Bhagavad Gītā (Kashmirian recension) · Chapter 12

Bhagavad Gītā (Kashmirian recension) — Chapter 12

भगवद्गीता

Bhagavadgītā


Chapter 12 20 verses

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  1. 1 evaṃ satatayuktā ye bhaktāstvāṃ paryupāsate | ye cāpyakṣaramavyaktaṃ … Of those devotees who, ever steadfast, worship you, and those who worship the…
  2. 2 mayyāveśya mano ye māṃ nityayuktā upāsate | śraddhayā … Those who, fixing the mind on me, ever steadfast, worship me, endowed with supreme faith…
  3. 3 ye tvakṣaramanirdeśyamavyaktaṃ paryupāsate | sarvatragamacintyaṃ ca kūṭasthamacalaṃ dhruvam … But those who worship the imperishable, the indefinable, the unmanifest, the…
  4. 4 sanniyamyendriyagrāmaṃ sarvatra samabuddhayaḥ | te prāpnuvanti māmeva sarvabhūtahite … having fully restrained the host of senses, even-minded everywhere, delighting in the…
  5. 5 kleśo'dhikatarasteṣāmavyaktāsaktacetasām | avyaktā hi gatirduḥkhaṃ dehabhṛdbhiravāpyate || 12-5 … Greater is the toil for those whose minds are attached to the unmanifest;
  6. 6 ye tu sarvāṇi karmāṇi mayi saṃnyasya matparāḥ | … But those who, renouncing all actions in me, devoted to me, worship me, meditating with…
  7. 7 teṣāmahaṃ samuddhartā mṛtyusaṃsārasāgarāt | bhavāmi na cirātpārtha mayyāveśitacetasām … For them, whose minds are fixed on me, I become before long the deliverer from the ocean…
  8. 8 mayyeva mana ādhatsva mayi buddhiṃ niveśaya | nivatsyasi … Fix your mind on me alone, rest your intellect in me;
  9. 9 ahāveśayituṃ cittaṃ na śaknoṣi mayi sthiram | abhyāsayogena … But if you are not able to fix your mind firmly on me, then by the yoga of repeated…
  10. 10 abhyāse'pyasamarthoḥ sanmatkarmaparamo bhava | madarthamapi karmāṇi kurvansiddhimavāpsyasi || … If unable even in practice, be intent on action for my sake;
  11. 11 athaitadapyaśakto'si kartuṃ madyogamāsthitaḥ | sarvakarmaphalatyāgaṃ tataḥ kuru yatātmavān … But if you are unable to do even this, then, taking refuge in my yoga, self-controlled,…
  12. 12 śreyo hi jñānamabhyāsājjñānāddhyānaṃ viśiṣyate | dhyānātkarmaphalatyāgastyāgācchāntiranantarā || 12-12 … For knowledge is better than practice, meditation excels knowledge, and the renunciation…
  13. 13 adveṣṭā sarvabhūtānāṃ maitraḥ karuṇa eva ca | nirmamo … Hating no being, friendly and compassionate, free of possessiveness and egoism, equal in…
  14. 14 santuṣṭaḥ satataṃ yogī yatātmā dṛḍhaniścayaḥ | mayyarpitamanobuddhiryo madbhaktaḥ … the yogin ever content, self-controlled, of firm resolve, his mind and intellect offered…
  15. 15 yasmānnodvijate loko lokānnodvijate ca yaḥ | harṣāmarṣabhayodvegairmukto yaḥ … He from whom the world does not shrink and who does not shrink from the world, who is…
  16. 16 anapekṣaḥ śucirdakṣa udāsīno gatavyathaḥ | sarvārambhaphalatyāgī yo madbhaktaḥ … Free of expectation, pure, capable, indifferent, untroubled, renouncing the fruit of all…
  17. 17 yo na hṛṣyati na dveṣṭi na śocati na … He who neither rejoices nor hates, neither grieves nor desires, renouncing the fruits of…
  18. 18 samaḥ śatrau ca mitre ca tathā mānāvamānayoḥ | … Equal toward foe and friend, likewise in honor and dishonor, in cold and heat, pleasure…
  19. 19 tulyanindāstutirmaunī santuṣṭo yenakenacit | aniketaḥ sthiramatirbhaktimānme priyo naraḥ … indifferent to blame and praise, silent, content with whatever comes, homeless, of steady…
  20. 20 ye tu dharmyāmṛtamidaṃ yathoktaṃ paryupāsate | śraddadhānā matparamā … But those devotees who attend upon this nectar of righteousness as it has been declared,…