Every place in the CWSA where a sloka is quoted, translated or closely paraphrased, in chapter-verse order: the curator’s lists, each entry checked against the text, with the further entries found by the AI-assisted search. In Essays on the Gita the discussions of large groups of slokas are in bold above the single slokas. 1,375 entries.
Chapter 1
| Gita reference | Quoted or translated words or phrases | CWSA page(s) | Status | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
complete translation | 5:75–78 | confirmed | ||
translation | 5:101 | confirmed | ||
quotation and translation | 9:281–289 | confirmed | ||
commentary | 9:289–311 | confirmed | ||
dharmakṣetre kurukṣetre | 19:181–82 | confirmed | ||
dharma-kṣetre kuru-kṣetre | 19:383 | confirmed | ||
“Dharmakshetre Kurukshetre” | 35:213 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
he advances in his rapid chariot … with the victorious clamour of his war-conch | 19:54–55 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Close paraphrase of the chariot and conch-blowing of 1.14. | |
pravṛtte śastrasampāte (Bengali script) | 9:277 | confirmed | ||
paraphrase and translation with discussion | 19:22–25 | confirmed | ||
“in this holiday of fight” | 19:23 | confirmed | ||
“a holiday of fight” | 19:54 | confirmed | ||
he wishes to look upon all these Kings of men who have come here to champion against him | 19:54–55 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Paraphrases 1.23 ‘look upon those gathered here … eager to champion’. | |
1.28, 31 | “own people” | 19:24 | confirmed | |
quotation and discussion | 9:298 | confirmed | ||
quotation and discussion | 9:298 | confirmed | ||
paraphrase | 9:298 | confirmed | ||
“one’s own people” and without them life will be empty | 19:59 | confirmed | ||
esha dharmah sanatanah | 7:928 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
Esha dharmah sanatanah | 12:53–54 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
eṣa dharmaḥ sanātanaḥ | 23:196–197 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
“Therefore … it is more for my welfare that the sons of Dhritarashtra armed should slay me” | 19:25 | confirmed |
Chapter 2
| Gita reference | Quoted or translated words or phrases | CWSA page(s) | Status | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
paraphrase and translation with discussion | 19:57–67 | confirmed | ||
complete translation | 5:79–84 | confirmed | ||
quotation and translation with commentary | 9:312–14 | confirmed | ||
invaded by pity, kṛpayāviṣṭam | 19:57 | confirmed | ||
the reproach of Krishna to Arjoun for his weak pity | 1:308 | confirmed | ||
kutastvā kaśmalamidaṁ viṣame (Devanagari) | 17:111 | confirmed | confirmed on reading the passage: 17:111 has 2.2 and the first line of 2.3 in Devanagari. | |
this mood came not from heaven nor can it lead to heaven | 19:57 | confirmed | ||
“Whence has come to thee this dejection, this stain and darkness of the soul” | 19:58 | confirmed | ||
klaibyaṁ mā sma gamaḥ (Devanagari) | 17:197 | confirmed | ||
confusion of mind and delusion, a weakness of the heart, an unmanliness | 19:57 | confirmed | ||
klaibyam, kṣudraṁ hṛdaya-daurbalyam | 19:385 | confirmed | ||
“This is weakness and delusion and egoism that speak in thee” | 23:332 | confirmed | ||
quotation and translation with commentary | 9:314–16 | confirmed | ||
“blood-stained enjoyments” | 19:26 | confirmed | ||
Better the life of the mendicant living upon alms than this dharma of the Kshatriya | 19:55 | confirmed | ||
“Better the life of the beggar than to taste these blood-stained enjoyments” | 23:332 | confirmed | ||
can find nowhere the dharma … he takes refuge as a disciple with Krishna | 19:25–26 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Paraphrases Arjuna’s words in 2.7. | |
“I see not what shall thrust from me the sorrow that dries up the senses” | 19:59 | confirmed | ||
quotation and translation with commentary | 9:316–24 | confirmed | ||
The calm and wise mind, the dhīra | 19:61 | confirmed | ||
Dhīras tatra na muhyati | 19:197 | corrected | page corrected from 19:196 | |
“The material touches which cause heat and cold, happiness and pain” | 19:196 | confirmed | ||
tranquil and self-poised in heat and cold, suffering and happiness | 19:198 | confirmed | ||
amṛtatvāya kalpate (Bengali script) | 9:323 | confirmed | ||
fit for immortality—amṛtatvāya kalpate | 13:59 | confirmed | ||
makes himself fit for immortality | 19:61 | confirmed | ||
nāsato vidyate bhāvo (Devanagari) | 1:144 | confirmed | ||
nothing that is can be destroyed—nabhavo vidyate satah | 18:282 | confirmed | ||
Nasato vidyate bhavah | 18:415 | confirmed | ||
“by which all this is extended” | 19:77 | confirmed | ||
put away this vain sorrow and shrinking, fight, O son of Bharata | 19:64 | confirmed | ||
2.18, 29, 22, 27 | motto: “An end have these bodies of an embodied soul that is eternal” | 22:771 | confirmed | |
na jāyate mriyate vā (Devanagari) | 18:112 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
motto: “It is unborn, ancient, everlasting; it is not slain with the slaying of the body” | 22:771 | added | his rendering quoted | |
a garment which is put off from time to time | 8:52 | confirmed | ||
nityaḥ sarvagataḥ sthāṇur acalo’yaṁ sanātanaḥ | 13:52 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
acalaḥ sanātanaḥ, “motionless, sempiternal” | 17:45 | confirmed | ||
eko achalah sanatanah | 17:389 | confirmed | ||
acalaḥ sanātanaḥ | 17:393–394 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
Eko ‘chalah sanátanah | 17:431–432 | corrected | page corrected from 17:430 | |
free from all change or involution in change, avikārya | 19:77 | confirmed | ||
āścaryavat paśyati kaścid enam | 13:318 | confirmed | ||
Ascharyavat pashyati kaschid enam | 14:21 | confirmed | ||
that mystery, āścaryam | 19:567–568 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Quotes āścarya of 2.29. | |
motto: “One sees it as a mystery or one speaks of it” | 21:309 | confirmed | ||
sarvāṇi bhūtāni | 17:7 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
sarvāṇi bhūtāni | 17:26 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
abhūt sarvāṇi bhūtāni | 19:343–344 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
ātmā abhūt sarvāṇi bhūtāni | 19:438–439 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
his svadharma, his social duty | 19:64 | confirmed | ||
“There is no greater good for the Kshatriya than righteous battle” | 19:65 | confirmed | ||
svadharmam api cāvekṣya | 19:66 | confirmed | ||
svadharmam api cāvekṣya | 19:508 | confirmed | ||
dharmya yuddha | 36:72 | confirmed | ||
hato vā prāpsyasi svargaṁ (Bengali script) | 9:119 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
“Slain thou shalt win heaven, victorious thou shalt enjoy the earth” | 9:239–240 | added | his rendering quoted | |
“Slain thou shalt win Heaven, victorious thou shalt enjoy the earth” | 19:65 | confirmed | ||
“Fight, destroy the adversary, conquer” | 29:132 | confirmed | ||
“so thou shalt not incur sin” | 19:66 | confirmed | ||
paraphrase and translation with discussion | 19:94–104 | confirmed | ||
“Such is the intelligence … declared to thee in the Sankhya, hear now this in the Yoga” | 19:68 | confirmed | ||
I have declared to you the poise of a self-liberating intelligence in Sankhya; karmabandhaṁ prahāsyasi | 19:94 | confirmed | ||
the distinction made in the Gita between Sankhya and Yoga | 23:374 | confirmed | ||
svalpamapyasya dharmasya (Devanagari) | 6:88 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
even a little of this dharma saves us from a mighty peril | 6:349 | corrected | page was 7:349. Words are at CWSA 6:349 (Graduated Boycott), not vol. 7. | |
quotation | 9:260 | confirmed | ||
paraphrase | 9:261 | confirmed | ||
even a little of this dharma delivers man or nation out of great fear | 13:11–12 | added | his rendering quoted | |
svalpamapyasya dharmasya (Devanagari) | 13:12 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
svalpyam apyasya dharmasya … “Even a little of this law” (manuscript facsimile) | 18:172 | corrected | page corrected from 18:173: 18:172 is a photographic reproduction of a manuscript page, and the words stand there in the manuscript’s spelling | |
“A little of this rule of life saves man out of his great fear” | 18:422 | confirmed | ||
deliver you from the great fear and even a little of it will bring deliverance | 19:95 | confirmed | ||
alpam api asya dharmasya | 24:724 | corrected | page corrected from 24:725 | |
Svalpam apyasya dharmasya | 26:13 | confirmed | ||
concentration of the mind that decides and persists in the decision, vyavasāya | 19:96 | confirmed | ||
a settled concentration and perseverance, vyavasāya | 19:99 | confirmed | ||
“this flowery word which they declare who have not clear discernment” | 19:87 | confirmed | ||
offerings of desire directed towards material rewards | 19:89 | confirmed | ||
nānyad astīti vādinaḥ | 19:92 | confirmed | ||
bhogaishwaryagatim prati | 16:479 | confirmed | ||
kriyā-viśeṣa-bahulām | 19:89 | confirmed | ||
“The action of the three gunas is the subject matter of the Veda” … “a well with water in flood” | 19:87 | confirmed | ||
“without the triple action of the qualities of Prakriti, without the dualities” | 19:102 | confirmed | ||
traiguṇyaviṣayā vedāḥ | 19:116–117 | confirmed | ||
free from the modes of Nature, nistraiguṇya | 19:118–119 | confirmed | ||
nistraiguṇyo bhavārjuna | 19:232 | confirmed | ||
traiguṇya-viṣayā vedāḥ | 19:444 | confirmed | ||
in possession of his own real self and spirit other than the ego, ātmavān | 19:552–554 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Quotes ātmavān of 2.45 (phrase falls beyond the truncated passage_text). | |
nistraiguṇya | 24:675 | confirmed | ||
“Thy business is with the action only, never with its fruits” | 7:860 | confirmed | ||
“You have the right to action, to work, but not to the fruit” | 8:51 | confirmed | ||
mā karma-phala-hetur bhūḥ | 13:83 | confirmed | ||
sango akarmani | 17:490 | confirmed | ||
Karmanyevádhikáras te … má phaleshu kadáchana | 17:521 | confirmed | ||
“Thou hast a right to action, but none to the fruits of action” | 19:35 | confirmed | ||
“right to action” | 19:36 | confirmed | ||
“Thou hast a right to action, but only to action, never to its fruits” | 19:102 | confirmed | ||
attachment to inaction, saṅgo akarmaṇi | 19:496 | confirmed | ||
“To action thou hast a right but never under any circumstances to its fruit” | 23:222 | confirmed | ||
karmaṇyevādhikāraste (Devanagari) | 27:524 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
karmaṇyevādhikāraste (Bengali script) | 36:201 | confirmed | confirmed on reading the passage: 36:201 ends with the phrase in Bengali script (কর্মনোবাধিকারঙে, garbled). | |
quotation and translation | 9:279,280 | confirmed | ||
yogasthaḥ kuru karmāṇi | 13:510 | confirmed | ||
Samatā of the Gita | 15:282 | confirmed | ||
Perfect equality of soul is established | 17:36 | confirmed | ||
“Fixed in Yoga do thy actions … for it is equality that is meant by Yoga” | 19:103 | confirmed | ||
samatvaṁ yoga ucyate | 19:198 | confirmed | ||
samatvaṁ yoga ucyate | 24:692 | confirmed | ||
kṛpaṇāḥ phalahetavaḥ | 13:267 | confirmed | ||
the Yoga of the intelligence … is far superior to mere works | 19:81 | confirmed | ||
“Works are far inferior … to Yoga of the intelligence; desire rather refuge in the intelligence” | 19:96 | confirmed | ||
works are far inferior to the Yoga of the intelligence | 19:105 | confirmed | ||
quotation and translation | 9:279,280 | confirmed | ||
Yogaḥ karmasu kauśalam | 13:58 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
ubhe sukṛtaduṣkṛte | 13:84 | confirmed | ||
Yoga is skill in works | 13:119 | corrected | page corrected from 13:120 | |
“Yoga is skill in works” | 19:103 | confirmed | ||
yogaḥ karmasu kauśalam | 19:180 | confirmed | ||
yogaḥ karmasu kauśalam | 19:218 | confirmed | ||
this pure instrumentation is the condition of the greatest skill in works | 19:404–405 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Echoes ‘Yoga is skill in works’ of 2.50. | |
yogaḥ karmasu kauśalam | 20:76 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
motto: “One whose intelligence has attained to Unity” | 21:618 | confirmed | ||
yogaḥ karmasu kauśalam | 24:780–781 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
the sages who do works without desire for fruits and in Yoga with the Divine are liberated | 19:103 | confirmed | ||
“born of work” | 19:122 | confirmed | ||
gantāsi nirvedaṁ śrotavyasya śrutasya ca … śrutivipratipannā | 19:87–88 | confirmed | ||
gantāsi nirvedam … śrotavyasya śrutasya ca | 19:89 | confirmed | ||
Heard or unheard before | 19:93 | confirmed | ||
śrotavyasya śrutasya ca | 23:55–56 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
led in different directions by the Sruti, śrutivipratipannā | 19:89 | confirmed | ||
how does such a man speak, how sit, how walk | 19:102 | confirmed | ||
kiṁ prabhāṣeta kim āsīta vrajeta kim | 19:138 | confirmed | ||
arrived at the essential Samadhi and is settled in it (samādhistha) | 23:322 | confirmed | ||
“Whose mind is not shaken in sorrows, who has banished the craving for delight” | 5:295 | confirmed | ||
duḥkheṣvanudvignamanāḥ sukheṣu vigataspṛhaḥ (Bengali script) | 9:55 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
duḥkheṣvanudvignamanāḥ sukheṣu vigataspṛhaḥ | 9:321–323 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
“A man with mind untroubled by sorrows, who has done with desire for pleasures” | 19:102 | confirmed | ||
“He whose mind is undisturbed in the midst of sorrows and amid pleasures is free from desire” | 19:195–96 | confirmed | ||
vigata-spṛhaḥ | 19:530 | confirmed | ||
as the tortoise draws in his limbs into the shell | 19:99 | confirmed | ||
the affection itself of the sense, the rasa | 19:196 | confirmed | ||
paraṁ dṛṣṭvā | 19:197 | confirmed | ||
finds himself hurried and carried away by the senses | 19:100 | confirmed | ||
“Even the mind of the wise man who labours for perfection is carried away” | 19:198–99 | confirmed | ||
haranti prasabhaṁ manaḥ | 31:367 | confirmed | ||
only by an absolute control of the senses can the wise and calm intelligence be firmly established | 19:100–101 | confirmed | ||
Yukta āsīta matparaḥ | 19:101 | confirmed | ||
By that attachment comes, by attachment desire, by desire distress, passion and anger | 19:100 | confirmed | ||
“ranging over them with the senses,” viṣayān indriyaiś caran | 19:196 | confirmed | ||
the intelligence is rapidly established in the peace of the self | 19:101 | confirmed | ||
“as the winds carry away a ship upon the sea” | 19:98 | confirmed | ||
carried away … as a boat by winds on the sea | 24:677 | confirmed | ||
“like a boat in stormy waters”, nāvam ivāmbhasi | 28:175 | confirmed | ||
the senses … carry away the mind … as the wind carries away a ship on a stormy sea | 29:425 | confirmed | ||
Yasyam jagrati bhutani sa nisha pashyato muneh; that in which these creatures are awake, is night to the eye of the awakened seer | 17:344–45 | confirmed | ||
even as the waters flow into the great tranquil and immeasurable ocean | 8:93 | confirmed | ||
niḥspṛha, nirdvandva and nirahaṅkāra | 13:82 | confirmed | ||
He attains to the great peace | 19:104 | confirmed | ||
nirmamo nirahaṅkāraḥ | 19:403–404 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
this divine state, brāhmī sthiti | 13:77–78 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
the divine Brahmi sthiti of blissful unity | 16:511–513 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
