Sacred Books Of The East Vol. 8. The Bhagavad Gita
by Kashinath Trimbak Telang
Book Index
Anugita. Chapter Xxxv : p. 378 CHAPTER XXXV. Brahman said: Well then, I will declare to you what you ask of me, O best (of men)! Learn what a preceptor told a pupil who went to him. Hearing it all, deliberate on it properly. Non-destruction of all creatures, that is deemed to be the greatest duty 1. This is the highest...
Next. Chapter Vi : CHAPTER IV. Dh"ri"tarsh"t"ra said. O Sanatsu"g"ta! since you have spoken these words of highest significance, relating to the Brahman, and of numerous forms 4, give me that advice which is excellent, and difficult to obtain in the p. 175 midst of these created objects 1. Such is my request, O youth...
Bhagavadgita. Chapter Ii : CHAPTER II. Sa"g"aya said: To him, who was thus overcome with pity, and dejected, and whose eyes were full of tears and turbid, the destroyer of Madhu spoke these words. The Deity said: How (comes it that) this delusion, O Ar"g"una! which is discarded by the good, which excludes from heaven...
Anugita. Chapter Xx : CHAPTER XX Ar"g"una said: Be pleased to explain to me the Brahman which is the highest object of knowledge; for by your favour my mind is much interested in (these) subtle 4 (subjects). Vsudeva said: On this, too, they relate an ancient story (in the shape of) a dialogue, connected with final...
Bhagavadgita. Chapter Viii : CHAPTER VIII. Ar"g"una said: What is that Brahman, what the Adhytma, and what, O best of beings! is action? And what is called the Adhibhta? And who is the Adhiya"g"a, and how in this body, O destroyer of Madhu? And how, too, are you to be known at the time of departure (from this world) by those...
Bhagavadgita. Chapter Iii : CHAPTER III. Ar"g"una said: If, O Ganrdana! devotion is deemed by you to be superior to action, then why, O Kesava! do you prompt me to (this) fearful action? You seem, indeed, to confuse my mind by equivocal words. Therefore, declare one thing determinately, by which I may attain the highest good...
Anugita. Chapter Xxi : CHAPTER XXI. Brahman said: That unperceived (principle), all-pervading, everlasting, and immutable, which is in a state of equilibrium 8, should be understood (to become) the city of nine portals, consisting of three qualities, and five p. 318 constituent principles 1, encircled by the, eleven 2...
Bhagavadgita. Chapter I : p. 37 BHAGAVADGT. CHAPTER I. Dh"ri"tarsh"t"ra said What did my (people) and the P"nd"avas do, O Sa"g"aya! when they assembled together on the holy field of Kurukshetra, desirous to do battle? Sa"g"aya said: Seeing the army of the P"nd"avas drawn up in battle-array 1, the prince Duryodh...
Anugita. Chapter Vi : p. 261 CHAPTER VI. The Brhma"n"a said: On this, too, they relate this ancient story. Learn now of what description is the institution of the ten sacrificial priests 1. The ear 2, the tongue, the nose, the two feet, the two hands, speech, the genital organ, and the anus, these, verity, are ten...
Anugita. Chapter Xxxiii : CHAPTER XXXIII. Brahman said: Some (think of) the Brahman as a tree; some (think of) the Brahman as a great forest; and some (think of) the Brahman as unperceived; and some as transcendent and without misery 3; and they 4 think all this to be produced from and absorbed into the unperceived. He who...
Sanatsugatiya. Chapter Vi : p. 186 CHAPTER VI. That pure 1, great light 2, which is radiant; that great glory 3; that, verily, which the gods worship 4; that by means of which the sun shines forth 5--that eternal divine being is perceived by devotees. From (that) pure (principle) the Brahman 6 is produced; by (that) pure...
Bhagavadgita. Chapter V : CHAPTER V. Ar"g"una said: O K"ri"sh"n"a! you praise renunciation of actions and also the pursuit (of them). Tell me determinately which one of these two is superior. The Deity said: Renunciation and pursuit of action are both instruments of happiness. But of the two, pursuit of action is superi...
Anugita. Chapter Xxv : p. 332 CHAPTER XXV. Brahman said: From the unperceived was first produced the great self 1 of great intelligence, the source of all qualities 2; it is said to be the first creation. That great self is signified by these synonymous terms--the great self, intelligence, Vish"n"u 3, Gishnu, Sambhu...
