Jñāna Vijñāna Yoga

श्रीभगवानुवाच। मय्यासक्तमनाः पार्थ योगं युञ्जन्मदाश्रयः। असंशयं समग्रं मां यथा ज्ञास्यसि तच्छृणु ॥

śrībhagavānuvāca mayyāsaktamanāḥ pārtha yogaṃ yuñjanmadāśrayaḥ asaṃśayaṃ samagraṃ māṃ yathā jñāsyasi tacchṛṇu

O son of Pṛthā! now hear how you can without doubt know me fully, fixing your mind on me, and resting in me, and practising devotion. I will now tell you exhaustively about knowledge together with experience

ज्ञानं तेऽहं सविज्ञानमिदं वक्ष्याम्यशेषतः। यज्ज्ञात्वा नेह भूयोऽन्यज्ज्ञातव्यमवशिष्यते ॥

jñānaṃ te.ahaṃ savijñānamidaṃ vakṣyāmyaśeṣataḥ yajjñātvā neha bhūyo.anyajjñātavyamavaśiṣyate

that being known, there is nothing further left in this world to know.

मनुष्याणां सहस्रेषु कश्चिद्यतति सिद्धये। यततामपि सिद्धानां कश्चिन्मां वेत्ति तत्त्वतः ॥

manuṣyāṇāṃ sahasreṣu kaścidyatati siddhaye yatatāmapi siddhānāṃ kaścinmāṃ vetti tattvataḥ

Among thousands of men, only some work for perfection and even of those who have reached perfection, and who are assiduous, only some know me truly.

भूमिरापोऽनलो वायुः खं मनो बुद्धिरेव च। अहंकार इतीयं मे भिन्ना प्रकृतिरष्टधा ॥

bhūmirāpo.analo vāyuḥ khaṃ mano buddhireva ca ahaṃkāra itīyaṃ me bhinnā prakṛtiraṣṭadhā

Earth, water, fire, air, space, mind, understanding, and egoism, thus is my nature divided eightfold. But this is a lower (form of my) nature.

अपरेयमितस्त्वन्यां प्रकृतिं विद्धि मे पराम्। जीवभूतां महाबाहो ययेदं धार्यते जगत् ॥

apareyamitastvanyāṃ prakṛtiṃ viddhi me parām jīvabhūtāṃ mahābāho yayedaṃ dhāryate jagat

Know (that there is) another (form of my) nature, and higher than this, which is animate, O you of mighty arms! and by which this universe is upheld.

एतद्योनीनि भूतानि सर्वाणीत्युपधारय। अहं कृत्स्नस्य जगतः प्रभवः प्रलयस्तथा ॥

etadyonīni bhūtāni sarvāṇītyupadhāraya ahaṃ kṛtsnasya jagataḥ prabhavaḥ pralayastathā

Know that all things have these (for their) source. I am the producer and the destroyer of the whole universe.

मत्तः परतरं नान्यत्किञ्चिदस्ति धनञ्जय। मयि सर्वमिदं प्रोतं सूत्रे मणिगणा इव ॥

mattaḥ parataraṃ nānyatkiñcidasti dhanañjaya mayi sarvamidaṃ protaṃ sūtre maṇigaṇā iva

There is nothing else, O Dhanañjaya ! higher than myself all this is woven upon me, like numbers of pearls upon a thread.

रसोऽहमप्सु कौन्तेय प्रभास्मि शशिसूर्ययोः। प्रणवः सर्ववेदेषु शब्दः खे पौरुषं नृषु ॥

raso.ahamapsu kaunteya prabhāsmi śaśisūryayoḥ praṇavaḥ sarvavedeṣu śabdaḥ khe pauruṣaṃ nṛṣu

I am the taste in water, O son of Kuntī ! I am the light of the sun and moon. I am 'Om' in all the Vedas , sound in space, and manliness in human beings

पुण्यो गन्धः पृथिव्यां च तेजश्चास्मि विभावसौ। जीवनं सर्वभूतेषु तपश्चास्मि तपस्विषु ॥

puṇyo gandhaḥ pṛthivyāṃ ca tejaścāsmi vibhāvasau jīvanaṃ sarvabhūteṣu tapaścāsmi tapasviṣu

I am the fragrant smell in the earth, refulgence in the fire I am life in all beings, and penance in those who perform penance.

बीजं मां सर्वभूतानां विद्धि पार्थ सनातनम्। बुद्धिर्बुद्धिमतामस्मि तेजस्तेजस्विनामहम् ॥

bījaṃ māṃ sarvabhūtānāṃ viddhi pārtha sanātanam buddhirbuddhimatāmasmi tejastejasvināmaham

Know me, O son of Pṛthā! to be the eternal seed of all beings I am the discernment of the discerning ones, and I the glory of the glorious.

