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Arjuna

अर्जुन उवाच

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

arjuna uvāca

kiṃ tadbrahma kimadhyātmaṃ kiṃ karma puruṣottama | adhibhūtaṃ ca kiṃ proktamadhidaivaṃ kimucyate

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kim—what;tat—that;brahma—Brahman;kim—what;adhyātmam—the individual soul;kim—what;karma—the principle of karma;puruṣha-uttama—Shree Krishna, the Supreme Divine Personality;adhibhūtam—the material manifestation;cha—and;kim—what;proktam—is called;adhidaivam—the Lord of the celestial gods;kim—what;uchyate—is called

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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?

Krishna

श्रीभगवानुवाच

8.3 अक्षरं ब्रह्म परमं स्वभावोऽध्यात्ममुच्यते। भूतभावोद्भवकरो विसर्गः कर्मसंज्ञितः

śrī bhagavān uvāca

akṣaraṃ brahma paramaṃ svabhāvo'dhyātmamucyate | bhūtabhāvodbhavakaro visargaḥ karmasaṃjñitaḥ

Word meanings

akṣharam—indestructible;brahma—Brahman;paramam—the Supreme;svabhāvaḥ—nature;adhyātmam—one’s own self;uchyate—is called;bhūta-bhāva-udbhava-karaḥ—Actions pertaining to the material personality of living beings, and its development;visargaḥ—creation;karma—fruitive activities;sanjñitaḥ—are called

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Dr. S. Sankaranarayan

The Bhagavat said, "The immutable Absolute is the Brahman. Its intrinsic nature is called the Lord of the Self. The emitting activity that causes the birth of both the animate and inanimate is named 'action'."

Shri Purohit Swami

The Lord Shri Krishna replied: The Supreme Spirit is the Highest Imperishable Self, and Its Nature is spiritual consciousness. The worlds have been created and are supported by an emanation from the Spirit which is called the Law.

Swami Adidevananda

The brahman is the Aksara or the supreme and imperishable self. Nature (Svabhava) is spoken as that which dwells with the self. Karma is that creative force which produces the origination of material beings.

Swami Gambirananda

The Blessed Lord said The Immutable is the supreme Brahman; self-hood is said to the entity present in the individual plane. By action is meant the offerings which bring about the origin of the existence of things.

Swami Sivananda

Brahman is the Imperishable, the Supreme; His essential nature is called Self-knowledge; the offering (to the gods) which causes existence and manifestation of beings and which also sustains them is called action.

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8.2 अधियज्ञः कथं कोऽत्र देहेऽस्मिन्मधुसूदन। प्रयाणकाले च कथं ज्ञेयोऽसि नियतात्मभिः

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adhiyajñaḥ—the Lord all sacrificial performances;katham—how;kaḥ—who;atra—here;dehe—in body;asmin—this;madhusūdana—Shree Krishna, the killer of the demon named Madhu;prayāṇa-kāle—at the time of death;cha—and;katham—how;jñeyaḥ—to be known;asi—are (You);niyata-ātmabhiḥ—by those of steadfast mind

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My Personal Gita

Dr. S. Sankaranarayan

Who is the Lord of Sacrifices, and how? Who is in this body? O slayer of Madhu, how can the self-controlled realize You at the time of their journey (i.e., death)?

Shri Purohit Swami

Who is it who rules the spirit sacrifice in many; and at the time of death how may those who have learned self-control come to the knowledge of Thee?

Swami Adidevananda

Who is Adhiyajna in this body, and how is he the Adhiyajna, O Krsna? And how are You to be known at the time of death, by the self-controlled?

Swami Gambirananda

O Madhusudana, how, and who, is the entity existing in the sacrifice here in this body? And at the time of death, how are You to be known by people of concentrated minds?

Swami Sivananda

Who and how is Adhiyajna here in this body, O destroyer of Madhu (Krishna)? And how, at the time of death, art Thou to be known by the self-controlled one?