अर्जुन उवाच |
Arjuna said I desire to know severally, O mighty-armed, the essence or truth of renunciat…
18.2श्रीभगवानुवाच |
The Blessed Lord said The sages understand Sannyasa to be the renunciation of action with…
18.3त्याज्यं दोषवदित्येके कर्म प्राहुर्मनीषिणः |
Some philosophers declare that actions should be abandoned as an evil; while others (decla…
18.4निश्चयं शृणु मे तत्र त्यागे भरतसत्तम |
Hear from Me the conclusion or the final truth about this abandonment, O best of the Bhara…
18.5यज्ञदानतपःकर्म न त्याज्यं कार्यमेव तत् |
Acts of sacrifice, gift and austerity should not be abandoned, but should be performed; sa…
18.6एतान्यपि तु कर्माणि सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा फलानि च |
But even these actions should be performed leaving aside attachment and the desire for rew…
18.7नियतस्य तु संन्यासः कर्मणो नोपपद्यते |
Verily the renunciation of obligatory action is not proper; the abandonment of the same fr…
18.8दुःखमित्येव यत्कर्म कायक्लेशभयात्त्यजेत् |
He who abandons action on account of the fear of bodily trouble (because it is painful), d…
18.9कार्यमित्येव यत्कर्म नियतं क्रियतेऽर्जुन |
Whatever obligatory action is done, O Arjuna, merely because it ought to be done, abandoni…
18.10न द्वेष्ट्यकुशलं कर्म कुशले नानुषज्जते |
The man of renunciation, pervaded by purity, intelligent, and with his doubts cut asunder,…
18.11न हि देहभृता शक्यं त्यक्तुं कर्माण्यशेषतः |
Verily, it is not possible for an embodied being to abandon actions entirely; but he who r…
18.12अनिष्टमिष्टं मिश्रं च त्रिविधं कर्मणः फलम् |
The threefold fruit of action (evil, good and mixed) accrues after death to the non-abando…
18.13पञ्चैतानि महाबाहो कारणानि निबोध मे |
Learn from Me, O mighty-armed Arjuna, these five causes as declared in the Sankhya system …
18.14अधिष्ठानं तथा कर्ता करणं च पृथग्विधम् |
The seat (body), the doer, the various senses, the different functions of various sorts, a…
18.15शरीरवाङ्मनोभिर्यत्कर्म प्रारभते नरः |
Whatever action a man performs with his body, speech and mind whether right or the revers…
18.16तत्रैवं सति कर्तारमात्मानं केवलं तु यः |
Now, such being the case, verily he who owing to untrained understanding looks upon his …
18.17यस्य नाहंकृतो भावो बुद्धिर्यस्य न लिप्यते |
He who is free from the egoistic notion, whose intelligence is not tainted (by good or evi…
18.18ज्ञानं ज्ञेयं परिज्ञाता त्रिविधा कर्मचोदना |
Knowledge, the knowable and the knower form the threefold impulse to action; the organ, th…
18.19ज्ञानं कर्म च कर्ताच त्रिधैव गुणभेदतः |
Knowledge, action and actor are declared in the science of the Gunas (Sankhya philosophy) …
18.20सर्वभूतेषु येनैकं भावमव्ययमीक्षते |
That by which one sees the one indestructible Reality in all beings, not separate in all t…
18.21पृथक्त्वेन तु यज्ज्ञानं नानाभावान्पृथग्विधान् |
But that knowledge which sees in all beings various entities of distinct kinds as differen…
18.22यत्तु कृत्स्नवदेकस्मिन्कार्ये सक्तमहैतुकम् |
But that which clings to one single effect as if it were the whole, without reason, withou…
18.23नियतं सङ्गरहितमरागद्वेषतः कृतम् |
An action which is ordained, which is free from attachment, and which is done without love…
18.24यत्तु कामेप्सुना कर्म साहंकारेण वा पुनः |
But that action which is done by one longing for the fulfilment of desires or gain with eg…
18.25अनुबन्धं क्षयं हिंसामनपेक्ष्य च पौरुषम् |
That action which is undertaken from delusion, without a regard for the conseences, loss, …
18.26मुक्तसङ्गोऽनहंवादी धृत्युत्साहसमन्वितः |
An agent who is free from attachment, non-egoistic, endowed with firmness and enthusiasm, …
