Bhagavad Gita Chapter 1
Bhagavad Gita Chapter 1
Bhagavad Gita Chapter 1
2.7
kārpaṇya-doṣopahata-svabhāvaḥ
pṛcchāmi tvāṁ dharma-sammūḍha-cetāḥ
yac chreyaḥ syān niścitaṁ brūhi tan me
śiṣyas te ’haṁ śādhi māṁ tvāṁ prapannam
Now I am confused about my duty and have lost all composure because of
weakness. In this condition I am asking You to tell me clearly what is best for me.
Now I am Your disciple, and a soul surrendered unto You. Please instruct me.
2.13
As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to
old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not
bewildered by such a change.
2.20
For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any time. He has not come into being,
does not come into being, and will not come into being. He is unborn, eternal, ever-
existing and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain.
2.44
bhogaiśvarya-prasaktānāṁ
tayāpahṛta-cetasām
vyavasāyātmikā buddhiḥ
samādhau na vidhīyate
In the minds of those who are too attached to sense enjoyment and material
opulence, and who are bewildered by such things, the resolute determination for
devotional service to the Supreme Lord does not take place.
3.27
prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni
guṇaiḥ karmāṇi sarvaśaḥ
ahaṅkāra-vimūḍhātmā
kartāham iti manyate
The spirit soul bewildered by the influence of false ego thinks himself the doer of
activities that are in actuality carried out by the three modes of material nature.
4.2
evaṁ paramparā-prāptam
imaṁ rājarṣayo viduḥ
sa kāleneha mahatā
yogo naṣṭaḥ parantapa
This supreme science was thus received through the chain of disciplic succession,
and the saintly kings understood it in that way. But in course of time the succession
was broken, and therefore the science as it is appears to be lost.
4.8
paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ
vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām
dharma-saṁsthāpanārthāya
sambhavāmi yuge yuge
To deliver the pious and to annihilate the miscreants, as well as to reestablish the
principles of religion, I Myself appear, millennium after millennium.
4.9
One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and activities does not,
upon leaving the body, take his birth again in this material world, but attains My
eternal abode, O Arjuna.
4.34
Just try to learn the truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire from him
submissively and render service unto him. The self-realized souls can impart
knowledge unto you because they have seen the truth.
5.22
ye hi saṁsparśa-jā bhogā
duḥkha-yonaya eva te
ādy-antavantaḥ kaunteya
na teṣu ramate budhaḥ
An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery, which are due to
contact with the material senses. O son of Kuntī, such pleasures have a beginning
and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them.
5.29
bhoktāraṁ yajña-tapasāṁ
sarva-loka-maheśvaram
suhṛdaṁ sarva-bhūtānāṁ
jñātvā māṁ śāntim ṛcchati
And of all yogīs, the one with great faith who always abides in Me, thinks of Me
within himself and renders transcendental loving service to Me – he is the most
intimately united with Me in yoga and is the highest of all. That is My opinion.