(From the version translated by Winthrop Sargeant. In Sanskrit and English, available here. The following copies the English translation of the verses)
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BOOK 6 | The Yoga of Meditation
1
The Blessed Lord spoke:
He who performs that action
which is his duty,
While renouncing the fruit of action,
Is a renunciant and a yogin;
Not he who is without a consecrated
fire, and who fails to perform sacred rites.
2
That which they call renunciation,
Know that to be yoga, Arjuna.
Without renouncing selfish purpose,
No one becomes a yogin.
3
For the sage desirous of attaining
yoga,
Action is said to be the means;
For him who has already attained
yoga,
Tranquility is said to be the means.
4
When is attached neither to the
objects of the senses
Nor to actions,
And has renounced all purpose,
He is then said to have attained
yoga.
5
One should uplift oneself by the Self;
One should not degrade oneself;
For the Self alone can be a friend to
oneself,
And the Self alone can be an enemy of
oneself.
6
For him who has conquered himself by
the Self,
The Self is a friend;
But for him who has not conquered
himself,
The Self remains hostile, like an enemy.
7
The highest Self of him who has
conquered himself
And is peaceful, is steadfast
In cold, heat, pleasure, and pain;
Thus also in honor and dishonor.
8
The yogin who is satisfied with
knowledge and discrimination,
Who is unchanging, with conquered
senses,
To whom a clod, a stone, and gold are
the same,
Is said to have attained samadhi.
9
He who is equal-minded toward friend,
companion, and enemy,
Who is neutral among enemies and
kinsmen,
And who is impartial among
the righteous and also among the
evil,
Is to be distinguished among men.
10
The yogin should concentrate
constantly
On the Self, remaining in solitude,
Alone, with controlled mind and
body,
Having no desire and destitute of
possessions.
11
Establishing a firm seat for himself
In a clean place,
Not too high, not too low,
Covered with a cloth, an antelope skin,
and kusha grass,
12
There, having directed his mind to a
single object,
With his thought and the activity of the
senses controlled,
Seating himself on the seat, he should
practice
Yoga for the purpose of self-purification.
13
Holding the body, head and neck erect,
Motionless and steady,
Gazing at the tip of his own nose
And not looking in any direction,
14
With quieted mind, banishing fear,
Established in the brahmacharin vow
of celibacy,
Controlling the mind, with thoughts
fixed on Me,
He should sit, concentrated, devoted
to Me.
15
Thus, continually disciplining himself,
The yogin whose mind is subdued
Goes to nirvana, to supreme peace,
To union with Me.
16
Yoga is not eating too much
Nor is it not eating at all,
And not the habit of sleeping too
much,
And not keeping awake either,
Arjuna.
17
For him who is moderate in food and
diversion,
Whose actions are disciplined,
Who is moderate in sleep and waking,
Yoga destroys all sorrow.
18
When he is absorbed in the Self alone,
With controlled mind,
With controlled mind,
Free from longing from all desires,
Then he is said to be a saint.
19
As a lamp in a windless place
Does not flicker, to such is compared
The yogin of controlled mind,
Peforming the yoga of the Self.
20
When the mind comes to rest,
Restrained by the practice of yoga,
And when beholding the Self, by the
self
He is content in the Self,
21
He knows that infinite happiness
Which is grasped by the intellect
and transcend the senses,
And, established there
Does not deviate from the truth.
22
Having attained this,
No greater gain can he imagine;
Established in this
He is not moved even by profound
sorrow.
23
Let this, the dissolution of union with
pain,
Be known as yoga; this yoga
Is to be practiced with
determination
And with an undismayed mind.
24
Abandoning those desires whose
origins lie in one's intention,
All of them, without exception,
And completely restraining
The multitude of senses with the
mind,
25
Little by little, he should come to rest,
With the intellect firmly held.
His mind having been established in
the Self,
He should not think of anything.
26
Whenever the unsteady mind,
Moving to and fro, wanders away,
He should restrain it
And control it in the Self.
