी॥","tr":"yayā tu dharma-kāmārthān dhṛityā dhārayate ‘rjuna\nprasaṅgena phalākāṅkṣhī dhṛitiḥ sā pārtha rājasī","en":"The resolve that holds on to duty, pleasure and wealth, Arjuna, out of attachment and a craving for rewards, is of passion."},{"ref":"Gita 18.35","orig":"यया स्वप्नं भयं शोकं विषादं मदमेव च।\nन विमुञ्चति दुर्मेधा धृतिः सा पार्थ तामसी॥","tr":"yayā svapnaṁ bhayaṁ śhokaṁ viṣhādaṁ madam eva cha\nna vimuñchati durmedhā dhṛitiḥ sā pārtha tāmasī","en":"The resolve by which a foolish person will not let go of sleep, fear, grief, gloom and arrogance is of dullness, Arjuna."},{"ref":"Gita 18.36","orig":"सुखं त्विदानीं त्रिविधं श्रृणु मे भरतर्षभ।\nअभ्यासाद्रमते यत्र दुःखान्तं च निगच्छति॥","tr":"sukhaṁ tv idānīṁ tri-vidhaṁ śhṛiṇu me bharatarṣhabha\nabhyāsād ramate yatra duḥkhāntaṁ cha nigachchhati","en":"Now hear from me, Arjuna, the three kinds of happiness. There is a happiness you come to enjoy through practice, and in which suffering comes to an end."},{"ref":"Gita 18.37","orig":"यत्तदग्रे विषमिव परिणामेऽमृतोपमम्।\nतत्सुखं सात्त्विकं प्रोक्तमात्मबुद्धिप्रसादजम्॥","tr":"yat tad agre viṣham iva pariṇāme ‘mṛitopamam\ntat sukhaṁ sāttvikaṁ proktam ātma-buddhi-prasāda-jam","en":"What is like poison at first but like nectar in the end, and is born from a clear understanding of the self, is called happiness of goodness."},{"ref":"Gita 18.38","orig":"विषयेन्द्रियसंयोगाद्यत्तदग्रेऽमृतोपमम्।\nपरिणामे विषमिव तत्सुखं राजसं स्मृतम्॥","tr":"viṣhayendriya-sanyogād yat tad agre ’mṛitopamam\npariṇāme viṣham iva tat sukhaṁ rājasaṁ smṛitam","en":"What comes from the senses meeting their objects, like nectar at first but like poison in the end, is called happiness of passion."},{"ref":"Gita 18.39","orig":"यदग्रे चानुबन्धे च सुखं मोहनमात्मनः।\nनिद्रालस्यप्रमादोत्थं तत्तामसमुदाहृतम्॥","tr":"yad agre chānubandhe cha sukhaṁ mohanam ātmanaḥ\nnidrālasya-pramādotthaṁ tat tāmasam udāhṛitam","en":"The happiness that deludes the self from beginning to end, arising from sleep, laziness and carelessness, is called happiness of dullness."},{"ref":"Gita 18.40","orig":"न तदस्ति पृथिव्यां वा दिवि देवेषु वा पुनः।\nसत्त्वं प्रकृतिजैर्मुक्तं यदेभिः स्यात्ति्रभिर्गुणैः॥","tr":"na tad asti pṛithivyāṁ vā divi deveṣhu vā punaḥ\nsattvaṁ prakṛiti-jair muktaṁ yad ebhiḥ syāt tribhir guṇaiḥ","en":"There is no being on earth, or even among the gods in heaven, that is free of these three qualities born of nature."},{"ref":"Gita 18.41","orig":"ब्राह्मणक्षत्रियविशां शूद्राणां च परंतप।\nकर्माणि प्रविभक्तानि स्वभावप्रभवैर्गुणैः॥","tr":"brāhmaṇa-kṣhatriya-viśhāṁ śhūdrāṇāṁ cha parantapa\nkarmāṇi pravibhaktāni svabhāva-prabhavair guṇaiḥ","en":"The duties of priests, warriors, traders and workers are divided according to the qualities that arise from their own nature, Arjuna."