Bhagavad Gita 8.1 meaningWhat lasts beyond death
In simple wordsSo simple a child gets it
Arjuna asks big questions: “What is the soul? What is God? What is action?”
What it means
Arjuna asks: “Krishna, what is the ultimate reality? What is the self? What is action? What is the physical world, and what is the divine?”
The original Sanskrit
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
Translations
हिंदी अनुवाद
अर्जुन ने कहा -हे पुरुषोत्तम ! वह ब्रह्म क्या है अध्यात्म क्या है? तथा कर्म क्या है? और अधिभूत नाम से क्या कहा गया है? तथा अधिदैव नाम से क्या कहा जाता है,
Swami Tejomayananda
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