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Bringing forth and supporting the beings, My Self does not dwell in them. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.31.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.31.6) yathākāśasthito nityaṃ vāyuḥ sarvatrago mahān | tathā sarvāṇi bhūtāni matsthānītyupadhāraya || 6 || > As the mighty wind, moving always everywhere, rests ever in the Akâsha, know thou, that even so do all beings rest in Me. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.31.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.31.7) sarvabhūtāni kaunteya prakṛtiṃ yānti māmikām | kalpakṣaye punastāni kalpādau visṛjāmyaham || 7 || > At the end of a Kalpa, O son of Kunti, all beings go back to My Prakriti: at the beginning of (another) Kalpa, I send them forth again. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.31.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.31.8) prakṛtiṃ svāmavaṣṭabhya visṛjāmi punaḥ punaḥ | bhūtagrāmamimaṃ kṛtsnamavaśaṃ prakṛtervaśāt || 8 || > Animating My Prakriti, I project again and again this whole multitude of beings, helpless under the sway of Prakriti. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.31.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.31.9) na ca māṃ tāni karmāṇi nibadhnanti dhanaṃjaya | udāsīnavadāsīnamasaktaṃ teṣu karmasu || 9 || > These acts do not bind Me, sitting as one neutral, unattached to them, O Dhananjaya. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.31.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.31.10) mayādhyakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ sūyate sacarācaram | hetunānena kaunteya jagadviparivartate || 10 || > By reason of My proximity, Prakriti produces all this, the moving and the unmoving; the world wheels round and round, O son of Kunti, because of this. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.31.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.31.11) avajānanti māṃ mūḍhā mānuṣīṃ tanumāśritam | paraṃ bhāvamajānanto mama bhūtamaheśvaram || 11 || > Unaware of My higher state, as the great Lord of beings, fools disregard Me, dwelling in the human form. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.31.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.31.12) moghāśā moghakarmāṇo moghajñānā vicetasaḥ | rākṣasīmāsurīṃ caiva prakṛtiṃ mohinīṃ śritāḥ || 12 || > Of vain hopes, of vain works, of vain knowledge, and senseless, they verily are possessed of the delusive nature of Râkshasas and Asuras. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.31.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.31.13) mahātmānastu māṃ pārtha daivīṃ prakṛtimāśritāḥ | bhajantyananyamanaso jñātvā bhūtādimavyayam || 13 || > But the great-souled ones, O son of Prithâ, possessed of the Divine Prakriti, knowing Me to be the origin of beings, and immutable, worship Me with a single mind. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.31.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.31.14) satataṃ kīrtayanto māṃ yatantaśca dṛḍhavratāḥ | namasyantaśca māṃ bhaktyā nityayuktā upāsate || 14 || > Glorifying Me always and striving with firm resolve, bowing down to Me in devotion, always steadfast, they worship Me. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.31.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.31.15) jñānayajñena cāpyanye yajanto māmupāsate | ekatvena pṛthaktvena bahudhā viśvatomukham || 15 || > Others, too, sacrificing by the Yajna of knowledge (i.e., seeing the Self in all), worship Me the All-Formed, as one, as distinct, as manifold. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.31.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.31.16) ahaṃ kraturahaṃ yajñaḥ svadhāhamahamauṣadham | mantro'hamahamevājyamahamagnirahaṃ hutam || 16 || > I am the Kratu, I the Yajna, I the Svadhâ, I the Aushadham, I the Mantra, I the Ajyam, I the fire, and I the oblation. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.31.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.31.17) pitāhamasya jagato mātā dhātā pitāmahaḥ | vedyaṃ pavitramoṃkāra ṛksāma yajureva ca || 17 || > I am the Father of this world, the Mother, the Sustainer, the Grandfather; the Purifier, the (one) thing to be known, (the syllable) Om, and also the Rik, Sâman and Yajus. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.31.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.31.18) gatirbhartā prabhuḥ sākṣī nivāsaḥ śaraṇaṃ suhṛt | prabhavaḥ pralayaḥ sthānaṃ nidhānaṃ bījamavyayam || 18 || > The Goal, the Supporter, the Lord, the Witness, the Abode, the Refuge, the Friend, the Origin, the Dissolution, the Substratum, the Storehouse, the Seed immutable. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.31.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.31.19) tapāmyahamahaṃ varṣaṃ nigṛhṇāmyutsṛjāmi ca | amṛtaṃ caiva mṛtyuśca sadasaccāhamarjuna || 19 || > (As sun) I give heat: I withhold and send forth rain; I am immortality and also death; being and non-being am I, O Arjuna! > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.31.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.31.20) traividyā māṃ somapāḥ pūtapāpā yajñairiṣṭvā svargatiṃ prārthayante | te puṇyamāsādya surendralokamaśnanti divyāndivi devabhogān || 20 || > The knowers of the three Vedas, worshipping Me by Yajna, drinking the Soma, and (thus) being purified from sin, pray for passage to heaven; reaching the holy world of the Lord of the Devas, they enjoy in heaven the divine pleasures of the Devas. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.31.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.31.21) te taṃ bhuktvā svargalokaṃ viśālaṃ kṣīṇe puṇye martyalokaṃ viśanti | evaṃ trayīdharmamanuprapannā gatāgataṃ kāmakāmā labhante || 21 || > Having enjoyed the vast Swarga-world, they enter the mortal world, on the exhaustion of their merit: Thus, abiding by the injunctions of the three (Vedas), desiring desires, they (constantly) come and go. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.31.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.31.22) ananyāścintayanto māṃ ye janāḥ paryupāsate | teṣāṃ nityābhiyuktānāṃ yogakṣemaṃ vahāmyaham || 22 || > Persons who, meditating on Me as non-separate, worship Me in all beings, to them thus ever jealously engaged, I carry what they lack and preserve what they already have. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.31.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.31.23) ye'pyanyadevatā bhaktā yajante śraddhayānvitāḥ | te'pi māmeva kaunteya yajantyavidhipūrvakam || 23 || > Even those devotees, who endued with Shraddhâ, worship other gods, they too worship Me alone, O son of Kunti, (but) by the wrong method. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.31.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.31.24) ahaṃ hi sarvayajñānāṃ bhoktā ca prabhureva ca | na tu māmabhijānanti tattvenātaścyavanti te || 24 || > For I alone am the Enjoyer, and Lord of all Yajnas; but because they do not know Me in reality, they return, (to the mortal world). > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.31.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.31.25) yānti devavratā devānpitṝnyānti pitṛvratāḥ | bhūtāni yānti bhūtejyā yānti madyājino'pi mām || 25 || > Votaries of the Devas go to the Devas; to the Pitris, go their votaries; to the Bhutas, go the Bhuta worshippers; My votaries too come unto Me. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.31.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.31.26) patraṃ puṣpaṃ phalaṃ toyaṃ yo me bhaktyā prayacchati | tadahaṃ bhaktyupahṛtamaśnāmi prayatātmanaḥ || 26 || > Whoever with devotion offers Me a leaf, a flower, a fruit, or water, that I accept—the devout gift of the pure-minded. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.31.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.31.27) yatkaroṣi yadaśnāsi yajjuhoṣi dadāsi yat | yattapasyasi kaunteya tatkuruṣva madarpaṇam || 27 || > Whatever thou doest, whatever thou eatest, whatever thou offerest in sacrifice, whatever thou givest away, whatever austerity thou practisest, O son of Kunti, do that as an offering unto Me. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.31.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.31.28) śubhāśubhaphalairevaṃ mokṣyase karmabandhanaiḥ | saṃnyāsayogayuktātmā vimukto māmupaiṣyasi || 28 || > Thus shalt thou be freed from the bondages of actions, bearing good and evil results: with the heart steadfast in the Yoga of renunciation, and liberated, thou shalt come unto Me. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.31.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.31.29) samo'haṃ sarvabhūteṣu na me dveṣyo'sti na priyaḥ | ye bhajanti tu māṃ bhaktyā mayi te teṣu cāpyaham || 29 || > I am the same to all beings: to Me there is none hateful or dear. But those who worship Me with devotion, are in Me, and I too am in them. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.31.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.31.30) api cetsudurācāro bhajate māmananyabhāk | sādhureva sa mantavyaḥ samyagvyavasito hi saḥ || 30 || > If even a very wicked person worships Me, with devotion to none else, he should be regarded as good, for he has rightly resolved. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.31.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.31.31) kṣipraṃ bhavati dharmātmā śaśvacchāntiṃ nigacchati | kaunteya pratijānīhi na me bhaktaḥ praṇaśyati || 31 || > Soon does he become righteous, and attain eternal Peace, O son of Kunti boldly canst thou proclaim, that My devotee is never destroyed. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.31.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.31.32) māṃ hi pārtha vyapāśritya ye'pi syuḥ pāpayonayaḥ | striyo vaiśyāstathā śūdrāste'pi yānti parāṃ gatim || 32 || > For, taking refuge in Me, they also, O son of Prithâ, who might be of inferior birth,—women, Vaishyas, as well as Sudras,—even they attain to the Supreme Goal. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.31.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.31.33) kiṃ punarbrāhmaṇāḥ puṇyā bhaktā rājarṣayastathā | anityamasukhaṃ lokamimaṃ prāpya bhajasva mām || 33 || > What need to mention holy Brâhmanas, and devoted Râjarshis! Having obtained this transient, joyless world, worship thou Me. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.31.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.31.34) manmanā bhava madbhakto madyājī māṃ namaskuru | māmevaiṣyasi yuktvaivamātmānaṃ matparāyaṇaḥ || 34 || > Fill thy mind with Me, be My devotee, sacrifice unto Me, bow down to Me; thus having made thy heart steadfast in Me, taking Me as the Supreme Goal, thou shalt come to Me. > The end of the ninth chapter, designated The Way of the Kingly Knowledge and the Kingly Secret. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ## Translations (2) - [Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita~en-swarupananda.9.1) — Swami Swarupananda 1909, English - [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa~en-ganguli.6.33.1.1) — Kisari Mohan Ganguli 1883, English ## Commentaries (1) - [Bhāratabhāvadīpa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa!nilakantha.6.33.1) — Nīlakaṇṭha Caturdhara 1650, Sanskrit ## Other recensions (2) - [Southern recension](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*southern.6.33.1) — Sanskrit - [Vulgate (Nīlakaṇṭha's text)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*vulgate.6.33.1) — Sanskrit ## Linked texts (7) - [Bhagavadgītā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita.9.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Vulgate (700 verses)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*vulgate.9.1) — Sanskrit - [Śāktapramoda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.general.sakta.saktapramoda.7.144) — Sanskrit - [Mahābhāratatātparyanirṇaya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.dvaita.sarvamula.mahabharatatatparyanirnaya.1.2.84) — Madhva, Sanskrit - [Advaitasiddhi](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.advaita.vada.advaitasiddhi.2.11) — Madhusūdana Sarasvatī 1570, Sanskrit - [Kedārakalpa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.sthala.kedarakalpa.1.8) — Sanskrit - [Vedārthasaṅgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.visistadvaita.purvacarya.vedarthasangraha.81) — Rāmānuja, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.31) · Pramāṇa