Bhagavadgita. Chapter Xiv : CHAPTER XIV. The Deity said: Again I will declare (to you) the highest knowledge, the best of (all sorts of) knowledge, having p. 107 learnt which, all sages have reached perfection beyond (the bonds of) this (body). Those who, resorting to this knowledge, reach assimilation with my essence, are...
Anugita. Chapter Xxvi : CHAPTER XXVI. Brahman said: That Mahat which was first produced, is (afterwards) called egoism; when it is born as (the feeling itself) 7 I, that is said to be the second creation. That egoism is stated to be the source of all entities 8, p. 334 that from which the changes take place 1; it is full...
Title Page : THE BHAGAVADGT WITH THE SANATSUGTYA AND THE ANUGT TRANSLATED BY KSHINTH TRIMBAK TELANG, M. A. VOLUME 8, THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST Oxford, The Clarendon Press [1882] Scanned , April-May, 2002. J.B. Hare, Redactor. This Text Is In The Public Domain. These Files May Be Used For Any Non-commercial...
Anugita. Chapter Xxx : CHAPTER XXX. Brahman said: The wheel of life 3 moves on; a wheel of which the spoke is the understanding, of which the pole 4 is the mind, of which the bonds are the group of the senses, of which the outer rim 5 is the five great elements, of which the environment is home 6; which p. 356 abounds...
Bhagavadgita. Chapter X : CHAPTER X. Yet again, O you of mighty arms! listen to my excellent 2 words, which, out of a wish for your welfare, I speak to you who are delighted (with them). Not the multitudes of gods, nor the great sages know my source; for I am in every way 3 the origin of the gods and great sages. Of (all)...
Sanatsugatiya. Chapter Iii : CHAPTER III. Dh"ri"tarsh"t"ra said: Who possesses this taciturnity 5, and which of the two 6 is taciturnity? Describe, O learned person! the condition of taciturnity here. Does a learned man reach taciturnity 7 by taciturnity? And how, O sage! do they practise taciturnity in this world p. 163...
Anugita. Chapter Xxviii : CHAPTER XXVIII. Brahman said: Among men the royal Kshatriya is the middle 4 quality; among vehicles the elephant 5, and among denizens, of the forest the lion; among all sacrificial animals the sheep, and among the dwellers in holes the snake; among cattle also the bull, and among p. 346 females...
Anugita. Chapter Xv : CHAPTER XV. The Pit"ri"s said: On this 1, too, they relate an ancient story; hearing that (story), O best of the twice-born! you should act accordingly. There was (once) a royal sage, named Alarka, whose penance was very great, who understood duty, who was veracious, high-souled, and very firm...
Anugita. Chapter Xxxiv : p. 375 CHAPTER XXXIV. The sages said: Which (form of) piety is deemed to be the most worthy of being performed? We observe the various modes of piety to be as it were contradictory. Some say (it 1 remains) after the body (is destroyed); some say that is not so. Some (say) everything 2 is doubtful;...
Anugita. Chapter Xvi : CHAPTER XVI. The Brhma"n"a said: There are, verily, three foes in (this) world, and they are stated to be (divided) ninefold, according to qualities. Exultation, pleasure, joy 4, these three p. 301 are qualities appertaining to the quality of goodness. Grief, wrath, persistent hatred, these are...
Bhagavadgita. Chapter Xv : p. 111 CHAPTER XV. The Deity said: They say the inexhaustible A"s"vattha 1 has (its) roots above, (its) branches below; the "Kh"andas are its leaves. He who knows it knows the Vedas. Upwards and downwards extend its branches, which are enlarged by the qualities, and the sprouts of which are...
Anugita. Chapter Xxii : CHAPTER XXII. Brahman said: O best (of men)! I will explain to you accurately the quality of passion. Learn, O noble ones! the action of the quality of passion. Injuring (others), beauty 2, toil, pleasure and pain, cold and heat, power 2, war, peace, argument, repining 3, endurance, strength...
