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jñeyaṃ yattatpravakṣyāmi yajjñātvāmṛtamaśnute । anādi matparaṃ brahma na sattannāsaducyate ॥

“I will declare what must be known, knowing which one wins deathlessness — the beginningless, highest Brahman, called neither being nor non-being.”

sarvataḥ pāṇipādaṃ tatsarvato'kṣiśiromukham । sarvataḥ śrutimalloke sarvamāvṛtya tiṣṭhati ॥

“With hands and feet everywhere, with eyes, heads and mouths everywhere, with hearing everywhere in the world, it stands covering all.”

sarvendriyaguṇābhāsaṃ sarvendriyavivarjitam । asaktaṃ sarvabhṛccaiva nirguṇaṃ guṇabhoktṛ ca ॥

“Seeming to have all sense-powers, yet free of all senses; unclinging, yet bearing all; qualityless, yet tasting qualities.”

bahirantaśca bhūtānāmacaraṃ carameva ca । sūkṣmatvāttadavijñeyaṃ dūrasthaṃ cāntike ca tat ॥

“Outside and inside beings, moving and unmoving too; from subtlety unknowable, far yet near.”

avibhaktaṃ ca bhūteṣu vibhaktamiva ca sthitam । bhūtabhartṛ ca tajjñeyaṃ grasiṣṇu prabhaviṣṇu ca ॥

“Undivided, yet standing as if divided among beings; that knowable bears beings, devouring and bringing forth.”

jyotiṣāmapi tajjyotistamasaḥ paramucyate । jñānaṃ jñeyaṃ jñānagamyaṃ hṛdi sarvasya viṣṭhitam ॥

“Even of lights it is the light, called beyond darkness; knowledge, the knowable, reached by knowledge, fixed in the heart of all.”

iti kṣetraṃ tathā jñānaṃ jñeyaṃ coktaṃ samāsataḥ । madbhakta etadvijñāya madbhāvāyopapadyate ॥

“Thus field, knowledge, and the knowable are told in brief; knowing this, My devotee fits himself for My state.”

prakṛtiṃ puruṣaṃ caiva viddhyanādī ubhāvapi । vikārāṃśca guṇāṃścaiva viddhi prakṛtisaṃbhavān ॥

“Know matter and spirit as both beginningless; and know changes and qualities as born of matter.”

kāryakāraṇakartṛtve hetuḥ prakṛtirucyate । puruṣaḥ sukhaduḥkhānāṃ bhoktṛtve heturucyate ॥

“Matter is called the cause of doership in effect-and-cause; spirit is called the cause of tasting pleasure and pain.”

puruṣaḥ prakṛtistho hi bhuṅkte prakṛtijānguṇān । kāraṇaṃ guṇasaṅgo'sya sadasadyonijanmasu ॥

“For spirit, standing in matter, tastes the qualities born of matter; clinging to qualities is the cause of births in good and evil wombs.”

upadraṣṭānumantā ca bhartā bhoktā maheśvaraḥ । paramātmeti cāpyukto dehe'sminpuruṣaḥ paraḥ ॥

“The onlooker, approver, bearer, taster, great lord — and called the highest self too — the supreme spirit in this body.”

ya evaṃ vetti puruṣaṃ prakṛtiṃ ca guṇaiḥ saha । sarvathā vartamāno'pi na sa bhūyo'bhijāyate ॥

“Whoever thus knows spirit and matter with the qualities — though living in all ways, he is not born again.”

dhyānenātmani paśyanti kecidātmānamātmanā । anye sāṃkhyena yogena karmayogena cāpare ॥

“By musing some see the self in the self by the self; others by theory-discipline, and others by deed-discipline.”

anye tvevamajānantaḥ śrutvānyebhya upāsate । te'pi cātitarantyeva mṛtyuṃ śrutiparāyaṇāḥ ॥

“But others, unknowing thus, worship having heard from others; they too cross beyond death, devoted to hearing.”

yāvatsaṃjāyate kiṃcitsattvaṃ sthāvarajaṅgamam । kṣetrakṣetrajñasaṃyogāttadviddhi bharatarṣabha ॥

“Whatever state is born, moving or unmoving, O best of Bharatas — know it as from the union of field and knower of the field.”

samaṃ sarveṣu bhūteṣu tiṣṭhantaṃ parameśvaram । vinaśyatsvavinaśyantaṃ yaḥ paśyati sa paśyati ॥

“Whoever sees the highest lord standing the same in all beings, unperishing amid the perishing — he truly sees.”

samaṃ paśyanhi sarvatra samavasthitamīśvaram । na hinastyātmanātmānaṃ tato yāti parāṃ gatim ॥

