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Title: Bhagavad Gita: Chapter I: Arjun-Vishad
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- Excellent chiefs, commanders of my line,
- Our battle shows where Bhishma holds command,
- And Bhima, fronting him, something too strong!
- With friends and honoured elders; some this side,
- Some that side ranged: and, seeing those opposed,
- Krishna! as I behold, come here to shed
- Their common blood, yon concourse of our kin,
- Bristles with horror; from my weak hand slips
- Can spring from mutual slaughter! Lo, I hate
- Triumph and domination, wealth and ease,
- Could profit; what rule recompense; what span
- To seize an earthly kingdom! Killing these
- What peace could come of that, O Madhava?
- Enters impiety upon that home;
- Its women grow unwomaned, whence there spring
- And whoso wrought its doom by wicked wrath.
- Fall from their place of peace, being bereft
Title: Bhagavad Gita: Chapter II: Sankhya-Yog
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- Him, filled with such compassion and such grief,
- To whom, with tender smile, (O Bharata! )
- Words lacking wisdom! for the wise in heart
- As there come infancy and youth and age,
- So come there raisings-up and layings-down
- Is theirs who part essence from accident,
- Substance from shadow. Indestructible,
- And thought uncompassed, ever all itself,
- Of living things comes unperceived; the death
- Comes unperceived; between them, beings perceive:
- To whom comes joy of battle — comes, as now,
- And those to come shall speak thee infamy
- From age to age; but infamy is worse
- Will deem 'twas fear that drove thee from the fray.
- As from the “Sankhya” — unspiritually —
- Shall save thee from the anguish of thy dread.
- With wants, seekers of Heaven: which comes — they say —
- As “fruit of good deeds done;” promising men
- From Veds, concerning the “three qualities;”
- From that sad righteousness which calculates;
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Title: Bhagavad Gita: Chapter III: Karma-Yog
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- Thou whom all mortals praise, Janardana!
- Shown to this world; two schools of wisdom.
- Yet these are one! No man shall 'scape from act
- By shunning action; nay, and none shall come
- Compels him, even unwilling, into act;
- Free from desire, and thou shalt well perform
- No gift of toil, that thief steals from his world.”
- By food the living live; food comes of rain,
- And rain comes by the pious sacrifice,
- Depends from him.[Note 5] Therefore, thy task prescribed
- Because I slumbered, would decline from good,
- And I should break earth's order and commit
- Standeth aloof even from his acts. Th' untaught
- Have quittance from all issue of their acts;
- Mars the bright mirror, as the womb surrounds
- It is of wisdom, wearing countless forms,
Title: Bhagavad Gita: Chapter IV: Jnana Yog
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- How shall I comprehend this thing thou sayest,
- “From the beginning it was I who taught?”
- I come, and go, and come. When Righteousness
- Is strong, I rise, from age to age, and take
- To earthly birth: to Me he comes, dear Prince!
- Many there be who come! from fear set free,
- From anger, from desire; keeping their hearts
- In all his works from prickings of desire,
- Some votaries there be who serve the gods
- With flesh and altar-smoke; but other some
- Are spread and are accepted! Comprehend
- Masters itself, and cleaves to Truth, and comes —
- Disparting self from service, soul from works,
- With sword of wisdom, Son of Bharata!
Title: Bhagavad Gita: Chapter V: Karmasanyasayog
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- To cease from works
- In doing, such breaks lightly from all deed:
- Lost in the common life of all which lives —
- Detaching end from act, with act content,
- Seeking a fruit from works, are fastened down.
- By folly, darkening knowledge. But, for whom
- As if a Sun of Wisdom sprang to shed
- The world is overcome — aye! even here!
- Holds off from outer contacts, in himself
- Springing from sense-life are but quickening wombs
- Who pass their days exempt from greed and wrath,
- Whose quiet eyes gaze straight from fixed brows,
Title: Bhagavad Gita: Chapter VI: Atmasanyamayog
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- Not seeking gain from work, that man, O Prince!
- And saintship is the ceasing from all works;
- Being of equal grace to comrades, friends,
- Chance-comers, strangers, lovers, enemies,
- Let him accomplish Yoga, and achieve
- Upon his nose-end,[Note 11] rapt from all around,
- Comes to the peace beyond, — My peace, the peace
- Steadfast a lamp burns sheltered from the wind;
- Shut from sense-storms and burning bright to Heaven.
- Hath comfort; when it knows the nameless joy
- It deems no other treasure comparable,
- And thought has passed from thinking. Shaking off
- With watchful ward; so, step by step, it comes
- Breaks — wild and wavering — from control, so oft
- Grows only in the bosom tranquillised,
- The spirit passionless, purged from offence,
- This Peace, derived from equanimity,
- By wont of self-command. This Yog, I say,
- Cometh not lightly to th' ungoverned ones;
- From holiness, missing the perfect rule?
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Title: Bhagavad Gita: Chapter VII: Vijnanayog
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- Still making Me thy Refuge — thou shalt come
- As from a Yoni. Know! I am that womb:
- The wisdom of the wise, the intellect
- These am I, free from passion and desire;
- Which Nature frames, deduce from me; but all
- At end of many births to Me they come!