},{"ref":"Gita 18.42","orig":"शमो दमस्तपः शौचं क्षान्तिरार्जवमेव च।\nज्ञानं विज्ञानमास्तिक्यं ब्रह्मकर्म स्वभावजम्॥","tr":"śhamo damas tapaḥ śhauchaṁ kṣhāntir ārjavam eva cha\njñānaṁ vijñānam āstikyaṁ brahma-karma svabhāva-jam","en":"Calm, self-control, discipline, purity, patience, honesty, knowledge, wisdom and faith: these are the natural work of a priest."},{"ref":"Gita 18.43","orig":"शौर्यं तेजो धृतिर्दाक्ष्यं युद्धे चाप्यपलायनम्।\nदानमीश्वरभावश्च क्षात्रं कर्म स्वभावजम्॥","tr":"śhauryaṁ tejo dhṛitir dākṣhyaṁ yuddhe chāpy apalāyanam\ndānam īśhvara-bhāvaśh cha kṣhātraṁ karma svabhāva-jam","en":"Courage, vigour, resolve, skill, not running from battle, generosity and leadership: these are the natural work of a warrior."},{"ref":"Gita 18.44","orig":"कृषिगौरक्ष्यवाणिज्यं वैश्यकर्म स्वभावजम्।\nपरिचर्यात्मकं कर्म शूद्रस्यापि स्वभावजम्॥","tr":"kṛiṣhi-gau-rakṣhya-vāṇijyaṁ vaiśhya-karma svabhāva-jam\nparicharyātmakaṁ karma śhūdrasyāpi svabhāva-jam","en":"Farming, tending cattle and trade are the natural work of a trader. Work that serves others is the natural work of a labourer."},{"ref":"Gita 18.45","orig":"स्वे स्वे कर्मण्यभिरतः संसिद्धिं लभते नरः।\nस्वकर्मनिरतः सिद्धिं यथा विन्दति तच्छृणु॥","tr":"sve sve karmaṇy abhirataḥ sansiddhiṁ labhate naraḥ\nsva-karma-nirataḥ siddhiṁ yathā vindati tach chhṛiṇu","en":"People reach perfection by giving themselves fully to their own work. Hear how someone devoted to their own work finds perfection."},{"ref":"Gita 18.46","orig":"यतः प्रवृत्तिर्भूतानां येन सर्वमिदं ततम्।\nस्वकर्मणा तमभ्यर्च्य सिद्धिं विन्दति मानवः॥","tr":"yataḥ pravṛittir bhūtānāṁ yena sarvam idaṁ tatam\nsva-karmaṇā tam abhyarchya siddhiṁ vindati mānavaḥ","en":"By worshipping, through their own work, the one from whom all beings come and who pervades all this, a person finds perfection."},{"ref":"Gita 18.47","orig":"श्रेयान्स्वधर्मो विगुणः परधर्मात्स्वनुष्ठितात्।\nस्वभावनियतं कर्म कुर्वन्नाप्नोति किल्बिषम्॥","tr":"śhreyān swa-dharmo viguṇaḥ para-dharmāt sv-anuṣhṭhitāt\nsvabhāva-niyataṁ karma kurvan nāpnoti kilbiṣham","en":"Better your own duty done imperfectly than someone else's done well. When you do the work your own nature calls for, you take on no wrong."},{"ref":"Gita 18.48","orig":"सहजं कर्म कौन्तेय सदोषमपि न त्यजेत्।\nसर्वारम्भा हि दोषेण धूमेनाग्निरिवावृताः॥","tr":"saha-jaṁ karma kaunteya sa-doṣham api na tyajet\nsarvārambhā hi doṣheṇa dhūmenāgnir ivāvṛitāḥ","en":"Don't give up the work you were born to, Arjuna, even if it has flaws. Every undertaking is clouded by some flaw, the way fire is clouded by smoke."},{"ref":"Gita 18.49","orig":"असक्तबुद्धिः सर्वत्र जितात्मा विगतस्पृहः।