7. Chapter Seven: Knowledge of the Absolute.
8. Chapter Eight: Attaining the Supreme.
9. Chapter Nine: The Most Confidential Knowledge
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Lord Krishna is the Supreme Truth, the supreme cause and sustaining force of everything, both material and spiritual. Advanced souls surrender unto Him in devotion, whereas impious souls divert their minds to other objects of worship.
7.1 sri-bhagavan uvac
mayy asakta-manah partha yogam yunjan mad-asrayah
asamsayam samagram mam yatha jnasyasi tac chrnu
“The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Now hear, O son of Pritha, how by practicing yoga in full consciousness of Me, with mind attached to Me, you can know Me in full, free from doubt.”
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7.2 jnanam te ’ham sa-vijnanam idam vaksyamy asesatah
yaj jnatva neha bhuyo ’nyaj jnatavyam avasisyate
“I shall now declare unto you in full this knowledge, both phenomenal and numinous. This being known, nothing further shall remain for you to know.”
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7.3 manushyanam sahasresu kascid yatati siddhaye
yatatam api siddhanam kascin mam vetti tattvatah
“Out of many thousands among men, one may endeavor for perfection, and of those who have achieved perfection, hardly one knows Me in truth.”
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7.4 bhumir apo ’nalo vayuh kham mano buddhir eva ca
ahankara itiyam me bhinna prakritir astadha
“Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence and false ego—all together these eight constitute My separated material energies.”
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7.5 apareyam itas tv anyam prakritim viddhi me param
jiva-bhutam maha-baho yayedam dharyate jagat
“Besides these, O mighty-armed Arjuna, there is another, superior energy of Mine, which comprises the living entities who are exploiting the resources of this material, inferior nature.”
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7.6 etad-yonini bhutani sarvanity upadharaya
aham krtsnasya jagatah prabhavah pralayas tatha
“All created beings have their source in these two natures. Of all that is material and all that is spiritual in this world, know for certain that I am both the origin and the dissolution.”
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7.7 mattah parataram nanyat kincid asti dhananjaya
mayi sarvam idam protam sutre mani-gana iva
“O conqueror of wealth, there is no truth superior to Me. Everything rests upon Me, as pearls are strung on a thread.”
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7.8 raso ’ham apsu kaunteya prabhasmi sasi-suryayoh
pranavah sarva-vedesu shabdah khe paurusam nrsu
“O son of Kunti, I am the taste of water, the light of the sun and the moon, the syllable om in the Vedic mantras; I am the sound in ether and ability in man.”
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7.9 punyo gandhah prithivyam ca tejas casmi vibhavasau
jivanam sarva-bhutesu tapas casmi tapasvisu
“I am the original fragrance of the earth, and I am the heat in fire. I am the life of all that lives, and I am the penances of all ascetics.”
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7.10 bijam mam sarva-bhutanam viddhi partha sanatanam
buddhir buddhimatam asmi tejas tejasvinam aham
“O son of Pritha, know that I am the original seed of all existences, the intelligence of the intelligent, and the prowess of all powerful men.”
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7.11 balam balavatam caham kama-raga-vivarjitam
dharmaviruddho bhutesu kamo ’smi bharatarsabha
“I am the strength of the strong, devoid of passion and desire. I am sex life which is not contrary to religious principles, O lord of the Bharatas [Arjuna].”
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7.12 ye caiva sattvika bhava rajasas tamasas ca ye
matta eveti tan viddhi na tv aham tesu te mayi
“Know that all states of being—be they of goodness, passion or ignorance—are manifested by My energy. I am, in one sense, everything, but I am independent. I am not under the modes of material nature, for they, on the contrary, are within Me.”
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7.13 tribhir guna-mayair bhavair ebhih sarvam idam jagat
mohitam nabhijanati mam ebhyah param avyayam
“Deluded by the three modes [goodness, passion and ignorance], the whole world does not know Me, who am above the modes and inexhaustible.”