27
The yogin whose mind is peaceful.
Whose passions are calmed,
Who is free of evil and has become one
with Brahman,
Attains the highest bliss.
28
Thus constantly disciplining himself,
The yogin, freed from evil,
Easily encountering Brahman,
Attains happiness beyond end.
29
He who is disciplined by yoga sees
The Self present in all beings
And all beings present in the Self
He sees the same (Self) at all times.
30
He who sees Me everywhere,
And sees all things in Me,
I am not lost to him,
And he is not lost to Me.
31
The yogin who, established in oneness,
Honors Me as abiding in all beings
In whatever way he otherwise acts,
Dwells in Me.
32
He who sees equality in everything
In the image of his own Self,
Arjuna,
Whether in pleasure or in pain,
Is thought to be a supreme yogin.
33
Arjuna spoke:
This yoga which is declared by You
As evenness of mind, Krishna,
I do not perceive
The steady continuance of this because
of (the mind's) instability.
34
The mind, indeed, is unstable, Krishna,
Turbulent, powerful and obstinate;
I think it is as difficult
To control as the wind.
35
The Blessed Lord spoke:
Without doubt, O Arjuna,
The mind is unsteady and difficult to
restrain;
But by practice, Arjuna,
And by indifference to worldly objects,
it is restrained.
36
I agree that yoga is difficult to attain
By him whose self is uncontrolled; but
By him whose self is controlled,
By striving, it is possible to attain
through proper means.
37
Arjuna spoke;
One who is uncontrolled though he
has faith,
Whose mind has fallen away from
yoga,
Who does not attain perfection in
yoga,
Which way, Krishna, does he go?
38
Is he not like a disappearing
cloud,
Having fallen from both worlds,
Having no solid ground, O Krishna,
Confused on the path of Brahman?
39
You are able, Krishna,
To dispel the totality of this doubt of
mine;
Other than You, no one
Comes forth to help me erase this
doubt.
40
The Blessed Lord spoke:
Arjuna, neither here on earth
nor in heaven above
Is there found to be destruction of
him;
No one who does good
Goes to misfortune, My Son.
41
Attaining the worlds of the
meritorious,
Having dwelt there for endless years,
He who has fallen from yoga is born
again
In the dwelling of the radiant
and the illustrious.
42
Or he may be born in the family
Of wise yogins;
Such a birth as this is very
difficult
To attain the world.
43
There he regains the knoweldge
Derived from a former body;
And he strives onward once more
Toward perfection, Arjuna.
44
He is carried on, even against his will,
By prior practice;
He who even wishes to know of yoga
Transcends Brahman in the form
of sound (i.e. Vedic recitation).
45
Through persevering effort and
controlled mind,
The yogin, completely cleansed of
evil,
And perfected through many births,
Then goes to the supreme goal.
46
The yogin is superior to the ascetics,
He is also thought to be superior to the
learned,
And the yogin is superior to those who
perform ritual works.
Therefore, be a yogin, Arjuna.
47
Of all these yogins,
He who has merged his inner Self in Me,
Honors Me, full of faith,
Is thought to be the most devoted
to Me.
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BOOK 7 | The Yoga of Knowledge and Discrimination
1
The Blessed Lord spoke:
With mind absorbed in Me, Arjuna,
Practicing yoga, dependent on Me,
You shall know Me completely,
Without doubt; hear that!
2
To you I shall explain in full this
knowledge,
Along with realization,
Which, having been understood,
nothing further
Remains to be known here in the
world.
3
Of thousands of men,
Scarcely anyone strives for perfection;
Even of the striving and the perfected,
Scarcely anyone knows Me in truth.
4
Earth, water, fire, air,
Ether, mind, intellect
And egoism this,
My material nature, is divided into
eight parts.
5
Such is My inferior nature,
But know it as different from
My highest nature, the Self, O Arjuna,
By which this universe is sustained.
6
All creatures have their birth in this,
My highest nature.
