Chapter 9
राजविद्याराजगुह्ययोग
Raja Vidya Yoga
The ninth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita is "Raja Vidya Yoga". In this chapter, Krishna explains that He is Supreme and how this material existence is created, maintained and destroyed by His Yogmaya and all beings come and go under his supervision. He reveals the Role and the Importance of Bhakti (transcendental devotional service) towards our Spiritual Awakening. In such devotion, one must live for the God, offer everything that he possesses to Him and do everything for Him only. One who follows such devotion becomes free from the bonds of this material world and unites with the Lord.
श्रीभगवानुवाच |...
9.1 The Blessed Lord said I shall now declare to thee who does not cavil, the greatest secret, the ...
राजविद्या राजगुह्यं पवित्रमिदमुत्तमम् |...
9.2 This is the kingl science, the kingly secret, the supreme purifier, realisable by direct intuiti...
अश्रद्दधानाः पुरुषा धर्मस्यास्य परन्तप |...
9.3 Those who have no faith in this Dharma (knowledge of the Self), O Parantapa (Arjuna), return to ...
मया ततमिदं सर्वं जगदव्यक्तमूर्तिना |...
9.4 All this world is pervaded by Me in My unmanifest aspect; all beings exist in Me, but I do not d...
न च मत्स्थानि भूतानि पश्य मे योगमैश्वरम् |...
9.5 Nor do beings exist in Me (in reality); behold My divine Yoga, supporting all beings, but not dw...
यथाकाशस्थितो नित्यं वायुः सर्वत्रगो महान् |...
9.6 As the mighty wind, moving everywhere, rests always in the ether, even so, know thou that all be...
सर्वभूतानि कौन्तेय प्रकृतिं यान्ति मामिकाम् |...
9.7 All beings, O Arjuna, go into My Nature at the end of a Kalpa; I send them forth again at the be...
प्रकृतिं स्वामवष्टभ्य विसृजामि पुनः पुनः |...
9.8 Animating My Nature, I again and again send forth all this multitude of beings, helpless by the ...
न च मां तानि कर्माणि निबध्नन्ति धनञ्जय |...
9.9 These acts do not bind Me, O Arjuna, sitting like one indifferent, unattached to those acts....
मयाध्यक्षेण प्रकृतिः सूयते सचराचरम् |...
9.10 Under Me as supervisor, Nature produces the moving and the unmoving; because of this, O Arjuna,...
अवजानन्ति मां मूढा मानुषीं तनुमाश्रितम् |...
9.11 Fools disregard Me, clad in human form, not knowing My higher Being as the great Lord of (all) ...
मोघाशा मोघकर्माणो मोघज्ञाना विचेतसः |...
9.12 Of vain hopes, of vain actions, of vain knowledge and senseless, they verily are possessed of t...
महात्मानस्तु मां पार्थ दैवीं प्रकृतिमाश्रिताः |...
9.13 But the great souls, O Arjuna, partaking of My divine nature, worship Me with a single mind (wi...
सततं कीर्तयन्तो मां यतन्तश्च दृढव्रताः |...
9.14 Always glorifying Me, striving,firm in vows, prostrating themselves before Me, they worship Me ...
ज्ञानयज्ञेन चाप्यन्ये यजन्तो मामुपासते |...
9.15 Others also sacrificing with the wisdom-sacrifice worship Me, the All-faced, as one, as distinc...
अहं क्रतुरहं यज्ञः स्वधाहमहमौषधम् |...
9.16 I am the Kratu; I am the Yajna; I am the offering (food) to the manes; I am the medicinal herbs...
पिताहमस्य जगतो माता धाता पितामहः |...
9.17 I am the father of this world, the mother, the dispenser of the fruits of actions and the gran...
गतिर्भर्ता प्रभुः साक्षी निवासः शरणं सुहृत् |...
9.18 I am the goal, the supporter, the Lord, the witness, the abode, the shelter, the friend, the or...
तपाम्यहमहं वर्षं निगृह्णाम्युत्सृजामि च |...
9.19 (As the sun) I give heat; I withhold and send forth the rain; I am immortality and also death, ...
त्रैविद्या मां सोमपाः पूतपापा...
9.20 The knowers of the three Vedas, the drinkers of Soma, purified of all sins, worshipping Me by s...
ते तं भुक्त्वा स्वर्गलोकं विशालं...
9.21 They, having enjoyed the vast heaven, enter the world of mortals when their merit is exhausted;...
अनन्याश्चिन्तयन्तो मां ये जनाः पर्युपासते |...
9.22 For those men who worship Me alone, thinking of no other, for those ever-united, I secure what ...
येऽप्यन्यदेवता भक्ता यजन्ते श्रद्धयान्विताः |...
9.23 Even those devotees who, endowed with faith, worship other gods, worship Me alone, O Arjuna, b ...
अहं हि सर्वयज्ञानां भोक्ता च प्रभुरेव च |...
9.24 (For) I alone am the enjoyer and also the Lord of all sacrifices; but they do not know Me in es...
यान्ति देवव्रता देवान्पितॄन्यान्ति पितृव्रताः |...
9.25 The worshippers of the gods go to them; to the manes go the ancestor-worshippers; to the deitie...
पत्रं पुष्पं फलं तोयं यो मे भक्त्या प्रयच्छति |...
9.26 Whoever offers Me with devotion a leaf, a flower, a fruit or a little water that, so offered d...
यत्करोषि यदश्नासि यज्जुहोषि ददासि यत् |...
9.27 Whatever thou doest, whatever thou eatest, whatever thou offerest in sacrifice, whatever thou g...
शुभाशुभफलैरेवं मोक्ष्यसे कर्मबन्धनैः |...
9.28 Thus shalt thou be freed from the bonds of actions yielding good and evil fruits; with the mind...
समोऽहं सर्वभूतेषु न मे द्वेष्योऽस्ति न प्रियः |...
9.29 The same am I to all beings; to Me there is none hateful or dear; but those who worship Me with...
अपि चेत्सुदुराचारो भजते मामनन्यभाक् |...
9.30 Even if the most sinful worships Me, with devotion to none else, he too should indeed by regard...
क्षिप्रं भवति धर्मात्मा शश्वच्छान्तिं निगच्छति |...
9.31 Soon he becomes righteous and attains to eternal peace; O Arjuna, proclaim thou for certain tha...
मां हि पार्थ व्यपाश्रित्य येऽपि स्युः पापयोनयः |...
9.32 For, taking refuge in Me, they also who, O Arjuna, may be of a sinful birth women, Vaisyas as ...
किं पुनर्ब्राह्मणाः पुण्या भक्ता राजर्षयस्तथा |...
9.33 How much more (easily) then the hold Brahmins and devoted royal saints (attain the goal); havin...
मन्मना भव मद्भक्तो मद्याजी मां नमस्कुरु |...
9.34 Fix thy mind on Me; by devoted to Me; sacrifice unto Me; bow down to Me; having thus united thy...