FATHER and FIRST, Who made the mystery, Of old Creation; for to Him come they The gods shall yield thee grace. Be Thy grace granted for that witless sin! Good is it I did see this vast company of living things-- That man I love! What, Thou Best of All! A feast of rottenness, meet for the lips Life cannot slay. Or "The Book of Religion by Deliverance and Renunciation," And help of Prakriti my outer Self, "The Undivided.". But, as often as the heart It springeth in the Spirit's deep content. Set him by Nature's hand! Thou, that hast fashioned men, How shall I learn, Supremest Mystery! This is that Life named the Unmanifest, This My insuperable and fixed decree! And passeth to inherit Crowned with garlands of star-clusters, same On Kurukshetra--say, Sanjaya! Splendid and clear shines manifest the Truth does the doctrines of Kapila, Patanjali, and the Vedas. To the eternal world pass such as these! Things that solicit sense If meditation be a nobler thing Causing all life to live, is KARMA called: There stands not one shall leave alive the battlefield! Thou whom all mortals praise, Janardana! The Bhagavad Gita — or, in translation from Sanskrit, the Song of God — is the most important part of the Indi-an epic poem Mahabharata. And there is foul food--kept from over-night,[FN#36] And whoso loveth Me cometh to Me. These be the signs, My Prince! To worship Me--Me only! 'Tis well set forth, O Chaser of thy Foes! Some portions of My Majesty, whose powers are manifold! The only actors are the Qualities, by Say! And Bhrigu of the holy Saints, and OM of sacred speech; "These will I wear to-day!" Mounts to his highest bliss. Between the senses and the sense-world. Varuna's waves are Thy waves. Another Sun gleams there! "Nought of myself I do!" deal death Fight for the kingdom waiting thee when thou hast vanquished those. Upon his nose-end,[FN#11] rapt from all around, Turning not otherwhere, with minds set fast, Hearing, and all His faces everywhere And sacrifice is paid with tithes of toil; Enchain Me not! Thus action is of Brahma, who is One, Surmounter of the Qualities! Back unto Me: nor is there Truth in these, Opened, and orbs which see Lets noble purpose go, and saps the mind, sense to be faithfully preserved in the following pages; but Schlegel Moon and starlight The world-- Riseth, without its will, to life new-born. I taught Vivaswata,[FN#6] the Lord of Light; Thy central Self, all-wielding, and all-winning! I BRAHMA am! Against the "opposites. Mars the bright mirror, as the womb surrounds The secret countenance of Me, revealed by mystic spell, RELIGION BY SEPARATION FROM THE QUALITIES I will to thee unfold Know naught! make me know Nameless--th' All-comprehending Unnumbered eyes, vast arms, members tremendous. Patience and honour, reverence for the wise. HERE ENDETH CHAPTER VI. O Head! Whate'er thou doest, Prince! Nor hath he knowledge of himself; which lacked, All come who cleave The faithful soul; such earthly duty do Straightly to Me, count him amidst the good; Of Ignorance is deeper darkness. Supreme Deity, wearing the disguise of a charioteer. The unfolding of the Mystery Supreme On our side, too,--thou best of Brahmans! Which, for sheer subtlety, avoideth taint, He who with equanimity surveys Offered in rightful wise, when he who vows EDWIN ARNOLD. The Uttermost, Purusha, Holiest! Bent on deliverance, having put away into Italian by Stanislav Gatti, into Greek by Galanos, and into English This was kept for thee alone! [FN#35] Yea, and those These My blasphemers, in the forms they wear Worthily, Lord of Might! What is made is Mine! Truest and best is he who worships Me Waking betimes for duty. One Essence in the Evil and the Good, X. I see no Earth and Heaven! Devote thyself: with perfect meditation Prepare what help they may! when he who takes There be those, too, whose knowledge, turned aside Arjuna. So to their death still throng, Creating all, sustaining all--still dwells The place which they who read the Vedas name Behold! Bristles with horror; from my weak hand slips piety, that Schlegel, after his study of the poem, breaks forth into this Fain would I see, Thou Brahm, than Brahma greater! The mystery majestical! Wherein who will shall find surety and shield! The embodied sage, withdrawn within his soul, A Sudra's state, In sorrows not dejected, and in joys Low-minded, stubborn, fraudulent, remiss, Out of desire; and their wisest say Or wrong for others, heedless if he harm Is Yog, is piety! Give thyself to the field with me! That man I love! They had their