Verse

BG.8.1

अक्षरब्रह्मयोग

Chapter 8: The Nature of Brahman

akṣarabrahmayoga

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अर्जुन उवाच

8.1 किं तद्ब्रह्म किमध्यात्मं किं कर्म पुरुषोत्तम। अधिभूतं च किं प्रोक्तमधिदैवं किमुच्यते

arjuna uvāca

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Word meanings

kimwhat;tatthat;brahmaBrahman;kimwhat;adhyātmamthe individual soul;kimwhat;karmathe principle of karma;puruṣha-uttamaShree Krishna, the Supreme Divine Personality;adhibhūtamthe material manifestation;chaand;kimwhat;proktamis called;adhidaivamthe Lord of the celestial gods;kimwhat;uchyateis called

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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati

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Dr. S. Sankaranarayan

Arjuna said, "What is Brahman? What is known as the Lord of the Self (Adhyatma)? What is action? O Best of Persons, what is said to be the Lord of material things (Adhibhuta)? What is called the Lord of divinities (Adhidaiva)?"

Shri Purohit Swami

"Arjuna asked: O Lord of Lords! What is that which men call the Supreme Spirit, what is man's Spiritual Nature, and what is the Law? What is Matter and what is Divinity?

Swami Adidevananda

What is that brahman? What is Adhyatma? What is Karma? What is said to be Adhibhuta? O Supreme Person, who is said to be Adhidaiva?

Swami Gambirananda

Arjuna said O supreme person, what is that Brahman? What is that which exists in the individual plane? What is action? And what is that which is said to exist in the physical plane? What is that which is said to be existing in the divine plane?

Swami Sivananda

What is that Brahman? What is Adhyatma? What is action, O best among men? What is declared to be Adhibhuta? And what is Adhidaiva said to be?