firm standing in the Brahman, brāhmī sthiti | 19:103 | confirmed | ||
can attain to extinction in the Brahman, Nirvana | 19:104 | confirmed | ||
eṣā brāhmī sthitiḥ | 19:197 | confirmed | ||
the constant Samadhi of the firmly founded Brahmic consciousness | 23:364 | confirmed | ||
eṣā brāhmī sthitiḥ pārtha (Devanagari) | 27:523 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
brahmī sthiti (Devanagari) | 27:524 | corrected | page was 27.254. Page typo: the phrase is at 27:524 (Shankaracharya on the Gita), in Devanagari. | |
brāhmī sthiti | 29:377 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
the Gita describes it as Nirvana in the Brahman | 29:431 | confirmed | ||
a Yogic death with the mind concentrated with faith and absorption in the Divine | 31:750 | confirmed | ||
the consciousness and concentration of the Yogi in his departure | 32:101 | confirmed | ||
brāhmī sthiti | 35:287 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) |
Chapter 3
| Gita reference | Quoted or translated words or phrases | CWSA page(s) | Status | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
paraphrase and translation with discussion | 19:105–111 | confirmed | ||
complete translation | 5:85–88 | confirmed | ||
quotation and translation | 9:279 | confirmed | ||
Kim karmani ghore mám niyojayasi Keshava, “Why dost Thou appoint me, O Lord, to a dreadful work?” | 17:518 | confirmed | ||
“If thou holdest the intelligence to be greater than action, why then dost thou appoint me” | 19:26–27 | confirmed | ||
“If thou holdest the intelligence to be greater than works, why then dost thou appoint me” | 19:82 | confirmed | ||
terrible, even monstrous | 19:105 | confirmed | ||
jyāyasī karmaṇo buddhiḥ | 19:109 | confirmed | ||
kiṁ karmaṇi ghore māṁ niyojayasi | 19:383 | confirmed | ||
“terrible work” | 19:499 | confirmed | ||
ghoraṁ karma | 29:249 | confirmed | ||
ghoraṁ karma | 35:770 | confirmed | ||
Sankhya proceeded by knowledge and through the Yoga of the intelligence, while Yoga proceeded by works | 19:81 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Paraphrases the twofold path of 3.3. | |
the Sankhya goes by knowledge and renunciation, the Yoga by works | 19:82 | confirmed | ||
“that of the Sankhyas by the Yoga of knowledge, that of the Yogins by the Yoga of works” | 19:84 | confirmed | ||
the two means of salvation … the Yoga of knowledge, the Yoga of works | 19:106 | confirmed | ||
jñāna-yogena sāṅkhyānām … karma-yogena yoginām | 19:532 | confirmed | ||
3.4, 5, 8 | na karmaṇāmanārambhān (Devanagari), “Not by refraining from actions can a man enjoy actionlessness” | 1:324 | confirmed | |
No man, as the Gita clearly teaches, can abstain from works | 17:383 | confirmed | ||
“Not by abstention from works does a man enjoy actionlessness” | 19:106 | confirmed | ||
naiṣkarmya | 19:108 | confirmed | ||
no one who possesses a body, can be free of karma … na hi kaścitkṣaṇamapi (Devanagari) | 17:116 | confirmed | ||
na hi kaścitkṣaṇamapi (Devanagari), “For no man verily remaineth even for a moment without doing works” | 17:205 | confirmed | ||
“For none stands even for a moment not doing work” | 19:107 | confirmed | ||
All action … is done by the guṇas of Prakriti | 19:110 | confirmed | ||
karmendriyāṇi saṁyamya (Devanagari), “He who quells his sense-organs of action” | 1:325 | confirmed | ||
mithyācāra, false discipline or hypocrisy | 13:33–35 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
mithyáchárah sa uchyate | 17:453 | confirmed | ||
The objects of sense are only an occasion for our bondage | 19:108 | confirmed | ||
a false and self-deceiving line of action, mithyācāra | 19:216–217 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
manasā niyamya ārabhate karmayogam | 19:109 | confirmed | ||
sharirayatra | 10:80 | confirmed | ||
sarirayatrapi akarmanah | 17:373 | confirmed | ||
a pilgrimage of the body, śarīra-yātrā | 19:107 | confirmed | ||
Do action thus self-controlled, says Krishna, niyataṁ kuru karma tvam; “Do thou do controlled action,” niyataṁ kuru karma tvam | 19:109 | confirmed | ||
the rightly regulated action, niyataṁ karma | 19:495–496 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
yajnartham karma | 14:103 | confirmed | ||
activity for God only, yajnartham | 17:426 | confirmed | ||
“By doing works otherwise than for sacrifice, this world of men is in bondage to works” | 19:111 | confirmed | ||
paraphrase and translation with discussion | 19:114–118 | confirmed | ||
sacrifice … is the law by which the Father of all in the beginning conditioned the world | 8:55 | confirmed | ||
Sahayajnáh prajáh srishtwá purovácha Prajápatih | 14:135 | confirmed | ||
“With sacrifice the Lord of creatures of old created creatures” | 19:114 | confirmed | ||
“For with sacrifice as their companion … the All-Father created these peoples” | 23:106 | confirmed | ||
“Foster by sacrifice the gods … and let those gods foster you” | 17:456 | confirmed | ||
the supreme gain, the param sreyah | 17:487 | confirmed | ||
śreyaḥ param avāpsyatha | 19:115 | confirmed | ||
stena eva sah | 17:453 | confirmed | ||
sarvagataṁ brahma | 19:116 | confirmed | ||
sarvagataṁ yajñe pratiṣṭhitam | 19:117 | confirmed | ||
he lives in vain | 19:126–127 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Renders moghaṁ … sa jīvati of 3.16. | |
atmarati | 11:921 | confirmed | ||
“But the man whose delight is in the Self and who is satisfied with the enjoyment of the Self” | 19:114 | confirmed | ||
ātmaratiḥ | 24:713 | confirmed | ||
what the Gita calls the ātmarati | 29:151 | confirmed | ||
quotation and translation | 9:279,280 | confirmed | ||
kartavyaṁ karma, the work that is to be done | 19:36 | confirmed | ||
param āpnoti pūruṣaḥ | 19:115 | confirmed | ||
“Therefore without attachment perform ever the work that is to be done” | 19:115 | confirmed | ||
3.19, 22, 2.47 | the work that has to be done | 23:272 | confirmed | |
the work that is to be done | 31:701–702 | added | his rendering quoted | |
the work that is to be done | 32:98 | added | his rendering quoted | |
paraphrase and translation with discussion | 19:135–136 | confirmed | ||
lokasaṁgrahamevāpi saṁpaśyan (Devanagari) and translation | 1:329–30 | corrected | sloka ref was 3.30ff. Devanagari runs from the second half of 3.20 to 3.26, with translation. | |
for the sake of the world, lokasaṅgraha | 19:115 | confirmed | ||
lokasaṅgraha as the object of works | 19:119 | confirmed | ||
karmaṇaiva hi saṁsiddhim āsthitā janakādayaḥ | 19:135 | confirmed | ||
lokasaṅgraham evāpi sampaśyan kartum arhasi … varta eva ca karmaṇi | 19:135 | confirmed | ||
acts for lokasaṅgraha, for the maintaining of all in their dharma | 19:174 | confirmed | ||
for the maintenance and leading of the peoples | 19:257 | confirmed | ||
lokasaṅgrahāya | 19:386 | confirmed | ||
the maintenance of the cosmic existence, lokasaṅgraha | 19:444–45 | confirmed | ||
for the holding together of the world purpose, loka-saṅgrahārtham | 19:499 | confirmed | ||
the liberated soul … should still do all the works of life | 23:136 | confirmed | ||
he should not draw men away from the world-action by his example | 23:143 | confirmed | ||
directed not by desire, but towards the keeping together of the world | 23:272 | confirmed | ||
perfect realisation and oneness of nature with the Divine, saṁsiddhim, sādharmyam | 29:221 | confirmed | ||
best, the śreṣṭha of the Gita | 13:442 | confirmed | ||
yad yad acharati sreshthah | 17:499 | confirmed | ||
the visible standard and the invisible influence of its Best | 19:137–138 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Paraphrases 3.21 (the Best, the standard the people follows). | |
Yad yad ācarati śreṣṭhas tat tad evetaro janaḥ | 28:443 | confirmed | ||
Whatsoever the Best doeth, that the lower kind of man puts into practice | 32:406 | added | cited | |
the śreṣṭha here is not the Yogin | 32:407 | confirmed | ||
anaváptam aváptavyam | 17:480 | confirmed | ||
varta eva cha karmani | 17:522 | confirmed | ||
“I abide in the path of action … thou too must abide in action.” | 19:138 | confirmed | ||
abides eternally in action, varta eva ca karmaṇi | 19:440 | confirmed | ||
“have no need to do works … yet I do works in the world” | 23:144 | confirmed | ||
The Divine … has nothing to gain and nothing that it has not | 28:291 | confirmed | ||
“For if I did not abide sleeplessly in the paths of action” | 19:135–36 | confirmed | ||
I should destroy the peoples and be the author of confusion | 19:143 | confirmed | ||
utsīdeyurime lokā na kuryāṁ karma cedaham (Bengali script) | 9:393 | added | Sanskrit quoted; page not given in the source of this translation; page of the Bengali original | |
“These worlds would be overpowered by tamas and sink into Prakriti” | 13:85 | confirmed | ||
utsīdeyurime lokāḥ (Devanagari) | 17:117 | confirmed | ||
utsīdeyurime lokāḥ (Devanagari) | 17:209 | confirmed | ||
3.24, 26 | utsideyur ime lokah … buddhibhedam janayed ajnanam karmasanginam | 17:373 | confirmed | |
the universe would crumble to pieces, utsīdeyur ime lokāḥ | 31:32 | confirmed | ||
lokasaṅgraha as the object of works | 19:119–120 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Cites lokasaṅgraha as motive of works, 3.25. | |
the holding together of the peoples, cikīrṣur lokasaṅgraham | 19:138 | confirmed | ||
to assist the human march, to hold it together | 19:159 | confirmed | ||
let him not confuse the minds of men by a dangerous example | 19:138–139 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Renders na buddhibhedaṁ janayet of 3.26. | |
confuses their understanding, buddhibhedaṁ janayet | 19:194 | confirmed | ||
sarvakarmāṇi joṣayan | 19:210 | confirmed | ||
paraphrase and translation with discussion | 19:213–22 | confirmed | ||
“While the actions are being entirely done by the modes of Nature” | 19:214 | confirmed | ||
those who from ahankara hear not | 36:193 | confirmed | ||
“guṇā guṇeṣu vartante”, “it was the modes of Nature that were acting upon the modes.” | 19:222 | confirmed | ||
play of the three gunas upon each other, guṇā guṇeṣu vartante | 19:230 | confirmed | ||
guṇā guṇeṣu vartante | 19:463 | confirmed | ||
“This is Prakriti working in the life, mind and body, it is not myself” | 23:432 | confirmed | ||
“highest of all mysteries” | 1:327 | confirmed | ||
akṛtsnavidaḥ … kṛtsna-vit | 19:213 | confirmed | ||
the whole-knowers, kṛtsnavidaḥ | 19:440 | confirmed | ||
the complete and total knowledge, kṛtsnavid | 19:460 | confirmed | ||
quotation and translation | 9:279,280 | confirmed | ||
“Laying down all actions upon Me, with thy whole conscious being in adhyātmayoga” | 13:82 | confirmed | ||
Adhyātmacetasā … a spiritual consciousness | 13:93 | confirmed | ||
Not to her has he to surrender his actions … but into the being of the Supreme | 19:36–37 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Paraphrases ‘renouncing all thy actions into Me’ of 3.30. | |
to whom works have to be given up even in their doing | 19:119–120 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Paraphrases the giving up of works to the Divine of 3.30. | |
renouncing all thy actions into Me, mayi sarvāṇi karmāṇi sannyasyādhyātmacetasā | 19:186–87 | confirmed | ||
mayi sannyasya | 19:201 | confirmed | ||
“Having become free from desire and egoism,” … nirāśīr nirmamo bhūtvā | 19:215 | confirmed | ||
the giving up of actions, sarva-karmāṇi sannyasya | 19:232 | confirmed | ||
assumed by the Divine, mayi sannyasya karmāṇi | 19:243–244 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Quotes mayi … karmāṇi sannyasya of 3.30. | |
surrender the whole action into his hands, mayi sannyasya karmāṇi | 19:524 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Quotes mayi … karmāṇi sannyasya of 3.30. | |
to renounce all action into the Self, Spirit, Brahman and thence into the supreme Person | 19:548 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Paraphrases 3.30 (actions renounced into Me with self-consciousness). | |
mayi karmāṇi saṁnyasya (Devanagari) | 27:524 | corrected | page was 27:254. Page typo 27:254 for 27:524; mayi karmāṇi saṁnyasya is 3.30. | |
Adhyātmacetasā … a spiritual consciousness | 35:85 | confirmed | ||
sarva-jñāna-vimūḍhān naṣṭān acetasaḥ | 19:217 | confirmed | ||
quotation and discussion | 9:324 | confirmed | ||
Prakritim yânti bhûtâni nigrahah kim karishyati | 11:1389 | confirmed | ||
Prakritim yanti bhutani, nigrahah kim karishyati | 12:113 | confirmed | ||
all things are ruled by their nature, to their nature they return | 13:33 | confirmed | ||
sadṛśaṁ ceṣṭate svasyāḥ (Devanagari) and translation | 17:205 | confirmed | ||
“All existences follow their nature and what shall coercing it avail?” | 19:217 | confirmed | ||
sadṛśaṁ ceṣṭate svasyāḥ prakṛteḥ | 19:220 | confirmed | ||
“In the object of this or that sense liking and disliking are set in ambush” | 19:218 | confirmed | ||
Paradharmo bhayavahah | 7:1040–1041 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
“Better the law of one’s own being though it be badly done” | 8:61–62 | confirmed | ||
“Better is one’s own law of works, swadharma though in itself faulty” | 9:85 | added | his rendering quoted | |
śreyān svadharmmo viguṇaḥ (Bengali script) | 9:264 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
Sreyan swadharmo viguno, Better is the law of our own being though inferior | 12:112 | confirmed | ||
he must act always by the law of his nature | 19:27 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Close paraphrase of 3.35. | |
“Better is one’s own law of works, svadharma, though in itself faulty” | 19:217–18 | confirmed | ||
the law of his being is not rightly worked out, svadharmaḥ su-anuṣṭhitaḥ | 19:221 | confirmed | ||
Death in one’s own law of nature is better for a man than victory in an alien movement | 19:509 | confirmed | ||
better is the law of one’s own nature though ill-performed | 25:150 | confirmed | ||
drives a man to sin, as if by force | 19:218 | confirmed | ||
anicchannapi balād iva niyojitaḥ | 31:367 | confirmed | ||
all-devouring principle of desire, the insatiable fire | 19:142 | confirmed | ||
this is desire and its companion wrath, children of rajas | 19:218 | confirmed | ||
the rajasic being, rajoguṇa-samudbhavaḥ | 19:275 | confirmed | ||
yo buddheḥ paratastu saḥ (Bengali script) | 9:407 | added | Sanskrit quoted; page not given in the source of this translation; page of the Bengali original | |
“Supreme, they say,” … “are the senses, supreme over the senses the mind” | 19:98 | confirmed | ||
This Akshara is the self higher than the buddhi | 19:437 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Renders yo buddheḥ paratas tu saḥ of 3.42. | |
buddheḥ paratas tu saḥ | 23:295 | confirmed | ||
the higher mental plane, buddheḥ parataḥ | 29:413 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
evaṁ buddheḥ paraṁ buddhvā (Bengali script); buddheryah param buddhva samstabhyaatmanamatmana (Bengali script) | 9:407 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
jahi shatrum durásadam | 17:465 | confirmed | ||
“Awakening by the understanding to the Highest which is beyond even the discerning mind” | 19:197 | confirmed | ||
Desire, which the Gita calls the enemy difficult to overcome | 28:462 | confirmed | ||
jahi kâmam durâsadam | 36:229 | confirmed |
Chapter 4
| Gita reference | Quoted or translated words or phrases | CWSA page(s) | Status | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
paraphrase and translation with discussion | 19:145–48 | confirmed | ||
imaṁ vivasvate yogaṁ (Devanagari) and translation | 1:331 | confirmed | ||
complete translation | 5:89–92 | confirmed | ||
