Bhagavad Gita Chapter 8 – Akshara Brahma Yoga
The yoga of the imperishable Brahman.
28 verses
All verses of this chapter
- 8.1 – अर्जुन उवाच – Arjuna said: O Supreme Person, what is that Brahman? What is Adhyatma? What is Karma?
- 8.2 – अधियज्ञः कथं कोऽत्र देहेऽस्मिन्मधुसूदन – O Madhusudana, who is Adhiyajna here in this body, and how is he so?
- 8.3 – श्रीभगवानुवाच – The Blessed Lord said: The supreme imperishable is Brahman; one's own inherent nature is called Adhyatma…
- 8.4 – अधिभूतं क्षरो भावः पुरुषश्चाधिदैवतम् – O best of the embodied, the perishable entity is Adhibhuta, the Purusha is Adhidaiva, and I Myself, here in…
- 8.5 – अन्तकाले च मामेव स्मरन्मुक्त्वा – Whoever, at the time of death, leaves the body remembering Me alone, attains My own being.
- 8.6 – यं यं वापि स्मरन्भावं – O son of Kunti, whatever state of being one remembers while leaving the body at the end, that very state one…
- 8.7 – तस्मात्सर्वेषु कालेषु मामनुस्मर युध्य – Therefore remember Me at all times, and fight as well. With mind and intellect offered to Me, you will…
- 8.8 – अभ्यासयोगयुक्तेन चेतसा नान्यगामिना – O Partha, by constantly meditating with a mind trained through practice, one that does not wander elsewhere…
- 8.9 – कविं पुराणमनुशासितार- – One who meditates on the all-knowing, ancient, ruler of all, subtler than the atom, sustainer of everything…
- 8.10 – प्रयाणकाले मनसाऽचलेन – At the time of departure, with an unshaken mind, endowed with devotion, and by the power of yoga, having…
- 8.11 – यदक्षरं वेदविदो वदन्ति – That which the knowers of the Veda call the Imperishable, which passionless, striving ascetics enter, and…
- 8.12 – सर्वद्वाराणि संयम्य मनो हृदि – Having restrained all the gates of the senses, confined the mind in the heart, placed one's life-breath in…
- 8.13 – ओमित्येकाक्षरं ब्रह्म व्याहरन्मामनुस्मरन् – Whoever departs, leaving the body, uttering the one syllable Om, which is Brahman, and remembering Me…
- 8.14 – अनन्यचेताः सततं यो मां – O Partha, for the yogi who with undivided mind constantly and daily remembers Me, ever steadfast, I am…
- 8.15 – मामुपेत्य पुनर्जन्म दुःखालयमशाश्वतम् – Having reached Me, the great-souled, who have attained supreme perfection, do not again take rebirth, the…
- 8.16 – आब्रह्मभुवनाल्लोकाः पुनरावर्तिनोऽर्जुन – All the worlds up to the world of Brahma, O Arjuna, are subject to return; but for one who has reached Me, O…
- 8.17 – सहस्रयुगपर्यन्तमहर्यद् ब्रह्मणो विदुः – Those who know that Brahma's day lasts a thousand yugas and that his night also ends after a thousand yugas…
- 8.18 – अव्यक्ताद् व्यक्तयः सर्वाः प्रभवन्त्यहरागमे – At the coming of Brahma's day all the manifest forms arise from the unmanifest, and at the coming of night…
- 8.19 – भूतग्रामः स एवायं भूत्वा – This very same multitude of beings, coming into existence again and again, dissolves helplessly at the…
- 8.20 – परस्तस्मात्तु भावोऽन्योऽव्यक्तोऽव्यक्तात्सनातनः – But higher than that unmanifest there is another eternal unmanifest reality, which is not destroyed when all…
- 8.21 – अव्यक्तोऽक्षर इत्युक्तस्तमाहुः परमां गतिम् – That which is called the unmanifest and imperishable, they declare to be the supreme goal; attaining which…
- 8.22 – पुरुषः स परः पार्थ – That Supreme Person, O Partha, within whom all beings abide and by whom all this is pervaded, can be…
- 8.23 – यत्र काले त्वनावृत्तिमावृत्तिं चैव – O best of the Bharatas, I shall tell you the time (path) in which yogis who depart attain non-return, and…
- 8.24 – अग्निर्जोतिरहः शुक्लः षण्मासा उत्तरायणम् – Fire, light, day, the bright fortnight and the six months of the northern course of the sun: on this path…
- 8.25 – धूमो रात्रिस्तथा कृष्णः षण्मासा – Smoke, night, the dark fortnight and the six months of the southern course of the sun: on this path the yogi…
- 8.26 – शुक्लकृष्णे गती ह्येते जगतः – These two paths of the world, the bright and the dark, are held to be eternal.
- 8.27 – नैते सृती पार्थ जानन्योगी – No yogi who knows these two paths, O Partha, is deluded.
- 8.28 – वेदेषु यज्ञेषु तपःसु चैव – Knowing this, the yogi goes beyond whatever fruit of merit is declared for the study of the Vedas…