अर्जुन उवाचकिं तद्ब्रह्म किमध्यात्मं किं कर्म पुरुषोत्तम ।
अधिभूतं च किं प्रोक्तमधिदैवं किमुच्यते ॥
अधिभूतं च किं प्रोक्तमधिदैवं किमुच्यते ॥
हिन्दी अनुवाद
अर्जुन बोले हे पुरुषोत्तम वह ब्रह्म क्या है अध्यात्म क्या है कर्म क्या है अधिभूत किसको कहा गया है और अधिदैव किसको कहा जाता है यहाँ अधियज्ञ कौन है और वह इस देहमें कैसे है हे मधूसूदन नियतात्मा वशीभूत अंतःकरण वाले मनुष्यके द्वारा अन्तकालमें आप कैसे जाननेमें आते हैं ॥
English
Arjuna said: O Supreme Person, what is Brahman? What is the self? What is action? What is called the field of changing things, and what is called the divine principle? What is the sacred offering here in this body, and how are you known at the time of death by those with disciplined minds?
श्लोक का अर्थ
Arjuna asks Krishna to explain the key terms of spiritual teaching: Brahman, the self, action, the changing world, and the divine principle.
संदर्भ और टिप्पणी
On the Kurukshetra battlefield, Arjuna is still shaken and searching. Before the fighting begins, he asks Krishna to define the deepest terms behind life, death, action, and the imperishable reality he wants to know at the end.
आज के संदर्भ में
You are standing at a hospital door, a resignation letter in your hand, or a graveside with no easy answers. Before certainty comes, honest questions have to be named.
सार
Real understanding begins by asking clean, exact questions.
शब्दार्थ
अर्जुन उवाच (Arjuna said) / किम् (what) / तत् (that) / ब्रह्म (Brahman) / किम् (what) / अध्यात्मम् (the self / inner principle) / किम् (what) / कर्म (action) / पुरुषोत्तम (O Supreme Person) / अधिभूतम् (the field of changing beings / material existence) / च (and) / किम् (what) / प्रोक्तम् (is said) / अधिदैवम् (the divine principle) / किम् (what) / उच्यते (is called)
यह श्लोक भगवद् गीता अध्याय 8: अक्षर ब्रह्म योग — अक्षर ब्रह्म का योग का भाग है, जिसमें कुल 28 श्लोक हैं।
संबंधित विषय: akshara brahma (12 श्लोक), brahman (10 श्लोक)