Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 8: The Yoga of the Imperishable Brahman

All 28 verses of Chapter 8 of the Bhagavad Gita in Sanskrit, with English translation, per-word meanings, and Adi Shankara's commentary.

• Verse 8.1 — What is that Brahman? What about the Individual Self (Adhyātma)? What is action (Karma)…
• Verse 8.2 — What is that Brahman? What about the Individual Self (Adhyātma)? What is action (Karma)…
• Verse 8.3 — Brahman is the Imperishable (Akṣara), the Supreme. The Ego is said to be the Individual…
• Verse 8.4 — The physical region (Adhibhūta) is the perishable existence, and Puruṣa or the Soul is…
• Verse 8.5 — And whoso, at the time of death, thinking of Me alone, leaves the body and goes forth, he…
• Verse 8.6 — Of whatever Being thinking at the end a man leaves the body, Him alone, O son of Kuntī…
• Verse 8.7 — Therefore at all times do thou meditate on Me and fight: with mind and reason fixed on Me…
• Verse 8.8 — Meditating with the mind engaged in the Yoga of constant practice, not passing over to…
• Verse 8.9 — Whoso meditates on the Sage, the Ancient, the Ruler, smaller than an atom, the Dispenser…
• Verse 8.10 — Whoso meditates on the Sage, the Ancient, the Ruler, smaller than an atom, the Dispenser…
• Verse 8.11 — That Imperishable Goal which the knowers of the Veda declare, which the self-controlled…
• Verse 8.12 — Having closed all the gates, having confined mind in the heart, having fixed his…
• Verse 8.13 — Uttering Brahman, the one-syllabled 'Oṃ,' thinking of Me, whoso departs, leaving the…
• Verse 8.14 — Whoso constantly thinks of Me and long, to him I am easily accessible, O son of Pṛthā, to…
• Verse 8.15 — Having attained to Me, they do not again attain birth, which is the seat of pain and is…
• Verse 8.16 — All worlds including the world of Brahmā are subject to returning again, O Arjuna; but…
• Verse 8.17 — They — those people who know day and night — know that the day of Brahmā is a thousand…
• Verse 8.18 — From the Unmanifested all the manifestations proceed at the coming on of day; at the…
• Verse 8.19 — This same multitude of beings, having come into being again and again, is dissolved at…
• Verse 8.20 — But that other eternal Unmanifested Being, distinct from this Unmanifested (Avyakta) — He…
• Verse 8.21 — What is called the Unmanifested and the Imperishable, That, they say, is the highest…
• Verse 8.22 — Now, that Highest Puruṣa, O son of Pṛthā, within Whom all beings dwell, by Whom all this…
• Verse 8.23 — Now, in what time departing, Yogins go to return not, as also to return, that time will I…
• Verse 8.24 — Fire, light, day-time, the bright fortnight, the six months of the northern solstice —…
• Verse 8.25 — Smoke, night-time, and the dark fortnight, the six months of the southern solstice —…
• Verse 8.26 — These bright and dark Paths of the world are verily deemed eternal; by the one a man goes…
• Verse 8.27 — Knowing these paths, O son of Pṛthā, no Yogin is deluded: wherefore at all times be…
• Verse 8.28 — Whatever fruit of merit is declared to accrue from the Vedas, sacrifices, austerities and…