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Adhyāyas / Mokṣa-Sannyāsa Yogaḥ / verse 75

Mūla — the verse

Gita Press numbering
व्यासप्रसादाच्छ्रुतवानेतद्गुह्यमहं परम्। योगं योगेश्वरात्कृष्णात्साक्षात्कथयतः स्वयम्
vyāsa-prasādāch chhrutavān etad guhyam ahaṁ param yogaṁ yogeśhvarāt kṛiṣhṇāt sākṣhāt kathayataḥ svayam
Anuṣṭubh(!!) irregular in source

Translation

Swami Gambhīrānanda · follows Śaṅkara-bhāṣya

Through the favor of Vyasa, I heard this secret concerning the supreme Yoga from Krishna, the Lord of Yogas, while He Himself was speaking!

हिन्दी अनुवाद — Swami Tejomayānanda

व्यास जी की कृपा से मैंने इस परम् गुह्य योग को साक्षात् कहते हुए स्वयं योगोश्वर श्रीकृष्ण भगवान् से सुना।।

Pronunciation — Vaamshii

from Vaamshii
व्यासप् रसादाच्छ् रुत वान् (!!)
एतद् गुह्य महम् परम्
योगँय् योगेश् वरात् कृष्णात्
साक्षात् कथय‌तस् स्वयम्
॥ ७५ ॥
Read each split group as one breath-unit; hyphens join pādas kept whole for the meter or a compound word. Symbols: # upadhmānīya (visarga before p/ph), % jihvāmūlīya (visarga before k/kh), ऽ avagraha (an elided a). Full method →

Word by word

padārtha
vyāsa-prasādātby the grace of Ved Vyas
śhrutavānhave heard
etatthis
guhyamsecret
ahamI
paramsupreme
yogamYog
yoga-īśhvarātfrom the Lod of Yog
kṛiṣhṇātfrom Shree Krishna
sākṣhātdirectly
kathayataḥspeaking
svayamhimself

Themes

from The Thematic Companion to the Bhagavad Gītā

Meaning — Questions & Solutions

from Q&A with KnA
18.74–18.78The narration ends; and the benediction.

Sañjaya, who has relayed the whole dialogue to the blind king, closes with his own wonder (18.74–77): recalling this marvellous, hair-raising conversation between Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna, he rejoices again and again; and remembering the Lord’s most wondrous Form, he is astonished beyond measure. And then the final verse of the Gītā (18.78): “Wherever there is Kṛṣṇa, the Lord of Yoga, and wherever there is Arjuna, the archer (dhanur-dhara) — there are fortune, victory, welfare and abiding morality (śrīr vijayo bhūtir dhruvā nītiḥ); such is my conviction.” The Song ends not on abstraction but on a blessing, and on a pairing. The two together — the divine wisdom (Kṛṣṇa) and the willing, disciplined human effort (Arjuna, bow in hand) — are the sure formula for all good. Grace and endeavour; the Lord of Yoga and the ready archer; God’s word and the human “I shall do it.” Where these two meet, Sañjaya declares, prosperity, victory, well-being and unshakeable righteousness are certain. It is the perfect close: the whole teaching gathered into the image of divinity and humanity, joined in a single chariot, facing the field of life together.

Om Śrī Paramātmane Namaḥ — Salutations to the Glorious Ultimate Self