“For seeing the lord the same everywhere, evenly set, one does not harm the self by the self, and then reaches the highest path.”

prakṛtyaiva ca karmāṇi kriyamāṇāni sarvaśaḥ । yaḥ paśyati tathātmānamakartāraṃ sa paśyati ॥

“Whoever sees deeds done in all ways by nature alone, and the self as the non-doer — he truly sees.”

yadā bhūtapṛthagbhāvamekasthamanupaśyati । tata eva ca vistāraṃ brahma saṃpadyate tadā ॥

“When one sees the manifold being of beings standing in one, and spreading from that alone — then one reaches Brahman.”

anāditvānnirguṇatvātparamātmāyamavyayaḥ । śarīrastho'pi kaunteya na karoti na lipyate ॥

“From beginninglessness and qualitylessness, this highest self, unchanging, O son of Kuntī — though standing in the body, neither acts nor is stained.”

yathā sarvagataṃ saukṣmyādākāśaṃ nopalipyate । sarvatrāvasthito dehe tathātmā nopalipyate ॥

“As space, all-going, from subtlety is not stained, so the self, present everywhere in the body, is not stained.”

yathā prakāśayatyekaḥ kṛtsnaṃ lokamimaṃ raviḥ । kṣetraṃ kṣetrī tathā kṛtsnaṃ prakāśayati bhārata ॥

“As the one sun lights this whole world, so the field-knower lights the whole field, O Bhārata.”

kṣetrakṣetrajñayorevamantaraṃ jñānacakṣuṣā । bhūtaprakṛtimokṣaṃ ca ye viduryānti te param ॥

“Those who know thus the gap between field and knower of the field, and freedom from beings' matter, with wisdom's eye — they reach the supreme.”

paraṃ bhūyaḥ pravakṣyāmi jñānānāṃ jñānamuttamam । yajjñātvā munayaḥ sarve parāṃ siddhimito gatāḥ ॥

“Again I will declare the highest knowledge of knowledges, knowing which all sages reached the highest perfection from here.”

idaṃ jñānamupāśritya mama sādharmyamāgatāḥ । sarge'pi nopajāyante pralaye na vyathanti ca ॥

“Sheltered in this knowledge, reaching sameness with Me, they are not born at creation nor troubled at dissolution.”

mama yonirmahadbrahma tasmingarbhaṃ dadhāmyaham । saṃbhavaḥ sarvabhūtānāṃ tato bhavati bhārata ॥

“My womb is the great Brahman; in it I lay the seed; thence comes the birth of all beings, O Bhārata.”

sarvayoniṣu kaunteya mūrtayaḥ saṃbhavanti yāḥ । tāsāṃ brahma mahadyonirahaṃ bījapradaḥ pitā ॥

“Whatever forms are born in all wombs, O son of Kuntī — of them the great Brahman is the womb, I the seed-giving father.”

sattvaṃ rajastama iti guṇāḥ prakṛtisaṃbhavāḥ । nibadhnanti mahābāho dehe dehinamavyayam ॥

“Goodness, passion, darkness — the qualities born of matter bind the changeless dweller in the body, O mighty-armed.”

tatra sattvaṃ nirmalatvātprakāśakamanāmayam । sukhasaṅgena badhnāti jñānasaṅgena cānagha ॥

“There goodness, from stainlessness luminous and harmless, binds by clinging to joy and by clinging to knowledge, O sinless one.”

rajo rāgātmakaṃ viddhi tṛṣṇāsaṅgasamudbhavam । tannibadhnāti kaunteya karmasaṅgena dehinam ॥

“Know passion as made of craving, born of thirst and clinging; it binds the dweller, O son of Kuntī, by clinging to deeds.”

tamastvajñānajaṃ viddhi mohanaṃ sarvadehinām । pramādālasyanidrābhistannibadhnāti bhārata ॥

“But know darkness as born of ignorance, deluding all dwellers; it binds, O Bhārata, by heedlessness, sloth and sleep.”

sattvaṃ sukhe saṃjayati rajaḥ karmaṇi bhārata । jñānamāvṛtya tu tamaḥ pramāde saṃjayatyuta ॥

“Goodness yokes to joy, passion to deeds, O Bhārata; but darkness, covering knowledge, yokes to heedlessness.”

rajastamaścābhibhūya sattvaṃ bhavati bhārata । rajaḥ sattvaṃ tamaścaiva tamaḥ sattvaṃ rajastathā ॥

“Goodness prevails, O Bhārata, overpowering passion and darkness; passion over goodness and darkness; darkness over goodness and passion.”