18.27रागी कर्मफलप्रेप्सुर्लुब्धो हिंसात्मकोऽशुचिः |
Passionate, desiring to obtain the reward of actions, greedy, cruel, impure, moved by joy …
18.28अयुक्तः प्राकृतः स्तब्धः शठो नैष्कृतिकोऽलसः |
Unsteady, vulgar, unbending, cheating, malicious, lazy, desponding and procrastinating su…
18.29बुद्धेर्भेदं धृतेश्चैव गुणतस्त्रिविधं शृणु |
Hear thou the threefold division of intellect and firmness according to the Gunas, as I de…
18.30प्रवृत्तिं च निवृत्तिं च कार्याकार्ये भयाभये |
The intellect which knows the path of work and renunciation, what ought to be done and wha…
18.31यया धर्ममधर्मं च कार्यं चाकार्यमेव च |
That, by which one wrongly understands Dharma and Adharma and also what ought to be done a…
18.32अधर्मं धर्ममिति या मन्यते तमसावृता |
That, which, enveloped in darkness, sees Adharma as Dharma and all things perverted that …
18.33धृत्या यया धारयते मनःप्राणेन्द्रियक्रियाः |
The unwavering firmness by which, through Yoga, the functions of the mind, the life-force …
18.34यया तु धर्मकामार्थान्धृत्या धारयतेऽर्जुन |
But that, O Arjuna, by which, on account of attachment and desire for reward, one holds fa…
18.35यया स्वप्नं भयं शोकं विषादं मदमेव च |
That, by which a stupid man does not abandon sleep, fear, grief, despair and also conceit …
18.36सुखं त्विदानीं त्रिविधं शृणु मे भरतर्षभ |
And now hear from Me, O Arjuna, of the threefold pleasure, in which one rejoices by practi…
18.37यत्तदग्रे विषमिव परिणामेऽमृतोपमम् |
That which is like poison at first but in the end like nectar that happiness is declared …
18.38विषयेन्द्रियसंयोगाद्यत्तदग्रेऽमृतोपमम् |
That happiness which arises from the contact of the sense-organs with the objects, which i…
18.39यदग्रे चानुबन्धे च सुखं मोहनमात्मनः |
That happiness which at first as well as in the seel deludes the self, and which arises fr…
18.40न तदस्ति पृथिव्यां वा दिवि देवेषु वा पुनः |
There is no being on earth or again in heaven among the gods, that is liberated from the t…
18.41ब्राह्मणक्षत्रियविशां शूद्राणां च परन्तप |
Of Brahmanas, Kshatriyas and Vaisyas, as also of Sudras, O Arjuna, the duties are distribu…
18.42शमो दमस्तपः शौचं क्षान्तिरार्जवमेव च |
Serenity, self-restraint, austerity, purity, forgiveness and also uprightness, knowledge, …
18.43शौर्यं तेजो धृतिर्दाक्ष्यं युद्धे चाप्यपलायनम् |
Prowess, splendour, firmness, dexterity and also not fleeing from battle, generosity and l…
18.44कृषिगौरक्ष्यवाणिज्यं वैश्यकर्म स्वभावजम् |
Agriculture, cattle-rearing and trade are the duties of the Vaisya (merchant), born of (th…
18.45स्वे स्वे कर्मण्यभिरतः संसिद्धिं लभते नरः |
He who does actions, offering them to Brahman, and abandoning attachment, is not tainted b…
18.46यतः प्रवृत्तिर्भूतानां येन सर्वमिदं ततम् |
He from Whom all the beings have evolved and by Whom all this is pervaded worshipping Him…
18.47श्रेयान्स्वधर्मो विगुणः परधर्मात्स्वनुष्ठितात् |
Better is one's own duty (though) destitute of merits, than the duty of another well perfo…
18.48सहजं कर्म कौन्तेय सदोषमपि न त्यजेत् |
One should not abandon, O Arjuna, the duty to which one is born, though faulty; for, all u…
18.49असक्तबुद्धिः सर्वत्र जितात्मा विगतस्पृहः |
He whose intellect is unattached everywhere, who has subdued his self, from whom desire ha…
18.50सिद्धिं प्राप्तो यथा ब्रह्म तथाप्नोति निबोध मे |
Learn from Me in brief, O Arjuna, how he who has attained perfection reaches Brahman (the …
18.51बुद्ध्या विशुद्धया युक्तो धृत्यात्मानं नियम्य च |
Endowed with a pure intellect, controlling the self by firmness, relinishing sound and oth…
18.52विविक्तसेवी लघ्वाशी यतवाक्कायमानसः |
Dwelling in solitude, eating but little, with speech, body and mind subdued, always engage…
