Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 9: The Yoga of Sovereign Knowledge and Sovereign Secret

All 34 verses of Chapter 9 of the Bhagavad Gita in Sanskrit, with English translation, per-word meanings, and Adi Shankara's commentary.

• Verse 9.1 — To thee who dost not cavil, I shall now declare this, the greatest secret, knowledge…
• Verse 9.2 — The Sovereign Science, the Sovereign Secret, the Supreme Purifier is this; immediately…
• Verse 9.3 — Persons having no faith in this Dharma, O harasser of thy foes, without reaching Me…
• Verse 9.4 — By Me all this world is pervaded, My form unmanifested. All beings dwell in Me; and I do…
• Verse 9.5 — Nor do those beings dwell in Me; behold My Divine Yoga! Sustaining all beings, but not…
• Verse 9.6 — As the mighty wind moving everywhere rests ever in the ākāśa, so, know thou, do all…
• Verse 9.7 — All beings, O son of Kuntī, go into My Prakṛti at the end of a kalpa. I send them forth…
• Verse 9.8 — Resorting to My Prakṛti, I again and again send forth this whole multitude of beings…
• Verse 9.9 — Nor do these acts, O Dhanañjaya, bind Me, remaining like one unconcerned, unattached to…
• Verse 9.10 — By Me presiding, Prakṛti produces the moving and the unmoving; because of this, O son of…
• Verse 9.11 — Fools disregard Me clad in human form, not knowing My higher being as the Great Lord of…
• Verse 9.12 — Of vain hopes, of vain actions, of vain knowledge, devoid of discrimination, partaking…
• Verse 9.13 — The Mahātmans, O son of Pṛthā, partaking of the nature of the Devas, worship Me with mind…
• Verse 9.14 — Always talking of Me, strenuous, firm in vows, and reverent, they worship Me with love…
• Verse 9.15 — Worshipping by the wisdom-sacrifice, others adore Me, the All-faced, in various ways, as…
• Verse 9.16 — I am kratu, I am yajña, I am svadhā, I am auṣadha, I am mantra, Myself the butter, I am…
• Verse 9.17 — I am the father of this world, the mother, the dispenser, and grandsire; I am the…
• Verse 9.18 — I am the Goal, the Sustainer, the Lord, the Witness, the Abode, the Shelter and the…
• Verse 9.19 — I give heat, I hold back and send forth rain, I am the immortality as well as death…
• Verse 9.20 — Men of the three Vedas, the soma-drinkers, purified from sin, worshipping Me by…
• Verse 9.21 — They, having enjoyed that spacious world of Svarga, their merit (puṇya) exhausted, enter…
• Verse 9.22 — Those men who, meditating on Me as non-separate, worship Me all around — to them who are…
• Verse 9.23 — Even those who, devoted to other Gods, worship Them with faith, worship Myself, O son of…
• Verse 9.24 — I am indeed the Enjoyer, as also the Lord, of all sacrifices; but they do not know Me in…
• Verse 9.25 — Votaries of the Gods go to the Gods; to the Pitṛs go the votaries of the Pitṛs; to the…
• Verse 9.26 — When one offers to Me with devotion a leaf, a flower, a fruit, water — that I eat…
• Verse 9.27 — Whatever thou doest, whatever thou eatest, whatever thou sacrificest, whatever thou…
• Verse 9.28 — Thus shalt thou be liberated from the bonds of actions which are productive of good and…
• Verse 9.29 — The same I am to all beings; to Me there is none hateful or dear; but whoso worship Me…
• Verse 9.30 — If one of even very evil life worships Me, resorting to none else, he must indeed be…
• Verse 9.31 — Soon he becomes righteous and attains eternal peace; do thou, O son of Kuntī, proclaim…
• Verse 9.32 — For, finding refuge in Me, they also who, O son of Pṛthā, may be of a sinful birth —…
• Verse 9.33 — How much more then the holy brāhmaṇas and devoted royal saints. Having reached this…
• Verse 9.34 — Fix thy mind on Me, be devoted to Me, sacrifice to Me, bow down to Me. Thus steadied…