Understand this!
I am the origin and also the
dissolution
Of the entire universe.
7
Nothing higher than Me exists.
O Arjuna.
On Me all this universe is strung
Like pearls on a thread.
8
I am the liquidity in the waters,
Arjuna,
I am the radiance in the moon and
sun,
The sacred syllable (Om) in all the
Vedas,
The sound in the air, and the manhood
in men.
9
I am the pure fragrance in the earth,
And the brilliance in the fire,
The life in all beings,
And the austerity in ascetics.
10
Know Me to be the primeval seed
Of all creatures, Arjuna;
I am the intelligence of the intelligence;
The splendor of the splendid, am I.
11
And the might of the mighty I am,
Which is freed from lust and passion,
And I am that desire in beings
Which is according to law,
Arjuna.
12
And those states of being which are
sattvic,
And those which are rajasic and
tamasic,
Know that they proceed from Me.
But I am not in them; they are in
Me.
13
All this universe is deluded by these
three states of being,
Composed of the qualities.
It does not recognize Me,
Who am higher than these, and
eternal.
14
Divine indeed is this illusion of Mine
made up of the three qualities,
And difficult to penetrate;
Only those who resort to Me
Trascend this illusion.
15
Evil doers, lowest of men,
Deprived of knowledge by illusion,
Do not seek Me,
Attached as they are to a demoniacal
existence.
16
Among benevolent men, four kinds
worship Me, Arjuna:
The distressed, those who desire wealth,
Those who desire knowledge.
And the man of wisdom, Arjuna.
17
Of them the man of wisdom, eternally
steadfast,
Devoted to the One alone, is preeminent.
I am indeed exceedingly fond of the
man of wisdom,
And he is fond of Me.
18
All these are indeed noble,
But the man of wisdom is thought to
be My very Self.
He, indeed, whose mind is steadfast,
Abides in Me, the supreme goal.
19
At the end of many births,
The man of wisdom resorts to Me,
Thinking "Vasudeva (Krishna) is all."
Such a great soul is hard to find.
20
Men whose knowledge has been
carried away
By these and those desires, resort to
other gods,
Having recourse to this and that
religious rite,
Constrained by their own material
natures.
21
Whoever desires to honor with belief
Whatever worshipped form,
On him I bestow
Immovable faith.
22
He, who, endowed with this faith,
Desires to propitiate that form,
Receives from it his desires
Because those desires are decreed
by Me.
23
But temporary is the fruit
For those of small understanding.
To the gods the godworshippers go;
My worshippers come surely to Me.
24
Though I am unmanifest, the
unintelligent
Think of Me as having manifestation,
Not knowing My higher being
Which is imperishable and unsurpassed.
25
I am not manifest to all,
Being enveloped in yoga maya;
This deluded world does not recognize
Me,
The birthless and imperishable.
26
I know the departed beings
And the living, Arjuna,
And those who are yet to be;
But no one knows Me.
27
Because of the arising of desire
and hatred,
Because of the deluding (power) of the
opposites, Arjuna,
All beings fall into delusion
At birth.
28
But those in whom evil has come to an
end,
Those men whose actions are pure;
They, liberated from the deluding
power of the opposited,
Worship Me with firm vows.
29
Those who strive toward release from
Old age and death, depending on Me,
Know Brahman thoroughly,
As well as the Self and all
action.
30
They who know Me as the Adibhuta
and the Adhidaiva,
As well as the chief of sacrifice,
They truly know Me with steadfast
thought
Even at the hour of death.
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BOOK 8 | The Yoga of Imperishable Brahman
1
Arjuna spoke:
What is this Brahman? What is the
Adhyatma?
What is action, O highest among
Spirits?
And the Adhibhuta, what is it declared
to be?
And the Adhidaiva, what is it said
to be?
2
In what manner, and what, is the
Adhiyajna
Here in this body, O Krishna?
And how at the hour of death
Are You to be known by those who
are self-controlled?
