Shloka: BG 8.1
Arjuna said, "What is Brahman? What is Adhyatma? What is action, O best among men? What is Adhibhuta declared to be? And...
Shloka: BG 8.2
Who and how is Adhiyajna here in this body, O destroyer of Madhu? And how, at the time of death, are You to be known by ...
Shloka: BG 8.3
The Blessed Lord said, "Brahman is the Imperishable, the Supreme; its essential nature is called Self-knowledge; the off...
Shloka: BG 8.4
Adhibhuta—knowledge of the elements—pertains to My perishable nature, and the Purusha, or the Soul, is the Adhidaiva; I ...
Shloka: BG 8.5
And whoever, leaving their body, goes forth remembering Me alone at the time of death, they will attain My Being; there ...
Shloka: BG 8.6
Whoever at the end leaves the body, thinking of any being, to that being only does he go, O son of Kunti (Arjuna), due t...
Shloka: BG 8.7
Therefore, at all times, remember Me only and fight. With your mind and intellect fixed on Me, you will undoubtedly come...
Shloka: BG 8.8
With the mind not moving towards any other thing, made steadfast through the practice of habitual meditation, and consta...
Shloka: BG 8.9
Whosoever meditates on the Omniscient, the Ancient, the Ruler of the whole world, minuter than an atom, the supporter of...
Shloka: BG 8.10
At the time of death, with an unwavering mind, endowed with devotion, by the power of Yoga, fixing the whole life-breath...
Shloka: BG 8.11
That which is declared to be Imperishable by those who know the Vedas, that which the self-controlled (ascetics or Sanny...
Shloka: BG 8.12
Having closed all the gates, confined the mind in the heart, and fixed the life-breath in the head, engage in the practi...
Shloka: BG 8.13
Uttering the one-syllabled Om, the Brahman, and remembering Me, he who departs, leaving the body, attains the Supreme Go...
Shloka: BG 8.14
I am easily attainable by that ever-steadfast yogi who constantly and daily remembers me for a long time, not thinking o...
Shloka: BG 8.15
Having attained Me, these great souls do not take birth again here—a place of pain and impermanence—but have reached the...
Shloka: BG 8.16
All the worlds, including the world of Brahma, are subject to return again, O Arjuna; but he who reaches Me, O son of Ku...
Shloka: BG 8.17
Those who know the day of Brahma, which lasts a thousand Yugas, and the night, which also lasts a thousand Yugas, know d...
Shloka: BG 8.18
From the Unmanifested, all the manifested worlds proceed upon the arrival of the 'day'; upon the arrival of the 'night',...
Shloka: BG 8.19
This same multitude of beings, being born again and again, helplessly dissolves, O Arjuna, into the Unmanifested at the ...
Shloka: BG 8.20
But verily, there exists higher than this Unmanifested, another Unmanifested Eternal, which is not destroyed even when a...
Shloka: BG 8.21
What is known as the Unmanifested and the Imperishable, That is said to be the highest goal. Those who reach It do not r...
Shloka: BG 8.22
That highest Purusha, O Arjuna, is attainable by unswerving devotion to Him alone, within Whom all beings dwell and by W...
Shloka: BG 8.23
Now I will tell you, O chief of the Bharatas, the times of departure at which the Yogis will return or not return.
Shloka: BG 8.24
Fire, light, daytime, the bright fortnight, the six months of the northern path of the sun (the northern solstice) depar...
Shloka: BG 8.25
Attaining the lunar light through smoke, night time, the dark fortnight, and the six months of the southern path of the ...
Shloka: BG 8.26
The bright and dark paths of the world are thought to be eternal; one leads to no return, and the other leads to return.
Shloka: BG 8.27
Knowing these paths, O Arjuna, no yogi is deluded; therefore, at all times, be steadfast in yoga.
Shloka: BG 8.28