akṣarabrahmayoga
atha aṣṭamo'dhyāyaḥ
śloka 1
arjuna uvāca |
kiṃ tad brahma kimadhyātmaṃ kiṃ karma puruṣottama |
adhibhūtaṃ ca kiṃ proktamadhidaivaṃ kimucyate ||8-1||
Translation
Arjuna said: O Supreme Person! What is Brahman? What is Adhyatma? And what is Karma? What is called Adhibhuta? And what is called Adhidaiva?
śloka 3
śrībhagavānuvāca |
akṣaraṃ brahma paramaṃ svabhāvo'dhyātmamucyate |
bhūtabhāvodbhavakaro visargaḥ karmasaṃjñitaḥ ||8-3||
Translation
Shri Bhagavan said: The supreme imperishable Reality is Brahman; one's own nature is called Adhyatma; the creative force that produces the states of beings is known as Karma.
śloka 9 and 10
kaviṃ purāṇamanuśāsitāra-
maṇoraṇīyaṃsamanusmaredyaḥ |
sarvasya dhātāramacintyarūpa-
mādityavarṇaṃ tamasaḥ parastāt ||8-9||
prayāṇakāle manasā'calena
bhaktyā yukto yogabalena caiva |
bhruvormadhye prāṇamāveśya samyak
sa taṃ paraṃ puruṣamupaiti divyam ||8-10||
Translation
He who remembers the Reality that is all-knowing, ancient, the ruler of all, subtler than the subtle, the sustainer of all, of inconceivable form, resplendent like the sun, and beyond darkness—that aspirant, at the time of death, with the power of Yoga places the vital breath between the eyebrows and with steadfast mind full of devotion attains that supreme divine Person.
śloka 11
yadakṣaraṃ vedavido vadanti
viśanti yadyatayo vītarāgāḥ |
yadicchanto brahmacaryaṃ caranti
tatte padaṃ saṃgraheṇa pravakṣye ||8-11||
Translation
That state which the knowers of the Vedas call the Imperishable, into which the desireless ascetics enter, and desiring which they observe celibacy—that goal I shall declare to you briefly.
śloka 12 and 13
sarvadvārāṇi saṃyamya mano hṛdi nirudhya ca |
mūdhnyārdhāyātmanaḥ prāṇamāsthito yogadhāraṇām ||8-12||
omityekākṣaraṃ brahma vyāharanmāmanusmaran |
yaḥ prayāti tyajandehaṃ sa yāti paramāṃ gatim ||8-13||
Translation
Having restrained all the gates of the senses, fixed the mind in the heart, and placed the vital breath in the head, established in the Yoga of concentration—he who relinquishes the body while uttering the single syllable Om, which is Brahman, and remembering Me—attains the supreme goal.
śloka 18
avyaktād vyaktayaḥ sarvāḥ prabhavantyaharāgame |
rātryāgame pralīyante tatraivāvyaktasaṃjñake ||8-18||
Translation
At the dawn of Brahma's day, the manifest world (of moving and unmoving beings) arises from the unmanifest; and at the coming of his night, it merges into that same unmanifest.
śloka 19
bhūtagrāmaḥ sa evāyaṃ bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate |
rātryāgame'vaśaḥ pārtha prabhavatyaharāgame ||8-19||
Translation
O Partha! This same multitude of beings, being compelled, arises again and again and dissolves. At the coming of night it merges, and at the dawn of day it becomes manifest.
śloka 28
vedeṣu yajñeṣu tapaḥsu caiva
dāneṣu yatpuṇyaphalaṃ pradiṣṭam |
atyeti tatsarvamidaṃ viditvā
yogī paraṃ sthānamupaiti cādyam ||8-28||
Translation
Knowing all this, the Yogi transcends the merit said to accrue from the study of the Vedas, sacrifice, austerity and charity, and attains the primordial, supreme abode.
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