\nनैष्कर्म्यसिद्धिं परमां संन्यासेनाधिगच्छति॥","tr":"asakta-buddhiḥ sarvatra jitātmā vigata-spṛihaḥ\nnaiṣhkarmya-siddhiṁ paramāṁ sannyāsenādhigachchhati","en":"With an understanding that clings to nothing, self-mastered and free of longing, a person reaches through renunciation the highest perfection, freedom from the bonds of action."},{"ref":"Gita 18.50","orig":"सिद्धिं प्राप्तो यथा ब्रह्म तथाप्नोति निबोध मे।\nसमासेनैव कौन्तेय निष्ठा ज्ञानस्य या परा॥","tr":"siddhiṁ prāpto yathā brahma tathāpnoti nibodha me\nsamāsenaiva kaunteya niṣhṭhā jñānasya yā parā","en":"Learn from me briefly, Arjuna, how someone who has reached perfection reaches Brahman, the highest point of knowledge."},{"ref":"Gita 18.51","orig":"बुद्ध्या विशुद्धया युक्तो धृत्याऽऽत्मानं नियम्य च।\nशब्दादीन् विषयांस्त्यक्त्वा रागद्वेषौ व्युदस्य च॥","tr":"buddhyā viśhuddhayā yukto dhṛityātmānaṁ niyamya cha\nśhabdādīn viṣhayāns tyaktvā rāga-dveṣhau vyudasya cha","en":"Joined to a purified understanding, holding the self firm with resolve, setting aside sound and the other objects of the senses, and putting away liking and disliking,"},{"ref":"Gita 18.52","orig":"विविक्तसेवी लघ्वाशी यतवाक्कायमानसः।\nध्यानयोगपरो नित्यं वैराग्यं समुपाश्रितः॥","tr":"vivikta-sevī laghv-āśhī yata-vāk-kāya-mānasaḥ\ndhyāna-yoga-paro nityaṁ vairāgyaṁ samupāśhritaḥ","en":"living in quiet places, eating lightly, controlling speech, body and mind, always devoted to meditation and resting in detachment,"},{"ref":"Gita 18.53","orig":"अहङ्कारं बलं दर्पं कामं क्रोधं परिग्रहम्।\nविमुच्य निर्ममः शान्तो ब्रह्मभूयाय कल्पते॥","tr":"ahankāraṁ balaṁ darpaṁ kāmaṁ krodhaṁ parigraham\nvimuchya nirmamaḥ śhānto brahma-bhūyāya kalpate","en":"letting go of ego, force, arrogance, lust, anger and possessiveness, free of \"mine\" and at peace, such a person is ready to become Brahman."},{"ref":"Gita 18.54","orig":"ब्रह्मभूतः प्रसन्नात्मा न शोचति न काङ्क्षति।\nसमः सर्वेषु भूतेषु मद्भक्तिं लभते पराम्॥","tr":"brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā na śhochati na kāṅkṣhati\nsamaḥ sarveṣhu bhūteṣhu mad-bhaktiṁ labhate parām","en":"Having become Brahman, serene within, they neither grieve nor crave. Equal toward all beings, they reach the highest devotion to me."},{"ref":"Gita 18.55","orig":"भक्त्या मामभिजानाति यावान्यश्चास्मि तत्त्वतः।\nततो मां तत्त्वतो ज्ञात्वा विशते तदनन्तरम्॥","tr":"bhaktyā mām abhijānāti yāvān yaśh chāsmi tattvataḥ\ntato māṁ tattvato jñātvā viśhate tad-anantaram","en":"Through devotion they come to know me as I truly am, how great I am and who I am. Knowing me in truth, they enter into me."},{"ref":"Gita 18.56","orig":"सर्वकर्माण्यपि सदा कुर्वाणो मद्व्यपाश्रयः।