“This is the imperishable Yoga I declared unto Vivaswan” | 18:263 | confirmed | ||
it was he who in ancient times revealed to Vivasvan this Yoga | 19:27 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Paraphrases 4.1. | |
this Yoga, since lost | 19:27 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Paraphrases ‘that Yoga was lost’ of 4.2. | |
“highest of all mysteries” | 1:327 | confirmed | ||
sa evāyaṁ mayā te ’dya (Devanagari) and translation | 1:329 | confirmed | ||
quotation and translation | 9:273 | confirmed | ||
the mystery of existence, the uttamam rahasyam | 11:1396–97 | confirmed | ||
uttamaṁ rahasyam | 12:78–79 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
the highest secret, uttamaṁ rahasyam | 13:252–253 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
entire surrender to God, the uttamam rahasyam | 17:426 | confirmed | ||
the best or highest secret of things, uttamaṁ rahasyam | 19:14 | confirmed | ||
which he is now again revealing to Arjuna | 19:27 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Paraphrases 4.3 ‘this same ancient Yoga I have today declared to thee’. | |
the occult secrets of super conscious Nature, uttamaṁ rahasyam | 19:80 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
the highest secret of all, uttamaṁ rahasyam | 19:125 | confirmed | ||
the highest secret of his being, rahasyaṁ hyetad uttamam | 19:140 | confirmed | ||
the highest secret, uttamaṁ rahasyam | 19:290 | confirmed | ||
Arjuna is dear to him and his bhakta | 19:375–376 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Echoes ‘thou art my devotee and my friend’ of 4.3. | |
the high secret and mystery, uttamaṁ rahasyam | 19:459 | confirmed | ||
a similar supreme mystery of the being of the Purushottama, rahasyam uttamam | 19:550 | confirmed | ||
rahasyam uttamam | 23:95 | corrected | page corrected from 23:94 | |
the supreme secret (uttamaṁ rahasyam) | 32:86 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
bahūni me vyatītāni janmāni … sambhavāmi yuge yuge | 19:17 | confirmed | ||
“Many are my lives that are past, and thine also, O Arjuna” | 19:146–47 | confirmed | ||
the bahūni … coupled with tava ca | 28:500 | confirmed | ||
the lord of all beings, bhūtānām īśvara | 19:144 | confirmed | ||
although the Divine is unborn, imperishable in his self-existence, the Lord of all beings | 19:150 | confirmed | ||
prakṛtiṁ svām adhiṣṭhāya … ātmamāyayā … ātmānaṁ sṛjāmi | 19:155 | confirmed | ||
by self-Maya, ātmamāyayā | 19:155 | corrected | sloka ref was 9.8. ātmamāyayā is 4.6; the passage also quotes 9.8 (prakṛtiṁ svām avaṣṭabhya … visṛjāmi). | |
he takes possession of his partial type of being and its nature and divinely dominates it | 19:158–159 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Paraphrases prakṛtiṁ svām adhiṣṭhāya of 4.6. | |
“Although I am the unborn Lord of creatures, I create (loose forth) my self by my Maya”; prakṛtiṁ svām | 19:164 | confirmed | ||
his own active nature, his Prakriti, — svāṁ prakṛtim | 19:230 | confirmed | ||
dharmasya glani and abhyutthanam adharmasya | 12:384 | confirmed | ||
Godhead descended into a form of individual humanity, ātmānaṁ sṛjāmi | 19:161 | confirmed | ||
the Gita’s ātmānaṁ sṛjāmi, it is a soul-birth | 19:165 | corrected | sloka ref was 4.6. ātmānaṁ sṛjāmi is from 4.7. | |
when from age to age the Dharma fades, languishes, loses force | 19:169 | confirmed | ||
the Avatara and the dharmasya sansthapanam | 12:384 | confirmed | ||
“For the deliverance of the good and the destruction of evil doers” | 17:299 | confirmed | ||
the victory of the seekers of light and perfection, sādhūnām | 19:159–60 | confirmed | ||
from age to age, yuge yuge | 19:166 | confirmed | ||
Yuge yuge … “from age to age” | 28:500 | confirmed | ||
the divine birth and works, janma karma ca me divyam; “he who knows in their right principles my divine birth and works” | 19:144 | confirmed | ||
divine works, divyaṁ karma | 19:147 | confirmed | ||
by the knowledge of his divine birth and divine works men come to the Divine | 19:149–150 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Paraphrases 4.9. | |
janma karma ca me divyam evaṁ yo vetti tattvataḥ | 19:176 | confirmed | ||
unity with the divine being, consciousness and nature, madbhāvam āgatāḥ | 19:137 | confirmed | ||
man rising into the divine nature and consciousness, madbhāvam āgataḥ | 19:148 | confirmed | ||
taking refuge in him they arrive at his nature and status of being, madbhāvam | 19:149–150 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Paraphrases 4.10 (manmayā mām upāśritāḥ … madbhāvam). | |
taking refuge in him with their whole being, manmayā mām upāśritāḥ | 19:175 | confirmed | ||
to become even as the Divine, madbhāvam āgataḥ | 19:398 | confirmed | ||
motto: “Many purified by knowledge have come to My state of being” | 21:403 | confirmed | ||
ye yathā māṃ prapadyante | 9:11–12 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
ye yathā māṁ prapadyante (Devanagari) | 12:5 | confirmed | ||
Ye yathá mám prapadyante táns tathaiva bhajámyaham | 17:457 | confirmed | ||
“it is my path that men follow in every way” | 19:174 | confirmed | ||
Ye yathā māṁ prapadyante tāṁs tathaiva bhajāmyaham | 19:176 | confirmed | ||
meets each soul according to its way of approach to him | 19:188–189 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Paraphrases ye yathā māṁ prapadyante of 4.11. | |
as he approaches it, so it receives him, ye yathā māṁ prapadyante | 19:338 | confirmed | ||
motto: “Even as men come to Me, so I accept them” | 22:880 | confirmed | ||
responds too by the divine Love to their bhakti, tathaiva bhajate | 24:558 | confirmed | ||
forms and personalities of the one Godhead | 15:244–245 | added | his rendering quoted | |
the doer of works who acts not, kartāram akartāram | 19:140 | confirmed | ||
the inactive non-doer, akartā | 19:229 | confirmed | ||
kartāram akartāram | 19:230 | confirmed | ||
divine energy and quality, guṇa-karma | 19:370 | confirmed | ||
does not act even in action, kartāram api akartāram | 19:419 | confirmed | ||
“was created by me according to the divisions of the gunas and works” | 19:508 | confirmed | ||
“The fourfold order was created by me,” … “according to the divisions of quality and active function.” | 19:512 | confirmed | ||
the spiritual sense of the cāturvarṇya | 35:689 | confirmed | ||
actions do not cleave to me, na mám karmáni limpanti | 17:520–521 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
na me karmaphale sprihá | 17:522 | confirmed | ||
“he who so knoweth me,” … “is not bound by works.”; the self of all beings, ajo avyaya ātmā | 19:144 | confirmed | ||
“Works affect me not, nor have I desire for the fruit of works” | 19:147 | confirmed | ||
“He who thus knows me is not bound by his works.” | 19:147 | confirmed | ||
quotation and translation | 9:279,280 | confirmed | ||
paraphrase and translation with discussion | 19:177–81 | confirmed | ||
paraphrase | 9:259 | confirmed | ||
“what is action and what is inaction, as to this even the sages are perplexed” | 19:177 | confirmed | ||
gahanā karmaṇo gatiḥ | 9:259 | confirmed | ||
very difficult to say,—gahanā karmaṇo gatiḥ | 13:79 | confirmed | ||
a difficult and entangled process, gahanā karmaṇo gatiḥ | 13:381–382 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
“One has to understand about action as well as to understand about wrong action” | 19:177 | confirmed | ||
4.18, 3.6, 5.2, 3, 4.18 | karmaṇyakarma yaḥ paśyed (Devanagari) and translation | 1:325–26 | confirmed | |
in outward inaction to see action still persisting and in apparent action to see a real inaction | 19:82 | confirmed | ||
from a soul in Yoga with the Divine, yuktaḥ kṛtsna-karma-kṛt; he who in action can see inaction and can see action still continuing in cessation from works; the truly rational and discerning man, sa buddhimān manuṣyeṣu | 19:178 | confirmed | ||
yuktaḥ kṛtsna-karma-kṛt, a many-sided universal worker | 19:199 | confirmed | ||
all the works to which he is called, kṛtsna-karma-kṛt | 19:210 | confirmed | ||
does all works without any of the restrictions made by the mind, kṛtsna-karma-kṛt | 19:460 | confirmed | ||
doing all actions, sarvāṇi karmāṇi, kṛtsna-karma-kṛt | 19:462 | confirmed | ||
sarve samārambhāḥ kāmasaṅkalpavarjitāḥ | 19:179 | confirmed | ||
does nothing, na kiñcit karoti | 19:179 | confirmed | ||
ever satisfied without any kind of dependence, nitya-tṛpto nirāśrayaḥ | 19:184 | confirmed | ||
dependent on nothing external for its absolute existence, nirāśraya | 24:726 | confirmed | ||
a purely physical action, śārīraṁ kevalaṁ karma | 19:180 | confirmed | ||
paraphrase and translation with discussion | 19:119–123 | confirmed | ||
yadṛcchālābhasantoṣaḥ (Devanagari) | 11:1287 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
“He who is satisfied with whatever gain comes to him” | 19:119 | confirmed | ||
passed beyond the dualities; he is dvandvātīta | 19:181 | confirmed | ||
quotation and translation | 9:279,280 | confirmed | ||
karmāṇi pravilīyante, your actions will disappear | 13:82 | confirmed | ||
Gata-saṅgasya muktasya jñānāvasthita-cetasaḥ | 19:187 | confirmed | ||
gata-saṅgasya jñānāvasthita-cetasaḥ | 19:200 | confirmed | ||
continued action in the world, muktasya karma | 19:450 | confirmed | ||
the action of the liberated man, muktasya karma | 19:462 | confirmed | ||
liberated action, muktasya karma | 19:536 | confirmed | ||
the works of the liberated soul, muktasya karma | 19:561 | confirmed | ||
they vanish and are dissolved by their very execution | 23:405 | confirmed | ||
“Brahman is the giving, Brahman is the food-offering” | 19:120 | confirmed | ||
an offering of Brahman to Brahman by Brahman | 22:1022 | confirmed | ||
“Some Yogins follow after the sacrifice which is of the gods” | 19:121 | confirmed | ||
“Some offer their senses into the fires of control” | 19:121 | confirmed | ||
dravya-yajña … tapo-yajña … yoga-yajña | 19:121 | confirmed | ||
“They who enjoy the nectar of immortality left over from the sacrifice” | 19:122 | confirmed | ||
“extended in the mouth of the Brahman” | 19:122 | confirmed | ||
the divine knowledge in which, as the Gita says, all action culminates | 19:19 | confirmed | ||
sarvaṁ karmākhilaṁ pārtha jñāne parisamāpyate | 19:112 | confirmed | ||
the sacrifice done with knowledge is the highest sacrifice | 19:128 | confirmed | ||
The sacrifice of knowledge, says the Gita therefore, is greater than any material sacrifice; sarvaṁ karmākhilaṁ jñāne parisamāpyate | 19:200 | confirmed | ||
sarvaṁ karmākhilaṁ jñāne parisamāpyate | 24:545 | confirmed | ||
“sacrifice of knowledge” | 28:433 | confirmed | ||
“thou shalt see all existences (becomings, bhūtāni) without exception in the Self, then in Me.” | 19:122 | confirmed | ||
ātmani atho mayi, “in the Self and then in Me.” | 19:132 | confirmed | ||
“In the Self, then in Me” | 19:134 | confirmed | ||
“that by which thou shalt see all existences without exception in the Self” | 19:205 | confirmed | ||
without exception, aśeṣeṇa | 19:208 | confirmed | ||
all without exception,—aśeṣeṇa, nothing omitted | 19:359–360 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
“in the self, then in me,” ātmani atho mayi | 19:399 | confirmed | ||
a phrase of immense import that alters everything, ātmani atho mayi | 19:548 | confirmed | ||
paraphrase and translation with discussion | 19:200–05 | confirmed | ||
paraphrase | 9:261 | confirmed | ||
“Even if thou art the greatest doer of sin beyond all sinners” | 19:200 | confirmed | ||
“As a fire kindled turns to ashes its fuel” | 19:200–01 | confirmed | ||
“There is nothing in the world equal in purity to knowledge.” | 19:200 | confirmed | ||
“the man who is perfected by Yoga, finds it of himself in the self” | 19:204 | confirmed | ||
saṁyatendriyaḥ … tat-paraḥ; a faith which no intellectual doubt can be allowed to disturb, śraddhāvān labhate jñānam | 19:204 | confirmed | ||
“The ignorant who has not faith, the soul of doubt goeth to perdition” | 19:204 | corrected | sloka ref was 4.39 | |
Na cha mám táni karmáni nibadhnanti | 17:43717:520 | confirmed | ||
yoga-sannyasta-karmāṇam ātmavantaṁ na karmāṇi nibadhnanti | 19:201 | confirmed | ||
ajñāna-sambhūtaṁ hṛtsthaṁ saṁśayam | 19:205 | confirmed |
Chapter 5
| Gita reference | Quoted or translated words or phrases | CWSA page(s) | Status | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
paraphrase and translation with discussion | 19:82–83 | confirmed | ||
complete translation | 5:93–95 | confirmed | ||
“Thou declarest to me the renunciation of works, O Krishna” | 19:82 | confirmed | ||
saṁnyāsaḥ karmayogaśca (Devanagari) and translation | 1:325–26 | confirmed | ||
“Renunciation and Yoga of works both bring about the soul’s salvation” | 19:83 | confirmed | ||
paraphrase and translation with discussion | 19:183–86 | confirmed | ||
“He should be known as the eternal Sannyasin who neither hates nor desires” | 19:185 | confirmed | ||
only balah, undeveloped minds, make a difference | 17:114 | confirmed | ||
“The status which is attained by the Sankhya, to that the men of the Yoga also arrive” | 19:83 | confirmed | ||
The painful process of outward Sannyasa, duḥkham āptum | 19:185 | confirmed | ||
natural and easy for man, sukham āptum | 19:340–341 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
a long, difficult and meticulous movement, duḥkham āptum | 23:529–530 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
one in soul with all beings, sarvabhūtātma-bhūtātmā | 13:77 | confirmed | ||
sarvabhūtātma-bhūtātmā | 19:184 | confirmed | ||
acts and yet is not affected by his works … kurvann api na lipyate | 19:201 | confirmed | ||
“The man who knows the principles of things thinks, his mind in Yoga” | 19:186 | confirmed | ||
though he acts, he does nothing | 19:201 | confirmed | ||
the closing or blinking of the eyelids, nimishannapi | 10:207 | confirmed | ||
lipyate na sa pāpena (Bengali script) | 9:68 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
as water falls from the lotus leaf | 13:81–82 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
his works on the Brahman, brahmaṇyādhāya karmāṇi | 19:185 | confirmed | ||
brahmaṇi ādhāya karmāṇi … “reposed on the Brahman” | 19:200–201 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Quotes brahmaṇy ādhāya karmāṇi of 5.10. | |
its absolute purified simplicity, kevalair | 11:1398 | confirmed | ||
“do works with the body, mind, understanding, or even merely with the organs of action” | 19:185 | confirmed | ||
kevalair indriyaiś caran | 19:534 | confirmed | ||
kevalair indriyair | 23:403 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
action by the mere organs, kevalair indriyair | 23:404 | confirmed | ||
to sit fast in his city, navadware pure | 10:222 | confirmed | ||
“sits in its nine-gated city neither doing nor causing to be done.” | 19:185 | confirmed | ||
the mind’s idea of being the doer, na kartṛtvaṁ na karmāṇi | 19:185 | confirmed | ||
na kartṛtvaṁ na karmāṇi sṛjati na karma-phala-saṁyogam | 19:231 | confirmed | ||
according to the law of our being, svabhāvas tu pravartate | 19:316–318 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
self-expression and self-finding through all these things, svabhāvas tu pravartate | 19:521 | confirmed | ||
quotation and translation | 9:280 | confirmed | ||
nādatte kasyacit pāpaṁ na caiva sukṛtam | 19:231 | confirmed | ||
motto: “The Lord accepts the sin and the virtue of none” | 21:618 | confirmed | ||
the Lord takes not on himself the good or the evil deeds | 27:575 | confirmed | ||