18.53अहंकारं बलं दर्पं कामं क्रोधं परिग्रहम् |
Having abandoned egoism, strength, arrogance, desire, anger and covetousness, and free fro…
18.54ब्रह्मभूतः प्रसन्नात्मा न शोचति न काङ्क्षति |
Becoming Brahman, serene in the Self, he neither grieves nor desires, the same to all bein…
18.55भक्त्या मामभिजानाति यावान्यश्चास्मि तत्त्वतः |
By devotion he knows Me in truth, what and who I am; then having known Me in truth, he for…
18.56सर्वकर्माण्यपि सदा कुर्वाणो मद्व्यपाश्रयः |
Doing all actions always having taken refuge in Me, by My grace he obtains the eternal ind…
18.57चेतसा सर्वकर्माणि मयि संन्यस्य मत्परः |
Mentally renouncing all actions in Me, having Me as the highest goal, resorting to the Yog…
18.58मच्चित्तः सर्वदुर्गाणि मत्प्रसादात्तरिष्यसि |
Fixing thy mind on Me, thou shalt by My grace overcome all obstacles; but if from egoism t…
18.59यदहंकारमाश्रित्य न योत्स्य इति मन्यसे |
If, filled with egoism, thou thinkest: "I will not fight", vain is this, thy resolve; Natu…
18.60स्वभावजेन कौन्तेय निबद्धः स्वेन कर्मणा |
O Arjuna, bound by thy own Karma (action) born of thy own nature, that which from delusion…
18.61ईश्वरः सर्वभूतानां हृद्देशेऽर्जुन तिष्ठति |
The Lord dwells in the hearts of all beings, O Arjuna, causing all beings, by His illusive…
18.62तमेव शरणं गच्छ सर्वभावेन भारत |
Fly unto Him for refuge with all thy being, O Arjuna; by His grace thou shalt obtain supre…
18.63इति ते ज्ञानमाख्यातं गुह्याद्गुह्यतरं मया |
Thus has wisdom, more secret than secrecy itself, been declared unto thee by Me; having re…
18.64सर्वगुह्यतमं भूयः शृणु मे परमं वचः |
Hear thou again My supreme word, most secret of all; because thou art dearly beloved of Me…
18.65मन्मना भव मद्भक्तो मद्याजी मां नमस्कुरु |
Fix thy mind on Me, by devoted to Me, sacrifice to Me, bow down to Me. Thou shalt come eve…
18.66सर्वधर्मान्परित्यज्य मामेकं शरणं व्रज |
Abandoning all duties, take refuge in Me alone: I will liberate thee from all sins; grieve…
18.67इदं ते नातपस्काय नाभक्ताय कदाचन |
This is never to be spoken by thee to one who is devoid of austerities or devotion, nor to…
18.68य इदं परमं गुह्यं मद्भक्तेष्वभिधास्यति |
He who with supreme devotion to Me will teach this supreme secret to My devotees, shall do…
18.69न च तस्मान्मनुष्येषु कश्चिन्मे प्रियकृत्तमः |
Nor is there any among men who does dearer service to Me, nor shall there be another on ea…
18.70अध्येष्यते च य इमं धर्म्यं संवादमावयोः |
And he who will study this sacred dialogue of ours, by him I shall have been worshipped by…
18.71श्रद्धावाननसूयश्च शृणुयादपि यो नरः |
Also the man who hears this, full of faith and free from malice, he, too, liberated, shall…
18.72कच्चिदेतच्छ्रुतं पार्थ त्वयैकाग्रेण चेतसा |
Has this been heard, O Arjuna, with one-pointed mind?
18.73अर्जुन उवाच |
Arjuna said Destroyed is my delusion as I have gained my knowledge (memory) through Thy g…
18.74सञ्जय उवाच |
Sanjaya said Thus I have heard this wonderful dialogue between Krishna and the high-soule…
18.75व्यासप्रसादाच्छ्रुतवानेतद्गुह्यमहं परम् |
Through the grace of Vyasa I have heard this supreme and most secret Yoga direct from Kris…
18.76राजन्संस्मृत्य संस्मृत्य संवादमिममद्भुतम् |
O King, remembering this wonderful and holy dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna, I rejoice…
18.77तच्च संस्मृत्य संस्मृत्य रूपमत्यद्भुतं हरेः |
And, remembering again and again, also that most wonderful form of Hari, great is my wonde…
18.78यत्र योगेश्वरः कृष्णो यत्र पार्थो धनुर्धरः |
Wherever is Krishna, the Lord of Yoga; wherever is Arjuna, the wielder of the bow; there a…