🪷 Bhagavad-Gītā · 8.27
Chapter 8 · अक्षरब्रह्मयोग · Akṣara-Brahma-Yoga · "The Yoga of the Imperishable Brahman" · Verse 27 of 28
🪷 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
8.27 O Arjuna! The saint knowing these paths is not confused. Therefore meditate perpetually.
Swami Sivananda · Direct prose · Divine Life Society
8.27 Knowing these paths, O Arjuna, no Yogi is deluded; therefore at all times be steadfast in Yoga.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Word-key glosses · Advaita Ashrama · Śaṅkara-school
8.27 O son of Prtha, na kascana yogi, no yogi whosoever; janan, has known; ete srti, these two courses as described-that one leads to worldly life, and the other to Liberation; muhyati, becomes deluded. Tasmat, therefore; O Arjuna, bhava, be you; yoga-yuktah, steadfast in Yoga; sarvesu kalesu, at all times.
Here about the greatness of that yoga:
Swami Ādidevānanda · Śrī-Vaiṣṇava perspective · Rāmānuja school
8.27 Having known these two paths, no Yogin is deluded. On the contrary, he goes by the path of gods, his own path. Therefore, be integrated every day with Yoga called meditation on the path described by the terms starting with light.
Next Sri Krsna speaks of the fruit of knowing the import of the Sastras, as taught in the two chapters 7 and 8.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Academic precision · modern scholarly
8.27. O son of Prtha, not a single Yogin, knowing these two courses, gets deluded. Therefore, O Arjuna, be practising Yoga connected with all times.
🪷 Hindi Translation · हिन्दी अनुवाद
For the Hindi-aware seer · Pūjya Swami Rāmsukhdās ji's translation · the highest-readability modern Hindi rendering · Gītā-Press Gorakhpur tradition.
🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Sādhaka-Sañjīvanī tradition · Gītā-Press Gorakhpur · highest modern Hindi reading
।।8.27।। हे पृथानन्दन ! इन दोनों मार्गोंको जाननेवाला कोई भी योगी मोहित नहीं होता। अतः हे अर्जुन ! तू सब समयमें योगयुक्त हो जा।
🪷 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
8.27 न not? एते these? सृती two paths? पार्थ O Partha? जानन् knowing? योगी the Yogi? मुह्यति is deluded? कश्चन anyone? तस्मात् therefore? सर्वेषु in all? कालेषु times? योगयुक्तः steadfast in Yoga? भव (be) thou? अर्जुन O Arjuna.Commentary Knowing the nature of the two paths and the conseences they lead to? a Yogi never loses his discrimination. The Yogi who knows that the path of the gods or the path of light leads to Moksha (gradual liberation)? and the path of darkness to Samsara or the world or region of birth and death? is no longer deluded. Knowledge of these two paths serves as a compass or a beaconlight to guide the Yogis steps at every moment. He strives to stick to the path of light.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Advaita-school commentary (Śaṅkara tradition)
8.27 O son of Prtha, na kascana yogi, no yogi whosoever; janan, has known; ete srti, these two courses as described-that one leads to worldly life, and the other to Liberation; muhyati, becomes deluded. Tasmat, therefore; O Arjuna, bhava, be you; yoga-yuktah, steadfast in Yoga; sarvesu kalesu, at all times.
Here about the greatness of that yoga:
Swami Ādidevānanda · Rāmānuja Śrī-Vaiṣṇava commentary
8.27 Having known these two paths, no Yogin is deluded. On the contrary, he goes by the path of gods, his own path. Therefore, be integrated every day with Yoga called meditation on the path described by the terms starting with light.
Next Sri Krsna speaks of the fruit of knowing the import of the Sastras, as taught in the two chapters 7 and 8.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Modern academic scholarship
8.27 Naite etc. The idea here is this : [That Yogin does not get deluded] who knows these two courses by adopting 'the internal method' , approved by the [school of] Yoga practice. This point, if explained in detain, would lengthen our treatise. Hence let us stop here. Therefore etc. Whatsoever are the [units of] time that are internal let one practise the Yoga that is concerned with them all.
Our preceptors have however said as : So far the peculiarity in the passing away [of the Yogins], as indicated by the internal times, has been described, in the middle of the discourse, for the benefit of one and all. Having done this, now the chief topic, under consideration, regarding the external units of times, is being wound up by the words 'Therefore, concerned with all times etc.'