Anugita. Chapter Viii : CHAPTER VIII. The Brhma"n"a said: On this, too, they relate an ancient story, O beautiful one! (showing) of what description is the institution of the five sacrificial priests. The learned know this to be a great principle, that the Pr"n"a and the Apna, and the Udna, and also the Samna and the Vyn...
Anugita. Chapter Vii : CHAPTER VII. The Brhma"n"a said: On this, too, O beautiful one! they relate this ancient story, (which shows) of what description is the institution of the seven sacrificial priests 6. The p. 267 nose, and the eye, and the tongue, and the skin, and the ear as the fifth, mind and understanding...
Anugita. Chapter Xvii : CHAPTER XVII. The Brhma"n"a said: On this 1, too, they relate this ancient story (in the shape of) a dialogue, O you of a pure heart! between a Brhma"n"a and "G"anaka. King "G"anaka, by way of punishment, said to a Brhma"n"a who had fallen into some offence: 'You should not live within my dominions...
Bhagavadgita. Chapter Xviii : CHAPTER XVIII. Ar"g"una said: O you of mighty arms! O H"ri"shke"s"a! O destroyer of Ke"s"in! I wish to know the truth about renunciation and abandonment distinctly. The Deity said: By renunciation the sages understand the rejection of actions done with desires. The wise call the abandonment...
Anugita. Chapter I : p. 229 ANUGTA. CHAPTER I. Ganame"g"aya 1 said: What conversation, O twice-born one 2 I took place between the high-souled Kesava and Ar"g"una, while they dwelt in that palace 3 after slaying their enemies? Vai"s"ampyana said: The son of P"ri"th, after becoming possessed of his kingdom (in an)...
Anugita. Chapter Xii : CHAPTER XII. The Brhma"n"a said: I have crossed beyond that very impassable place, in which fancies are the gadflies and mosquitoes 3, in which grief and joy are cold and heat, in which delusion is the blinding darkness, in which avarice is the beasts of prey and reptiles, in which desire and anger...
Untitled : THE BHAGAVADGT WITH THE SANATSUGTYA AND THE ANUGT Translated By KSHINTH TRIMBAK TELANG, Volume 8, The Sacred Books Of The East [1882] Title Page Contents BHAGAVADGT Introduction to Bhagavadgt Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chatper VI Chapter VII Chapter VIII Chapter IX...
Anugita. Introduction : p. 197 INTRODUCTION TO ANUGT. LIKE the Bhagavadgt and the Sanatsu"g"tya, the Anugt, is one of the numerous episodes of the Mahbhrata. And like the Sanatsu"g"tya, it appears here for the first time in an English, or, indeed, it is believed, in any European garb. It forms part of the A"s"vamedh...
Bhagavadgita. Chaper Xvi : CHAPTER XVI. Freedom from fear, purity of heart, perseverance in (pursuit of) knowledge and abstraction of mind, gifts 2, self-restraint 2, and sacrifice, study of the Vedas, penance, straightforwardness, harmlessness, truth 2, freedom from anger, renunciation 3, tranquillity, freedom...
Anugita. Chapter Iii : p. 241 CHAPTER III. There is no destruction here of actions good or not good 1. Coming to one body after another they become ripened in their respective ways 2. As a fruitful (tree) producing fruit may yield much fruit, so does merit performed with a pure mind become expanded 3. Sin, too...
Sanatsugatiya. Chapter Ii : CHAPTER II. Vaisampyana said: Then the talented king, Dh"ri"tarsh"t"ra, bowed 2 to those words uttered by Vidura, and, in a secluded place 3, interrogated Sanatsu"g"ta regarding the highest knowledge 4, wishing to become (a) high-souled (man) 5. Dh"ri"tarsh"t"ra said: O Sanatsu"g"ta! which...
Anugita. Chapter Ii : CHAPTER II. Vsudeva 2 said Then grasping his feet, K"s"yapa, asked questions very difficult to explain, and all of them that (being), the best of the supporters of piety, did explain. K"s"yapa, said: How does the body perish, and how, too, is it produced? How does one who moves in this harassing...
Anugita. Chapter Xiii : CHAPTER XIII. The Brhma"n"a said: I do not smell smells, I perceive no tastes, I see no colour, and I do not touch, nor yet do I hear various sounds, nor even do I entertain any fancies 5. Nature desires objects which are liked; nature hates all (objects) which are hateful 6. Desire and hatred are...