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7.14 daivi hy esa guna-mayi mama maya duratyaya
mam eva ye prapadyante mayam etam taranti te
“This divine energy of Mine, consisting of the three modes of material nature, is difficult to overcome. But those who have surrendered unto Me can easily cross beyond it.”
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7.15 na mam duskritino mudhah prapadyante naradhamah
mayayapahrta-jnana asuram bhavam asritah
“Those miscreants who are grossly foolish, who are lowest among mankind, whose knowledge is stolen by illusion, and who partake of the atheistic nature of demons do not surrender unto Me.”
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7.16 catur-vidha bhajante mam janah sukritino ’rjuna
arto jijnasur artharthi jnani ca bharatarsabha
“O best among the Bharatas, four kinds of pious men begin to render devotional service unto Me—the distressed, the desirer of wealth, the inquisitive, and he who is searching for knowledge of the Absolute.”
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7.17 tesam jnani nitya-yukta eka-bhaktir visisyate
priyo hi jnanino ’tyartham aham sa ca mama priyah
“Of these, the one who is in full knowledge and who is always engaged in pure devotional service is the best. For I am very dear to him, and he is dear to Me.”
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7.18 udarah sarva evaite jnani tv atmaiva me matam
asthitah sa hi yuktatma mam evanuttamam gatim
“All these devotees are undoubtedly magnanimous souls, but he who is situated in knowledge of Me I consider to be just like My own self. Being engaged in My transcendental service, he is sure to attain Me, the highest and most perfect goal.”
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7.19 bahunam janmanam ante jnanavan mam prapadyate
vasudevah sarvam iti sa mahatma su-durlabhah
“After many births and deaths, he who is actually in knowledge surrenders unto Me, knowing Me to be the cause of all causes and all that is. Such a great soul is very rare.”
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7.20 kamais tais tair hrta-jnanah prapadyante ’nya-devatah
tam tam niyamam asthaya prakritya niyatah svaya
“Those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires surrender unto demigods and follow the particular rules and regulations of worship according to their own natures.”
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7.21 yo yo yam yam tanum bhaktah shraddhayarcitum icchati
tasya tasyacalam shraddham tam eva vidadhamy aham
“I am in everyone’s heart as the Supersoul. As soon as one desires to worship some demigod, I make his faith steady so that he can devote himself to that particular deity.”
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7.22 sa taya shraddhaya yuktas tasyaradhanam ihate
labhate ca tatah kaman mayaiva vihitan hi tan
“Endowed with such a faith, he endeavors to worship a particular demigod and obtains his desires. But in actuality these benefits are bestowed by Me alone.”
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7.23 antavat tu phalam tesam tad bhavaty alpa-medhasam
devan deva-yajo yanti mad-bhakta yanti mam api
“Men of small intelligence worship the demigods, and their fruits are limited and temporary. Those who worship the demigods go to the planets of the demigods, but My devotees ultimately reach My supreme planet.”
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7.24 avyaktam vyaktim apannam manyante mam abuddhayah
param bhavam ajananto mamavyayam anuttamam
“Unintelligent men, who do not know Me perfectly, think that I, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krishna, was impersonal before and have now assumed this personality. Due to their small knowledge, they do not know My higher nature, which is imperishable and supreme.”
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7.25 naham prakasah sarvasya yoga-maya-samavrtah
mudho ’yam nabhijanati loko mam ajam avyayam
“I am never manifest to the foolish and unintelligent. For them I am covered by My internal potency, and therefore they do not know that I am unborn and infallible.”
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7.26 vedaham samatitani vartamanani carjuna
bhavisyani ca bhutani mam tu veda na kascana
“O Arjuna, as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, I know everything that has happened in the past, all that is happening in the present, and all things that are yet to come. I also know all living entities; but Me no one knows.”
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7.27 iccha-dvesa-samutthena dvandva-mohena bharata
sarva-bhutani sammoham sarge yanti parantapa
“O scion of Bharata, O conqueror of the foe, all living entities are born into delusion, bewildered by dualities arisen from desire and hate.”