3
The Blessed Lord spoke:
Brahman is the supreme imperishable;
And Adhyatma is said to be the
inherent nature of individual,
Which originates the being of
creatures;
Action is known as the creative power
(of the individual, which causes
him to be reborn in this or that
condition of being).
4
The Adhibhuta is the perishable
nature of being (or the sphere of the
supreme Spirit in acting on the
individual, i.e. nature)
The Adhidaivata is the supreme
divine Agent itself (the purusha).
The Adhyajna (Lord of Sacrifice)
is Myself,
Here in this body, O Arjuna.
5
And at the hour of death, he who dies
remembering Me,
Having relinquished the body,
Goes to My state of being.
In this matter there is no doubt.
6
Moreover, whatever state of being he
remembers
When he gives up the body at the end,
He goes respectively to that state of
being, Arjuna,
Transformed into the state of
being.
7
Therefore, at all times
Meditate on Me,
With your mind and intellect
fixed on Me.
In this way, you shall surely come
to Me.
8
With a mind disciplined by the
practice of yoga,
Which does not turn to anything else,
To the divine supreme Spirit
He goes, Arjuna, meditating
on Him.
9
He who meditates on the ancient seer,
The ruler, smaller than the atom,
Who is the supporter of all, whose
form is unthinkable,
And who is effulgent like the sun,
beyond darkness;
10
At the hour of death, with unmoving
mind,
Endowed with devotion and with
the power of yoga,
Having made the vital breath enter
between the two eyebrows,
He reaches this divine supreme Spirit.
11
That which those who know the Vedas
call the imperishable,
Which the ascetics, free from passion,
enter,
Desiring which they follow a life of
chastity,
That path I shall explain to you
briefly.
12
Closing all the gates of the body,
And confining the mind in the
heart,
Having placed the vital breath in the
head,
Established in yoga concentration,
13
Uttering the single-syllable "Om"
Brahman
Meditating on Me,
He who goes forth, renouncing the
body,
Goes to the supreme goal.
14
He who thinks of Me constantly,
Whose mind does not ever go
elsewhere,
For him, the yogin who is constantly
devoted,
I am easy to reach, Arjuna.
15
Approaching Me, those whose souls
are great,
Who have gone to the supreme perfection,
Do not incur rebirth,
That impermanent home of
misfortune.
16
Up to Brahma's realm of being,
The worlds are subject to successive
rebirths, Arjuna;
But he who reaches Me
Is not reborn.
17
They who know that the day of
Brahma
Extends as far as a thousand yugas,
And that the night of Brahma ends
only in thousand yugas;
They are men who know day and
night.
18
From the unmanifest, all
manifestations
Come forth at the arrival of
(Brahma's) day;
At the arrival of (Brahma's) night,
they are dissolved,
At that point to be known as the
unmanifest again.
19
This multitude of beings,
Having come to be again and again,
is dissolved.
Helplessly at the arrival of night, Arjuna.
And it comes into existence again at the
arrival of day.
20
But higher than this state of being
Is another unmanifest state of being
Higher than the primeval unmanifest,
Which, when all beings perish, does
not perish.
21
This unmanifest is the imperishable,
thus it is said.
They call it the supreme goal,
Attaining which, they do not return.
This is My supreme dwelling place.
22
This is the supreme Spirit, Arjuna,
Attainable by one-pointed devotion,
Within which all beings stand,
And by which all this universe is pervaded.
23
But at which times the yogins
Return or do not return,
As they depart at death,
Of these times I shall speak, Arjuna.
24
Fire, brightness, day, the bright lunar
fortnight,
The six months of the northern course
of the sun:
Departing then, the men who know
Brahman
Go forth to Brahman.
25
Smoke, night, the dark lunar
fortnight,
The six months of the southern course
of the sun;
Attaining by these the lunar light,
The yogin is born again.
26
These are the two paths, light and
dark,
Thought to be eternal for the universe.
By one he does not return;
By the other he returns again.