Anugita. Chapter X : CHAPTER X. On this, too, they relate an ancient story (showing) of what nature is the institution of the "K"turhotra 4. The due performance of it in its entirety is now taught. Hear me, O good woman! state this wonderful p. 278 mystery. The instrument, the action, the agent, and emancipation 1...
Anugita. Chapter Xix : CHAPTER XIX. The Brhma"n"a's wife said: This is not possible to be understood by one whose self 1 is frivolous, or by one whose self is not refined; and my intelligence is very frivolous, and narrow, and confused. Tell me the means by which this knowledge is acquired. I (wish to) learn from you...
Anugita. Chapter Iv : CHAPTER IV. He who becoming placid 8, and thinking of nought, may become absorbed in the one receptacle 9, abandoning each previous (element), he will cross beyond p. 246 (all) bonds. A man who is a friend of all, who endures all, who is devoted to tranquillity 1, who has subdued his senses...
Anugita. Chapter Xxix : CHAPTER XXIX. Brahman said: I will state truly all about that which has a beginning, middle, and end 3, and about the means for its comprehension, together with names and characteristics 4. It is stated that day was first and then night; that months have the bright 5 first, the Nakshatras "S"rav...
Anugita. Chapter Ix : CHAPTER IX. The Brhma"n"a said: On this, too, they relate this ancient story, a dialogue between Nrada and the sage Devamata. Devamata said: When a creature is about to be born, what comes into existence first, his Pr"n"a, or Apna, or Samna, or Vyna, or else Udna? Nrada said: By whichever...
Bhagavadgita. Chapter Xi : p. 92 CHAPTER XI. Ar"g"una said: In consequence of the excellent and mysterious words concerning the relation of the supreme and individual soul,, which you have spoken for my welfare, this delusion of mine is gone away. O you whose eyes are like lotus leaves! I have heard from you at large...
Anugita. Chapter Xxiv : CHAPTER XXIV. Brahman said: The qualities cannot be explained altogether distinctly (from one another). Passion, goodness, and darkness likewise are seen mixed up (with one another). They are attached to one another, they feed on one another. They all depend on one another, and likewise follow one...
Bhagavadgita. Chatper Vi : CHAPTER VI. The Deity said: He who, regardless of the fruit of actions, performs the actions which ought to be performed, is the devotee and renouncer; not he who discards the (sacred) fires 3, nor he who performs no acts. Know, O son of P"nd"u! that what is called renunciation is devotion;...
Anugita. Chapter Xxxvi : CHAPTER XXXVI. Brahman said: Since the mind is ruler of these five elements, in (the matter of) absorbing or bringing (them) forth 6, p. 386 the mind itself is the individual self 1. The mind always presides over the great elements. The understanding proclaims its power 2, and it is called...
Anugita. Chapter Xiv : CHAPTER XIV. The Brhma"n"a said: On this 3, too, they relate an old story, (in the shape of) a dialogue, O you of a pure heart! between Krtavrya and the ocean. (There lived once) a king named Ar"g"una 4, a descendant of K"ri"tavrya, possessed of a thousand arms, who with his bow conquered...
Anugita. Chapter V : p. 256 CHAPTER V. On this 1, too, O chief of the descendants of Bharata! they relate this ancient story, (in the form of) a dialogue, which occurred, O son of P"ri"th! between a husband and wife. A Brhma"n"a's wife, seeing the Brhma"n"a her husband, who had gone through all knowledge...
Sanatsugatiya. Introduction To Sanatsugatiya : p. 135 INTRODUCTION TO SANATSU"G"TYA. THE Sanatsu"g"tya, is, like the Bhagavadgt, one of the numerous episodes of the Mahbhrata 1. It is true, that it, has never commanded anything like that unbounded veneration which has always been paid in India to the Bhagavadgt. Still it is sometimes studied...
Bhagavadgita. Chapter Xii : CHAPTER XII. Ar"g"una said: Of the worshippers, who thus, constantly devoted, meditate on you, and those who (meditate) on the unperceived and indestructible, which best know devotion? The Deity said: Those who being constantly devoted, and possessed of the highest faith, worship me with a mind...