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7.28 yesham tv anta-gatam papam jananam punya-karmanam
te dvandva-moha-nirmukta bhajante mam drdha-vratah
“Persons who have acted piously in previous lives and in this life and whose sinful actions are completely eradicated are freed from the dualities of delusion, and they engage themselves in My service with determination.”
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7.29 jara-marana-mokshaya mam asritya yatanti ye
te brahma tad viduh krtsnam adhyatmam karma cakhilam
“Intelligent persons who are endeavoring for liberation from old age and death take refuge in Me in devotional service. They are actually Brahman because they entirely know everything about transcendental activities.”
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7.30 sadhibhutadhidaivam mam sadhiyajnam ca ye viduh
prayana-kale ’pi ca mam te vidur yukta-cetasah
“Those in full consciousness of Me, who know Me, the Supreme Lord, to be the governing principle of the material manifestation, of the demigods, and of all methods of sacrifice, can understand and know Me, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, even at the time of death.”
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By remembering Lord Krishna in devotion throughout one’s life, and especially at the time of death, one can attain to His supreme abode, beyond the material world.
8.1 arjuna uvaca
kim tad brahma kim adhyatmam kim karma purushottama
adhibhutam ca kim proktam adhidaivam kim ucyate
“Arjuna inquired: O my Lord, O Supreme Person, what is Brahman? What is the self? What are fruitive activities? What is this material manifestation? And what are the demigods? Please explain this to me.”
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8.2 adhiyajnah katham ko ’tra dehe ’smin madhusudana
prayana-kale ca katham jneyo ’si niyatatmabhih
“Who is the Lord of sacrifice, and how does He live in the body, O Madhusudana? And how can those engaged in devotional service know You at the time of death?”
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8.3 sri-bhagavan uvaca
aksharam brahma paramam svabhavo ’dhyatmam ucyate
bhuta-bhavodbhava-karo visargah karma-samjnitah
“The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: The indestructible, transcendental living entity is called Brahman, and his eternal nature is called adhyatma, the self. Action pertaining to the development of the material bodies of the living entities is called karma, or fruitive activities.”
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8.4 adhibhutam ksaro bhavah purushas cadhidaivatam
adhiyajno ’ham evatra dehe deha-bhrtam vara
“O best of the embodied beings, the physical nature, which is constantly changing, is called adhibhuta [the material manifestation]. The universal form of the Lord, which includes all the demigods, like those of the sun and moon, is called adhidaiva. And I, the Supreme Lord, represented as the Supersoul in the heart of every embodied being, am called adhiyajna [the Lord of sacrifice].”
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8.5 anta-kale ca mam eva smaran muktva kalevaram
yah prayati sa mad-bhavam yati nasty atra samsayah
“And whoever, at the end of his life, quits his body, remembering Me alone, at once attains My nature. Of this there is no doubt.”
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8.6 yam yam vapi smaran bhavam tyajaty ante kalevaram
tam tam evaiti kaunteya sada tad-bhava-bhavitah
“Whatever state of being one remembers when he quits his body, O son of Kunti, that state he will attain without fail.”
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8.7 tasmat sarveshu kaleshu mam anusmara yudhya ca
mayy arpita-mano-buddhir mam evaishyasy asamsayah
“Therefore, Arjuna, you should always think of Me in the form of Krishna and at the same time carry out your prescribed duty of fighting. With your activities dedicated to Me and your mind and intelligence fixed on Me, you will attain Me without doubt.”
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8.8 abhyasa-yoga-yuktena cetasa nanya-gamina
paramam purusham divyam yati parthanucintayan
“He who meditates on Me as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, his mind constantly engaged in remembering Me, undeviated from the path, he, O Partha, is sure to reach Me.”
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8.9 kavim puranam anusasitaram anor aniyamsam anusmared yah
sarvasya dhataram acintya-rupam aditya-varnam tamasah parastat
“One should meditate upon the Supreme Person as the one who knows everything, as He who is the oldest, who is the controller, who is smaller than the smallest, who is the maintainer of everything, who is beyond all material conception, who is inconceivable, and who is always a person. He is luminous like the sun, and He is transcendental, beyond this material nature.”