27
Knowing these two paths
The yogin is not confused at all.
Therefore, at all times,
Be steadfast in yoga, Arjuna.
28
The yogin, having known all this, goes
beyond
The pure fruit of action which comes
from study of the Vedas,
Sacrifices, auterities, and gifts,
And goes to the supreme primal
state.
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BOOK 9 | The Yoga of Royal Knowldge and of Royal Mystery
1
The Blessed Lord spoke:
But this most secret thing
I shall declare to you, who do not
disbelieve:
Knowledge and realization combined,
Having learned which you shall be
released from evil.
2
This is royal knowledge, a royal secret,
A supreme purifier,
Plainly intelligible, righteous,
Easy to practice, imperishable.
3
Men who have no faith
In this knowledge, Arjuna,
Not attaining to Me, are born again
In the path of death and transmigration.
4
This whole universe is pervaded
By Me in My unmanifest aspect.
All beings abide in Me;
I do not abide in them.
5
And yet beings do not abide in Me.
Behold my divine yoga!
Sustaining beings and not dwelling in
beings
Is my Self, causing beings to be.
6
As the mighty wind, going everywhere,
Dwells eternally in space,
So all beings
Dwell in Me. Consider this!
7
All beings, Arjuna,
Go to My own material nature
At the end of a kalpa;
At the beginning of a kalpa, I send
them forth.
8
Resting on My own material nature,
I send forth again and again
This entire multitude of beings,
Which is powerless, by the power of
My material nature,
9
And these actions do not bind Me,
Arjuna;
I sit indifferently,
Unattached to these actions.
10
With Me as overseer, material nature
Produces all things animate and
inanimate.
From this cause, Arjuna,
The universe revolves.
11
The deluded despise Me,
Clad in human form,
Not knowing in My higher being
As the great Lord of beings.
12
Those of vain hopes, vain actions,
Vain knowledge, devoid of discrimination,
Abide in a fiendish and demoniacal
nature,
Which is deluding.
13
But those whose souls are great, Arjuna,
Partaking of a calestial nature,
Worship Me single-mindedly,
Knowing Me as the origin of beings
and as the imperishable.
14
Perpetually glorifying Me
And striving with firm vows,
And honouring Me with devotion,
Ever steadfast, they worship Me.
15
And by the wisdom sacrifice,
Others, sacrificing, worship Me
As the one and as the manifold,
Variously manifested, facing in all
directions (i.e. omniscient).
16
I am the ritual, I am the sacrifice,
I am the offering, I am the medicinal
herb,
I am the sacred text, I am also the
clarified butter,
I am the fire, I am the pouring out
(of the oblation).
17
I am the father of the universe,
The mother, the establisher, the
grandfather,
The object of knowledge, the purifier,
the sacred syllable "Om,"
The Rig, Sama, and Yajur Vedas.
18
I am the goal, the supporter, the great
Lord, the witness,
The abode, the refuge, the friend,
The origin, the dissolution and the
foundation,
The treasure house and the
imperishable seed.
19
I radiate heat, I withhold and
Send forth the rain;
And I am both immortality and death,
Being and non-being, Arjuna.
20
Those who know the three Vedas, the
soma drinkers, those whose evils are
cleansed,
Worship Me with sacrifices and seek
to go to heaven.
They, attaining the pure world of the
Lord of the gods,
Enjoy in heaven the gods' celestial
pleasures.
21
Having enjoyed the vast world of
heaven,
They enter the world of mortals when
their merit is exhausted.
Thus conforming to the law of the
three Vedas,
Desiring enjoyments, they obtain
the state of going and returning.
22
Those men who worship, directing
their thoughts to Me,
Whose minds do not go elsewhere;
For them, who are constantly steadfast,
I secure what they lck and preserve
what they already possess.
23
Even those who worship other gods
With faith,
Also worship Me, Arjuna,
Though they do so in ignorance.
24
For I am the enjoyer and the Lord
Of all sacrifcies.
