🪷 Bhagavad-Gītā · 7.9

Chapter 7 · ज्ञानविज्ञानयोग · Jñāna-Vijñāna-Yoga · "The Yoga of Knowledge & Realization" · Verse 9 of 30

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🪷 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

7.9 I am the Fragrance of earth, the Brilliance of fire. I am the Life Force in all beings, and I am the Austerity of the ascetics.

Swami Sivananda · Direct prose · Divine Life Society

7.9 I am the sweet fragrance in the earth and the brilliance in the fire, the life in all beings, and I am the austerity in ascetics.

Swami Gambīrānanda · Word-key glosses · Advaita Ashrama · Śaṅkara-school

7.9 I am also the punyah, sweet; gandhah, fragrance; prthivyam, in the earth. The earth is dependent on Me who am its fragrance. The natural sweetness of smell in the earth is cited by way of suggesting sweetness of taste of water etc. as well. But foulness of smell etc. is due to contact with particular things, resulting from nescience, unholiness, etc. of worldly people. Ca, and ; asmi, I am; the tejah, brilliance; vibhavasau, in fire; so also (I am) the jivanam, life-that by which all creatures live; sarva-bhutesu, in all beings. And I am the tapah, austerity; tapasvisu, of ascetics. Ascetics are established in Me who am that austerity.

Swami Ādidevānanda · Śrī-Vaiṣṇava perspective · Rāmānuja school

7.8 - 7.11 All these entities with their peculiar characteristic are born from Me alone. They depend on Me; inasmuch as they constitute My body, they exist in Me alone. Thus I alone exist while all of them are only My modes.

Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Academic precision · modern scholarly

7.9. I am the pure smell in the earth; I am also the brilliance in the sun; I am the life in al beings and austerity in the ascetics.

🪷 Hindi Translation · हिन्दी अनुवाद

For the Hindi-aware seer · Pūjya Swami Rāmsukhdās ji's translation · a high-readability modern Hindi rendering · Gītā-Press Gorakhpur tradition. (→ Full Mahāpurusha-detail page for the 102-year-living Sādhaka-Sañjīvanī Mahātmā.)

🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Sādhaka-Sañjīvanī tradition · Gītā-Press Gorakhpur · highest modern Hindi reading

।।7.9।। पृथ्वीमें पवित्र गन्ध मैं हूँ, और अग्निमें तेज मैं हूँ, तथा सम्पूर्ण प्राणियोंमें जीवनीशक्ति मैं हूँ और तपस्वियोंमें तपस्या मैं हूँ।

🪷 English Commentaries · The Ācārya Voices

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Swami Sivananda · Verse-by-verse word-keys with Sanskrit anchors

7.9 पुण्यः sweet? गन्धः fragrance? पृथिव्याम् in earth? च and? तेजः brilliance? च and? अस्मि am (I)? विभावसौ in fire? जीवनम् life? सर्वभूतेषु in all beings? तपः austerity? च and? अस्मि am (I)? तपस्विषु in ascetics.Commentary In Me as odour in the earth woven in Me as brilliance is the fire woven in Me as life all beings are woven in Me as austerity all ascetics are woven. I am the support (Adhishthanam or Asraya) for everything.I am the power or Sakti which helps the ascetics to control the mind and the senses.Krishna says? I am the agreeable odour. If Arjuna had asked Him? Then who is the disagreeable odour? He would have replied? It is also I.

Swami Gambīrānanda · Advaita-school commentary (Śaṅkara tradition)

Swami Ādidevānanda · Rāmānuja Śrī-Vaiṣṇava commentary

Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Modern academic scholarship

7.9 Punyah etc. By its own nature pure is that smell which exists in the earth as its exclusive property. The foulness, the excessiveness [of th smell] are due to contamination of other elements. That has been stated [elsewhere] as : '[A particular thing] becomes hard because of the excess of the properties of the earth; foul-smelling on account of the rise of the fire-properties; and stiff due to liberality (excess) of the properties of water' and so on.

Swami Chinmayānanda · Chinmaya Mission · modern Vedantic teaching

।।7.9।। किस प्रकार परमात्मरूपी सूत्र में नामरूपमय मणि पिरोकर सुन्दर सृष्टिरूप कण्ठाभरण की निर्मिति हुई है इसका वर्णन इन दो श्लोकों में किया गया है। इसके पूर्व भगवान् ने यह कहा था कि परा और अपरा प्रकृतियों के द्वारा मैं ही जगत् का कारण हूँ और मुझसे भिन्न किञ्चिन्मात्र कोई वस्तु नहीं है। वह सनातन तत्त्व क्या है जो सर्वत्र व्याप्त होते हुये भी दृष्टिगोचर नहीं होता इस प्रश्न का उत्तर यहाँ भगवान् श्रीकृष्ण ने दिया है।किसी वस्तु का धर्म या स्वरूप वह है जो सदा एक समान बना रहता है और जिसके बिना उस वस्तु का अस्तित्व ही सिद्ध नहीं हो सकता। यहाँ दिये दृष्टान्त जल में रस सूर्य चन्द्र में प्रकाश समस्त वेदों में प्रणव आकाश में शब्द पृथ्वी में पवित्र गन्ध पुरुषों में पुरुषत्व एवं तपस्वियों में तप आदि ये सब दर्शाते हैं कि आत्मा ही वह तत्त्व है जिसके कारण इन वस्तुओं का अपना विशेष अस्तित्व होता है। संक्षेपत आत्मा समस्त भूतों का जीवन है।भगवान् श्रीकृष्ण कुछ और उदाहरण देते हुये कहते हैं

🪷 Hindi Vyākhyā · हिन्दी व्याख्या

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🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Sādhaka-Sañjīvanī · Hindi vyākhyā · the modern bilingual anchor

।।7.9।। व्याख्या--'पुण्यो गन्धः पृथिव्याम्'--पृथ्वी गन्ध-तन्मात्रासे उत्पन्न होती है, गन्ध-तन्मात्रारूपसे रहती है और गन्ध-तन्मात्रामें ही लीन होती है। तात्पर्य है कि गन्धके बिना पृथ्वी कुछ नहीं है। भगवान् कहते हैं कि पृथ्वीमें वह पवित्र गन्ध मैं हूँ।यहाँ गन्धके साथ पुण्यः'विशेषण देनेका तात्पर्य है कि गन्धमात्र पृथ्वीमें रहती है। उसमें पुण्य अर्थात् पवित्र गन्ध तो पृथ्वीमें स्वाभाविक रहती है, पर दुर्गन्ध किसी विकृतिसे प्रकट होती है।

🪷 Place in the Bhagavad-Gītā

This is verse 9 of 30 in Chapter 7 · Jñāna-Vijñāna-Yoga (The Yoga of Knowledge & Realization)
Chapter theme: Krishna-Tattva · BG 7.7 mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat · Krishna IS the thread
Ṣaṭka grouping: TAT-Ṣaṭka (BG 7-12 · the Lord)
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⭐ Mahābhārata anchor: this verse is also MBh 6.29.9 (Bhīṣma-Parva · the BG in its full narrative home)

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