shines out like a long-hidden sun … ādityavat prakāśayati tat param | 19:202 | confirmed | ||
washed clean … by the waters of knowledge, jñāna-nirdhūta-kalmaṣāḥ | 19:202 | confirmed | ||
in the dog, the unclean outcaste and the learned and virtuous Brahmin | 19:183 | confirmed | ||
“seeing with an equal eye the learned and cultured Brahmin, the cow, the elephant” | 19:202 | confirmed | ||
ihaiva tairjitaḥ sargo (Bengali script); ihaiva tairjitah sargo yesham samye sthitam manah (Bengali script) | 9:246 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
“The equal Brahman.” | 17:44 | confirmed | ||
the same & invariable samam Brahma | 17:409–10 | confirmed | ||
His poise of peace, self-possession, equality, samaṁ brahma | 19:116–117 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
this perfect equality, sāmye sthitaṁ manaḥ; overcome that creation … tair jitaḥ sargaḥ | 19:202 | confirmed | ||
conquered the creation, jitaḥ sargaḥ | 19:246 | confirmed | ||
“The equal Brahman.” | 21:79 | confirmed | ||
“The equal Brahman.” | 24:692 | confirmed | ||
lives uninterruptedly in the Brahman, brahmavid brahmaṇi sthitaḥ | 19:205 | confirmed | ||
the Brahman-knower who has risen into the Brahman-consciousness, brahmavid brahmaṇi sthitaḥ | 19:236 | confirmed | ||
5.21, 27 | the outward touches of things, bāhya sparśa | 19:73 | confirmed | |
the same imperishable Ananda, sukham akṣayam aśnute; brahmayoga-yuktātmā | 19:184 | corrected | sloka ref was 5.7. sukham akṣayam aśnute is 5.21; the passage also cites sarvabhūtātma-bhūtātmā (5.7). | |
“The self in him is unattached to the touches of external things; he finds his happiness in himself” | 19:198 | confirmed | ||
“When the soul is no longer attached to the touches of outward things” | 19:236 | confirmed | ||
external contacts, bāhya-sparśa | 24:663–664 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
“The enjoyments born of the touches of things are causes of sorrow” | 19:197–98 | confirmed | ||
paraphrase and translation with discussion | 19:235–39 | confirmed | ||
“He who can bear here in the body the velocity of wrath and desire” | 19:196 | confirmed | ||
prāk śarīra-vimokṣaṇāt | 19:236 | confirmed | ||
Antahsukha & antararama | 11:922 | confirmed | ||
he becomes the Self, the Brahman, brahmabhūta | 19:83 | confirmed | ||
antaḥ-sukho ’ntar-ārāmas tathāntar-jyotir eva yaḥ | 19:184 | confirmed | ||
the phrase brahma-nirvāṇa, extinction in the Brahman | 19:235 | confirmed | ||
“He who has the inner happiness and the inner ease and repose” … brahma-nirvāṇam | 19:236 | confirmed | ||
the extinction of ego, brahma-nirvāṇa | 19:549 | confirmed | ||
antaḥ-sukho antarārāmaḥ | 24:726 | confirmed | ||
sarvabhutahite ratah | 7:875–876 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
sarvabhūtahite rataḥ (Devanagari) | 17:116–117 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
sarvabhūtahite ratāḥ | 17:409–411 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
doing good to all creatures … sarvabhūtahite rataḥ | 19:199 | confirmed | ||
kṣīṇa-kalmaṣāḥ sarvabhūta-hite ratāḥ | 19:202–203 | added | Sanskrit quoted; sloka ref was 12.4 | |
kṣīṇa-kalmaṣāḥ sarvabhūta-hite ratāḥ | 19:203 | confirmed | ||
“Sages win Nirvana in the Brahman” … sarvabhūta-hite ratāḥ | 19:237 | confirmed | ||
for the good of all, sarva-bhūta-hite | 19:460 | confirmed | ||
“Yatis … who are delivered from desire and wrath and have gained self-mastery” | 19:237 | confirmed | ||
is all around, abhito vartate | 19:238 | confirmed | ||
“Having put outside of himself all outward touches and concentrated the vision between the eyebrows” | 19:238 | confirmed | ||
quotation and translation | 9:280 | confirmed | ||
bhoktáram yajnatapasám sarvalokamaheshwaram | 17:453 | confirmed | ||
bhoktáram yajnatapasám | 17:456 | confirmed | ||
bhoktāraṁ yajñatapasāṁ sarvaloka-maheśvaram | 19:117 | confirmed | ||
a divine Lord and enjoyer of the sacrifice, bhoktāraṁ yajñatapasām | 19:131 | confirmed | ||
great Lord of all, sarva-loka-maheśvara | 19:186–187 | corrected | Sanskrit quoted | |
the Master of all being, sarvaloka-maheśvara | 19:230 | confirmed | ||
the mighty lord of the worlds and peoples, loka-maheśvara | 19:350–351 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
the Friend of all creatures, suhṛdaṁ sarvabhūtānām | 19:387 | confirmed | ||
suhṛdaṁ sarva-bhūtānāṁ sarva-loka-maheśvaram | 19:405 | confirmed | ||
sarvalokamaheśvaraṁ suhṛdaṁ sarvabhūtānām | 24:565 | confirmed |
Chapter 6
| Gita reference | Quoted or translated words or phrases | CWSA page(s) | Status | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
paraphrase and translation with discussion | 19:240–46 | confirmed | ||
complete translation | 5:96–99 | confirmed | ||
“Whoever does the work to be done without resort to its fruits, he is the Sannyasin and the Yogin” | 19:240 | confirmed | ||
works are the cause, kāraṇam | 19:240 | confirmed | ||
“For when one does not get attached to the objects of sense or to works” | 19:240 | confirmed | ||
atmanyatmanam atmana | 17:528 | confirmed | ||
nātmānam avasādayet … uddhared ātmanātmānam | 19:198 | confirmed | ||
“By the self thou shouldst deliver the self, thou shouldst not depress and cast down the self” | 19:218 | confirmed | ||
deliver the self involved in the lower movement by means of the higher Self | 29:442 | confirmed | ||
samo manapamanayoh | 18:266–267 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
śītoṣṇa-sukhaduḥkheṣu tathā mānāpamānayoḥ | 19:241 | confirmed | ||
conquest over our mobile nature, jitātmā | 19:530 | confirmed | ||
paramātman | 21:527 | confirmed | ||
The Gita distinctly speaks of being samāhita | 29:377 | confirmed | ||
the samāhita state of the Gita | 30:252 | confirmed | ||
The Gita distinctly speaks of being samāhita | 35:287 | confirmed | ||
regarding alike clod and stone and gold | 19:198 | confirmed | ||
“He should set in a pure spot his firm seat … he should practise Yoga for self-purification, ātmaviśuddhaye” | 19:241 | corrected | sloka ref was 6.11. The quotation translates both 6.11 and 6.12 (ātmaviśuddhaye). | |
the vision should be drawn in and fixed between the eye-brows, “not regarding the regions” | 19:241 | confirmed | ||
Yukta āsīta matparaḥ | 19:101 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
a calm self-extinction, śāntiṁ nirvāṇa-paramām | 19:235 | confirmed | ||
śāntiṁ nirvāṇa-paramāṁ matsaṁsthām | 19:241–42 | confirmed | ||
not for the man who gives up sleep and food and play and action | 19:243 | confirmed | ||
“Yoga is not for one who eats too much or who does not eat” | 28:575 | confirmed | ||
“Yoga is not for one who eats in excess nor for one who abstains from eating altogether” | 31:432 | confirmed | ||
one eats and sleeps suitably—yuktāhārī yuktanidraḥ | 31:437 | confirmed | ||
motionless like the light of a lamp in a windless place | 19:242 | confirmed | ||
motto: “They see the Self in the Self by the Self” | 21:543 | confirmed | ||
senses cannot grasp, buddhigrâhyam atîndriyam | 11:1384 | confirmed | ||
“beyond perception by the sense but seizable by the perceptions of the reason”, buddhigrāhyam atīndriyam | 21:70–71 | confirmed | ||
na duḥkhena guruṇāpi vicālyate | 24:713 | confirmed | ||
patient and cheerful perseverance, anirviṇṇacetasā | 13:83–84 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
the divorce of the mind’s marriage with grief, duḥkha-saṁyoga-viyogam | 19:242 | confirmed | ||
“Practise unfalteringly,” says the Gita, “with a heart free from despondency” | 23:220 | confirmed | ||
“Yoga must be continually applied with a heart free from despondent sinking” | 23:245 | confirmed | ||
with a consciousness free from despondency—anirviṇṇacetasā | 29:213 | confirmed | ||
“Practise the Yoga with an undespondent heart”, anirviṇṇacetasā | 29:470 | confirmed | ||
with a heart free from despondency, as the Gita says, anirviṇṇacetasā | 30:18 | confirmed | ||
“Yoga should be practised persistently with a heart free from depression”—anirviṇṇacetasā | 31:201 | confirmed | ||
Yoga should be practised patiently and steadily with a heart that refuses to be overcome by despondency | 31:628 | confirmed | ||
“Practise the Yoga with an undespondent heart”, anirviṇṇacetasā | 31:681 | confirmed | ||
Yoga should be practised, anirviṇṇacetasā | 31:685 | confirmed | ||
the Yogin should not think of anything at all | 12:26 | added | his rendering quoted | |
Na Kinchidapi Chintayet | 12:23 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
Na kinchid api chintayet:—the Yogin should not think of anything at all | 12:26 | confirmed | ||
na kinchid api chintayet | 17:331 | confirmed | ||
na kinchid api chintayet | 18:428 | confirmed | ||
the power of the mind to think not at all | 23:316 | confirmed | ||
the Gita speaks of this rejection of all mental thought | 36:294 | confirmed | ||
“Thus freed from stain of passion and putting himself constantly into Yoga” | 19:243 | confirmed | ||
brahmasaṁsparśam atyantaṁ sukham aśnute | 24:713 | confirmed | ||
brahmasaṁsparśam atyantaṁ sukham aśnute | 24:726 | confirmed | ||
ātmānaṁ sarvabhūteṣu sarvabhūtāni cātmani | 13:76 | confirmed | ||
brahmayoga-yuktātmā, sarvabhūtātma-bhūtātmā | 19:184 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
“Equal-visioned everywhere, he sees the Self in all existences and all existences in the Self” | 19:206 | confirmed | ||
“The man whose self is in Yoga, sees the self in all beings and all beings in the self” | 19:244 | confirmed | ||
sarvabhūtasthitaṁ yo māṁ bhajati ekatvam āsthitaḥ | 19:246 | confirmed | ||
assumed by the Divine … mayi sannyasya karmāṇi; “he who sees Me everywhere and sees all in Me, to him I do not get lost” | 19:244 | confirmed | ||
“however it may act and live, it acts and lives in the Divine” | 19:206–07 | confirmed | ||
“He who loves Me in all beings” | 19:208 | confirmed | ||
“The Yogin who has taken his stand upon oneness and loves Me in all beings” | 19:245 | confirmed | ||
sarvabhūtasthitaṁ yo māṁ bhajati | 19:246 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary); sloka ref was 15.19 | |
sarvathā vartamāno’pi sa yogī mayi vartate | 19:353 | confirmed | ||
living and acting in Vasudeva, mayi vartate | 19:369 | confirmed | ||
in whatever way the perfected Yogin lives and acts, he lives and acts in God | 19:462 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Close paraphrase of 6.31. | |
sarvathā vartamāno’pi sa yogī mayi vartate | 19:464 | confirmed | ||
sarvathā vartamāno’pi | 19:495 | confirmed | ||
“Howsoever he lives and acts,” says the Gita, “he lives and acts in Me” | 23:271 | confirmed | ||
Sarvathā vartamāno’pi sa yogī mayi vartate | 25:231 | confirmed | ||
“He, O Arjuna, who sees with equality everything in the image of the Self” | 19:245 | confirmed | ||
to see all things and creatures as himself, ātmaupamyena sarvatra | 19:344 | confirmed | ||
“He is the greatest Yogin who … sees wherever he turns his eyes all equally in the image of his self” | 26:236 | corrected | sloka ref was 6.47? | |
the restless activity of the mere mind, cañcalaṁ manaḥ | 31:14 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
a powerful method of practice, abhyāsa | 19:241 | confirmed | ||
what is the end of the soul which attempts and fails … perish like a dissolving cloud | 19:27 | confirmed | ||
failed like a dispersing cloud, chinnābhram iva naśyati | 25:131 | confirmed | ||
“Neither in this life nor hereafter is there destruction for him” | 9:342 | added | his rendering quoted | |
whether here or elsewhere, na caivamutra no iha | 12:76 | confirmed | ||
Na hi kalyāṇakṛt kaścid durgatiṁ tāta gacchati | 28:343 | confirmed | ||
na hi kalyāṇa-kṛt kaścid durgatiṁ tāta gacchati | 35:616 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
śāśvatīḥ samaḥ | 1:456–458 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary); sloka ref was 5.10 | |
prāpya puṇyakṛtāṁ lokān uṣitvā śāśvatīḥ samāḥ | 1:457 | confirmed | ||
Having attained to the world of the righteous and having dwelt there for immemorial years | 9:342 | added | his rendering quoted | |
When the Scriptures say “śaśwatih samah” | 12:446 | confirmed | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary); sloka ref was 5.10 | |
a relative infinity of time, śāśvatīḥ samāḥ; śaśwatih samah | 28:540–541 | confirmed | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary); sloka ref was 5.10 | |
the fall of a sadhak from Yoga | 31:675 | corrected | At 31:675 a reference to the Gita’s yogabhraṣṭa (6.41), borderline (idea rather than wording); words corrected to the text. | |
gets beyond the highest Shastra, śabdabrahmātivartate | 13:80 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
passing beyond the range of Veda and Upanishad, śabdabrahmātivartate | 19:88 | confirmed | ||
must pass beyond the written Truth,—śabdabrahmātivartate | 23:55–56 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
“The Yogin is greater than the doers of askesis, greater than the men of knowledge” | 19:246 | confirmed | ||
“Of all Yogins he who with all his inner self given up to Me” … śraddhāvān bhajate | 19:246 | confirmed |
Chapter 7
| Gita reference | Quoted or translated words or phrases | CWSA page(s) | Status | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
paraphrase and translation with discussion | 19:266–77 | confirmed | ||
translation | 5:100 | confirmed | ||
samagram mam, “the whole Me” | 12:357 | confirmed | ||
the whole Divinity (samagram mam—Gita) | 12:359 | confirmed | ||
cited in the title note (Gita, VII. 1–14) | 19:263 | added | cited | |
“how by practising Yoga with a mind attached to me” … samagraṁ mām | 19:266 | confirmed | ||
integrally, samagraṁ mām | 19:282 | confirmed | ||
the Supreme in his entirety —samagraṁ mām | 19:437–438 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Quotes samagraṁ mām of 7.1. | |
the Supreme in his entirety —samagraṁ mām | 19:438 | corrected | sloka ref was 8.1. samagraṁ mām is 7.1. | |
samagraṁ mām | 19:448 | confirmed | ||
7.1, 3 | motto: “Hear how thou shalt know Me in My totality” | 22:659 | confirmed | |
the total Divine, samagraṁ māṁ | 29:193 | confirmed | ||
the total Divine, samagraṁ mām | 35:396 | corrected | sloka ref was 7.9. samagraṁ mām is 7.1 (mānuṣīṁ tanum āśritam, 9.11, follows). | |
“I will speak to thee without omission or remainder, aśeṣataḥ” | 19:266 | confirmed | ||
“among thousands of men one here and there strives after perfection” … tattvataḥ | 19:266 | confirmed | ||
to know this Purusha in all the powers and principles of his divine existence, tattvataḥ | 19:290–291 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Renders vetti tattvataḥ of 7.3. | |
“Rare”, says Sri Krishna, “are the few among the seekers who know me in my totality” | 28:7 | confirmed | ||
“The five elements (conditions of material being), mind, reason, ego, this is my eightfold divided Nature” | 19:266 | confirmed | ||
yayedam dhâryate jagat | 11:1350 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
the Lord by His nature becomes the Jiva | 19:80 | confirmed | ||
the higher divine Nature, the virgin Mother, parā prakṛti | 19:162 | confirmed | ||
it has become the Jiva, jīvabhūtām | 19:270 | confirmed | ||
yayedaṁ dhāryate jagat … ahaṁ kṛtsnasya jagataḥ prabhavaḥ pralayas tathā | 19:270 | confirmed | ||
yayedaṁ dhāryate jagat | 19:293 | confirmed | ||
a partial self-manifestation of the Divine … prakṛtir jīva-bhūtā | 19:322 | confirmed | ||
parā prakṛtir me yayā dhāryate jagat | 19:371 | confirmed | ||
He is a manifestation of God in that Nature, parā prakṛtir jīva-bhūtā | 19:372 | confirmed | ||