\nमत्प्रसादादवाप्नोति शाश्वतं पदमव्ययम्॥","tr":"sarva-karmāṇy api sadā kurvāṇo mad-vyapāśhrayaḥ\nmat-prasādād avāpnoti śhāśhvataṁ padam avyayam","en":"Even while always doing all kinds of work, someone who takes refuge in me reaches by my grace the eternal, undying home."},{"ref":"Gita 18.57","orig":"चेतसा सर्वकर्माणि मयि संन्यस्य मत्परः।\nबुद्धियोगमुपाश्रित्य मच्चित्तः सततं भव॥","tr":"chetasā sarva-karmāṇi mayi sannyasya mat-paraḥ\nbuddhi-yogam upāśhritya mach-chittaḥ satataṁ bhava","en":"In your heart, hand over all your actions to me and make me your goal. Rely on the yoga of understanding and keep your mind on me always."},{"ref":"Gita 18.58","orig":"मच्चित्तः सर्वदुर्गाणि मत्प्रसादात्तरिष्यसि।\nअथ चेत्त्वमहङ्कारान्न श्रोष्यसि विनङ्क्ष्यसि॥","tr":"mach-chittaḥ sarva-durgāṇi mat-prasādāt tariṣhyasi\natha chet tvam ahankārān na śhroṣhyasi vinaṅkṣhyasi","en":"With your mind on me, by my grace you will get past every obstacle. But if out of ego you won't listen, you will be lost."},{"ref":"Gita 18.59","orig":"यदहङ्कारमाश्रित्य न योत्स्य इति मन्यसे।\nमिथ्यैष व्यवसायस्ते प्रकृतिस्त्वां नियोक्ष्यति॥","tr":"yad ahankāram āśhritya na yotsya iti manyase\nmithyaiṣha vyavasāyas te prakṛitis tvāṁ niyokṣhyati","en":"If you lean on your ego and think, \"I will not fight\", your decision is empty. Your own nature will make you fight."},{"ref":"Gita 18.60","orig":"स्वभावजेन कौन्तेय निबद्धः स्वेन कर्मणा।\nकर्तुं नेच्छसि यन्मोहात्करिष्यस्यवशोऽपि तत्॥","tr":"swbhāva-jena kaunteya nibaddhaḥ svena karmaṇā\nkartuṁ nechchhasi yan mohāt kariṣhyasy avaśho ’pi tat","en":"Bound by your own work, which comes from your nature, Arjuna, you will do even against your will what you now refuse to do out of confusion."},{"ref":"Gita 18.61","orig":"ईश्वरः सर्वभूतानां हृद्देशेऽर्जुन तिष्ठति।\nभ्रामयन्सर्वभूतानि यन्त्रारूढानि मायया॥","tr":"īśhvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ hṛid-deśhe ‘rjuna tiṣhṭhati\nbhrāmayan sarva-bhūtāni yantrārūḍhāni māyayā","en":"The Lord dwells in the heart of every being, Arjuna, and by his power moves them all as if they were mounted on a machine."},{"ref":"Gita 18.62","orig":"तमेव शरणं गच्छ सर्वभावेन भारत।\nतत्प्रसादात्परां शान्तिं स्थानं प्राप्स्यसि शाश्वतम्॥","tr":"tam eva śharaṇaṁ gachchha sarva-bhāvena bhārata\ntat-prasādāt parāṁ śhāntiṁ sthānaṁ prāpsyasi śhāśhvatam","en":"Take refuge in him alone with your whole being, Arjuna. By his grace you will reach supreme peace and the eternal home."},{"ref":"Gita 18.63","orig":"इति ते ज्ञानमाख्यातं गुह्याद्गुह्यतरं मया।\nविमृश्यैतदशेषेण यथेच्छसि तथा कुरु॥","tr":"iti te jñānam ākhyātaṁ guhyād guhyataraṁ mayā\nvimṛiśhyaitad aśheṣheṇa yathechchhasi tathā kuru","en":"So I have given you this knowledge, more secret than any secret. Think it over fully, then do as you choose."},{"ref":"Gita 18.64","orig":"सर्वगुह्यतमं भूयः श्रृणु मे परमं वचः।