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8.10 prayana-kale manasacalena bhaktya yukto yoga-balena caiva
bhruvor madhye pranam avesya samyak sa tam param purusham upaiti divyam
“One who, at the time of death, fixes his life air between the eyebrows and, by the strength of yoga, with an undeviating mind, engages himself in remembering the Supreme Lord in full devotion, will certainly attain to the Supreme Personality of Godhead.”
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8.11 yad aksharam veda-vido vadanti vishanti yad yatayo vita-ragah
yad icchanto brahmacaryam caranti tat te padam sangrahena pravaksye
“Persons who are learned in the Vedas, who utter omkara and who are great sages in the renounced order enter into Brahman. Desiring such perfection, one practices celibacy. I shall now briefly explain to you this process by which one may attain salvation.”
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8.12 sarva-dvarani samyamya mano hridi nirudhya ca
murdhny adhayatmanah pranam asthito yoga-dharanam
“The yogic situation is that of detachment from all sensual engagements. Closing all the doors of the senses and fixing the mind on the heart and the life air at the top of the head, one establishes himself in yoga.”
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8.13 om ity ekaksharam brahma vyaharan mam anusmaran
yah prayati tyajan deham sa yati paramam gatim
“After being situated in this yoga practice and vibrating the sacred syllable om, the supreme combination of letters, if one thinks of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and quits his body, he will certainly reach the spiritual planets.”
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8.14 ananya-cetah satatam yo mam smarati nityasah
tasyaham sulabhah partha nitya-yuktasya yoginah
“For one who always remembers Me without deviation, I am easy to obtain, O son of Pritha, because of his constant engagement in devotional service.”
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8.15 mam upetya punar janma duhkhalayam asasvatam
napnuvanti mahatmanah samsiddhim paramam gatah
“After attaining Me, the great souls, who are yogis in devotion, never return to this temporary world, which is full of miseries, because they have attained the highest perfection.”
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8.16 a-brahma-bhuvanal lokah punar avartino ’rjuna
mam upetya tu kaunteya punar janma na vidyate
“From the highest planet in the material world down to the lowest, all are places of misery wherein repeated birth and death take place. But one who attains to My abode, O son of Kunti, never takes birth again.”
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8.17 sahasra-yuga-paryantam ahar yad brahmano viduh
ratrim yuga-sahasrantam te ’ho-ratra-vido janah
“By human calculation, a thousand ages taken together form the duration of Brahma’s one day. And such also is the duration of his night.”
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8.18 avyaktad vyaktayah sarvah prabhavanty ahar-agame
ratry-agame praliyante tatraivavyakta-samjnake
“At the beginning of Brahma’s day, all living entities become manifest from the unmanifest state, and thereafter, when the night falls, they are merged into the unmanifest again.”
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8.19 bhuta-gramah sa evayam bhutva bhutva praliyate
ratry-agame ’vasah partha prabhavaty ahar-agame
“Again and again, when Brahma’s day arrives, all living entities come into being, and with the arrival of Brahma’s night they are helplessly annihilated.”
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8.20 paras tasmat tu bhavo ’nyo ’vyakto ’vyaktat sanatanah
yah sa sarveshu bhutesu nasyatsu na vinasyati
“Yet there is another unmanifest nature, which is eternal and is transcendental to this manifested and unmanifested matter. It is supreme and is never annihilated. When all in this world is annihilated, that part remains as it is.”
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8.21 avyakto ’kshara ity uktas tam ahuh paramam gatim
yam prapya na nivartante tad dhama paramam mama
“That which the Vedantists describe as unmanifest and infallible, that which is known as the supreme destination, that place from which, having attained it, one never returns—that is My supreme abode.”
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8.22 purushah sa parah partha bhaktya labhyas tv ananyaya
yasyantah-sthani bhutani yena sarvam idam tatam
“The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is greater than all, is attainable by unalloyed devotion. Although He is present in His abode, He is all-pervading, and everything is situated within Him.”