this multiple personality in the universe, parā prakṛtir jīva-bhūtā | 19:519 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
parā prakṛtir jīva-bhūtā | 19:536 | confirmed | ||
7.5, 6 | motto: “My supreme Nature has become the living being” | 22:710 | confirmed | |
parā prakṛtir jīvabhūtā | 23:229 | confirmed | ||
a power of the being of the Divine, parā prakṛtir jīva-bhūtā | 24:769 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
the meaning of the parā prakṛtir jīvabhūtā | 28:58 | confirmed | ||
the Para Prakriti who becomes the Jiva | 29:443 | confirmed | ||
the Parashakti (Adya Shakti) who becomes the Jiva and upholds the universe | 29:448 | confirmed | ||
the Parashakti (Adya Shakti) who becomes the Jiva and upholds the universe | 32:57 | corrected | page was 32:67. Words are at 32:57. | |
sarvam idam … is strung like pearls upon a thread | 19:271 | confirmed | ||
“I am taste in the waters, sound in ether, scent in earth, energy of light in fire” | 19:272 | confirmed | ||
“I am the light of sun and moon, the manhood in man” … “I am pranava in all the Vedas” | 19:273 | corrected | sloka ref was 7.8–9. Phrases come from 7.8 (light, manhood, pranava), 7.9 (life, ascetic force), 7.10 (intelligence, energy) and 7.11 (strength). | |
“Know me to be the eternal seed of all existences, O son of Pritha” | 19:273 | confirmed | ||
“I am in beings the desire which is not contrary to their dharma” | 19:274 | confirmed | ||
samagraṁ māṁ jñātvā | 19:537 | confirmed | ||
sāttbikabhāba (Bengali script) | 9:64 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
na tvahaṁ teṣu te mayi (Devanagari) and translation | 17:178 | confirmed | ||
Naham teshu te mayi, “I am not in them, they are in me” | 18:417 | confirmed | ||
sāttvikā bhāvā rājasās tāmasāś ca | 19:271 | confirmed | ||
“they are verily from me,” matta eva … “it is they that are in me” | 19:274 | confirmed | confirmed on reading the passage: bhāvāḥ … matta eva … na tv ahaṁ teṣu te mayi is 7.12; the engine’s 10.5 is wrong. | |
“All this world,” says the Gita, “because it is bewildered by the three states of being” | 19:154 | confirmed | ||
“By these three kinds of becoming which are of the nature of the gunas” | 19:276 | confirmed | ||
the traiguṇyamayī māyā, the Maya hard for man to get beyond, duratyayā | 19:230 | confirmed | ||
daivī hyeṣā guṇamayī mama māyā; “this is my divine Maya of the gunas” | 19:276 | confirmed | ||
“To Me who turn and come, they alone cross over beyond this Maya” | 19:277 | confirmed | ||
paraphrase and translation with discussion | 19:280–88 | confirmed | ||
the doers of evil shall not attain to God | 19:34 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Renders na māṁ duṣkṛtino … prapadyante of 7.15. | |
cited in the title note (Gita, VII. 15–28) | 19:278 | added | cited | |
“The evil-doers attain not to me,” says the Purushottama, “souls bewildered, low in the human scale” | 19:280 | confirmed | ||
four kinds of bhaktas … ārta … arthārthī … jijñāsu … jñānī | 19:284 | corrected | sloka ref was 8.16–19. The four kinds of bhaktas and what follows (udārāḥ, viśiṣyate, end of many existences, mahātmā) are 7.16–19, not ch. 8. | |
arthārthī and ārta … the jijñāsu, the seeker of knowledge | 20:199 | confirmed | ||
ārta … arthārthī … jijñāsu … the Bhakti that knows | 24:550 | confirmed | ||
ārta | 24:551 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
ārta, arthārthī, jijñāsu, the distressed, the seeker of personal objects | 24:568 | confirmed | ||
ever in constant union with him, nityayukta … ekabhaktiḥ | 19:287 | confirmed | ||
the God-lover who has the knowledge, jñānī bhakta | 19:288 | confirmed | ||
bāsudebaḥ sarbbamiti (Bengali script); vāsudevaḥ sarvamiti (Bengali script) | 9:397 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
vāsudevaḥ sarvamiti (Devanagari) | 17:173 | confirmed | ||
the Divine Being is all, vāsudevaḥ sarvam | 19:265–266 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
rare on earth is the great soul, mahātmā; vāsudevaḥ sarvam iti sa mahātmā sudurlabhaḥ | 19:285 | confirmed | ||
the One and the All, vāsudevaḥ sarvam iti | 19:298–299 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
the phrase, vāsudevaḥ sarvam iti | 19:316 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
know Vasudeva as all | 19:323 | confirmed | ||
vāsudevaḥ sarvam iti | 19:344 | confirmed | ||
Vasudeva is all, vāsudevaḥ sarvam | 19:347–348 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
to see all as the One, vāsudevaḥ sarvam iti | 19:435–436 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
Vasudeva who is all things in all worlds | 19:558 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Echoes vāsudevaḥ sarvam of 7.19. | |
motto: “Rare is the great of soul to whom all is the Divine Being” | 21:309 | confirmed | ||
motto: “All is the Divine Being” | 21:455 | confirmed | ||
the cosmic Divine is realised as Vasudeva | 32:58 | confirmed | ||
kāmais tais tair hṛtajñānāḥ | 19:285–86 | confirmed | ||
other godheads, anya-devatāḥ | 19:332–333 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
“Whatever form of me any devotee with faith desires to worship” | 19:287 | confirmed | ||
yāṁ yāṁ tanuṁ śraddhayā arcati | 19:332 | confirmed | ||
motto: “Whatever form the worshipper chooses to worship with faith” | 22:880 | confirmed | ||
it is I myself … who accept these sacrifices and to whom they are offered | 19:90 | confirmed | ||
Devān deva-yajo yānti mad-bhaktā yānti mām api | 19:286 | confirmed | ||
nāhaṁ prakāśaḥ sarvasya yogamāyā-samāvṛtaḥ | 19:154 | confirmed | ||
he stands there veiled, enveloped by his Maya | 19:162 | confirmed | ||
The Godhead is hidden by the Maya of his own all-creating Yoga | 19:435–436 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Renders yogamāyāsamāvṛtaḥ of 7.25. | |
wish and disliking, icchā-dveṣa | 19:281 | confirmed | ||
the grasp of the dualities and its delusion, dvandva-moha | 19:281 | confirmed | ||
“By the delusion of the dualities which arises from wish and disliking”; yeṣāṁ tvantagataṁ pāpaṁ janānāṁ puṇyakarmaṇām | 19:282 | confirmed | ||
te dvandva-moha-nirmuktāḥ; te bhajante māṁ dṛḍha-vratāḥ | 19:283 | confirmed | ||
paraphrase and translation with discussion | 19:291 | confirmed | ||
jarā-maraṇa-mokṣāya mām āśritya yatanti ye | 19:194 | confirmed | ||
jarā-maraṇa-mokṣāya yatanti | 19:197 | corrected | page corrected from 19:196 | |
cited in the title note (Gita, VII. 29–30, VIII) | 19:289 | added | cited | |
have resort to Me as their refuge, mām āśritya | 19:291 | confirmed | ||
tad brahma; adhyātma … adhibhūta and adhidaiva … adhiyajña | 19:291 | confirmed |
Chapter 8
| Gita reference | Quoted or translated words or phrases | CWSA page(s) | Status | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
paraphrase and translation with discussion | 19:292–300 | confirmed | ||
akṣara (brahma), svabhāva, karma, kṣara bhāva | 19:117 | confirmed | ||
akṣaraṁ paramam … svabhāva … visargaḥ | 19:292 | confirmed | ||
its creative action, visargaḥ … bhūta-karaḥ … bhāva-karaḥ | 19:293 | confirmed | ||
the meaning of adhiyajna | 16:527 | confirmed | ||
adhibhūta … kṣaro bhāvaḥ … By adhiyajña … the Lord of works and sacrifice | 19:292 | confirmed | ||
adhibhūta … adhidaiva … the kṣara puruṣa | 19:293–94 | confirmed | ||
the soul goes on its way, tyaktvā kalevaram | 19:294 | confirmed | ||
“Whoever leaves his body and departs” says Krishna “remembering me at his time of end, comes to my bhāva” | 19:295 | confirmed | ||
yaṁ yaṁ vāpi (Devanagari) and translation | 17:214 | confirmed | ||
yaṁ smaran bhāvaṁ tyajati ante kalevaram … sadā tad-bhāva-bhāvitaḥ | 19:296 | confirmed | ||
“Remember me and fight” | 8:135 | confirmed | ||
“Therefore … at all times remember me and fight” … mayi arpita-mano-buddhiḥ | 19:296 | confirmed | ||
mām anusmaran … mām anusmara yudhya ca | 19:297 | confirmed | ||
“Remember me and fight” | 19:300 | confirmed | ||
memory of the Godhead in himself and man, mām anusmaran | 19:386 | confirmed | ||
divyaṁ puruṣam acintya-rūpam | 19:400 | confirmed | ||
8.8, 22 | para puruṣa | 21:527 | confirmed | |
beyond which He dwells, tamasah parastat | 12:33 | confirmed | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary); sloka ref was 3.8 | |
Anor aniyan | 12:78 | confirmed | ||
tamasaḥ parastāt; ādityavarṇas tamasaḥ parastāt | 13:76–77 | confirmed | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary); sloka ref was 3.8 | |
tamasaḥ parastāt | 16:513–517 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary); sloka ref was 3.8 | |
beyond the darkness that swallows up the worlds, tamasah parastat | 16:514 | confirmed | ||
ādityavat tamasaḥ parastāt; adityavat tamasah parastat | 16:524 | confirmed | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary); sloka ref was 3.8 | |
tamasaḥ parastāt | 17:407–408 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary); sloka ref was 3.8 | |
adityavarnas tamasah parastat, drawing us like a sun beyond the darkness of ignorance | 17:408 | confirmed | ||
aṇor aṇīyāṁsam acintya-rūpam … kaviṁ purāṇam anuśāsitāraṁ sarvasya dhātāram | 19:296 | confirmed | ||
the Seer, Creator and Ruler of the worlds, kavim anuśāsitāram, dhātāram | 19:299 | confirmed | ||
nor is it cognisable by mind, acintyarūpa | 19:311 | confirmed | ||
an unthinkable, acintyarūpam | 19:340–341 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary); sloka ref was 3.1 | |
unthinkable in form of mind, acintya-rūpa | 19:542 | confirmed | ||
beyond the avyakta, tamasaḥ parastāt; ādityavarṇas tamasaḥ parastāt | 35:83 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary); sloka ref was 3.8 | |
āditya-varṇa in contrast to the darkness; beyond the avyakta, tamasaḥ parastāt | 35:84 | confirmed | ||
memory of the Godhead in himself and man, mām anusmaran | 19:386–387 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
“the knowers of day and night” | 19:298 | confirmed | ||
bhūtvā bhūtvā … bhāvo ’nyo | 19:298 | confirmed | ||
avyakto ’vyaktāt paraḥ | 13:76–77 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
some supreme Unmanifest, paro avyaktaḥ | 19:441 | confirmed | ||
avyaktāt param avyaktam | 30:143 | confirmed | ||
avyaktāt param avyaktam | 35:84 | confirmed | ||
“That is my highest seat of all” | 17:215 | confirmed | ||
“He is called the unmanifest immutable” … paramaṁ dhāma | 19:298 | confirmed | ||
yato naiva nivartante tad dhāma paramaṁ mama | 23:320 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
“that supreme Purusha has to be won by a bhakti which turns to him alone” | 19:299 | confirmed | ||
the way of the gods and the path of their travel | 2:371–388 | added | his rendering quoted | |
“Therefore at all times be in Yoga” | 19:300 | confirmed |
Chapter 9
| Gita reference | Quoted or translated words or phrases | CWSA page(s) | Status | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
paraphrase and translation with discussion | 19:309–10 | confirmed | ||
that secret, guhyatamam | 19:526–527 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
most secret thing of all, guhyatamam | 19:558–559 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
guhyatamam | 20:224–225 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
paraphrase | 9:260 | confirmed | ||
paraphrase and translation with discussion | 19:311–21 | confirmed | ||
acintyarūpa, avyaktamūrti | 19:311 | confirmed | ||
matsthāni sarvabhūtāni na cāhaṁ teṣvavasthitaḥ | 19:312 | confirmed | ||
matsthāni sarva-bhūtāni, “all are situated in Me, not I in them” | 19:318 | confirmed | ||
“Pasya me yogam aishwaram”, Behold my divine Yoga | 12:18 | confirmed | ||
Pashya me yogam aishwaram | 17:418 | confirmed | ||
na cha matsthani bhutani pashya me yogam aishwaram | 18:417 | confirmed | ||
a Yoga of divine Power, me yoga aiśvaraḥ | 19:312 | confirmed | ||
bhūtabhṛn na ca bhūtastho mamātmā bhūtabhāvanaḥ | 19:313 | confirmed | ||
motto: “My self is that which supports all beings” | 21:152 | confirmed | ||
sarvāṇi bhūtāni, literally, “all things that have become” | 17:7 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
sarvāṇi bhūtāni of a later verse, all becomings | 17:26 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
“It is as the great, the all-pervading aerial principle dwells in the etheric” | 19:319 | confirmed | ||
abhūt sarvāṇi bhūtāni | 19:343–344 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
“he lives and moves in Me” | 22:1055 | confirmed | ||
I loose forth variously, visṛjāmi | 19:155–156 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
divine Nature, prakṛtiṁ māmikām, svāṁ prakṛtim | 19:320 | confirmed | ||
“Leaning—pressing down upon my own Nature (Prakriti) I create” | 19:154 | confirmed | ||
“Leaning upon my own Nature, prakṛtiṁ svām avaṣṭabhya” | 19:155 | confirmed | ||
the becoming, bhūtagrāma | 19:161 | confirmed | ||
dominated by her, avaśaḥ prakṛter vaśāt | 19:320 | confirmed | ||
avaśaṁ prakṛter vaśāt | 19:423 | confirmed | ||
na ca māṁ tāni karmāṇi (Devanagari) and translation | 17:200 | confirmed | ||
Na cha mám táni karmáni nibadhnanti | 17:436–437 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
Na cha mám táni karmáni nibadhnanti Dhananjaya | 17:520–521 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
asaktam teshu karmasu | 17:522 | confirmed | ||
udāsīnavad āsīnaḥ | 19:190 | confirmed | ||
as of one seated above, udāsīnavat | 19:208 | confirmed | ||
the presiding control of his own action of Nature, adhyakṣa | 19:320 | confirmed | ||
paraphrase and translation with discussion | 19:326–36 | confirmed | ||
in the human body, mānuṣīṁ tanum āśritam | 19:149 | confirmed | ||
the Divine lodged in the human body | 19:154 | confirmed | ||
taken up his abode in the human body, mānuṣīṁ tanum āśritam | 19:318 | confirmed | ||
avajānanti māṁ mūḍhā mānuṣīṁ tanum āśritam | 19:326 | confirmed | ||
avajānan mānuṣīṁ tanum āśritam | 19:392 | confirmed | ||
lodged in a human body, mānuṣīṁ tanum āśritam | 23:130 | confirmed | ||
mānuṣīṁ tanum āśritam | 23:160 | confirmed | ||
mānuṣīṁ tanum āśritam | 29:193 | confirmed | ||
mānuṣīṁ tanum āśritam | 35:396 | confirmed | ||
Asurim Rakshasincaiva prakritim | 10:73 | confirmed | ||
moghāśā moghakarmāṇo (Devanagari) | 17:212 | confirmed | ||
mohinīṁ prakṛtiṁ śritāḥ | 19:154 | confirmed | ||
rākṣasīm āsurīṁ caiva prakṛtiṁ mohinīṁ śritāḥ | 28:462 | confirmed | ||
mahātmānastu māṁ pārtha (Devanagari) | 17:212 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
satataṁ kīrttayanto taṁ (Bengali script); Satataṁ kīrtayanto māṁ yatantaśca dṛḍhavratāḥ (Bengali script) | 9:404 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
jñāna-yajñena yajanto mām upāsate | 19:328 | confirmed | ||
sākṣī and anumantā of the Gita | 19:72 | confirmed | ||
the pure witness, sākṣī | 23:432 | confirmed | ||
The Witness Purusha | 30:244 | confirmed | ||
yoga-kṣemaṁ vahāmyaham | 19:244 | confirmed | ||
yoga-kṣemaṁ vahāmyaham | 19:332 | confirmed | ||
“I bring to my bhakta … his getting and his having of good, yogakṣemaṁ vahāmyaham” | 24:566 | confirmed | ||
not in the true order, avidhi-pūrvakam | 19:89 | confirmed | ||
9.23, 25 | other godheads, anya-devatāḥ … devān, pitṝn, bhūtāni | 19:332 | confirmed | |
na mām abhijānanti tattvena … yajanti avidhi-pūrvakam | 19:333 | confirmed | ||
motto: “Those whose sacrifice is to the gods, to elemental spirits” | 22:880 | confirmed | ||
the dedication of a leaf or flower, a cup of water | 23:109 | confirmed | ||
“He who gives to me with a heart of adoration a leaf, a flower” | 23:162 | confirmed | ||
yat karoshi yad aśnási | 17:453–54 | confirmed | ||
“Whatever thou doest, whatever thou enjoyest, whatever thou sacrificest” | 19:333 | confirmed | ||
