Chapter 9
Raja Vidya Raja Guhya Yoga
The Royal Knowledge and Royal Secret
- Verse 9.1Now I will speak to you, who are not given to carping, of that most mysterious knowledge, accompanied by experience,…
- Verse 9.2It is the chief among the sciences, the chief among the mysteries. It is the best means of sanctification. It is…
- Verse 9.3O terror of your foes! those men who have no faith in this holy doctrine, return to the path of this mortal world,…
- Verse 9.4This whole universe is pervaded by me in an unperceived form. All entities live in me, but I do not live in them.
- Verse 9.5Nor yet do all entities live in me. See my divine power. Supporting all entities and producing all entities, my self…
- Verse 9.6As the great and ubiquitous atmosphere always remains in space, know that similarly all entities live in me.
- Verse 9.7At the expiration of a Kalpa, O son of Kuntî! all entities enter my nature; and at the beginning of a Kalpa, I again…
- Verse 9.8Taking the control of my own nature, I bring forth again and again this whole collection of entities, without a will…
- Verse 9.9But, O Arguna! these actions do not fetter me, who remain like one unconcerned, and who am unattached to those actions.
- Verse 9.10Nature gives birth to movables and immovables through me, the supervisor, and by reason of that, O son of Kuntî! the…
- Verse 9.11Deluded people of vain hopes, vain acts, vain knowledge, whose minds are disordered, and who are inclined to the…
- Verse 9.12Deluded people of vain hopes, vain acts, vain knowledge, whose minds are disordered, and who are inclined to the…
- Verse 9.13But the high-souled ones, O son of Prithâ! who are inclined to the godlike nature, knowing me as the inexhaustible…
- Verse 9.14Constantly glorifying me, and exerting themselves, firm in their vows, and saluting me with reverence, they worship…
- Verse 9.15And others again, offering up the sacrifice of knowledge, worship me as one, as distinct, and as all-pervading in…
- Verse 9.16I am the Kratu, I am the Yagña, I am the Svadhâ, I the product of the herbs. I am the sacred verse. I too am the…
- Verse 9.17I am the father of this universe, the mother, the creator, the grandsire, the thing to be known, the means of…
- Verse 9.18the goal, the sustainer, the lord, the supervisor, the residence, the asylum, the friend, the source, and that in…
- Verse 9.19I cause heat and I send forth and stop showers. I am immortality and also death; and I, O Arguna! am that which is and…
- Verse 9.20Those who know the three (branches of) knowledge, who drink the Soma juice, whose sins are washed away, offer…
- Verse 9.21And having enjoyed that great heavenly world, they enter the mortal world when (their) merit is exhausted. Thus those…
- Verse 9.22To those men who worship me, meditating on me and on no one else, and who are constantly devoted, I give new gifts and…
- Verse 9.23Even those, O son of Kuntî! who being devotees of other divinities worship with faith, worship me only, (but)…
- Verse 9.24For I am the enjoyer as well as the lord of all sacrifices. But they know me not truly, therefore do they fall.
- Verse 9.25Those who make vows to the gods go to the gods; those who make vows to the manes go to the manes, those who worship…
- Verse 9.26Whoever with devotion offers me leaf, flower, fruit, water, that, presented with devotion, I accept from him whose…
- Verse 9.27Whatever you do, O son of Kuntî! whatever you eat, whatever sacrifice you make, whatever you give, whatever penance…
- Verse 9.28Thus will you be released from the bonds of action, the fruits of which are agreeable or disagreeable. And with your…
- Verse 9.29I am alike to all beings; to me none is hateful, none dear. But those who worship me with devotion (dwell) in me, and…
- Verse 9.30Even if a very ill-conducted man worships me, not worshipping any one else, he must certainly be deemed to be good,…
- Verse 9.31He soon becomes devout of heart, and obtains lasting tranquillity. (You may) affirm, O son of Kuntî! that my devotee…
- Verse 9.32For, O son of Prithâ! even those who are of sinful birth, women, Vaisyas; and Sûdras likewise, resorting to me, attain…
- Verse 9.33What then (need be said of) holy Brâhmanas and royal saints who are (my) devotees? Coming to this transient unhappy…
- Verse 9.34(Place your) mind on me, become my devotee, my worshipper; reverence me, and thus making me your highest goal, and…