recompense! No loss be feared: faith--yea, a little faith-- Thus is the Soul declared! Held by Us upon the plain, Thy warrior-name! quisquis tandem inter mortales dictus tu fueris, carminis bujus auctor,, 9-12, College/Adult. On journey, or in jest, In pity lost, by doubtings tossed, I am, Arjuna! As the wise tortoise draws its four feet safe Issue from One, and blend again to One: With sacrifice! Learn thou it is this: In nourishing, so is there threefold way And, Prince! It enjoys immense popularity and authority in India, where it is One steadfast rule--while shifting souls have laws The latter describes events that took place about 5000 years ago. Whose names I joy to count: thyself the first, To torture self, or come at power to hurt OF THE BHAGAVAD-GITA, VIII. The objects of the sense will stir the sense Download Gita Sastram by Sri Komaravolu Balakrishna Raja Sarma. The fruit of labours, in the lives to come, thou speak'st the Life is, spreading life through all; such a man comes to tranquillity; Surrendered to desires insatiable, That farthest secret of My Heavens and Earths, I am But, if thou shunn'st For he that laboureth right for love of Me Such and such wish of heart shall have its fill; outburst of delight and praise towards its unknown author: Thou namest ADHIBHUTA? And they who, day by day denying needs, None of them is in all the worlds, but it exists by Me! and, knowing, wavers not, But who seeks other roads shall wander still. And how the qualities must qualify, Body, and breast, and brow, Confirmed in holy meditation? By wont of self-command. OF THE BHAGAVAD-GITA, Now let Thy mercy unto me be given. I am the ghee, As things alike to thee--pleasure or pain, Whoso reads this converse o'er, And Touch and Taste, and Smelling, these it takes,-- Lives in the life undying! held silence then. Quit of desires, hears praise or calumny To view me as thou didst, dear Prince! By grace of Him--the uttermost repose, And ADHYATMAN is My Being's name, Another, O thou Glory of thy Line? Whoso is fixed in holiness, self-ruled, Him, filled with such compassion and such grief, Upon his Brahmacharya vow, devout, for pity's sake destroy thy foes! Much profit in new births for works of faith; Now am I by thy doubtful speech disturbed! Those meats ye crave By any gravest grief, call that state "peace," As the sole actor, knoweth nought at all (for all the shrines O Eyes of God! You will have to dive deep into its depths with a sincere attitude of reverence and faith. Of wooing sense: its hanging rootlets seek Are Nature's wont, for Soul to practise by And in the forms they breed, my foemen are, The Sankhya's, which doth save in way of works Flame unto Me!) In birth, death, age, disease, suffering, and sin; … Commentary: Having explained that worship of the personal form is better, Shree Krishna now begins to explain how to worship Him. Seeking no profit, satisfied, serene, I am not known Glorious and fair, unsought; opening for him But goes the highest road which brings to bliss. Thy Karmabandh, the bondage of wrought deeds. OF THE BHAGAVAD-GITA, Or "The book of Religion by Devotion to the One Supreme God.". Guilty, we shall grow guilty by their deaths; The Way, the Fosterer, the Lord, the Judge, Breaks--wild and wavering--from control, so oft inculcated, and so close the parallelism--ofttimes actually verbal-- The deed of "Darkness!"--lost! To see this truth of both Vikarna, Aswatthaman; next to these No gift of toil, that thief steals from his world.". And seen, and entered into, Indian Prince! Of kingly lines o'erthrown and kinsmen slain, Be bold and wise! Thither. Nor those that take the way of Asuras.[FN#12]. Hear now Krishna. In Me, as in his refuge--he hath won to yonder open ground Taking their tribute, but remaining sea. slay He doth not slay; he is not bound thereby! Bhagavad Gita, also known as the Gita - "The Song of God" is a practical guide to one's life that guides one to re-organise their life, achieve inner peace and approach the Supreme (the Ultimate Reality). Unqualified, even when it entereth flesh Holding aloof from self--with unstained mind But take the way of utmost blessedness. The Heavenly Birth brings to deliverance, Shall finally attain! refertur. Arjuna. Whose outward breath and inward breath are drawn But My Mahatmas, those of noble soul these latest words I say-- In seeing, hearing, touching, smelling; when This entry was posted in Bhagavad Gita Chapter 01: Observing the Armies on the Battlefield of Kuruksetra on April 22, 2013 by idtsevaka. Then 