none is dear to him, none hated, to all he is equal in spirit | 19:189 | confirmed | ||
there is none dear to him, none hated | 19:375–376 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Paraphrases 9.29 na me dveṣyo’sti na priyaḥ. | |
the Divine makes no difference | 35:444 | confirmed | ||
“If … even a man of very evil conduct turns to me” | 19:334 | confirmed | ||
“Pratijānīhi … na me bhaktaḥ praṇaśyati, he who is devoted to Me cannot perish” | 13:81 | confirmed | ||
“This is my word of promise … that he who loves me shall not perish” | 19:335 | confirmed | ||
paraphrase | 9:261 | confirmed | ||
a womb of sin, pāpayonayaḥ | 19:516 | confirmed | ||
even the Shudra or Chandala can by turning his life Godwards | 19:522–523 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Close paraphrase of 9.32 (Shudra … attain the highest goal). | |
“even Chandalas can follow my way” | 35:426 | confirmed | ||
anityam asukham imam lokam prápya; bhajaswa Mám. Turn & cleave rather to me | 17:449 | confirmed | ||
full of transience and suffering, anityam asukham | 19:128 | confirmed | ||
anityam asukham imaṁ lokam | 19:131 | confirmed | ||
anityam asukhaṁ lokam imaṁ prāpya bhajasva mām | 19:194 | confirmed | ||
motto: “Thou who hast come to this transient and unhappy world” | 21:428 | confirmed | ||
“Thou who hast come to this transient and unhappy world, love and turn to Me” | 26:29 | confirmed | ||
Anityam asukhaṁ lokam imaṁ prāpya bhajasva mām | 27:47 | confirmed | ||
anityam asukhaṁ lokam imam | 27:66 | confirmed | ||
“Thou who hast come to this transient and unhappy world, love and turn to Me” | 27:447 | confirmed | ||
“this unhappy and transient world”, anityam asukham | 29:176 | confirmed | ||
anityam asukham | 29:441 | confirmed | ||
a transient and sorrowful affair | 29:480 | confirmed | ||
mamevaishyasi | 9:260 | confirmed |
Chapter 10
| Gita reference | Quoted or translated words or phrases | CWSA page(s) | Status | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
paraphrase and translation with discussion | 19:344–354 | confirmed | ||
“Again hearken to my supreme word,” bhūya eva śṛṇu me paramaṁ vacaḥ | 19:344 | confirmed | ||
te prīyamāṇāya vakṣyāmi | 19:345 | confirmed | ||
a supreme word that it has to speak, paramaṁ vacaḥ | 19:555–556 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
“Neither the gods nor the great Rishis know any birth of me” | 19:345–46 | confirmed | ||
“For I am altogether and in every way the origin of the gods” | 19:346 | confirmed | ||
aham ādiḥ sarvaśaḥ | 19:347 | confirmed | ||
yo vetti asammūḍhaḥ sa martyeṣu sarva-pāpaiḥ pramucyate | 19:346 | confirmed | ||
“Whosoever knows me … as the unborn who is without origin” | 19:351 | confirmed | ||
asammūḍhaḥ martyeṣu … sarva-pāpaiḥ pramucyate | 19:352 | confirmed | ||
“understanding and knowledge and freedom from the bewilderment of the Ignorance” | 19:349 | confirmed | ||
bhavanti matta eva | 19:349 | confirmed | ||
the chatwaro manavah of the Gita | 10:7 | confirmed | ||
the four Manus, chatváro manavah | 11:1323 | confirmed | ||
the four Manus, catvāro manavaḥ | 19:166 | confirmed | ||
the seven original Seers, maharṣayaḥ sapta pūrve; mental becomings of the supreme Soul … mad-bhāvā mānasā jātāḥ | 19:347 | confirmed | ||
“Whosoever knows in its right principles this my pervading lordship” | 19:351 | confirmed | ||
etāṁ vibhūtiṁ mama yo vetti … yogaṁ ca mama | 19:352 | confirmed | ||
avikampena yogena yujyate | 19:353 | confirmed | ||
Ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavo mattaḥ sarvaṁ pravartate | 19:349 | confirmed | ||
10.8, 10 | “The wise hold me for the birth of each and all” | 19:351 | confirmed | |
budhā bhāva-samanvitāḥ | 19:353 | confirmed | ||
mattaḥ pravartate | 19:464 | confirmed | ||
Taccittās tadgataprāṇā bodhayantaḥ parasparam (Bengali script) | 9:404 | added | Sanskrit quoted; page not given in the source of this translation; page of the Bengali original | |
teṣāṁ satatayuktānāṁ (Bengali script); Teṣāṁ satatayuktānāṁ bhajatāṁ prītipūrvakam (Bengali script) | 9:404 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
brahmaṇi ādhāya karmāṇi | 19:201 | confirmed | ||
bhajanti prītipūrvakam | 19:345 | confirmed | ||
satata-yukta | 19:398–400 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
jnánadipena bhaswatá | 10:16 | confirmed | ||
the full light of self-knowledge, jñānadīpena bhāsvatā | 13:84 | confirmed | ||
jñānadīpena bhāsvatā | 19:310 | confirmed | ||
motto: “I abide in the spiritual being and from there destroy the darkness” | 22:922 | confirmed | ||
paraphrase and translation with discussion | 19:356–65 | confirmed | ||
a supreme plane, paraṁ dhāma | 18:61 | confirmed | ||
the highest status of the Divine, paraṁ dhāma | 19:293–294 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
paraṁ brahma, paraṁ dhāma … ādi-devam ajaṁ vibhum | 19:357 | confirmed | ||
the unborn and the all-pervading Master of his own innumerable becomings in the universe, ajo vibhuḥ | 19:362 | confirmed | ||
his supreme status … paraṁ dhāma | 19:422 | confirmed | ||
the transcendent Spirit, paraṁ dhāma | 19:561 | confirmed | ||
Svayañcaiva bravīṣi me, “and thou thyself sayest it to me.” | 19:358 | confirmed | ||
“Neither the Gods nor the Titans know thy manifestation” | 19:346 | confirmed | ||
na hi te bhagavan vyaktiṁ vidur devā na dānavāḥ | 19:357 | confirmed | ||
“all this that thou sayest, my mind holds for the truth.” | 19:358 | confirmed | ||
that universal Deity, deva-deva | 19:342–343 | corrected | marked in Essays on the Gita; Uses 10.15 devadeva. | |
bhūta-bhāvana bhūteśa deva-deva jagat-pate; “thou alone, O Purushottama, knowest thyself by thyself,” ātmanā ātmānaṁ vettha | 19:357 | confirmed | ||
ātmanā ātmānaṁ vettha | 19:358 | confirmed | ||
What are the great manifestations of its self-energy in the world | 19:27–28 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Paraphrases Arjuna’s request for the divine ātmavibhūtayaḥ (10.16–18). | |
yābhir vibhūtibhir lokān imāṁs tvaṁ vyāpya tiṣṭhasi | 19:357 | confirmed | ||
divyā ātma-vibhūtayaḥ … aśeṣeṇa | 19:359–60 | confirmed | ||
God’s power of various self-becoming, ātma-vibhūti | 19:369 | confirmed | ||
the nectar of immortality, amṛtam | 19:359 | confirmed | confirmed on reading the passage: ‘nectar of immortality … amṛtam’ is Arjuna’s words in 10.18, translated in full below; the engine’s suggestion is wrong. | |
Nāsti anto vistarasya me | 13:361–362 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
nāsti anto vistarasya me | 19:360 | confirmed | ||
nāsti anto vistarasya me | 19:368 | confirmed | ||
to the powers and figures of him there is no end | 19:578–579 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Renders 10.19 nāstyanto vistarasya me. | |
nāstyanto vistarasya me | 22:974–975 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
All greatness is the Vibhuti of the Divine | 28:504 | confirmed | ||
motto: “I am the self which abides within all beings” | 21:152 | confirmed | ||
10.21, 25, 29, 37 | Ushanas among the seers, Bhrigu among the Rishis, Vyasa among the sages | 15:514 | confirmed | |
paraphrase | 19:363–65 | confirmed | ||
the Divine says that he is … consciousness | 19:438–439 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Cites 10.22 bhūtānām asmi cetanā (consciousness). | |
10.26, 34, 37, 15.14 | “I am the aśvattha tree … I am death, I am Agni Vaishwanara” | 13:89 | confirmed | |
the Divine says that he is … the Ashwattha tree | 19:438–439 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Cites 10.26 aśvatthaḥ sarvavṛkṣāṇām. | |
“I am Kapila among the sages.” | 29:437 | confirmed | ||
the Divine says that he is … the lion | 19:438–439 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Cites 10.30 mṛgāṇāṁ ca mṛgendro’ham (the lion). | |
Aham eva akṣayaḥ kālaḥ | 19:362 | confirmed | ||
Dhātā ‘haṁ viśvato-mukhaḥ | 19:363 | confirmed | ||
“I am all-snatching Death,” ahaṁ mṛtyuḥ sarvaharaḥ | 19:363 | confirmed | ||
the Divine says that he is … intelligence | 19:438–439 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Cites 10.34 medhā (intelligence). | |
munīnām apy ahaṁ vyāsaḥ (Devanagari) | 1:333 | confirmed | ||
“I am Vasudeva (Krishna) among the Vrishnis … Dhananjaya (Arjuna) among the Pandavas” | 19:160 | confirmed | ||
the Divine says that he is Krishna and Arjuna and Vyasa and Ushanas | 19:438–439 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Cites 10.37 verbally (Vasudeva, Dhananjaya, Vyasa, Ushanas). | |
a Vibhuti, vṛṣṇīnāṁ vāsudevaḥ | 28:487 | confirmed | ||
vibhūtimat sattvaṁ śrīmad ūrjitam eva vā | 24:741 | confirmed | ||
A Vibhuti is supposed to embody some power of the Divine | 28:485 | confirmed |
Chapter 11
| Gita reference | Quoted or translated words or phrases | CWSA page(s) | Status | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
paraphrase and translation with discussion | 19:377–87 | confirmed | ||
May he not see even now the divine cosmic Form of That | 19:27–28 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Paraphrases Arjuna’s request in 11.3 to see the form of the Godhead. | |
discussion | 9:266–69 | confirmed | ||
Arjuna’s description of the Virat Purusha | 27:671 | confirmed | ||
yaccānyad draṣṭum icchasi | 19:378 | confirmed | ||
divyachakshu | 9:269 | confirmed | ||
the Master of the Yoga, Yogeshwara Hari | 10:567 | confirmed | ||
Dhātā ‘haṁ viśvato-mukhaḥ | 19:362–363 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
“I see … all the gods in thy body, O God” | 19:379 | confirmed | ||
Dharma is generally spoken of as something eternal and unchanging | 19:172 | confirmed | ||
akṣaraṁ paramam | 19:291–292 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
the Ancient of Days who is for ever, sanātanaṁ puruṣaṁ purāṇam | 19:380–381 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Echoes 11.38 puruṣaḥ purāṇaḥ (with sanātana of 11.18).; sloka ref was 11.38 | |
“When is seen this thy fierce and astounding form” | 25:615–16 | confirmed | ||
“Declare to me who thou art that wearest this form of fierceness” | 19:379 | confirmed | ||
“Declare to me who art thou that comest to us in this form of fierceness” | 19:383 | confirmed | ||
kālo’smi lokakṣayakṛt pravṛddho (Devanagari) and translation | 13:30 | confirmed | ||
Time the Destroyer “arisen for the destruction of these peoples” | 19:47 | confirmed | ||
“I am Time the waster of the peoples arisen and increased” | 19:384 | confirmed | ||
“I am Time the Destroyer of beings” | 19:384 | confirmed | ||
Even without thee … ṛte’pi tvām | 19:385 | confirmed | ||
“I am the Time-Spirit, destroyer of the world, arisen huge-statured”; kālo’smi loka-kṣaya-kṛt pravṛddho | 25:616 | corrected | page was 25:592. Words are at 25:616 (The Unseen Power), not 25:592. | |
“Without thee even all these shall cease to be who stand in the opposing hosts” | 25:616–17 | corrected | sloka ref was 11.32; page was 25:592. Words are at 25:616–617; ‘already have I slain them…instrument only’ is 11.33. | |
ṛte’pi tvāṁ (Devanagari), “even without thee” | 35:581 | confirmed | ||
Nihatāḥ pūrvameva | 1:435 | confirmed | ||
Those men … are already slain | 8:51 | confirmed | ||
jitva shatrun bhunkshva rajyam samriddham | 17:426 | confirmed | ||
“By Me are these already slain & dead, do thou become only immediate means” | 17:517–18 | confirmed | ||
Mayaivaite nihatáh púrvam eva, Nimittamátram bhava, Savyasáchin | 17:518 | confirmed | ||
“Arise, slay thy enemies, enjoy a prosperous kingdom” | 19:36 | confirmed | ||
an opulent kingdom, rājyaṁ samṛddham | 19:135 | confirmed | ||
faultless instruments, nimitta-mātram | 19:202–203 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Quotes 11.33 nimittamātram. | |
faultless instruments, nimitta-mātram | 19:203 | corrected | sloka ref was 9.33. nimitta-mātram is 11.33. | |
The kingdom which he enjoys, rājyaṁ samṛddham | 19:207 | confirmed | ||
nimitta-mātraṁ bhava savyasācin | 19:209 | confirmed | ||
“already have they been slain by Me,” mayā nihatāḥ pūrvam eva | 19:230 | confirmed | ||
an instrument of the divine Will, nimitt-mātram | 19:232 | confirmed | ||
Nimittamātraṁ bhava savyasācin | 19:386 | confirmed | ||
a greater rule and a progressing manifestation, rājyaṁ samṛddham | 19:387 | confirmed | ||
“Arise, slay the foe, enjoy a wealthy kingdom” | 19:445 | confirmed | ||
“Fight, conquer, enjoy a wealthy kingdom.” | 23:332 | confirmed | ||
the spirit’s eternal kingdoms, rājyaṁ samṛddham | 24:698–699 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
the kingdom be founded, rājyaṁ samṛddham | 25:619–620 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
rājyaṁ samṛddham (Devanagari) | 27:524 | corrected | page was 27:254. Page typo: the phrase is at 27:524, in Devanagari. | |
jitvā śatrūn bhuṅkṣva rājyaṁ samṛddham | 35:217–218 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
mayaivaite nihatāḥ pūrvam eva nimittamātraṁ bhava savyasācin | 35:219 | corrected | page was 25:219. The line is at 35:219 (On World War II), not 25:219. | |
nimittamātraṁ bhava (Devanagari) | 35:580–581 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
quotation and translation | 9:280 | confirmed | ||
paraphrase and translation with discussion | 19:388–95 | confirmed | ||
“Rightly and in good place … O Krishna, does the world rejoice” | 19:388 | confirmed | ||
he is each and every one, sarvaḥ | 19:391 | confirmed | ||
all the while he did not really know his divine Friend | 19:17–18 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Paraphrases 11.41 (thinking of thee only as my friend, not knowing thy greatness). | |
“For whatsoever I have spoken to thee in rash vehemence” | 19:389 | confirmed | ||
“This that thou now seest … is my supreme shape, my form of luminous energy” | 19:393 | confirmed | ||
his own normal Narayana image, svakaṁ rūpam | 19:393 | confirmed | ||
“The greater Form … is only for the rare highest souls” | 19:394 | confirmed | ||
jñātuṁ draṣṭuṁ tattvena praveṣṭuṁ ca | 19:398 | confirmed | ||
“be a doer of my works, accept me as the supreme being and object” | 19:395 | confirmed |
Chapter 12
| Gita reference | Quoted or translated words or phrases | CWSA page(s) | Status | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
paraphrase and translation with discussion | 19:399–405 | confirmed | ||
the ever unmanifest Immutable, avyaktam akṣaram | 19:340–341 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
“Those devotees who thus by a constant union seek after thee”; tvām, akṣaram avyaktam | 19:399 | confirmed | ||
“Those who found their mind in Me and by constant union” | 19:400 | confirmed | ||
“They who worship me as the imperishable, illimitable, unmanifest” | 1:326 | confirmed | ||
the indefinable, anirdeśyam, of the Gita | 1:573 | confirmed | ||
the Indefinable, anirdeśyam | 19:340 | confirmed | ||
avyaktam anirdeśyam | 19:422 | confirmed | ||
12.3, 4 | motto: “When men seek after the Immutable, the Indeterminable, the Unmanifest” | 21:309 | confirmed | |
sarvabhutahite ratah | 7:875–876 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
one whose occupation is beneficence to all creatures | 13:453–54 | confirmed | ||
sarvabhūtahite rataḥ (Devanagari) and translation | 17:106 | confirmed | ||
sarvabhūtahite rataḥ (Devanagari) | 17:116–17 | corrected | page was 17:206. Words are at 17:116–117 (Isha commentary), not 17:206. | |
sarvabhūtahitarataḥ (Devanagari) | 17:187 | confirmed | ||
sarvabhutahite ratah, his occupation & delight are to do good to all creatures | 17:410 | confirmed | ||
sarvabhūtahite rataḥ | 19:199 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