- Some lower gods, with various rites, constrained
- The heart thus asking favour from its God,
- But Mine come unto me! Blind are the eyes
- Not comprehending Me in my true Self!
- All creatures live bewildered, save some few
- Freed from the “opposites,” and fixed in faith,
- Refuge from birth[Note 14] and death, those have the Truth!
Title: Bhagavad Gita: Chapter VIII: Aksharaparabrahmayog
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- Means ADHIDAIVA? Yea, and how it comes
- The Soul of Souls! What goeth forth from Me,
- In putting off his flesh, comes forth to Me,
- Shalt surely come to Me! All come who cleave
- Owning none other Gods: all come to Me,
- Boundless, — but unto every atom Bringer
- And, murmuring OM, the sacred syllable —
- Roll back again from Death to Life's unrest;
- Yea! this vast company of living things —
- Which wanders not, there is a way to come
- The Universe around me — in Whom dwell
- Such wisdom is! The Yogi, this way knowing,
- Comes to the Utmost Perfect Peace at last.
Title: Bhagavad Gita: Chapter IX: Rajavidyarajaguhyayog
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- Which but to know shall set thee free from ills, —
- From every sin; a light of holiness
- To grasp the greater wisdom, reach not Me,
- All things which be back to My Being come:
- Issue new-born from Me.
- Enchain Me not! I sit apart from them,
- In lustral water! I am OM! I am
- The threefold Veds, who drink the Soma-wine,
- Purge sins, pay sacrifice — from Me they earn
- Come to the world of death and change once more.
- They had their recompense! they stored their treasure,
- Of joy which comes and goes! I grant them it!
- And whoso loveth Me cometh to Me.
- From Karmabandh, the chain which holdeth men
- To good and evil issue, so shalt come
- Though they be born from the very womb of Sin,
- Woman or man; sprung of the Vaisya caste
- Ah! ye who into this ill world are come —
Title: Bhagavad Gita: Chapter X: Vibhuti Yog
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- Not the great company of gods nor kingly Rishis know
- To mortal men distributed, those natures spring from Me!
- And wish to give, and will to help, — all cometh of My gift!
- Wherefrom who comprehends My Reign of mystic Majesty —
- And, with bright rays of wisdom's lamp, their ignorance dispel.
- Nor demons comprehend Thy mystery
- Clear and complete, Thy great appearances,
- Some portions of My Majesty, whose powers are manifold!
- From Me they come; by Me they live; at My word they depart!
- And Bhrigu of the holy Saints, and OM of sacred speech;
- Of flying steeds, Uchchaisravas, from Amrit-wave which burst;
- From whose great milky udder-teats all hearts' desires are strook;
- I am, Arjuna! Wisdom Supreme of what is wise,
- Nor tongue can tell, Arjuna! nor end of telling come
- Of these My boundless glories, whereof I teach thee some;
- From Me hath all proceeded. Receive thou this aright!
Title: Bhagavad Gita: Chapter XI: Viswarupadarsanam
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- This, for my soul's peace, have I heard from Thee,
- Named Adhyatman; comprehending which,
- Out of countless mouths commanding,
- Breathing from His perfect Presence
- Nameless — th' All-comprehending
- From Thy great eyes; Thy visage, beaming tender
- From pole to pole of the Blue, from bound to bound,
- From sage and singer breaks the hymn of glory
- While countless companies take up the story,
- Drawn to their fiery doom, flying and dying,
- The creatures whom Thou mak'st,
- From end to end of earth,
- Filling life full, from birth
- Time who brings all to doom,
- The Slayer Time, Ancient of Days, come hither to consume;
- Fight for the kingdom waiting thee when thou hast vanquished those.
- To all four quarters; and the company
- The Comprehending Whole!
- Wisdom Thyself! O Part
- In all, and All; for all from Thee have risen
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Title: Bhagavad Gita: Chapter XII: Bhaktiyog
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- These blessed souls come unto Me.
- Forth from life's ocean of distress and death,
- Droops from such height; if thou be'st weak to set
- So shalt thou come; for, though to know is more
- Compassionate, from arrogance exempt,
- Exempt from love of self, unchangeable
- Working with Me, yet from all works detached,
- Those happy ones to whom 'tis life to live
Title: Bhagavad Gita: Chapter XIII: Kshetrakshetrajnavibhagayog
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- And how it wotteth-hear these things from Me!
- Of the body, and the five domains of sense;
- Detachment, lightly holding unto home,
- So to attain, — this is true Wisdom, Prince!
- Enlightening and encompassing His worlds.
- Shining eternally. Wisdom He is
- And Wisdom's way, and Guide of all the wise,
- To comprehend. Whoso, adoring Me,
- Perceiveth this, shall surely come to Me!
- With Nature's modes, the light hath come for him!
- Shall he take on its load. Some few there be
- Self-schooled; and some by long philosophy
- And holy life reach thither; some by works:
- Some, never so attaining, hear of light
- From other lips, and seize, and cleave to it
- Issue from One, and blend again to One:
- And they who, by such eye of wisdom, see
Title: Bhagavad Gita: Chapter XIV: Gunatrayavibhagayog
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- Or“The Book of Religion by Separation from the Qualities.”
