श्रीभगवानुवाच |
The Blessed Lord said O Arjuna, hear how you shall without doubt know Me fully, with the …
7.2ज्ञानं तेऽहं सविज्ञानमिदं वक्ष्याम्यशेषतः |
I shall declare to thee in full this knowledge combined with realisation, after knowing wh…
7.3मनुष्याणां सहस्रेषु कश्चिद्यतति सिद्धये |
Among thousands of men, one perchance strives for perfection; even among those successful …
7.4भूमिरापोऽनलो वायुः खं मनो बुद्धिरेव च |
Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intellect and egoism thus is My Nature divided eigh…
7.5अपरेयमितस्त्वन्यां प्रकृतिं विद्धि मे पराम् |
This is the inferior Prakriti, O mighty-armed (Arjuna); know thou as different from it My …
7.6एतद्योनीनि भूतानि सर्वाणीत्युपधारय |
Know that these two (Natures) are the womb of all beings. So I am the source and dissoluti…
7.7मत्तः परतरं नान्यत्किञ्चिदस्ति धनञ्जय |
There is nothing whatsoever higher than Me, O Arjuna. All this is strung on Me, as cluster…
7.8रसोऽहमप्सु कौन्तेय प्रभास्मि शशिसूर्ययोः |
I am the sapidity in water, O Arjuna; I am the light in the moon and the sun; I am the syl…
7.9पुण्यो गन्धः पृथिव्यां च तेजश्चास्मि विभावसौ |
I am the sweet fragrance in the earth and the brilliance in the fire, the life in all bein…
7.10बीजं मां सर्वभूतानां विद्धि पार्थ सनातनम् |
Know Me, O Arjuna, as the eternal seed of all beings; I am the intelligence of the intelli…
7.11बलं बलवतां चाहं कामरागविवर्जितम् |
Of the strong, I am the strength devoid of desire and attachment, and in (all) beings, I a…
7.12ये चैव सात्त्विका भावा राजसास्तामसाश्च ये |
Whatever beings (and objects) that are pure, active and inert, know that they proceed from…
7.13त्रिभिर्गुणमयैर्भावैरेभिः सर्वमिदं जगत् |
Deluded by these Natures (states or things) composed of the three alities of Nature all th…
7.14दैवी ह्येषा गुणमयी मम माया दुरत्यया |
Verily, this divine illusion of Mine, made up of the (three) alities (of Nature) is diffic…
7.15न मां दुष्कृतिनो मूढाः प्रपद्यन्ते नराधमाः |
The evil-doers and the deluded who are the lowest of men do not seek Me; they whose knowle…
7.16चतुर्विधा भजन्ते मां जनाः सुकृतिनोऽर्जुन |
Four kinds of virtuous men worship Me, O Arjuna, and they are the distressed, the seekr of…
7.17तेषां ज्ञानी नित्ययुक्त एकभक्तिर्विशिष्यते |
Of them the wise, ever steadfast and devoted to the One, excels (is the best); for I am ex…
7.18उदाराः सर्व एवैते ज्ञानी त्वात्मैव मे मतम् |
Noble indeed are all these; but I deem the wise man as My very Self; for, steadfast in min…
7.19बहूनां जन्मनामन्ते ज्ञानवान्मां प्रपद्यते |
At the end of many births the wise man comes to Me, realising that all this is Vaasudeva (…
7.20कामैस्तैस्तैर्हृतज्ञानाः प्रपद्यन्तेऽन्यदेवताः |
Those whose wisdom has been rent away by this or that desire, go to other gods, following …
7.21यो यो यां यां तनुं भक्तः श्रद्धयार्चितुमिच्छति |
Whatsoever form any devotee desires to worship with faith that (same) faith of his I make…
7.22स तया श्रद्धया युक्तस्तस्याराधनमीहते |
Endowed with that faith, he engages in the worship of that (form) and from it he obtains h…
7.23अन्तवत्तु फलं तेषां तद्भवत्यल्पमेधसाम् |
Verily the reward (fruit) that accrues to those men of small intelligence is finite. The w…
7.24अव्यक्तं व्यक्तिमापन्नं मन्यन्ते मामबुद्धयः |
The foolish think of Me, the Unmanifest, as having manifestation, knowing not My higher, i…
7.25नाहं प्रकाशः सर्वस्य योगमायासमावृतः |
I am not manifest to all (as I am) veiled by the Yoga-Maya. This deluded world does not kn…
7.26वेदाहं समतीतानि वर्तमानानि चार्जुन |
I know, O Arjuna, the beings of the past, the present and the future, but no one knows Me.
7.27इच्छाद्वेषसमुत्थेन द्वन्द्वमोहेन भारत |
By the delusion of the pairs of opposites arising from desire and aversion, O Bharata, all…
7.28येषां त्वन्तगतं पापं जनानां पुण्यकर्मणाम् |
But those men of virtuous deeds whose sins have come to an end, and who are freed from the…
7.29जरामरणमोक्षाय मामाश्रित्य यतन्ति ये |
Those who strive for liberation from old age and death, taking refuge in Me, realise in fu…
7.30साधिभूताधिदैवं मां साधियज्ञं च ये विदुः |
Those who know Me with the Adhibhuta (pertaining to the elements), Adhidaiva (pertaining t…