doing good to all creatures, sarvabhūta-hite ratāḥ | 19:236–237 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
occupied with the good of all creatures, sarvabhūta-hite | 19:237–238 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
the good of all, sarva-bhūta-hite | 19:459–460 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
the will to spend the energies for the good of all creatures | 22:916 | confirmed | ||
the liberated man is preoccupied … with the good of all beings | 22:1087 | confirmed | ||
sarvabhūtahite ratāḥ | 29:430–431 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
duḥkhaṁ dehavadbhir avāpyate | 19:341 | confirmed | ||
duḥkham avāpyate, kleśo ’dhikataras teṣām | 19:401 | confirmed | ||
duḥkhaṁ dehavadbhiḥ | 29:456 | confirmed | ||
mayi nivasiṣyasyeva, “Verily thou shalt dwell in Me.” | 13:76 | confirmed | ||
nivasiṣyasi mayyeva | 17:448–450 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
to dwell in him (mayyeva nivasiṣyasi) | 19:132 | confirmed | ||
“Thou shalt dwell in me,” nivasiṣyasi mayyeva | 19:398 | confirmed | ||
an indwelling in the Ishwara in his supreme status, mayi nivasiṣyasi | 19:422 | confirmed | ||
a dwelling in the Purushottama, nivasiṣyasi mayyeva | 19:445 | confirmed | ||
in the Eternal, nivasiṣyasi mayyeva | 19:543 | confirmed | ||
nivasiṣyasi mayi | 19:549 | confirmed | ||
phalatyāga (Devanagari) | 27:524 | corrected | page was 27:254. Page typo: the word is at 27:524, in Devanagari. | |
a universal friendliness and compassion, maitraḥ karuṇa eva ca | 19:183 | confirmed | ||
an absence of egoism, of I-ness and my-ness, nirmamo nirahaṅkāraḥ | 19:404 | confirmed | ||
mayi arpita-mano-buddhiḥ | 19:295–296 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
sarvârambhân parityajya | 11:1398 | confirmed | ||
all personal initiation of action, sarvārambhāḥ | 19:531 | confirmed | ||
samo manapamanayoh | 18:267 | confirmed | ||
śītoṣṇa-sukhaduḥkheṣu tathā mānāpamānayoḥ | 19:240–241 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
are all dear to me, says the Godhead, bhaktimān me priyaḥ | 19:405 | corrected | sloka ref was 12.17. bhaktimān me priyaḥ is closest to 12.19 (refrain of 12.13–19). | |
exceedingly dear, atīva me priyāḥ | 19:405 | confirmed |
Chapter 13
| Gita reference | Quoted or translated words or phrases | CWSA page(s) | Status | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
paraphrase and translation with discussion | 19:409–20 | confirmed | ||
kṣetram, field … kṣetrajña, the knower of Nature | 19:412 | confirmed | ||
the knowledge at once of the field and its knower, kṣetra-kṣetrajñayor jñānam | 19:414 | confirmed | ||
janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi-duḥkha-doṣānudarśanam | 19:194 | confirmed | ||
avyabhicāriṇī bhakti (one-pointed adoration) | 35:240 | confirmed | ||
nirguṇaṁ guṇabhoktṛ ca … asaktaṁ sarvabhṛt | 19:232 | confirmed | ||
It stands … undivided in beings and yet as if divided | 21:353 | confirmed | ||
avibhaktaṁ ca bhūteṣu vibhaktam iva ca sthitam | 19:270 | confirmed | ||
motto: “Indivisible, but as if divided in beings” | 21:170 | confirmed | ||
motto: “It is there in beings indivisible and as if divided” | 21:336 | confirmed | ||
the secret and universal Teacher who is seated in the hearts of all | 23:54 | added | his rendering quoted | |
anādī ubhāv api | 19:424 | confirmed | ||
motto: “Know Purusha and Prakriti to be both eternal without beginning” | 21:336 | confirmed | ||
Purushah Prakritistha | 17:381 | confirmed | ||
Ishwara, bharta, jnata, anumanta | 17:379 | corrected | sloka ref was 13.22. Upadraṣṭā anumantā bhartā bhoktā maheśvaraḥ is 13.23 in SA’s numbering. | |
Witness, source of the consent, by reflection upholder of the work of Nature, sākṣī anumantā bhartā | 19:77 | confirmed | ||
It is our witness and supporter; it gives a silent and impersonal sanction | 19:341–342 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Renders 13.23 upadraṣṭā, anumantā, bhartā, bhoktā. | |
witness, upholder, source of the sanction, knower, lord, enjoyer | 23:432 | corrected | sloka ref was 13.22 | |
sarvathā vartamāno’pi | 19:495–496 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
âtmani âtmânam âtmanâ | 11:1145 | confirmed | ||
atmanyatmana | 17:272 | confirmed | ||
atmani atmanam atmana | 17:400–401 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
ātmani ātmānam ātmanā | 18:418–419 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
ātmani ātmānam ātmanā | 24:831–832 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
ātmani ātmānam ātmanā | 26:175–176 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
the supreme status of the soul, parā gatiḥ | 19:420 | confirmed | ||
He who is free inwardly, even doing actions, does nothing at all | 23:270 | confirmed | ||
The Yogin … even in acting does no actions | 23:405 | confirmed | ||
himself as the inactive non-doer, ātmānam akartāram | 19:227 | confirmed | ||
without being involved in, bound by or ignorantly attached to its works | 23:405 | confirmed | ||
it is Nature alone that acts | 25:420 | confirmed |
Chapter 14
| Gita reference | Quoted or translated words or phrases | CWSA page(s) | Status | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
paraphrase and translation with discussion | 19:421–34 | confirmed | ||
sādharmya, parāṁ siddhim | 19:422 | confirmed | ||
parāṁ siddhim … sādharmya | 19:424 | confirmed | ||
of like nature and law of being with the Divine, sādharmyam āgataḥ | 19:353 | confirmed | ||
sādharmyam āgataḥ | 19:398 | confirmed | ||
that putting on of the divine nature, sādharmya | 19:421 | confirmed | ||
motto: “They have reached likeness in their law of being to Me” | 21:403 | confirmed | ||
unborn in the creation and unafflicted by the cataclysmic destruction | 21:510 | confirmed | ||
sādharmya-gati, a coming to be one in law of being | 24:623 | confirmed | ||
sādṛśya or, as it is called in the Gita, sādharmya | 31:687 | confirmed | ||
the Gita insists on sādharmya | 35:428 | confirmed | ||
“The three gunas born of Prakriti … bind in the body the imperishable dweller in the body.” | 19:430 | confirmed | ||
“sattwa binds by attachment to knowledge and attachment to happiness” | 19:431 | confirmed | ||
the attachment of the soul to the gunas that is the cause of births | 13:52–53 | added | his rendering quoted | |
renunciation of the attachment of the soul to the physical | 23:338–339 | added | his rendering quoted | |
aprakāśa, absence of light, and apravṛtti, a tendency to inertia | 31:632 | confirmed | ||
pralayaṁ yāti deha-bhṛt, “the soul bearing the body comes to a pralaya” | 19:422 | confirmed | ||
Mūḍhayoniṣu or adho gacchanti | 28:550 | confirmed | ||
adho gacchanti | 28:550 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
nānyaṁ guṇebhyaḥ kartāraṁ (Bengali script) | 9:65 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
nānyaṃ guṇebhyaḥ kartāraṃ yadā draṣṭānupaśyati | 9:336 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
guṇān etān atītya trīn (Bengali script) | 9:65 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
guṇānetānatītya trīndehī dehasamudbhavān | 9:336 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
free from birth and death and age and grief … janma-mṛtyu-jarā-duḥkhair vimukto ‘mṛtam aśnute | 19:194 | confirmed | ||
prakāśaṁ ca pravṛttiṁ ca (Bengali script) | 9:65 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
udāsīnavad āsīno guṇair (Bengali script) | 9:65 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
guṇā vartanta eva, it is merely the guṇas that work | 13:81 | confirmed | ||
udāsīnavad āsīnaḥ | 19:190 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
samaduḥkhasukhaḥ svasthaḥ (Bengali script) | 9:65 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
samaduḥkhasukhaḥ svasthaḥ samaloṣṭāśmakāñcanaḥ; happiness and unhappiness, the pleasant and the unpleasant, praise and blame are the same | 9:336 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
mānāpamānayos tulyas (Bengali script) | 9:65 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
without initiative or action, niṣkriya, sarvārambha-parityāgī | 24:676 | confirmed | ||
māṁ ca yo ’vyabhicāreṇa (Bengali script) | 9:65 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
“He also who loves and strives after Me with an undeviating love and adoration” | 19:433 | confirmed | ||
the Brahmic status, brahmabhūyāya | 19:442–443 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Quotes 14.26 brahmabhūyāya with bhaktiyoga. |
Chapter 15
| Gita reference | Quoted or translated words or phrases | CWSA page(s) | Status | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
paraphrase and translation with discussion | 19:443–49 | confirmed | ||
The aswattha is the Yogic emblem of the manifested world | 18:292 | confirmed | ||
15.1, 3 | no beginning and no end, nānto na cādiḥ … imperishable, avyaya | 19:443 | confirmed | |
The Vedic rhythms … chandāṁsi | 19:444 | confirmed | ||
from the original Soul of all existence, ādyaṁ puruṣaṁ yataḥ pravṛttiḥ prasṛtā purāṇī | 19:443 | confirmed | ||
yato naiva nivartante tad dhāma paramaṁ mama | 23:320 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
mamaivāṁśo jīvaloke jīvabhūtaḥ (Bengali script); mamaivāṁśo jīvaloke jīvabhūtaḥ sanātanaḥ (Bengali script) | 9:88 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
a partial manifestation of me, mamaiva aṁśaḥ | 19:80 | confirmed | ||
his personal self is a part of the Godhead, mamaivāṁśaḥ | 19:158 | confirmed | ||
the partial being of the Lord, mamaivāṁśaḥ | 19:162 | confirmed | ||
the Lord, īśvara, but in his partial manifestation, mamaivāṁśaḥ | 19:269–270 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Quotes 15.7 mamaivāṁśaḥ. | |
his partial manifestation, mamaivāṁśaḥ | 19:270 | corrected | sloka ref was 7.5. mamaivāṁśaḥ is 15.7; the passage also has jīvabhūtām (7.5). | |
mamaivāṁśaḥ sanātanaḥ | 19:278–279 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
prakṛtir jīvabhūtā … a portion, aṁśa | 19:442 | confirmed | ||
“It is an eternal portion of me that becomes the Jiva in a world of Jivas.”; mamāṁśaḥ sanātanaḥ | 19:445 | confirmed | ||
mamaivāṁśaḥ sanātanaḥ | 19:536 | confirmed | ||
aṁśa sanātana | 19:542 | confirmed | ||
aṁśaḥ sanātanaḥ | 19:549 | confirmed | ||
an eternal portion of the Divine | 21:241 | confirmed | ||
15.7, 10 | motto: “It is an eternal portion of Me that has become the living being” | 21:380 | confirmed | |
aṁśaḥ sanātanaḥ | 23:229 | confirmed | ||
the Jiva as a portion of the Lord | 23:411 | confirmed | ||
a portion of the Lord, the Gita expresses it | 23:434 | confirmed | ||
“an eternal portion of the Divine” | 28:68 | confirmed | ||
his “eternal portions”, aṁśāḥ sanātanāḥ | 28:133 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
the individual soul as an “eternal portion” of the Divine | 29:200 | confirmed | ||
aṁśaḥ sanātanaḥ (Devanagari) | 35:150 | confirmed | ||
śarīraṁ yad avāpnoti (Bengali script); gṛhītvaitāni saṃyāti vāyur gandhān ivāśayāt (Bengali script) | 9:88 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
śrotraṁ cakṣuḥ sparśanaṁ ca (Bengali script); śrotraṃ cakṣuḥ sparśanañ ca rasanaṃ ghrāṇam eva ca (Bengali script) | 9:88 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
Vedaish cha sarvair aham eva vedyo | 14:167 | confirmed | ||
cited (Gita XV.15) | 15:23 | added | cited | |
vedavid vedāntakṛt … sarvair vedair aham eva vedyaḥ; “I am seated in the heart of every man and from me is knowledge” | 19:92 | confirmed | ||
“I am He who is to be known in all the books of the Knowledge,” vedaiś ca vedyaḥ | 19:116 | confirmed | ||
Kshara as “all existences” | 35:101 | confirmed | ||
“There are two Purushas in the world, the akṣara and the kṣara” | 13:52–53 | confirmed | ||
sarvāṇi bhūtāni, literally, “all things that have become” | 17:7 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
sarvāṇi bhūtāni of a later verse | 17:26 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
The Threefold Purusha | 17:32 | confirmed | ||
“There is the immutable and impersonal spiritual being (Purusha)” | 19:284 | confirmed | ||
abhūt sarvāṇi bhūtāni | 19:343–344 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
Dvāv imau puruṣau loke kṣaraś cākṣara eva ca | 19:437 | confirmed | ||
all these existences, kṣaraḥ sarvāṇi bhūtāni | 19:447 | confirmed | ||
a distinction between three Purushas … the Mutable, the Immutable and the Highest | 23:378 | confirmed | ||
Uttamaḥ puruṣas tvanyaḥ paramātmetyudāhṛtaḥ, yo lokatrayam āviśya bibhartyavyaya īśvaraḥ | 19:441–42 | confirmed | ||
other than they, anyaḥ | 19:447 | confirmed | ||
The Supreme … exceeds both the immobile self and the mobile being | 21:597 | confirmed | ||
the Supreme Being who is beyond the Immutable and the Mutable | 29:444 | confirmed | ||
sarvavit sarvabhāvena | 19:285 | confirmed | ||
an all-compelling integrality, sarvabhāvena | 19:324 | confirmed | ||
in all ways of their existence, sarva-bhāvena | 19:400 | confirmed | ||
all-knowing … sarvavid | 19:448 | confirmed | ||
in every way of his being, sarvabhāvena | 24:545–546 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
in every way of his being, sarvabhāvena | 25:230–231 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
all parts and movements of the being, sarvabhāvena | 29:237 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
all parts and movements of the being (sarvabhavena) | 36:446–447 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
This is the most secret Shastra | 19:448 | confirmed | ||
the most secret science, guhyatamaṁ śāstram | 20:225 | confirmed |
Chapter 16
| Gita reference | Quoted or translated words or phrases | CWSA page(s) | Status | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
paraphrase and translation with discussion | 19:470–76 | confirmed | ||
the qualities of the godlike nature in man … compassion to creatures, gentleness, freedom from wrath | 19:58 | confirmed | ||
Harshness and hardness and fierceness … are Asuric qualities | 19:58 | confirmed | ||
two kinds of beings … dvau bhūtasargau | 19:470 | confirmed | ||
the Deva nature as the condition of realisation | 29:360 | confirmed | ||
the two natures are opposed to each other | 36:114 | confirmed | ||
the violent Titanic nature which denies the Divine in the world | 19:57–58 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Paraphrases 16.8 (a world without God). | |
the violent Titanic nature | 19:57–58 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Echoes 16.9 (fierce, Titanic, violent action). | |
amassing wealth and unjust enjoyments | 19:57–58 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Echoes 16.12 anyāyenārthasañcayān. | |
“Today I have gained this object of desire, tomorrow I shall have that other” | 19:472–73 | confirmed | ||
a satisfaction in slaying enemies | 19:57–58 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Echoes 16.14 asau mayā hataḥ śatruḥ. | |
yajanti avidhi-pūrvakam | 19:332–333 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
denies the Divine in the world and the Divine in man | 19:57–58 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Echoes 16.18 (hate Me in their own and others’ bodies). | |
Āsurīṣu can’t possibly mean “animal” | 28:549 | confirmed | ||
Kṣipāmyajasram aśubhān āsurīṣveva yoniṣu. “I cast down them continually into more and more Asuric births.” | 28:550 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
the three gatis or final states of becoming indicated in the Gita, uttama, madhyama & adhama | 12:110 | confirmed | ||