- This wisdom of all wisdoms, uttermost,
- This Universe the womb is where I plant
- Seed of all lives! Thence, Prince of India, comes
- By toilsome strain; but Ignorance, which blots
- The beams of wisdom, binds the soul to sloth.
- Passion and Ignorance, once overcome,
- Those spring from Passion — Prince! — engrained; and where
- Is born anew in some unlighted womb.
- And gloom, bewilderments, and ignorance
- Grow forth from Ignorance. Those of the first
- Then is he come nigh unto Me!
- Thus passing forth from the Three Qualities —
- Whereby arise all bodies — overcomes
- He unto whom — self-centred — grief and joy
- Detached from undertakings, — he is named
- Or“The Book of Religion by Separation from the Qualities.”
Title: Bhagavad Gita: Chapter XV: Purushottamapraptiyog
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- From qualities: its silver sprays and blooms,
- Of old Creation; for to Him come they
- From passion and from dreams who break away;
- The undying Spirit, setting forth from Me,
- From Being's storehouse, — which containeth all, —
- Mark not that Spirit when he goes or comes,
- Know, too, from Me
- Which lighten all the world: from Me the moons
- Root, leaf, and bloom — to make the woodlands green
- With springing sap. Becoming vital warmth,
- Declared to thee! Who comprehendeth this
- Hath wisdom! He is quit of works in bliss!
Title: Bhagavad Gita: Chapter XVI: Daivasarasaupadwibhagayog
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- Always to strive for wisdom; opened hand
- Hear from me now of the Unheavenly!
- They comprehend not, the Unheavenly,
- How Souls go forth from Me; nor how they come
- Lowest and least of men, whom I cast down
- Into some devilish womb, whence — birth by birth —
- The devilish wombs re-spawn them, all beguiled;
- He who shall turn aside from entering
- To find his peace, and comes to Swarga's gate.
Title: Bhagavad Gita: Chapter XVII: Sraddhatrayavibhagayog
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- From those three qualities, — becoming “true,”
- Shut in fair company within their flesh,
- Being well-seasoned, cordial, comforting,
- And there is foul food — kept from over-night,[Note 36]
- Of food-giving, with no accompaniment
- To torture self, or come at power to hurt
- Is hoped again, or when some end is sought,
Title: Bhagavad Gita: Chapter XVIII: Mokshasanyasayog
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- There be among the saints some who have held
- And some who answer, “Nay! the goodly acts —
- Abstaining from a work by right prescribed
- From “Darkness,” and Delusion teacheth it.
- Abstaining from a work grievous to flesh,
- Such an one acts from “passion;” nought of gain
- Abstaining from attachment to the work,
- Abstaining from rewardment in the work,
- Wholly aloof from act; yet, who abstains
- From profit of his acts is abstinent.
- The fruit of labours, in the lives to come,
- Hear from me, Long-armed Lord! the makings five
- Holding aloof from self — with unstained mind
- Free from self-seeking, humble, resolute,
- From impulse, seeking profit, rude and bold
- To overcome, unchastened; slave by turns
- Good is the Intellect which comprehends
- The coming forth and going back of life,
- Evil is Intellect which, wrapped in gloom,
- Hear further, Chief of Bharatas! from Me
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Title: Bhagavad Gita: Contents
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- XIV. RELIGION BY SEPARATION FROM THE QUALITIES
Title: Bhagavad Gita: Cover Sheet
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- (From the Mahabharata)
- Translated from the Sanskrit Text
- Truslove, Hanson & Comba, Ltd.
Title: Bhagavad Gita: Dedication
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- So have I writ its wisdom here, — its hidden mystery,
Title: Bhagavad Gita: Notes
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- [Note 1]Some repetitionary lines are here omitted.
- [Note 15]I have discarded ten lines of Sanskrit text here as an undoubted interpolation by some Vedantist
- [Note 20]The compound form of Sanskrit words.
- [Note 28]I omit two lines of the Sanskrit here, evidently interpolated by some Vedantist.
- [Note 29]Wombs.
- [Note 30]I do not consider the Sanskrit verses here — which are somewhat freely rendered — “an attack on the authority of the Vedas,” with Mr. Davies, but a beautiful lyrical episode, a new “Parable of the fig-tree.”
- [Note 31]I omit a verse here, evidently interpolated.
- [Note 33]I omit the ten concluding shlokas, with Mr. Davies.
- [Note 37]I omit the concluding shlokas, as of very doubtful authenticity.
Title: Bhagavad Gita: Preface
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- some of the moralities here inculcated, and so close the parallelism
- Missionaries on the point whether the author borrowed from Christian
- sources, or the Evangelists and Apostles from him.
- the original Mahabharata, but Mr Kasinath Telang has offered some fair
- evidence, however, tends to place its composition at about the third
- by Mr. Thomson and Mr Davies, the prose transcript of the last-named
- also published at Bombay a version in colloquial rhythm, eminently
- derived from their labours, and because English literature would
- certainly be incomplete without possessing in popular form a poetical