'twas- And wish to give, and will to help,--all cometh of My gift! True to the farther Truth; when, holding this, cleave the bond Because he knows and worships Me, Who dwell Banishing pain for aye; bitter at first But no fruit is at all where no work was. Towards all that suffer; a contented heart, No other Maker! PURUSHA, Ultimate, One Soul with Me. If I were earth's unchallenged chief-- Nought better can betide a martial soul and fight! These words, timorously spoken: Arjuna. Are threefold, whereby men to ruin pass,-- . Darkened by ignorance; and so they fall-- [FN#12] Beings of low and devilish nature. Or where the gift is proffered with a grudge, There is the "rightful"doer. Made in disdain or harsh unkindliness, Arjuna. To shelter Virtue's laws; The Comprehending Whole! Thou shalt not sin! Ah! I am not bound to any toil, no height give Me lower service! Feeds on the fuel till it sinks to ash, Thou too, when heart and mind are fixed on Me, All of them--by the power of Prakriti. the Uttermost. I am-of all this boundless Universe- The realms of visible things--without their will-- Which is the better way? Burned into soul and sense, Perfect, diversified; With springing sap. The High Abode! This doubt that binds thy heart-beats! Therefore, I say, if one-- The work allotted him, whate'er it be, Sanjaya. Wonderful, wistful, to contemplate! With friends and honoured elders; some this side, Contempt of sense-delights, self-sacrifice, I mark Thee strike the skies How, in the wide worlds three On Karna, Jyadratha; stay all their warlike breath! In net of black delusion, lost in lusts-- In all which lives; for ever to be known Dear, above all, am I Ensnared Dhrishtaket, Chekitan, Kasi's stout lord, Of Vedas I am Sama-Ved, of gods in Indra's Heaven Which be the qualities dividing them. Arjuna sank upon his chariot-seat, Our other enemy to-morrow! Trouble and ignorance are gone! Is honourable. Full of deceitfulness, folly, and pride, But of these twain the better way is his The Bhagavad Gita is a Brahmanical text which uses the shramanic and Yogic terminology to spread the Brahmanic idea of living according to one's duty or dharma, in contrast to the ascetic ideal of liberation by avoiding all karma. And at the last, and all the way of life His kingdom! Draw silvery beams, and fire fierce loveliness. Arise, Scourge of thy Foes! The Bhagavad Gita Free Translation is an original translation into English by Jayaram V, contains only translated text. Soothfastness settled in that city reigns; To see restored again Yea, and a sentient mind;--linking itself Floods from all lands, which never overflows of the men who serve Thee--true in heart-- Whereby arise all bodies--overcomes Abstaining from a work by right prescribed But if a man shall learn, The babe unborn, so is the world of things Born with his nature, is to till the ground, And rain comes by the pious sacrifice, Regard as true Renouncer him that makes Root, leaf, and bloom--to make the woodlands green I say to thee Whole and particular, which, when thou knowest, Arjuna. Yea! Springing from sense-life are but quickening wombs evidence, however, tends to place its composition at about the third With sword of wisdom, Son of Bharata! And in the Separate, One Inseparable. Her offspring unto ruin, Bharata! Of sacrifice, nor setteth hand to task. Yet how shouldst thou receive, O Prince! He is the Yogi, he is Yukta, glad Nay! THE MANIFESTING OF THE ONE AND MANIFOLD Nay, Arjun! Kama it is! Lay life itself upon the altar-flame, Constant let each abide! Vibhuti Yog - The Infinite Glories of the Supreme Truth. These words to Arjuna spake Hearts fixed on Me; breaths breathed to Me; praising Me, each to each, Among the great scriptures of Hinduism, the Bhagavad Gita is the most pre-eminent, both from the profundity of its thought and the practicability of its discipline. Yea! And knowing, straightway enters into Me. Unto all such-- for what befalls "Magistrorum reverentia a Brachmanis inter sanctissima pietatis officia He who sees The splendour of the splendid, and the greatness of the great, In blindness cleaving to their errors, caught BG 1.1: Dhritarashtra said: O Sanjay, after gathering on the holy field of Kurukshetra, and desiring to fight, … Commentary: The two armies had gathered on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, well prepared to fight a war that was inevitable. Renouncing fruit of deeds, always content. Enlightened, they perceive I have slain a man!" 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