But they do not recognize Me in
truth;
Hence they fall.
25
Those who are devoted to the gods go
to the gods;
Those who are devoted to the ancestors
go to the ancestors;
Those who are devoted to the spirits
go to the spirits;
Those who worship Me come surely
to Me.
26
He who offers to Me with devotion
and a pure heart
A leaf, a flower, a fruit, or water,
That offering of devotion
I accept from him.
27
Whatever you do, whatever you
eat,
Whatever you offer, whatever you
give,
Whatever austerities you perform,
Arjuna,
Do that as an offering to Me.
28
You shall certainly be liberated
From the bonds of action which
produce good and evil fruits;
Liberated, with your mind disciplined
by the yoga of renunciation,
You shall come to Me.
29
I am the same (Self) in all beings;
There is none disliked or dear to Me.
But they who worship Me with
devotion
Are in Me, and I am also in them.
30
If even the evil doer
Worships Me with undivided
devotion
He is to be thought of as righteous,
For he has indeed rightly resolved.
31
Quickly he becomes virtuous and
Goes to everlasting peace.
Arjuna, know for certain that
No devotee of Mine is ever lost.
32
They who take refuge in Me,
Arjuna,
Even if they are born of those whose
wombs are evil (i.e. those of low
origin),
Women, Vaishyas, even Shudras,
Also go to the hgihest goal.
33
How much more easily then, the pure
Brahmins
And the devoted royal seers!
Having attained this impermanent
and unhappy world,
Devote yourself to Me.
34
With mind fixed on Me, be devoted to
Me;
Sacrificing to Me, make reverence to
Me.
Thus steadfast, with Me as your supreme
aim,
You yourself shall come to Me.
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BOOK 10 | The Yoga of Manifestation
1
The Blessed Lord spoke:
Again, O Arjuna,
Hear My supreme word
Which I shall speak to you, who are
beloved,
With a desire for your welfare.
2
Neither the multitude of gods
Nor the great seers know My origin.
In truth I am the source of the gods
And the great seers.
3
He who knows Me, the birthless and
the beginningless,
The mighty Lord of the world,
He among mortals is undeluded;
He is released from all evils.
4
Intellect, knowledge, freedom from
delusion,
Patience, truth, self-restraint,
tranquility,
Pleasure, pain, birth, death,
And fear and fearlessness,
5
Non-violence, impartiality,
contentment,
Austerity, charity, fame, disrepute,
The manifold conditions of beings,
Arise from Me alone.
6
The seven great seers of old,
And also the four Manus,
From whom have sprung these
creatures of the world,
Originated from Me, born of My mind.
7
He who knows in truth
This, My manifested glory and
power,
Is united with Me by unwavering
yoga;
Of this there is no doubt.
8
I am the origin of all;
All proceeds from Me.
Thinking thus, the intelligent ones,
Worship Me.
9
Those who think of Me, who absorb
their lives in Me,
Enlightening each other,
And speaking of me constantly,
They are content and rejoice.
10
To those who are constantly
steadfast,
Those who worship Me with love,
I give the yoga of discrimination
By which they come to Me.
11
Out of compassion for them,
I, who dwell within their own beings,
Destroy the darkness born of
ignorance
With the shining lamp of knowledge.
12
Arjuna spoke:
You are the supreme Brahman, the
supreme abode,
The supreme purifier,
The eternal diving Spirit,
The primal God, unborn and
all-pervading.
13
Thus they call You, all the seers,
The divine seer Narada,
Also Asita, Devala, and Vyasa,
And You Yourself (now) tell me so.
14
All this which You speak to me,
Krishna,
I believe to be true;
Indeed, neither the gods not the
demons, O Blessed one,
Know Your manifestation.
15
Supreme Being, O Lord of the universe,
You know Yourself through Yourself
alone,
Highest of spirits,
Source of welfare of beings, Lord of
beings,
God of gods, O Lord of the universe.
16
Please describe without reserve
The divine self-manifestations
By which You pervade
These worlds, and abide in them.