\nइष्टोऽसि मे दृढमिति ततो वक्ष्यामि ते हितम्॥","tr":"sarva-guhyatamaṁ bhūyaḥ śhṛiṇu me paramaṁ vachaḥ\niṣhṭo ‘si me dṛiḍham iti tato vakṣhyāmi te hitam","en":"Listen once more to my highest word, the most secret of all. You are dearly loved by me, so I will tell you what is good for you."},{"ref":"Gita 18.65","orig":"मन्मना भव मद्भक्तो मद्याजी मां नमस्कुरु।\nमामेवैष्यसि सत्यं ते प्रतिजाने प्रियोऽसि मे॥","tr":"man-manā bhava mad-bhakto mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru\nmām evaiṣhyasi satyaṁ te pratijāne priyo ‘si me","en":"Keep your mind on me, be devoted to me, offer to me and bow to me. You will come to me. I promise you truly, because you are dear to me."},{"ref":"Gita 18.66","orig":"सर्वधर्मान्परित्यज्य मामेकं शरणं व्रज।\nअहं त्वा सर्वपापेभ्यो मोक्षयिष्यामि मा शुचः॥","tr":"sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śharaṇaṁ vraja\nahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo mokṣhayiṣhyāmi mā śhuchaḥ","en":"Let go of every other duty and take refuge in me alone. I will free you from all wrongs. Do not grieve."},{"ref":"Gita 18.67","orig":"इदं ते नातपस्काय नाभक्ताय कदाचन।\nन चाशुश्रूषवे वाच्यं न च मां योऽभ्यसूयति॥","tr":"idaṁ te nātapaskyāya nābhaktāya kadāchana\nna chāśhuśhruṣhave vāchyaṁ na cha māṁ yo ‘bhyasūtayi","en":"Never tell this to anyone who lacks discipline or devotion, to anyone who does not want to listen, or to anyone who speaks ill of me."},{"ref":"Gita 18.68","orig":"य इमं परमं गुह्यं मद्भक्तेष्वभिधास्यति।\nभक्तिं मयि परां कृत्वा मामेवैष्यत्यसंशयः॥","tr":"ya idaṁ paramaṁ guhyaṁ mad-bhakteṣhv abhidhāsyati\nbhaktiṁ mayi parāṁ kṛitvā mām evaiṣhyaty asanśhayaḥ","en":"Whoever shares this supreme secret with my devotees, showing the highest devotion to me, will without doubt come to me."},{"ref":"Gita 18.69","orig":"न च तस्मान्मनुष्येषु कश्चिन्मे प्रियकृत्तमः।\nभविता न च मे तस्मादन्यः प्रियतरो भुवि॥","tr":"na cha tasmān manuṣhyeṣhu kaśhchin me priya-kṛittamaḥ\nbhavitā na cha me tasmād anyaḥ priyataro bhuvi","en":"No one among people does anything dearer to me than that person, and no one on earth will be dearer to me."},{"ref":"Gita 18.70","orig":"अध्येष्यते च य इमं धर्म्यं संवादमावयोः।\nज्ञानयज्ञेन तेनाहमिष्टः स्यामिति मे मतिः॥","tr":"adhyeṣhyate cha ya imaṁ dharmyaṁ saṁvādam āvayoḥ\njñāna-yajñena tenāham iṣhṭaḥ syām iti me matiḥ","en":"And whoever studies this sacred conversation of ours honours me with the sacrifice of knowledge. That is my view."},{"ref":"Gita 18.71","orig":"श्रद्धावाननसूयश्च श्रृणुयादपि यो नरः।\nसोऽपि मुक्तः शुभाँल्लोकान्प्राप्नुयात्पुण्यकर्मणाम्॥","tr":"śhraddhāvān anasūyaśh cha śhṛiṇuyād api yo naraḥ\nso ‘pi muktaḥ śhubhāl lokān prāpnuyāt puṇya-karmaṇām","en":"Even someone who only listens to it, with faith and without scorn, will be freed and will reach the happy worlds of those who do good."