Bhagavadgita. Chapter Xiii : CHAPTER XIII. The Deity said: This body, O son of Kunt! is called Kshetra 1, and the learned call him who knows it the Kshetra"g"a. 2. And know me also, O descendant of Bharata! to be the Kshetra"g"a in all Kshetras. The knowledge of Kshetra and Kshetra"g"a is deemed by me (to be real) knowledge...
Anugita. Chapter Xxvii : p. 335 CHAPTER XXVII. Brahman said: From egoism, verily, were the five great elements born--earth, air, space, water, and light as the fifth. In these five great elements, in the operations of (perceiving) sound, touch, colour, taste, and smell, creatures are deluded 1. When, at the terminati...
Anugita. Chapter Xi : CHAPTER XI. There is one director 1; there is no second director. I speak concerning him who abides in the heart. This being, the director, dwells in the heart and directs (all creatures). Impelled by that same (being), I move as I am ordered, like water on a declivity. There is one instructor;...
Bhagavadgita. Chapter Vii : CHAPTER VII. The Deity said: O son of P"ri"th! now hear how you can without doubt know me fully, fixing your mind on me, and resting in me, and practising devotion. I will now tell you exhaustively about knowledge together with experience; that being known, there is nothing further left in this...
Bhagavadgita. Chapter Ix : CHAPTER IX. Now I will speak to you, who are not given to carping, of that most mysterious knowledge, accompanied by experience, by knowing which you will be released from evil. It is the chief among the sciences, the chief among the mysteries. It is the best means of sanctification. It is...
Anugita. Chapter Xviii : CHAPTER XVIII. The Brhma"n"a said: O modest one! I do not move about in this world in the way which, according to your own understanding, you have guessed. I 5 am a Brhma"n"a, I am p. 307 emancipated, I am a forester, and I likewise perform the duties of a householder, observing vows. I am not such...
Anugita. Chapter Xxxii : p. 369 CHAPTER XXXII. Brahman said: The ancients who perceived the established (truth) call renunciation 1 penance; and the Brhma"n"as dwelling in the seat of the Brahman 2 understand knowledge to be concerned with the Brahman 3. The highest Brahman is very far off 3, and (the attainment of it)...
Anugita. Chapter Xxxi : CHAPTER XXXI Brahman said. Thus 1 duly studying to the best of his power, in the way above 2 stated, and likewise living as a Brahma"k"rin, one who is devoted to his own. duty and learned, who is a sage with all his senses restrained, who applies himself to what is agreeable and beneficial...
Bhagavadgita. Chapter Iv : CHAPTER IV. The Deity said: This everlasting 1 (system of) devotion I declared to the sun, the sun declared it to Manu 2, and Manu communicated it to Ikshvku. Coming thus by steps, it became known to royal sages. But, O terror of (your) foes! that devotion was lost to the world by long (lapse of)...
Anugita. Chapter Xxiii : CHAPTER XXIII. Brahman said: Now I shall proceed to describe the third--the best--quality, beneficial to all creatures, and unblamable, the duty of the good. joy 7, pleasure, nobility, enlightenment and happiness also, absence of stinginess, absence of fear, contentment, faith, forgiveness, courage...
Sanatsugatiya. Chapter I : p. 149 SANATSU"G"TYA. CHAPTER I. Dh"ri"tarsh"t"ra said: If, O Vidura! there is anything not (yet) said by you in (your) discourse, then do impart it to me who wish to hear, for you have spoken marvellous (things). Vidura said: O Dh"ri"tarsh"t"ra! the ancient youth Sanatsu"g"ta, (otherwise called)...
Bhagavadgita. Chapter Xvii : CHAPTER XVII. Ar"g"una said: What is the state of those, O K"ri"sh"n"a! who worship with faith, (but) abandoning scripture ordinances--goodness, passion, or darkness? The Deity said: Faith is of three kinds in embodied (beings), it is produced from dispositions 4. It is of the quality of goodness...
Bhagavadgita. Introduction To Bhagavadgita : p. 1 INTRODUCTION TO BHAGAVADGT. IT has become quite a literary commonplace, that--to borrow the words of Professor Max Mller in one of his recent lectures--history, in the ordinary sense of the word, is almost unknown in Indian literature 1. And it is certainly a remarkable irony of fate, that we...