17
How may I know you, O Yogin,
Constantly meditating on You?
And in what various aspects of being
Are You to be thought of by me,
O Blessed One?
18
Explain to me further in detail
Your power and manifestation,
O Krishna.
I am never satiated with hearing
Your nectar-like words.
19
The Blessed Lord spoke:
Listen! I shall explain to you
My divine self-manifestations;
Those only that are prominent,
For there is no end to my extent.
20
I am the Self, Arjuna,
Abiding in the heart of all beings;
And I am the beginning and the middle
Of beings, and the end as well.
21
Of the Adityas, I am Vishnu;
Of lights, the radiant sun;
I am Marichi of the Maructs;
Among the heavenly bodies I am the
moon.
22
Of the Vedas, I am the Sama Veda;
Of the gods, I am Vasava;
And of the senses, I am the mind,
I am the consciousness of beings.
23
And of the Rudras, I am Shankara;
I am Kubera of the Yaksas and Rakshasas;
I am fire of the Vasus
And the Meru of mountains.
24
Know that I am the chief of household
priests,
Brihaspati, Arjuna;
Of the commander of armies, I am
Skanda;
Of bodies of water, I am the ocean.
25
Of the great seers, I am Bhrigu;
Of words, I am the single
syllable "Om";
Of sacrifices, I am japa (silent repetition);
Of immovable things, the Himalayas.
26
Among all trees, I am the sacred fig
tree;
And of the divine seers, Narada;
And of the divine seers, Narada;
And of the Gandharvas, Chitraratha;
And of the perfected, Kapila, the sage.
27
Know that I am Ucchaishravas of horses,
Born of nectar;
Airavata of princely elephants;
And of men, the king.
28
Of weapons, I am the thinder bolt;
Of cows, I am the wish-fulfilling cow;
I am the progenitor Kandarpa;
And of serpents, I am Vasuki.
29
I am Ananta of the Nagas;
Varuna of the water creatures;
Of the ancestors, I am Aryaman;
And Yama of the controllers.
30
I am Prahlada of the demons;
Time, of the calculators;
Of the beasts, I am the lion;
And Garuda, of the birds.
31
Of purifiers, I am the wind;
Rama of the warriors;
Of the sea monsters I am the alligators;
And of rivers I am the Ganges.
32
Of creations I am the beginning
and the end,
And also the middle, O Arjuna;
Of all knoweldge, the knowelde of
the supreme Self.
I am the logic of those who debate.
33
Of letters I am the letter A,
And the dual of compound words;
I alone am infinite time;
I am the Establisher, facing in all
directions (i.e. omniscient).
34
I am all-destroying death,
And the origin of those things that are
yet to be.
Among the feminine qualities, I am fame,
prosperity, speech,
Memory, wisdom, courage,
and patience.
35
Of chants I am the Brihatsaman;
Of meters I am the Gayatri;
Of months, the Marga-shirsha;
And of seasons, the spring, abounding
with flowers.
36
I am the gambling of the dishonest,
The splendor of the splendid;
I am victory, I am effort,
I am the goodness of the good.
37
Of the Vrishnis, I am Vasudeva;
Of the sons of Pandu, Arjuna;
Of the sages, moreover, I am Vyasa;
Of poets, the poets Ushana.
38
Of punishers, I am the scepter,
And I am the guidance of those
desirous of victory;
Of secrets, I am silence and
The knoweldge of the wise.
39
And also I am that which is the seed
of all creatures,
Arjuna;
There is nothing that could exist
without
Existing through Me, whether moving
or not moving.
40
There is no end to My divine
Manifestations, Arjuna.
This has been declared by Me
As an example of the extent of My
manifestations.
41
Whatever manifested being that is
Glorious and vigorous, indeed,
Understand that in every case
He originates from a fraction of My
splendor.
42
But what is this extensive
Knowledge to you, Arjuna?
I support this entire universe
constantly
With a single fraction of Myself.
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