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Krishna

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8.3 अक्षरं ब्रह्म परमं स्वभावोऽध्यात्ममुच्यते। भूतभावोद्भवकरो विसर्गः कर्मसंज्ञितः

śrī bhagavān uvāca

akṣaraṃ brahma paramaṃ svabhāvo'dhyātmamucyate | bhūtabhāvodbhavakaro visargaḥ karmasaṃjñitaḥ

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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.

Krishna

8.5 अन्तकाले च मामेव स्मरन्मुक्त्वा कलेवरम्। यः प्रयाति स मद्भावं याति नास्त्यत्र संशयः

antakāle ca māmeva smaranmuktvā kalevaram | yaḥ prayāti sa madbhāvaṃ yāti nāstyatra saṃśayaḥ

Word meanings

anta-kāle—at the time of death;cha—and;mām—Me;eva—alone;smaran—remembering;muktvā—relinquish;kalevaram—the body;yaḥ—who;prayāti—goes;saḥ—he;mat-bhāvam—Godlike nature;yāti—achieves;na—no;asti—there is;atra—here;sanśhayaḥ—doubt

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Dr. S. Sankaranarayan

Whosoever, at the time of death, remembering Me alone, sets forth, abandoning their body behind, they attain My being. There is no doubt about it.

Shri Purohit Swami

Whosoever at the time of death thinks only of Me, and thinking thus leaves the body and goes forth, assuredly he will know Me.

Swami Adidevananda

And he who, at the last moment, while leaving the body, departs, remembering Me alone, attains My being; of this, there is no doubt.

Swami Gambirananda

And at the time of death, anyone who departs by giving up the body while thinking of Me alone, he attains My state. There is no doubt about this.

Swami Sivananda

And whosoever, leaving the body, goes forth remembering Me alone at the time of death, he attains My Being; there is no doubt about this.

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8.4 अधिभूतं क्षरो भावः पुरुषश्चाधिदैवतम्। अधियज्ञोऽहमेवात्र देहे देहभृतां वर

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adhibhūtam—the ever changing physical manifestation;kṣharaḥ—perishable;bhāvaḥ—nature;puruṣhaḥ—the cosmic personality of God, encompassing the material creation;cha—and;adhidaivatam—the Lord of the celestial gods;adhiyajñaḥ—the Lord of all sacrifices;aham—I;eva—certainly;atra—here;dehe—in the body;deha-bhṛitām—of the embodied;vara—O best

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My Personal Gita

Dr. S. Sankaranarayan

The changing nature is the lord of the material beings; the Person alone is the lord of the divinities; I am alone the Lord of sacrifices, and I, the best of the embodied souls, dwell in this body.

Shri Purohit Swami

Matter consists of the forms that perish; Divinity is the Supreme Self; and He who inspires the spirit of sacrifice in man, O noblest of thy race, is I Myself, Who now stand in human form before thee.

Swami Adidevananda

Adhibhuta is perishable existence, O best of the embodied men; the Adhidaivata is the Purusa (individual self). I am the Adhiyajna, here in the body.

Swami Gambirananda

The which exists in the physical plane is the mutable entity, and what exists in the divine plane is the Person. O best among the embodied beings, I Myself am the entity that exists in the sacrifice in this body.

Swami Sivananda

Adhibhuta (knowledge of the elements) pertains to My perishable Nature, and the Purusha or soul is the Adhidaiva; I alone am the Adhiyajna here in this body, O best among the embodied (men)!