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8.23 yatra kale tv anavrttim avrttim caiva yoginah
prayata yanti tam kalam vaksyami bharatarsabha
“O best of the Bharatas, I shall now explain to you the different times at which, passing away from this world, the yogi does or does not come back.”
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8.24 agnir jyotir ahah suklah san-masa uttarayanam
tatra prayata gacchanti brahma brahma-vido janah
“Those who know the Supreme Brahman attain that Supreme by passing away from the world during the influence of the fiery god, in the light, at an auspicious moment of the day, during the fortnight of the waxing moon, or during the six months when the sun travels in the north.”
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8.25 dhumo ratris tatha krishnah san-masa daksinayanam
tatra candramasam jyotir yogi prapya nivartate
“The mystic who passes away from this world during the smoke, the night, the fortnight of the waning moon, or the six months when the sun passes to the south reaches the moon planet but again comes back.”
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8.26sukla-krsne gati hy ete jagatah sasvate mate
ekaya yaty anavrttim anyayavartate punah
“According to Vedic opinion, there are two ways of passing from this world—one in light and one in darkness. When one passes in light, he does not come back; but when one passes in darkness, he returns.”
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8.27 naite srti partha janan yogi muhyati kascana
tasmat sarveshu kaleshu yoga-yukto bhavarjuna
“Although the devotees know these two paths, O Arjuna, they are never bewildered. Therefore be always fixed in devotion.”
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8.28 vedesu yajnesu tapahsu caiva danesu yat punya-phalam pradistam
atyeti tat sarvam idam viditva yogi param sthanam upaiti cadyam
“A person who accepts the path of devotional service is not bereft of the results derived from studying the Vedas, performing austere sacrifices, giving charity or pursuing philosophical and fruitive activities. Simply by performing devotional service, he attains all these, and at the end he reaches the supreme eternal abode.”
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Lord Krishna is the Supreme Godhead and the supreme object of worship. The soul is eternally related to Him through transcendental devotional service (bhakti). By reviving one’s pure devotion one returns to Krishna in the spiritual realm.
9.1 sri-bhagavan uvaca
idam tu te guhyatamam pravaksyamy anasuyave
jnanam vijnana-sahitam yaj jnatva moksyase ’subhat
“The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear Arjuna, because you are never envious of Me, I shall impart to you this most confidential knowledge and realization, knowing which you shall be relieved of the miseries of material existence.”
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9.2 raja-vidya raja-guhyam pavitram idam uttamam
pratyakshavagamam dharmyam su-sukham kartum avyayam
“This knowledge is the king of education, the most secret of all secrets. It is the purest knowledge, and because it gives direct perception of the self by realization, it is the perfection of religion. It is everlasting, and it is joyfully performed.”
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9.3 asraddadhanah purusha dharmasyasya parantapa
aprapya mam nivartante mrityu-samsara-vartmani
“Those who are not faithful in this devotional service cannot attain Me, O conqueror of enemies. Therefore they return to the path of birth and death in this material world.”
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9.4 maya tatam idam sarvam jagad avyakta-murtina
mat-sthani sarva-bhutani na caham tesv avasthitah
“By Me, in My unmanifested form, this entire universe is pervaded. All beings are in Me, but I am not in them.”
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9.5 na ca mat-sthani bhutani pasya me yogam aishvaram
bhuta-bhrn na ca bhuta-stho mamatma bhuta-bhavanah
“And yet everything that is created does not rest in Me. Behold My mystic opulence! Although I am the maintainer of all living entities and although I am everywhere, I am not a part of this cosmic manifestation, for My Self is the very source of creation.”
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9.6 yathakasa-sthito nityam vayuh sarvatra-go mahan
tatha sarvani bhutani mat-sthanity upadharaya
“Understand that as the mighty wind, blowing everywhere, rests always in the sky, all created beings rest in Me.”