Swami Chinmayānanda · Chinmaya Mission · modern Vedantic teaching
।।8.27।। शुक्लगति और कृष्णगति इन दोनों के ज्ञान का फल यह है कि इनका ज्ञाता योगी पुरुष कभी मोहित नहीं होता है मन में उठने वाली निम्न स्तर की प्रवृत्तियों के कारण धैर्य खोकर वह कभी निराश नहीं होता।भगवान् श्रीकृष्ण ने अब तक पुनरावृत्ति और अपुनरावृत्ति के मार्गों का वर्णन किया और अब इस श्लोक में वे ज्ञान और उसके फल को संग्रहीत करके कहते हैं कि इसलिए हे अर्जुन तुम सब काल में योगी बनो। जिसने अनात्मा से तादात्म्य हटाकर मन को आत्मस्वरूप में एकाग्र करना सीखा हो वह पुरुष योगी है।संक्षेप में इस सम्पूर्ण अध्याय के माध्यम से भगवान् द्वारा अर्जुन को उपदेश दिया गया है कि उसको जगत् में कार्य करते हुए भी सदा अक्षर पुरुष के साथ अनन्य भाव से तादात्म्य स्थापित कर आत्मज्ञान में स्थिर होने का प्रयत्न करना चाहिए।अन्त में इस योग का महात्म्य बताते हुए भगवान् कहते हैं --
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।।8.27।। व्याख्या--'नैते सृती पार्थ जानन्योगी मुह्यति कश्चन'--शुक्लमार्ग प्रकाशमय है और कृष्णमार्ग अन्धकारमय है। जिनके अन्तःकरणमें उत्पत्ति-विनाशशील वस्तुओंका महत्त्व नहीं है और जिनके उद्देश्य, ध्येयमें प्रकाशस्वरूप (ज्ञानस्वरूप) परमात्मा ही हैं, ऐसे वे परमात्माकी तरफ चलनेवाले साधक शुक्लमार्गी हैं अर्थात् उनका मार्ग प्रकाशमय है। जो संसारमें रचे-पचे हैं और जिनका सांसारिक पदार्थोंका संग्रह करना और उनसे सुख भोगना ही ध्येय होता है, ऐसे मनुष्य तो घोर अन्धकारमें हैं ही पर जो भोग भोगनेके उद्देश्यसे यहाँके भोगोंसे संयम करके यज्ञ, तप, दान आदि शास्त्रविहित शुभ कर्म करते हैं और मरनेके बाद स्वर्गादि ऊँची भोग-भूमियोंमें जाते हैं, वे यद्यपि यहाँके भोगोंमें आसक्त मनुष्योंसे ऊँचे उठे हुए हैं, तो भी आने-जानेवाले (जन्म-मरणके) मार्गमें होनेसे वे भी अन्धकारमें ही हैं। तात्पर्य है कि कृष्णमार्गवाले ऊँचे-ऊँचे लोकोंमें जानेपर भी जन्म-मरणके चक्करमें पड़े रहते हैं। कहीं जन्म गये तो मरना बाकी रहता है और मर गये तो जन्मना बाकी रहता है --ऐसे जन्म-मरणके चक्करमें पड़े हुए वे कोल्हूके बैलकी तरह अनन्तकालतक घूमते ही रहते हैं।-- इस तरह शुक्ल और कृष्ण दोनों मार्गोंके परिणामको जाननेवाला मनुष्य योगी अर्थात् निष्काम हो जाता है, भोगी नहीं। कारण कि वह यहाँके और परलोकके भोगोंसे ऊँचा उठ जाता है। इसलिये वह मोहित नहीं होता।सांसारिक भोगोंके प्राप्त होनेमें और प्राप्त न होनेमें जिसका उद्देश्य निर्विकार रहनेका ही होता है, वह योगी कहलाता है।
🪷 Place in the Bhagavad-Gītā
- This is verse 27 of 28 in Chapter 8 · Akṣara-Brahma-Yoga (The Yoga of the Imperishable Brahman)
- Chapter theme: Cosmic-time · Brahmā's day · death-yoga · Devayāna vs Pitṛyāna
- Ṣaṭka grouping: TAT-Ṣaṭka (BG 7-12 · the Lord)
- Chapter hub: /cosmic-time
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सर्वम् कृष्णार्पणम् — this verse is one maṇi (jewel) on Krishna's thread (BG 7.7)