sink down into the lowest status of soul-nature, adhamāṁ gatim | 19:473 | confirmed | ||
action according to the licence of personal desire and action done according to the Shastra | 19:477–478 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Close paraphrase of 16.23. |
Chapter 17
| Gita reference | Quoted or translated words or phrases | CWSA page(s) | Status | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
paraphrase and translation with discussion | 19:481–92 | confirmed | ||
śraddhā … niṣṭhā | 19:481 | confirmed | confirmed on reading the passage: At 19:481 Arjuna’s question in 17.1 is paraphrased; diacritics normalised. | |
faith, śraddhā | 19:478 | confirmed | confirmed on reading the passage: At 19:477–478 (The Gunas, Faith and Works); diacritics normalised. | |
Yo yacchraddhaḥ sa eva saḥ | 13:26–28 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
Śraddhāmayo ‘yaṁ puruṣo yo yac-chraddhaḥ sa eva saḥ | 19:482 | confirmed | ||
yo yac-chraddhaḥ sa eva saḥ, “whatever is a man’s faith or the sure Idea in him, that he becomes” | 23:44 | confirmed | ||
yo yacchraddhaḥ sa eva saḥ | 24:628 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
whatever is a man’s śraddhā, that he is, yo yacchraddhaḥ sa eva saḥ | 24:771 | confirmed | ||
yo yacchraddhaḥ sa eva saḥ (Devanagari) | 35:785 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
condemned by the Gita as Asuric tapasya | 27:403 | confirmed | ||
tamasic food, it seems to say, is what is stale or rotten | 31:433 | confirmed | confirmed on reading the passage: Paraphrases the definitions of sattwic, rajasic and tamasic food in 17.8–10; the engine’s 17.2 is wrong. | |
the vidhi, the right principle, the exact method and rule | 19:487 | confirmed | ||
OM TAT SAT | 11:1337 | confirmed | ||
OM Tat Sat, That (Brahman) is the thing that Is | 12:77 | confirmed | ||
OM tat sat is its formula, OM, That is what Is | 18:344 | confirmed | ||
OM, Tat, Sat, is … the triple definition of the Brahman | 19:491 | confirmed |
Chapter 18
| Gita reference | Quoted or translated words or phrases | CWSA page(s) | Status | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
paraphrase and translation with discussion | 19:493–506 | confirmed | ||
the outer and inner renunciation, sannyāsa and tyāga | 19:483–485 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Paraphrases Arjuna’s question in 18.1. | |
a renunciation, a leaving, tyāga … a total laying aside, sannyāsa | 19:494 | confirmed | ||
these three things ought not to be renounced at all but ought altogether to be done | 19:483–485 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Close paraphrase of 18.5. | |
niyatasya tu sannyāsaḥ karmaṇo nopapadyate | 19:496 | confirmed | ||
tyāga, the inner freedom from desire and attachment | 35:48 | confirmed | ||
the rightly regulated action, niyataṁ karma | 19:495 | confirmed | confirmed on reading the passage: Context is 18.7–9 (niyatasya tu sannyāsaḥ follows); the engine’s 18.47 is wrong. | |
action inauspicious in appearance, akuśalam | 19:499 | confirmed | ||
the frame of body, life and mind … adhiṣṭhāna, next, the doer, kartā … karaṇa … ceṣṭāḥ … daivam | 19:497–98 | confirmed | ||
his mental, vital and physical body, adhiṣṭhāna | 19:499 | confirmed | ||
quotation and translation | 9:280–81 | confirmed | ||
“Whosoever has his temperament purged from egoism … though he slay the whole world yet he slays not” | 13:12 | confirmed | ||
yasya nāhaṅkṛto bhāvo (Devanagari) and translation | 13:82 | confirmed | ||
buddhir lipyate | 17:384 | confirmed | ||
egoistic condition of consciousness, ahaṅkṛta bhāva | 19:543 | confirmed | ||
the thing that is to be done | 11:1419–1420 | added | his rendering quoted | |
what should or should not be done | 35:709–710 | added | his rendering quoted | |
paraphrase and translation with discussion | 19:509–25 | confirmed | ||
cited in the title note | 19:507 | added | cited | |
the work born of his Swabhava, svabhāvajaṁ karma | 19:514 | confirmed | ||
commentary | 9:260 | confirmed | ||
yataḥ pravṛttir bhūtānāṁ yena sarvam idaṁ tatam | 19:518 | corrected | sloka ref was 18.40. Quoted half-line is 18.46. | |
our own work, sva-karmaṇā | 19:524 | corrected | sloka ref was 18.57. sva-karmaṇā (with its context) is 18.46. | |
“Better is one’s own law of works, swadharma though in itself faulty” | 9:85 | added | his rendering quoted | |
śreyān svadharmo viguṇaḥ (Bengali script); svadharma svabhāvaniyata karma (Bengali script) | 9:264 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
svabhāvaniyataṁ karma | 12:64–65 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
action as decided by the nature of the thing … svabhāva-niyataṁ karma | 13:48 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary); sloka ref was 3.8 | |
the Shastric man’s svabhāvaniyata, regulated by nature | 13:80–81 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
svabhāvaniyataṁ karma | 17:548–550 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary) | |
controlled and determined by his nature, svabhāva-niyatam | 19:109–110 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
controlled and determined by his nature, svabhāva-niyatam | 19:110 | corrected | sloka ref was 18.7. svabhāva-niyatam is from 18.47, not 18.7. | |
an action proceeding from and determined by the inner nature, svabhāva-niyataṁ karma | 19:405–406 | confirmed | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary); sloka ref was 3.8 | |
regulated by the essential nature, svabhāva-niyataṁ karma | 19:496 | confirmed | ||
rightly regulated action, niyataṁ karma; regulated by the Swabhava, svabhāva-niyataṁ karma | 19:510 | corrected | sloka ref was 3.8. Context is ch. 18 (Swabhava and Swadharma); niyataṁ karma here is the svabhāva-niyataṁ karma of 18.47, not 3.8. | |
svabhāva-niyataṁ karma | 19:513–514 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary); sloka ref was 3.8 | |
regulated by his Swabhava, svabhāva-niyataṁ karma | 19:514 | confirmed | ||
action determined and governed by the nature must be our law of works | 23:274 | confirmed | ||
better is the law of one’s own nature though ill-performed | 25:149–150 | added | his rendering quoted | |
by the law of one’s own nature, dharma | 25:181 | added | his rendering quoted | |
svabhāva-niyataṁ karma | 25:631–632 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary); sloka ref was 3.8 | |
Dharma in the Gita means the law of one’s own essential nature | 36:114 | confirmed | ||
the work born with a man, sahajaṁ karma | 19:513 | confirmed | ||
paraphrase and translation with discussion | 19:527–39 | confirmed | ||
cited in the title note | 19:526 | added | cited | |
“An understanding without attachment in all things, a soul self-conquered and empty of desire” | 19:529 | confirmed | ||
an understanding unattached in all things, asakta-buddhiḥ sarvatra | 19:530 | confirmed | ||
“How, having attained this perfection, one thus attains to the Brahman” | 19:532 | confirmed | ||
ātmānaṁ niyamya; by the yoga of the buddhi, buddhyā viśuddhayā yuktaḥ | 19:533–534 | confirmed | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary); sloka ref was 3.7 | |
renunciation of their objects by the senses, viṣayāṁs tyaktvā | 19:534 | confirmed | ||
A continual resort to meditation, dhyāna-yoga-paro nityam | 19:535 | confirmed | ||
the soul becoming the Brahman, brahmabhūta | 19:161–162 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Echoes 18.53–54 brahmabhūyāya / brahmabhūtaḥ. | |
the Brahmic status, brahmabhūyāya | 19:443 | confirmed | ||
becoming Brahman, brahma-bhūya | 19:530 | confirmed | ||
brahma-bhūya | 19:531 | confirmed | ||
the soul becoming the Brahman, brahmabhūta | 19:162 | confirmed | ||
“When one has become the Brahman, when one neither grieves nor desires” | 19:535 | confirmed | ||
its thereby dwelling in the Lord, in Krishna | 19:161–162 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Paraphrases 18.55 viśate tadanantaram. | |
its profound bhakti … bhaktyā mām abhijānāti; “He comes to know Me … who and how much I am” … yāvān yaś cāsmi tattvataḥ; māṁ viśate tadanantaram | 19:537 | confirmed | ||
“By Bhakti … shall a man know Me in all my extent and greatness” | 24:547 | confirmed | ||
“And by doing also all actions always lodged in Me he attains by my grace” | 19:538 | confirmed | ||
paraphrase and translation with discussion | 19:540–61 | confirmed | ||
enjoyment in God only, mayi sannyasya | 17:426,454 | confirmed | ||
the giving up into God, mayi sannyasya, of action itself | 17:454 | confirmed | ||
including in it all works, sarvakarmāṇi | 19:36 | confirmed | ||
unified even his mind and natural consciousness with the Divine, manmanā maccittaḥ | 19:232–33 | confirmed | ||
mayi sannyasya karmāṇi | 19:524 | confirmed | ||
“devoting all thyself to me, giving up in thy conscious mind all thy actions into Me” | 19:540–41 | confirmed | ||
the Gita’s satataṁ mac-cittaḥ | 19:543 | confirmed | ||
all consciousness, satataṁ maccittaḥ | 19:551 | confirmed | ||
Macchittah sarvadurgani matprasadat tarishyasi | 8:135 | confirmed | ||
“By giving thyself up in heart and mind to Me, thou shalt cross over all difficulties” | 13:75 | confirmed | ||
yad ahaṅkāram āśritya (Devanagari) and translation | 13:32 | confirmed | ||
Prakritis twám niyokshyati | 17:519 | confirmed | ||
prakṛtis tvāṁ niyokṣyati … “That which in thy egoism thou thinkest saying, I will not fight” | 19:386 | confirmed | ||
by the very force of his nature … svabhāvajena svena karmaṇā | 19:385 | confirmed | ||
“God stands in the heart of all beings, whirling round all, as on a wheel” | 13:81 | confirmed | ||
“sits in the hearts of all creatures and turns all creatures mounted on an engine” | 13:182 | confirmed | ||
“The Lord is seated in the heart of all existences, O Arjuna” | 17:517–520 | added | his rendering quoted | |
“Lord who abides within the heart of creatures” | 19:14 | confirmed | ||
the Lord seated within the heart of all beings | 19:20 | confirmed | ||
sits in the heart of His creatures governing the works of Prakriti | 19:37 | confirmed | ||
“In the heart of all existences the Lord abides turning all existences” | 19:153 | confirmed | confirmed on reading the passage: Quotation at 19:153 (the corpus marks it !18–61!). | |
The Lord stands in the heart | 19:162 | confirmed | ||
as a mechanical instrument, yantrārūḍhaṁ māyayā | 19:219 | confirmed | ||
as if mounted on a machine, yantrārūḍho māyayā | 19:220 | confirmed | ||
in the heart of each natural existence, sarvabhūtānāṁ hṛddeśe | 19:371 | confirmed | ||
turning us on the wheel of the world as if mounted on a machine | 19:518–519 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Close paraphrase of 18.61. | |
seated within everything as the Lord in the heart of all existences | 21:145 | confirmed | ||
motto: “The Lord is seated in the heart of all beings” | 21:220 | confirmed | ||
motto: “The Lord abides in the heart of all beings” | 21:403 | confirmed | ||
the Lord within the heart of all existences who turns all creatures | 23:97 | confirmed | ||
īśvaraḥ sarvabhūtānāṁ hṛddeśe | 24:804 | confirmed | ||
present in their secret heart, hṛddeśe tiṣṭhati | 24:908–909 | added | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary); sloka ref was 3.5 | |
like being turned on a machine, “yantrārūḍhāni māyayā” | 28:518 | confirmed | ||
the Ishwara situated in the heart | 29:497 | confirmed | ||
the Ishwara situated in the heart | 35:176 | confirmed | ||
“With the Lord in thy heart take refuge with all thy being” | 19:37 | confirmed | ||
by all essential ways of our nature and of the world’s nature, sarva-bhāvena | 19:341 | confirmed | ||
sarva-bhāvena … parāṁ śāntim … sthānaṁ śāśvatam | 19:555 | confirmed | ||
Take refuge with Me in all the many ways | 19:590–591 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Renders 18.62 tam eva śaraṇaṁ gaccha sarvabhāvena. | |
in every way of his being, sarvabhāvena; “seeks me by love in every way of his being” | 24:546 | confirmed | ||
in every way of his being, sarvabhāvena | 25:231 | confirmed | ||
guhyāt … a still deeper more secret truth, guhyataram | 19:555 | confirmed | ||
quotation and translation | 9:273 | confirmed | ||
bhūya eva śṛṇu me paramaṁ vacaḥ | 19:344–345 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
a supreme word … paramaṁ vacaḥ … a most secret truth of all, sarva-guhyatamam | 19:555–556 | confirmed | Sanskrit term of the sloka (CWSA 37 glossary); sloka ref was 9.1 | |
he says that Arjuna is dear to him | 19:375–376 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Paraphrases 18.65 priyo’si me. | |
“Become my-minded, my lover and adorer, a sacrificer to me, bow thyself to me” | 19:556 | confirmed | ||
Arjuna is specially dear to him | 35:444 | confirmed | ||
“Take refuge in me. I shall free you from all evil.” | 8:52 | confirmed | ||
Abandon all dharmas and take refuge in Me alone | 9:78 | added | his rendering quoted | |
sarvadharmān parityajya (Bengali script); sarvadharmānparityajya māmekaṃ śaraṇaṃ vraja (Bengali script) | 9:260 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
“I will free thee from all sin and evil; do not grieve.” | 12:461 | confirmed | ||
the Lord of all … delivers His servant and lover from all sin and evil | 13:35 | confirmed | ||
sarvadharmān parityajya (Devanagari); “Abandon all dharmas … and take refuge in Me alone”; “I will deliver thee from all sin and evil.” | 13:75 | confirmed | ||
he means him to give up all dharmas | 19:26–27 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Paraphrases 18.66 sarvadharmān parityajya. | |
the abandonment of all dharmas, sarvadharmān | 19:33 | confirmed | ||
“Abandon all laws of conduct and take refuge in Me alone” | 19:94–95 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Translates 18.66. | |
“Abandon all laws of conduct and take refuge in Me alone” | 19:95 | corrected | sloka ref was 18.61 | |
merges into that surrender, sarva-dharmān parityajya | 19:283 | confirmed | ||
ahaṁ tvāṁ mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ | 19:341 | confirmed | ||
all these lower dharmas have to be abandoned, sarva-dharmān parityajya | 19:406 | confirmed | ||
the limitation of all distinctive dharmas, sarvadharmān parityajya | 19:524 | confirmed | ||
cast away their forms of insufficiency, sarva-dharmān parityajya | 19:560–61 | confirmed | ||
Then you will be released from all laws of conduct, liberated from all dharmas | 19:593 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Paraphrastic rendering of 18.66. | |
“Abandoning all dharmas, all principles and laws and rules of conduct, take refuge in me alone.” | 23:208 | confirmed | ||
“I will surely deliver thee from all sin and evil; do not grieve.” | 23:245 | corrected | page was 24:245. Words are at 23:245 (Synthesis of Yoga), not 24:245. | |
leave all conventional formulas of belief and action … dharmas, and take refuge in the Divine alone | 23:274 | confirmed | ||
“Abandon all dharmas and take refuge in Me alone” | 24:706 | confirmed | ||
Ahaṁ tvā sarvapāpebhyo mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ | 29:172 | confirmed | ||
the complete surrender to the Divine, abandoning all other dharmas | 29:442 | confirmed | ||
cited in the title note | 19:540 | added | cited | |
Destroyed is the illusion of the mind … all doubt and perplexity gone | 19:561 | added | marked in Essays on the Gita; Close paraphrase of 18.73. | |
The divine Master of the Yoga, yogeśvaraḥ kṛṣṇaḥ | 19:559–560 | added | Sanskrit quoted | |
The divine Master of the Yoga, yogeśvaraḥ kṛṣṇaḥ | 19:560 | corrected | sloka ref was 18.75. yogeśvaraḥ kṛṣṇaḥ is 18.78. |