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9.7 sarva-bhutani kaunteya prakritim yanti mamikam
kalpa-ksaye punas tani kalpadau visrjamy aham
“O son of Kunti, at the end of the millennium all material manifestations enter into My nature, and at the beginning of another millennium, by My potency, I create them again.”
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9.8 prakritim svam avastabhya visrijami punah punah
bhuta-gramam imam krtsnam avasam prakriter vasat
“The whole cosmic order is under Me. Under My will it is automatically manifested again and again, and under My will it is annihilated at the end.”
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9.9 na ca mam tani karmani nibadhnanti dhananjaya
udasina-vad asinam asaktam tesu karmasu
“O Dhananjaya, all this work cannot bind Me. I am ever detached from all these material activities, seated as though neutral.”
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9.10 mayadhyaksena prakritih suyate sa-caracaram
hetunanena kaunteya jagad viparivartate
“This material nature, which is one of My energies, is working under My direction, O son of Kunti, producing all moving and nonmoving beings. Under its rule this manifestation is created and annihilated again and again.”
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9.11 avajananti mam mudha manusim tanum asritam
param bhavam ajananto mama bhuta-maheshvaram
“Fools deride Me when I descend in the human form. They do not know My transcendental nature as the Supreme Lord of all that be.”
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9.12 moghasa mogha-karmano mogha-jnana vicetasah
rakshasim asurim caiva prakritim mohinim sritah
“Those who are thus bewildered are attracted by demonic and atheistic views. In that deluded condition, their hopes for liberation, their fruitive activities, and their culture of knowledge are all defeated.”
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9.13 mahatmanas tu mam partha daivim prakritim asritah
bhajanty ananya-manaso jnatva bhutadim avyayam
“O son of Pritha, those who are not deluded, the great souls, are under the protection of the divine nature. They are fully engaged in devotional service because they know Me as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, original and inexhaustible.”
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9.14 satatam kirtayanto mam yatantas ca drdha-vratah
namasyantas ca mam bhaktya nitya-yukta upasate
“Always chanting My glories, endeavoring with great determination, bowing down before Me, these great souls perpetually worship Me with devotion.”
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9.15 jnana-yajnena capy anyen yajanto mam upasate
ekatvena prithaktvena bahudha vishvato-mukham
“Others, who engage in sacrifice by the cultivation of knowledge, worship the Supreme Lord as the one without a second, as diverse in many, and in the universal form.”
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9.16 aham kratur aham yajnah svadhaham aham ausadham
mantro ’ham aham evajyam aham agnir aham hutam
“But it is I who am the ritual, I the sacrifice, the offering to the ancestors, the healing herb, the transcendental chant. I am the butter and the fire and the offering.”
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9.17 pitaham asya jagato mata dhata pitamahah
vedyam pavitram omkara rk sama yajur eva ca
“I am the father of this universe, the mother, the support and the grandsire. I am the object of knowledge, the purifier and the syllable om. I am also the Rig, the Sama and the Yajur Vedas.”
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9.18 gatir bharta prabhuh saksi nivasah saranam suhrt
prabhavah pralayah sthanam nidhanam bijam avyayam
“I am the goal, the sustainer, the master, the witness, the abode, the refuge, and the most dear friend. I am the creation and the annihilation, the basis of everything, the resting place and the eternal seed.”
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9.19 tapamy aham aham varsam nigrhnamy utsrijami ca
amritam caiva mrityus ca sad asac caham arjuna
“O Arjuna, I give heat, and I withhold and send forth the rain. I am immortality, and I am also death personified. Both spirit and matter are in Me.”
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9.20 trai-vidya mam soma-pah puta-papa yajnair istva svar-gatim prarthayante
te punyam asadya surendra-lokam asnanti divyan divi deva-bhogan
“Those who study the Vedas and drink the soma juice, seeking the heavenly planets, worship Me indirectly. Purified of sinful reactions, they take birth on the pious, heavenly planet of Indra, where they enjoy godly delights.”
