My limbs fail and my mouth becomes dry. My body quivers and my hairs stand on end. |
Neither by study of the Vedas, nor by austerity, nor by charity, nor by ritual, can I be seen in this form as you have seen Me. |
Neither do I see the beginning nor the middle nor the end of Your Universal Form. |
Neither in this world nor elsewhere is there any happiness in store for him who always doubts. |
No one attains perfection by merely giving up work. |
No one becomes a Karma-yogi who has not renounced the selfish motive behind an action. |
No one is even equal to You in the three worlds; how can there be one greater than You? O Being of Incomparable Glory. |
No other person shall do a more pleasing service to Me, and no one on the earth shall be more dear to Me. |
Nonviolence, equanimity, contentment, austerity, charity, fame, and ill fame; all these diverse qualities in human beings arise from Me alone. |
O Arjuna, now behold the entire creation; animate, inanimate, and whatever else you like to see; all at one place in My body. |
O Arjuna, now I shall describe different paths departing by which, during death, the yogis do or do not come back. |
O Creator and Lord of all beings, God of all gods, Supreme person and Lord of the universe, You alone know Yourself by Yourself. |
O King, by repeated remembrance of this marvelous and sacred dialogue between Lord Krishna and Arjuna, I am thrilled at every moment; and / Recollecting again and again, O King, that marvelous form of Krishna I am greatly amazed and I rejoice over and over again. |
O King, Lord Krishna, as if smiling, spoke these words to the despondent Arjuna in the midst of the two armies. |
O Krishna, I have heard from You in detail about the origin and dissolution of beings, and Your imperishable glory. |