बलं बलवतां चाहं कामरागविवर्जितम्। धर्माविरुद्धो भूतेषु कामोऽस्मि भरतर्षभ ॥

balaṃ balavatāṃ cāhaṃ kāmarāgavivarjitam dharmāviruddho bhūteṣu kāmo.asmi bharatarṣabha

I am also the strength, unaccompanied by fondness or desire, of the strong. And, O chief of the descendants of Bharata! I am love unopposed to piety among all beings. And all entities which are of the quality of goodness and those which are of the quality of passion and of darkness

ये चैव सात्त्विका भावा राजसास्तामसाश्च ये। मत्त एवेति तान्विद्धि न त्वहं तेषु ते मयि ॥

ye caiva sāttvikā bhāvā rājasāstāmasāśca ye matta eveti tānviddhi na tvahaṃ teṣu te mayi

know that they are indeed

त्रिभिर्गुणमयैर्भावैरेभिः सर्वमिदं जगत्। मोहितं नाभिजानाति मामेभ्यः परमव्ययम् ॥

tribhirguṇamayairbhāvairebhiḥ sarvamidaṃ jagat mohitaṃ nābhijānāti māmebhyaḥ paramavyayam

all from me I am not in them, but they are in me.

दैवी ह्येषा गुणमयी मम माया दुरत्यया। मामेव ये प्रपद्यन्ते मायामेतां तरन्ति ते ॥

daivī hyeṣā guṇamayī mama māyā duratyayā māmeva ye prapadyante māyāmetāṃ taranti te

The whole universe deluded by these three states of mind, developed from the qualities, does not know me, who am beyond them and inexhaustible for this delusion of mine, developed from the qualities, is divine and difficult to transcend. Those cross beyond this delusion who resort to me alone.

न मां दुष्कृतिनो मूढाः प्रपद्यन्ते नराधमाः। माययापहृतज्ञाना आसुरं भावमाश्रिताः ॥

na māṃ duṣkṛtino mūḍhāḥ prapadyante narādhamāḥ māyayāpahṛtajñānā āsuraṃ bhāvamāśritāḥ

Wicked men doers of evil (acts) who are deluded who are deprived of their knowledge by (this) delusion

चतुर्विधा भजन्ते मां जनाः सुकृतिनोऽर्जुन। आर्तो जिज्ञासुरर्थार्थी ज्ञानी च भरतर्षभ ॥

caturvidhā bhajante māṃ janāḥ sukṛtino.arjuna ārto jijñāsurarthārthī jñānī ca bharatarṣabha

and who incline to the demoniac state of mind do not resort to me. But O Arjuna ! doers of good (acts) of four classes worship me: one who is distressed one who is seeking after knowledge one who wants wealth and one O chief of the descendants of Bharata! who is possessed of knowledge. Of these he who is possessed of knowledge

तेषां ज्ञानी नित्ययुक्त एकभक्तिर्विशिष्यते। प्रियो हि ज्ञानिनोऽत्यर्थमहं स च मम प्रियः ॥

teṣāṃ jñānī nityayukta ekabhaktirviśiṣyate priyo hi jñānino.atyarthamahaṃ sa ca mama priyaḥ

who is always devoted and whose worship is (addressed) to one (Being) only is esteemed highest. For to the man of knowledge I am dear above all things and he is dear to me.

उदाराः सर्व एवैते ज्ञानी त्वात्मैव मे मतम्। आस्थितः स हि युक्तात्मा मामेवानुत्तमां गतिम् ॥

udārāḥ sarva evaite jñānī tvātmaiva me matam āsthitaḥ sa hi yuktātmā māmevānuttamāṃ gatim

All these are noble. But the man possessed of knowledge is deemed by me to be my own self. For he with (his) self devoted to abstraction has taken to me as the goal than which there is nothing higher.

बहूनां जन्मनामन्ते ज्ञानवान्मां प्रपद्यते। वासुदेवः सर्वमिति स महात्मा सुदुर्लभः ॥

bahūnāṃ janmanāmante jñānavānmāṃ prapadyate vāsudevaḥ sarvamiti sa mahātmā sudurlabhaḥ

At the end of many lives, the man possessed of knowledge approaches me, (believing) that Vāsudeva is everything. Such a high-souled man is very hard to find.

कामैस्तैस्तैर्हृतज्ञानाः प्रपद्यन्तेऽन्यदेवताः। तं तं नियममास्थाय प्रकृत्या नियताः स्वया ॥

kāmaistaistairhṛtajñānāḥ prapadyante.anyadevatāḥ taṃ taṃ niyamamāsthāya prakṛtyā niyatāḥ svayā

Those who are deprived of knowledge by various desires approach other divinities, observing various regulations, and controlled by their own natures.