},{"ref":"Gita 18.72","orig":"कच्चिदेतच्छ्रुतं पार्थ त्वयैकाग्रेण चेतसा।\nकच्चिदज्ञानसंमोहः प्रनष्टस्ते धनञ्जय॥","tr":"kachchid etach chhrutaṁ pārtha tvayaikāgreṇa chetasā\nkachchid ajñāna-sammohaḥ pranaṣhṭas te dhanañjaya","en":"Arjuna, have you heard this with full attention? Has your confusion, born of ignorance, gone?"},{"ref":"Gita 18.73","orig":"अर्जुन उवाच\nनष्टो मोहः स्मृतिर्लब्धा त्वत्प्रसादान्मयाच्युत।\nस्थितोऽस्मि गतसन्देहः करिष्ये वचनं तव॥","tr":"arjuna uvācha\nnaṣhṭo mohaḥ smṛitir labdhā tvat-prasādān mayāchyuta\nsthito ‘smi gata-sandehaḥ kariṣhye vachanaṁ tava","en":"Arjuna said: My confusion is gone, Krishna, and by your grace I have remembered who I am. I stand firm, my doubts are gone, and I will do as you say."},{"ref":"Gita 18.74","orig":"सञ्जय उवाच\nइत्यहं वासुदेवस्य पार्थस्य च महात्मनः।\nसंवादमिममश्रौषमद्भुतं रोमहर्षणम्॥","tr":"sañjaya uvācha\nity ahaṁ vāsudevasya pārthasya cha mahātmanaḥ\nsaṁvādam imam aśhrauṣham adbhutaṁ roma-harṣhaṇam","en":"Sanjaya said: So I heard this wonderful conversation between Krishna and the great-souled Arjuna, and it made my hair stand on end."},{"ref":"Gita 18.75","orig":"व्यासप्रसादाच्छ्रुतवानेतद्गुह्यमहं परम्।\nयोगं योगेश्वरात्कृष्णात्साक्षात्कथयतः स्वयम्॥","tr":"vyāsa-prasādāch chhrutavān etad guhyam ahaṁ param\nyogaṁ yogeśhvarāt kṛiṣhṇāt sākṣhāt kathayataḥ svayam","en":"By the grace of Vyasa, I heard this supreme secret yoga straight from Krishna, the master of yoga, as he taught it himself."},{"ref":"Gita 18.76","orig":"राजन्संस्मृत्य संस्मृत्य संवादमिममद्भुतम्।\nकेशवार्जुनयोः पुण्यं हृष्यामि च मुहुर्मुहुः॥","tr":"rājan sansmṛitya sansmṛitya saṁvādam imam adbhutam\nkeśhavārjunayoḥ puṇyaṁ hṛiṣhyāmi cha muhur muhuḥ","en":"O King, as I remember this wonderful, sacred conversation between Krishna and Arjuna again and again, I thrill with joy over and over."},{"ref":"Gita 18.77","orig":"तच्च संस्मृत्य संस्मृत्य रूपमत्यद्भुतं हरेः।\nविस्मयो मे महान् राजन् हृष्यामि च पुनः पुनः॥","tr":"tach cha sansmṛitya saṁsmṛitya rūpam aty-adbhutaṁ hareḥ\nvismayo ye mahān rājan hṛiṣhyāmi cha punaḥ punaḥ","en":"And as I remember again and again that astonishing form of Krishna, my wonder is great, O King, and I rejoice again and again."},{"ref":"Gita 18.78","orig":"यत्र योगेश्वरः कृष्णो यत्र पार्थो धनुर्धरः।\nतत्र श्रीर्विजयो भूतिर्ध्रुवा नीतिर्मतिर्मम॥","tr":"yatra yogeśhvaraḥ kṛiṣhṇo yatra pārtho dhanur-dharaḥ\ntatra śhrīr vijayo bhūtir dhruvā nītir matir mama","en":"Wherever there is Krishna, the master of yoga, and wherever there is Arjuna the archer, there you will find fortune, victory, prosperity and sound judgement. That is my belief."}]}}