🪷 Bhagavad-Gītā · 2.1
Chapter 2 · सांख्ययोग · Sāṅkhya-Yoga · "The Yoga of Knowledge" · Verse 1 of 72
🪷 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
2.1 Sanjaya then told how the Lord Shri Krishna, seeing Arjuna overwhelmed with compassion, his eyes dimmed with flowing tears and full of despondency, consoled him:
Swami Sivananda · Direct prose · Divine Life Society
2.1 Sanjaya said To him who was thus overcome with pity and who was despondent, with eyes full of tears and agitated, Madhusudana (the destroyer of Madhu) or Krishna spoke these words.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Word-key glosses · Advaita Ashrama · Śaṅkara-school
2.1 Sri Sankaracharya did not comment on this sloka. The commentary starts from 2.10.
Swami Ādidevānanda · Śrī-Vaiṣṇava perspective · Rāmānuja school
2.1 - 2.3 Sanjaya said - Lord said When Arjuna thus sat, the Lord, opposing his action, said: 'What is the reason for your misplaced grief? Arise for battle, abandoning this grief, which has arisen in a critical situation, which can come only in men of wrong understanding, which is an obstacle for reaching heaven, which does not confer fame on you, which is very mean, and which is caused by faint-heartedness.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Academic precision · modern scholarly
2.1. Sanjaya said To him (Arjuna) who was thus possessed by compassion, whose eyes were confused and filled with tears and who was sinking in despondency, Madhusudana told this [following] sentence.
🪷 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
2.1 तम् to him? तथा thus? कृपया with pity? आविष्टम् overcome? अश्रुपूर्णाकुलेक्षणम् with eyes filled with tears and agitated? विषीदन्तम् despondent? इदम् this? वाक्यम् speech? उवाच spoke? मघुसूदनः Madhusudana.No commentary.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Advaita-school commentary (Śaṅkara tradition)
2.1 Sri Sankaracharya did not comment on this sloka. The commentary starts from 2.10.
Swami Ādidevānanda · Rāmānuja Śrī-Vaiṣṇava commentary
2.1 - 2.3 Sanjaya said - Lord said When Arjuna thus sat, the Lord, opposing his action, said: 'What is the reason for your misplaced grief? Arise for battle, abandoning this grief, which has arisen in a critical situation, which can come only in men of wrong understanding, which is an obstacle for reaching heaven, which does not confer fame on you, which is very mean, and which is caused by faint-heartedness.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Modern academic scholarship
2.1 Sri Abhinavagupta did not comment upon this sloka.
Swami Chinmayānanda · Chinmaya Mission · modern Vedantic teaching
।।2.1।। द्वितीय अध्याय का प्रारम्भ संजय के कथन से होता है जिसमें वह चुने हुये शब्दों से अर्जुन की विषादमयी मानसिक स्थिति का स्पष्ट चित्रण करता है। अर्जुन का मन करुणा और विषाद से भर गया है। इस युक्ति से स्पष्ट होता है कि अर्जुन परिस्थितियों का स्वामी न होकर स्वयं उनका शिकार हो गया था। इस प्रकार एक दुर्बल व्यक्ति ही परिस्थितियों का शिकार बनकर जीवन संघर्ष के प्रत्येक अवसर पर असफल होता है। अर्जुन अपनी नैराश्यपूर्ण अवस्था में इस समय ऐसी ही बाह्य परिस्थितियों का शिकार हो गया था। अर्जुन की विषादावस्था का वर्णन करने के साथ ही संजय हमें यह भी संकेत करता है कि उसका आन्तरिक व्यक्तित्व भग्न हो गया था और उसके चरित्र में गहरी दरार पड़ गयी थी। अपने समय का सर्वश्रेष्ठ धनुर्धारी होकर भी वह किसी सामान्य युवती के समान रुदन कर रहा थाइस प्रकार करुणा और शोक से अभिभूत एवं अश्रुरहित रोदन करते हुये अर्जुन से मधुसूदन (मधु नामक असुर का वध करने वाले) भगवान् श्रीकृष्ण ने निम्नलिखित वाक्य कहा। यहाँ यह उल्लेखनीय है कि अश्रुरहित रोदन को आधुनिक मनोविज्ञान मानसिक उद्विग्नता की चरम स्थिति मानता है।
🪷 Place in the Bhagavad-Gītā
- This is verse 1 of 72 in Chapter 2 · Sāṅkhya-Yoga (The Yoga of Knowledge)
- Chapter theme: Krishna's first teaching · the niṣkāma-karma sūtra · BG 2.47
- Ṣaṭka grouping: TVAM-Ṣaṭka (BG 1-6 · the jīva)
- Chapter hub: /sankhya-yoga
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सर्वम् कृष्णार्पणम् — this verse is one maṇi (jewel) on Krishna's thread (BG 7.7)