Chapter 8:
The Yoga of  the Imperishable Spirit:
On Salvation.

Shlokas 3 to 8.

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shloka 3

śrī-bhagavān uvāca
akṣaraṁ brahma paramaṁ
svabhāvo ’dhyātmam ucyate
bhūta-bhāvodbhava-karo
visargaḥ karma-saṁjñitaḥ

The Supreme Lord said: 'The indestructible Spirit is the transcendental eternal of nature that is called ones own soul [or true self], it produces the material bodies of the living entities and creation is what is called fruitive activity.

shloka 4

adhibhūtaṁ kṣaro bhāvaḥ
puruṣaś cādhidaivatam
adhiyajño ’ham evātra
dehe deha-bhṛtāṁ vara

The constantly changing material nature is the [body of the] original person of the godly spoken about and the Lord of sacrifice for sure I am in this body of the embodied, o best one.

shloka 5

anta-kāle ca mām eva
smaran muktvā kalevaram
yaḥ prayāti sa mad-bhāvaṁ
yāti nāsty atra saṁśayaḥ

At the end of ones time it is also surely in the remembrance of Me that he, who goes to quit the body, will achieve My nature. Of that there is no doubt.

shloka 6

yaṁ yaṁ vāpi smaran bhāvaṁ
tyajaty ante kalevaram
taṁ tam evaiti kaunteya
sadā tad-bhāva-bhāvitaḥ

The nature of whatever one is all remembering, giving this vehicle of time up in the end, similar surely always will lead, o son of Bhârata, to the state which is essential to it.

shloka 7

tasmāt sarveṣu kāleṣu
mām anusmara yudhya ca
mayy arpita-mano-buddhir
mām evaiṣyasy asaṁśayaḥ

Therefore go on remembering Me at all times and fighting with your mind and intelligence surrendered to Me, certainly you will attain Me without doubt.

shloka 8

abhyāsa-yoga-yuktena
cetasā nānya-gāminā
paramaṁ puruṣaṁ divyaṁ
yāti pārthānucintayan

Persistently uniting the mind and intelligence in the connectedness of yoga without deviating one achieves the Supreme Original Person of transcendence, o son of Prthâ, that one is constantly thinking of.

 

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