यो यो यां यां तनुं भक्तः श्रद्धयार्चितुमिच्छति। तस्य तस्याचलां श्रद्धां तामेव विदधाम्यहम् ॥

yo yo yāṃ yāṃ tanuṃ bhaktaḥ śraddhayārcitumicchati tasya tasyācalāṃ śraddhāṃ tāmeva vidadhāmyaham

Whichever form (of deity) any worshipper wishes to worship with faith, to that form I render his faith steady.

स तया श्रद्धया युक्तस्तस्याराधनमीहते। लभते च ततः कामान्मयैव विहितान्हि तान् ॥

sa tayā śraddhayā yuktastasyārādhanamīhate labhate ca tataḥ kāmānmayaivavihitānhi tān

Possessed Of that faith he seeks to propitiate (the deity in) that (form)

अन्तवत्तु फलं तेषां तद्भवत्यल्पमेधसाम्। देवान्देवयजो यान्ति मद्भक्ता यान्ति मामपि ॥

antavattu phalaṃ teṣāṃ tadbhavatyalpamedhasām devāndevayajo yānti madbhaktā yānti māmapi

and obtains from it those beneficial things which he desires, (though they are) really given by me. But the fruit thus (obtained) by them who have little judgment is perishable. Those who worship the divinities go to the divinities, and my worshippers, too, go to me.

अव्यक्तं व्यक्तिमापन्नं मन्यन्ते मामबुद्धयः। परं भावमजानन्तो ममाव्ययमनुत्तमम् ॥

avyaktaṃ vyaktimāpannaṃ manyante māmabuddhayaḥ paraṃ bhāvamajānanto mamāvyayamanuttamam

The undiscerning ones, not knowing my transcendent and inexhaustible essence, than which there is nothing higher, think me, who am unperceived, to have become perceptible.

नाहं प्रकाशः सर्वस्य योगमायासमावृतः। मूढोऽयं नाभिजानाति लोको मामजमव्ययम् ॥

nāhaṃ prakāśaḥ sarvasya yogamāyāsamāvṛtaḥ mūḍho.ayaṃ nābhijānāti loko māmajamavyayam

Surrounded by the delusion of my mystic power, I am not manifest to all. This deluded world knows not me unborn and inexhaustible.

वेदाहं समतीतानि वर्तमानानि चार्जुन। भविष्याणि च भूतानि मां तु वेद न कश्चन ॥

vedāhaṃ samatītāni vartamānāni cārjuna bhaviṣyāṇi ca bhūtāni māṃ tu veda na kaścana

I know, O Arjuna! the things which have been, those which are, and those which are to be. But me nobody knows.

इच्छाद्वेषसमुत्थेन द्वन्द्वमोहेन भारत। सर्वभूतानि सम्मोहं सर्गे यान्ति परन्तप ॥

icchādveṣasamutthena dvandvamohena bhārata sarvabhūtāni sammohaṃ sarge yānti parantapa

All beings

येषां त्वन्तगतं पापं जनानां पुण्यकर्मणाम्। ते द्वन्द्वमोहनिर्मुक्ता भजन्ते मां दृढव्रताः ॥

yeṣāṃ tvantagataṃ pāpaṃ janānāṃ puṇyakarmaṇām te dvandvamohanirmuktā bhajante māṃ dṛḍhavratāḥ

O terror of (your) foes! are deluded at the time of birth by the delusion O descendant of Bharata! caused by the pairs of opposites arising from desire and aversion. But the men of meritorious actions whose sins have terminated worship me being released from the delusion (caused) by the pairs of opposites and being firm in their beliefs. Those who resting on me

जरामरणमोक्षाय मामाश्रित्य यतन्ति ये। ते ब्रह्म तद्विदुः कृत्स्नमध्यात्मं कर्म चाखिलम् ॥

jarāmaraṇamokṣāya māmāśritya yatanti ye te brahma tadviduḥ kṛtsnamadhyātmaṃ karma cākhilam

work for release from old age and death know the Brahman the whole Adhyātma

साधिभूताधिदैवं मां साधियज्ञं च ये विदुः। प्रयाणकालेऽपि च मां ते विदुर्युक्तचेतसः ॥

sādhibhūtādhidaivaṃ māṃ sādhiyajñaṃ ca ye viduḥ prayāṇakāle.api ca māṃ te viduryuktacetasaḥ

and all action. And those who know me with the Adhibhūta the Adhidaiva and the Adhiyajña having minds devoted to abstraction know me at the time of departure (from this world).