🪷 Bhagavad-Gītā · 1.32
Chapter 1 · अर्जुनविषादयोग · Arjuna-Viṣāda-Yoga · "The Yoga of Arjuna's Despondency" · Verse 32 of 47
🪷 English Translations
Five authentic English voices · each from a distinct sampradāya · together revealing the verse's full śabda-tattva.
Shri Purohit Swami · Poetic English · 1935 · public domain · Cosmo Press tradition
1.32 Ah my Lord! I crave not for victory, nor for the kingdom, nor for any pleasure. What were a kingdom or happiness or life to me,
Swami Sivananda · Direct prose · Divine Life Society
1.32. I desire not victory, O Krishna, nor kingdom, nor pleasures.
Of what avail is dominion to us, O Krishna, or pleasures or even life?
Swami Gambīrānanda · Word-key glosses · Advaita Ashrama · Śaṅkara-school
1.32 Sri Sankaracharya did not comment on this sloka. The commentary starts from 2.10.
Swami Ādidevānanda · Śrī-Vaiṣṇava perspective · Rāmānuja school
1.26 - 1.47 Arjuna said - Sanjaya said Sanjaya continued: The high-minded Arjuna, extremely kind, deeply friendly, and supremely righteous, having brothers like himself, though repeatedly deceived by the treacherous attempts of your people like burning in the lac-house etc., and therefore fit to be killed by him with the help of the Supreme Person, nevertheless said, 'I will not fight.' He felt weak, overcome as he was by his love and extreme compassion for his relatives. He was also filled with fear, not knowing what was righteous and what unrighteous. His mind was tortured by grief, because of the thought of future separation from his relations. So he threw away his bow and arrow and sat on the chariot as if to fast to death.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Academic precision · modern scholarly
1.32. For whose sake we seek kingdom, [its] pleasures and happiness, the very same persons stand arrayed to fight, giving up their life and wealth.
🪷 English Commentaries · The Ācārya Voices
The classical commentary tradition rendered in English · each ācārya speaks from their own sampradāya · the seer chooses the depth of darśana.
Swami Sivananda · Verse-by-verse word-keys with Sanskrit anchors
1.32 न not? काङ्क्षे (I) desire? विजयम् victory? कृष्ण O Krishna? न not? च and? राज्यम् kingdom? सुखानि pleasures? च and? किम् what? नः to us? राज्येन by kindom? गोविन्द O Govinda? किम् what? भोगैः by pleasures? जीवितेन life? वा or.No Commentary.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Advaita-school commentary (Śaṅkara tradition)
1.32 Sri Sankaracharya did not comment on this sloka. The commentary starts from 2.10.
Swami Ādidevānanda · Rāmānuja Śrī-Vaiṣṇava commentary
1.26 - 1.47 Arjuna said - Sanjaya said Sanjaya continued: The high-minded Arjuna, extremely kind, deeply friendly, and supremely righteous, having brothers like himself, though repeatedly deceived by the treacherous attempts of your people like burning in the lac-house etc., and therefore fit to be killed by him with the help of the Supreme Person, nevertheless said, 'I will not fight.' He felt weak, overcome as he was by his love and extreme compassion for his relatives. He was also filled with fear, not knowing what was righteous and what unrighteous. His mind was tortured by grief, because of the thought of future separation from his relations. So he threw away his bow and arrow and sat on the chariot as if to fast to death.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Modern academic scholarship
1.30 1.34 Na ca sreyah, etc., upto mahikrte. Those who are wrongly conceived as object of slaying, with the individualizing idea that 'these are my teachers etc.'8 would necessarily generate sin. Similarly, the act of slaying even of those deserving to be slain in the battle-if undertaken with the idea that 'This battle is to be fought for the apparent results like pleasures, happiness etc.'- then it generates sin necessarily. This idea lurks in the objection [of Arjuna]. That is why a reply is going to be given [by Bhagavat] as 'You must undertake actions simply as your own duty, and not with an individualizing idea'.
Swami Chinmayānanda · Chinmaya Mission · modern Vedantic teaching
।।1.32।। बुद्धि से पूर्णतया विलग होकर उसका भ्रमित मन एक पागल के समान इधरउधर दौड़ता है और मूर्खतापूर्ण निष्कर्षों पर पहुँचता है। वह कहता है मैं न विजय चाहता हूँ न राज्य और न सुख। यह सुविदित तथ्य है कि यदि उन्माद (हिस्टीरिया) के रोगी को बोलने दिया जाय तो वह निषेध भाषा में ही रोग का कारण बताने लगता है। उदाहरणार्थ किसी स्त्री पर उन्माद का दौरा पड़ने पर वह प्रलाप में कहती है कि वह अपने पति से अभी भी प्रेम करती है पति का वह आदर करती है और उनमें कोई आपसी मतभेद नहीं है इत्यादि तो इन वाक्यों द्वारा वह स्वयं ही अपने रोग का वास्तविक कारण बता रही होती है।इसी प्रकार अर्जुन यह जो सब वस्तुओं की अनिच्छा प्रकट कर रहा है उसी से हम उसकी मनस्थिति का स्पष्ट कारण जान सकते हैं कि वह विजय चाहता था। वह शीघ्र ही अपने एवं स्वजनों के लिये राज्य व सुख प्राप्त करने के लिये आतुर था। परन्तु कौरवों की विशाल सेना और उनमें जानेमाने शूर वीर योद्धाओं को देखकर उसकी आशा भंग हो गयी महत्त्वाकांक्षा ध्वस्त हो गयी और वह आत्मविश्वास भी खोने लगा। इस प्रकार वह धीरेधीरे अर्जुनरोग रूपी विषाद की स्थिति में पहुँच गया जिसके निवारण का विषय ही गीता का प्रतिपाद्य विषय है।
🪷 Place in the Bhagavad-Gītā
- This is verse 32 of 47 in Chapter 1 · Arjuna-Viṣāda-Yoga (The Yoga of Arjuna's Despondency)
- Chapter theme: The seeker's collapse at the threshold of dharma
- Ṣaṭka grouping: TVAM-Ṣaṭka (BG 1-6 · the jīva)
- Chapter hub: /arjuna-vishada
🪷 ॐ नमो भगवते वासुदेवाय 🪷
सर्वम् कृष्णार्पणम् — this verse is one maṇi (jewel) on Krishna's thread (BG 7.7)