Chapter 8
Akshara Brahma Yoga
The Imperishable Brahman
- Verse 8.1What is that Brahman, what the Adhyâtma, and what, O best of beings! is action? And what is called the Adhibhûta?
- Verse 8.2And who is the Adhiyagña, and how in this body, O destroyer of Madhu? And how, too, are you to be known at the time of…
- Verse 8.3The Brahman is the supreme, the indestructible. Its manifestation (as an individual self) is called the Adhyâtma. The…
- Verse 8.4The Adhibhûta is all perishable things. The Adhidaivata is the (primal) being. And the Adhiyagña, O best of embodied…
- Verse 8.5And he who leaves this body and departs (from this world) remembering me in (his) last moments, comes into my essence.…
- Verse 8.6Also whichever form (of deity) he remembers when he finally leaves this body, to that he goes, O son of Kuntî! having…
- Verse 8.7Therefore, at all times remember me, and engage in battle. Fixing your mind and understanding on me, you will come to…
- Verse 8.8He who thinks of the supreme divine Being, O son of Prithâ! with a mind not (running) to other (objects), and…
- Verse 8.9He who, possessed of reverence (for the supreme Being) with a steady mind, and with the power of devotion, properly…
- Verse 8.10He who, possessed of reverence (for the supreme Being) with a steady mind, and with the power of devotion, properly…
- Verse 8.11I will tell you briefly about the seat, which those who know the Vedas declare to be indestructible; which entered by…
- Verse 8.12He who leaves the body and departs (from this world), stopping up all passages, and confining the mind within the…
- Verse 8.13He who leaves the body and departs (from this world), stopping up all passages, and confining the mind within the…
- Verse 8.14To the devotee who constantly practises abstraction, O son of Prithâ! and who with a mind not (turned) to anything…
- Verse 8.15The high-souled ones, who achieve the highest perfection, attaining to me, do not again come to life, which is…
- Verse 8.16All worlds, O Arguna! up to the world of Brahman, are (destined) to return. But, O son of Kuntî! after attaining to…
- Verse 8.17Those who know a day of Brahman to end after one thousand ages, and the night to terminate after one thousand ages,…
- Verse 8.18On the advent of day, all perceptible things are produced from the unperceived; and on the advent of night they…
- Verse 8.19This same assemblage of entities, being produced again and again, dissolves on the advent of night, and, O son of…
- Verse 8.20But there is another entity, unperceived and eternal, and distinct from this unperceived (principle), which is not…
- Verse 8.21It is called the unperceived, the indestructible; they call it the highest goal. Attaining to it, none returns. That…
- Verse 8.22That supreme Being, O son of Prithâ! he in whom all these entities dwell, and by whom all this is permeated, is to be…
- Verse 8.23I will state the times, O descendant of Bharata! at which devotees departing (from this world) go, never to return, or…
- Verse 8.24The fire, the flame, the day, the bright fortnight, the six months of the northern solstice, departing (from the…
- Verse 8.25Smoke, night, the dark fortnight, the six months of the southern solstice, (dying) in these, the devotee goes to the…
- Verse 8.26These two paths, bright and dark, are deemed to be eternal in this world. By the one, (a man) goes never to return, by…
- Verse 8.27Knowing these two paths, O son of Prithâ! no devotee is deluded. Therefore at all times be possessed of devotion, O…
- Verse 8.28A devotee knowing all this, obtains all the holy fruit which is prescribed for (study of) the Vedas, for sacrifices,…