Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 8, Verse 1
अर्जुन उवाच । किं तद् ब्रह्म किमध्यात्मं किं कर्म पुरुषोत्तम । अधिभूतं च किं प्रोक्तमधिदैवं किमुच्यते
arjuna uvāca | kiṃ tad brahma kimadhyātmaṃ kiṃ karma puruṣottama | adhibhūtaṃ ca kiṃ proktamadhidaivaṃ kimucyate
Translation
What is that Brahman? What about the Individual Self (Adhyātma)? What is action (Karma), O Puruṣottama? And what is declared to be the physical region (Adhibhūta)? And what is the divine region (Adhidaiva) said to be? And how and who is Adhiyajña (the Entity concerned with Sacrifice) here in this body, O Madhusūdana, and how at the time of death art Thou to be known by the self-controlled?
— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri
Word meanings
- kim
- what
- tat
- that
- brahma
- Brahman
- kim
- what
- adhyātmam
- Adhyātma
- kim
- what
- karma
- karma
- puruṣottama
- among men, O best
- adhibhūtam
- adhibhūta
- ca
- and
- kim
- what
- proktam
- declared
- adhidaivam
- adhidaiva
- kim
- what
- ucyate
- is called
Śaṅkarācārya's commentary
In vii.29-30 such things have been mentioned by the Lord as have given occasion to Arjuna to put a question. Accordingly Arjuna proceeds to ask these seven questions which the Lord answers in their order in the verses following.