{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbg/sbg04.htm","path":"hin/sbg/sbg04.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbg/sbg04.htm","text":"Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita, English translation and commentary by Swami Swarupananda, [1909]\n1. Om! O Bhagavad-Git\u00e2, with which P\u00e2rtha was enlightened by the Lord N\u00e2r\u00e2yana Himself and which was incorporated in the Mah\u00e2bh\u00e2rata by the ancient sage Vy\u00e2sa,\u2014the Blessed Mother, the Destroyer of rebirth, showering down the nectar of Advaita, and consisting of\neighteen chapters,\u2014upon Thee, O Bhagavad-Git\u00e2! O Loving Mother! I meditate.\n2. Salutation to thee, O Vy\u00e2sa, of mighty intellect and with eyes large like the petals of full-blown lotuses, by whom was lighted the lamp of wisdom, full of the Mah\u00e2bh\u00e2rata-oil.\n3. Salutation to Krishna, the holder of the Jn\u00e2namudr\u00e2, granter of desires of those who take refuge in Him, the milker of the Git\u00e2-nectar, in whose hand is the cane for driving cows.\n4. All the Upanishads are the cows, the Son of the cowherd is the milker, P\u00e2rtha is the calf, men of purified intellect are the drinkers and the supreme nectar Git\u00e2 is the milk.\n5. I salute Krishna, the Guru of the Universe, God, the son of Vasudeva, the Destroyer of Karma and Ch\u00e2nura, the supreme bliss of Devaki.\n6. The battle-river, with Bhishma and Drona as its banks, and Jayadratha as the water, with the king of G\u00e2ndh\u00e2ra as the blue water-lily, and Shalya as the shark, with Kripa as the current and\n[paragraph continues] Karna as the breakers, with Ashvatth\u00e2m\u00e2 and Vikarna as terrible Makaras and Duryodhana as the whirlpool in it,\u2014was indeed crossed over by the P\u00e2ndavas, with Keshava as the ferry-man.\n7. May the taintless lotus of the Mah\u00e2bh\u00e2rata, growing on the waters of the words of Par\u00e2shara's son, having the\n[paragraph continues] Git\u00e2 as its strong sweet fragrance, with many a narrative as its stamens, fully opened by the discourses on Hari and drunk joyously day after day by the Bhramara of the good and the pure in the world,\u2014be productive of the supreme good to him who is eager to destroy the taint of Kali!\n8. I salute that All-bliss M\u00e2dhava whose compassion makes the mute eloquent and the cripple cross mountains.\n9. Salutation to that God Whom the creator Brahm\u00e2, Varuna, Indra, Rudra and the Maruts praise with divine hymns; Whom the singers of S\u00e2ma sing, by the Vedas, with their full complement of parts, consecutive sections and Upanishads; Whom the Yogis see with their minds absorbed in Him through perfection in meditation, and Whose limit the hosts of Devas and Asuras know not.","title":"Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita: Meditation","type":"page"}