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9.21 te tam bhuktva svarga-lokam visalam ksine punye martya-lokam vishanti
evam trayi-dharmam anuprapanna gatagatam kama-kama labhante
“When they have thus enjoyed vast heavenly sense pleasure and the results of their pious activities are exhausted, they return to this mortal planet again. Thus those who seek sense enjoyment by adhering to the principles of the three Vedas achieve only repeated birth and death.”
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9.22 ananyas cintayanto mam ye janah paryupasate
tesham nityabhiyuktanam yoga-ksemam vahamy aham
“But those who always worship Me with exclusive devotion, meditating on My transcendental form—to them I carry what they lack, and I preserve what they have.”
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9.23 ye ’py anya-devata-bhakta yajante shraddhayanvitah
te ’pi mam eva kaunteya yajanty avidhi-purvakam
“Those who are devotees of other gods and who worship them with faith actually worship only Me, O son of Kunti, but they do so in a wrong way.”
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9.24 aham hi sarva-yajnanam bhokta ca prabhur eva ca
na tu mam abhijananti tattvenatas cyavanti te
“I am the only enjoyer and master of all sacrifices. Therefore, those who do not recognize My true transcendental nature fall down.”
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9.25 yanti deva-vrata devan pitrn yanti pitr-vratah
bhutani yanti bhutejya yanti mad-yajino ’pi mam
“Those who worship the demigods will take birth among the demigods; those who worship the ancestors go to the ancestors; those who worship ghosts and spirits will take birth among such beings; and those who worship Me will live with Me.”
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9.26 patram puspam phalam toyam yo me bhaktya prayacchati
tad aham bhakty-upahrtam asnami prayatatmanah
“If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, fruit or water, I will accept it.”
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9.27 yat karosi yad asnasi yaj juhosi dadasi yat
yat tapasyasi kaunteya tat kurusva mad-arpanam
“Whatever you do, whatever you eat, whatever you offer or give away, and whatever austerities you perform—do that, O son of Kunti, as an offering to Me.”
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9.28 subhasubha-phalair evam moksyase karma-bandhanaih
sannyasa-yoga-yuktatma vimukto mam upaisyasi
“In this way you will be freed from bondage to work and its auspicious and inauspicious results. With your mind fixed on Me in this principle of renunciation, you will be liberated and come to Me.”
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9.29 samo ’ham sarva-bhutesu na me dvesyo ’sti na priyah
ye bhajanti tu mam bhaktya mayi te tesu capy aham
“I envy no one, nor am I partial to anyone. I am equal to all. But whoever renders service unto Me in devotion is a friend, is in Me, and I am also a friend to him.”
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9.30 api cet su-duracaro bhajate mam ananya-bhak
sadhur eva sa mantavyah samyag vyavasito hi sah
“Even if one commits the most abominable action, if he is engaged in devotional service he is to be considered saintly because he is properly situated in his determination.”
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9.31 ksipram bhavati dharmatma sasvac-chantim nigacchati
kaunteya pratijanihi na me bhaktah pranasyati
“He quickly becomes righteous and attains lasting peace. O son of Kunti, declare it boldly that My devotee never perishes.”
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9.32 mam hi partha vyapasritya ye ’pi syuh papa-yonayah
striyo vaishyas tatha shudras te ’pi yanti param gatim
“O son of Pritha, those who take shelter in Me, though they be of lower birth—women, vaishyas [merchants] and shudras [workers]—can attain the supreme destination.”
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9.33 kim punar brahmanah punya bhakta rajarsayas tatha
anityam asukham lokam imam prapya bhajasva mam
“How much more this is so of the righteous brahmanas, the devotees and the saintly kings. Therefore, having come to this temporary, miserable world, engage in loving service unto Me.”
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9.34 man-mana bhava mad-bhakto mad-yaji mam namaskuru
mam evaishyasi yuktvaivam atmanam mat-parayanah
“Engage your mind always in thinking of Me, become My devotee, offer obeisances to Me and worship Me. Being completely absorbed in Me, surely you will come to Me.”
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