sarvadvāreṣu dehe'sminprakāśa upajāyate । jñānaṃ yadā tadā vidyādvivṛddhaṃ sattvamityuta ॥

“When light springs up in all this body's gates, and knowledge — then know goodness grown great.”

lobhaḥ pravṛttirārambhaḥ karmaṇāmaśamaḥ spṛhā । rajasyetāni jāyante vivṛddhe bharatarṣabha ॥

“Greed, drive, venturing, unrest and craving in deeds — these arise when passion is grown, O best of Bharatas.”

aprakāśo'pravṛttiśca pramādo moha eva ca । tamasyetāni jāyante vivṛddhe kurunandana ॥

“Unlight, inaction, heedlessness, and delusion too — these arise when darkness is grown, O joy of the Kurus.”

yadā sattve pravṛddhe tu pralayaṃ yāti dehabhṛt । tadottamavidāṃ lokānamalānpratipadyate ॥

“But when the body-bearer meets dissolution while goodness is grown, then he reaches the stainless worlds of the best knowers.”

rajasi pralayaṃ gatvā karmasaṅgiṣu jāyate । tathā pralīnastamasi mūḍhayoniṣu jāyate ॥

“Meeting dissolution in passion, he is born among the deed-clingers; and dissolved in darkness, he is born in deluded wombs.”

karmaṇaḥ sukṛtasyāhuḥ sāttvikaṃ nirmalaṃ phalam । rajasastu phalaṃ duḥkhamajñānaṃ tamasaḥ phalam ॥

“Of fair deeds they call the fruit good-natured and stainless; but of passion the fruit is pain, of darkness the fruit is ignorance.”

sattvātsaṃjāyate jñānaṃ rajaso lobha eva ca । pramādamohau tamaso bhavato'jñānameva ca ॥

“From goodness springs knowledge, from passion greed alone; from darkness spring heedlessness, delusion, and ignorance too.”

ūrdhvaṃ gacchanti sattvasthā madhye tiṣṭhanti rājasāḥ । jaghanyaguṇavṛttisthā adho gacchanti tāmasāḥ ॥

“The good-standing rise upward, the passionate stand mid-way; the dark, abiding in the lowest quality's course, go down.”

nānyaṃ guṇebhyaḥ kartāraṃ yadā draṣṭānupaśyati । guṇebhyaśca paraṃ vetti madbhāvaṃ so'dhigacchati ॥

“When the seer sees no doer but the qualities, and knows what is higher than the qualities — he reaches My state.”

guṇānetānatītya trīndehī dehasamudbhavān । janmamṛtyujarāduḥkhairvimukto'mṛtamaśnute ॥

“Crossing beyond these three qualities born of the body, the dweller is freed from birth, death, age and pains, and wins deathlessness.”

kairliṅgaistrīnguṇānetānatīto bhavati prabho । kimācāraḥ kathaṃ caitāṃstrīnguṇānativartate ॥

“By what marks is one beyond these three qualities, O lord? What is his conduct, and how does he cross beyond the three qualities?”

prakāśaṃ ca pravṛttiṃ ca mohameva ca pāṇḍava । na dveṣṭi saṃpravṛttāni na nivṛttāni kāṅkṣati ॥

“Light, drive, and delusion, O Pāṇḍava — he hates them not when arisen, nor craves them when gone.”

udāsīnavadāsīno guṇairyo na vicālyate । guṇā vartanta ityevaṃ yo'vatiṣṭhati neṅgate ॥

“Seated as one unconcerned, unshaken by the qualities, holding that qualities merely work — he stands firm and stirs not.”

samaduḥkhasukhaḥ svasthaḥ samaloṣṭāśmakāñcanaḥ । tulyapriyāpriyo dhīrastulyanindātmasaṃstutiḥ ॥

“Even in pain and pleasure, self-set, to whom clod, stone and gold are the same; steady, to whom dear and undear, blame and self-praise are alike.”

mānāpamānayostulyastulyo mitrāripakṣayoḥ । sarvārambhaparityāgī guṇātītaḥ sa ucyate ॥

“Alike in honour and dishonour, alike toward friend and foe sides, renouncing all ventures — he is called beyond the qualities.”

māṃ ca yo'vyabhicāreṇa bhaktiyogena sevate । sa guṇānsamatītyaitānbrahmabhūyāya kalpate ॥

“And whoever serves Me with unwavering devotion-discipline — crossing beyond these qualities, he fits himself for becoming Brahman.”

brahmaṇo hi pratiṣṭhāhamamṛtasyāvyayasya ca । śāśvatasya ca dharmasya sukhasyaikāntikasya ca ॥

“For I am the ground of Brahman, of the changeless deathless, of lasting law, and of utter joy.”