The Bhagavad Gita in Easy-to-Read Sanskrit text with English Transliteration (Chapter One)

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The Shreemad Bhagavad Gita

In Easy-to-Read Sanskrit Text

Followed by English Transliteration

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The English transliteration follows. Hopefully, other devotees will be

able to use this English text as the basis to transliterate into otherlanguages of their choice. See following sources to reconcile.

1. http://www.vignanam.org/veda/srimad-bhagawad-gita-chapter-1-

english.htmland

2. http://www.prapatti.com/slokas/slokasbyname.html
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GITA MAHATMYAThe Glories of Chapter One

of the Bhagavad Gita from the Padma Purana

It is customary also to read the Gita Mahatmyam story associated with

each chapter. According to the story reproduced below for chapter one, a

regular study and reading chapter one (only takes about 7 mins after

gaining fluency) destroys all of our sins.

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mahatmya-the-glories-of-the-bhagavad-gita-from-the-padma-purana/

Parvati said "My dear husband, You know all the transcendental truths, and

by your mercy I have heard the glories of the Supreme Personality of

Godhead, Lord Krishna. Oh Lord, now I long to hear from You the glories of

the Srimad Bhagavad-gita, which was spoken by Lord Krishna, and by

hearing which, one's devotion to Lord Krishna increases".

Lord Shiva replied "That person, Whose body is the color of a dark rain

cloud, whose carrier is the king of birds, Garuda, and Who is lying on

Ananta-Sesha, the thousand headed serpent, that Lord Vishnu, Whose

glories have no limit, I am always worshipping.

My dear Parvati once after Lord Vishnu had killed the demon Mura, He was

resting peacefully on Ananta-Sesha, when the bestower of all good fortune

of the universe, Sri Lakshmi, respectfully inquired from Him.

"Bhagavan, You are the controller and maintainer of the whole universe,

but yet You are sleeping unhappily on this ocean of milk What is the

reason?"

Lord Vishnu said, "My dear Lakshmi, I am not sleeping, but I am watchinghow wonderfully My energy is working. It is by this wonderful energy of

Mine, by which I am controlling all things, and yet remain separate. And it

is by remembering these divine activities of Mine, that the great devotees

and yogis manage to free themselves from the wheel of birth and death,

and attain that transcendental nature of Mine, which is eternal and free

from all qualities". Lakshmi said, "O, controller of all things. You are the
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goal of the meditation of great yogis. Nothing can go on without You. And

yet You are separate. You are the cause of creation, maintenance and

destruction of all the material universes. Kindly inform me about the

workings of Your wonderful energies, which are so attractive, that even

You are lying here, meditating upon them"

Lord Vishnu said, "My dear Lakshmi, the workings of My multi-fold

energies, and how to become free from the bonds of birth and death, and

attain My eternal Nature, can only be understood by one of pure

intelligence, who has an inclination to render service unto Me. This

transcendental knowledge is fully explained in the Srimad Bhagavad-gita"

Lakshmi inquired, "My dear Lord, if you yourself are amazed, by the

workings of Your energies, and are ever trying to fathom their limit, then

how is it possible that the Bhagavad-gita can describe those unlimited

energies of Yours, and how to cross over them, and attain thetranscendental nature?"

Lord Vishnu said, "I Myself have manifested in the Form of Bhagavad-gita.

Please understand that the first five chapters are My five heads, the next

ten chapters are My ten Arms, and the Sixteenth Chapter is My stomach.

The last two chapters are My lotus-feet. In this way you should understand

the transcendental Deity of the Bhagavad-gita. This Bhagavad-gita is the

destroyer of all sins. And that intelligent man who daily recites one chapter

or even one shloka, one half shloka, or at least one quarter shloka, willattain the same position as Susharma had attained."

Lakshmi inquired, "Who was Susharma? What class did he belong to?

And what destination did he attain?"

Lord Vishnu said, My dear Lakshmi, Susharma was a very wicked and a

most sinful man. Although he was born in a brahmana family, his family

had no Vedic knowledge. And he only took pleasure from hurting others.

He never engaged in the chanting of My names, in giving charity, orreceiving guests. In fact, he never performed any pious activities. For his

livelihood he collected leaves, and sold them in the bazaar. He especially

enjoyed drinking wine, and eating flesh. In this way he passed his life.

One day that foolish Susharma had gone to the garden of one sage for

collecting leaves, when a snake came and bit him, and he died. After his


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death he was cast into many hells, where he suffered for a long time. After

which he attained the body of a bull. That bull was purchased by a crippled

man, who engaged him in his service. For about seven or eight years he

was carrying extremely heavy loads. One day that crippled man had piled a

very heavy load onto the back of his bull. Very quickly he was forcing thatbull along when suddenly the bull fell over and became unconscious. Many

persons gathered there, to see what was happening, feeling sorry for that

bull. One pious man bestowed upon that bull the results of some of his

pious activities. Seeing that, other persons standing there started

remembering their pious activities, and offered the results of some of those

activities to that bull. In that crowd there was also one prostitutewho did

not know if she had ever performed any pious activities, but seeing

everyone else offering their pious credits to that bull, she also offered the

results of any pious activities she might have performed After that, the bull

died, and was taken to the abode of Yamaraja, the God of Death.

There, Yamaraja informed him, You are now free from the reactions of all

your previous sinful deeds, due to the pious credits given to you by that

prostitute." Then he took birth in a very high brahmana family. In that

birth, he was able to remember his past lives.

After many days, he decided to search out that prostitute, who had been

the cause of freeing him from his hellish situation. After he had found and

introduced himself to that lady he inquired from her What were the piousactivities performed by you, the fruits of which freed me from my hellishsituation? The prostitute replied to him, My dear sir, in that cage is one

parrot, which recites something everyday. Hearing that recitation, my

heart has become completely pure. The results of hearing that recitation I

had given to you. Thereafter they both inquired from that parrot about

that recitation. That parrot, remembering his previous life, started to

narrate his history. Previously, I had been a very learned brahmana. But

due to my pride, I used to insult other learned persons. I was also

extremely jealous. After I died, I was cast into many hells, and after a longtime of suffering, I achieved this body of a parrot. Due to my past sinful

activities, my mother and father died while I was a baby. One day, while I

was lying on the hot sands, with no protection, some rishis saw me, and

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At that same place, the children of those rishis were learning the recitation

of the First Chapter of the Srimad Bhagavad-gita, Hearing them repeat

those Shlokas, I also, started repeating those shloka along with them.

Shortly after, one thief stole me from that place and sold me to this pious

lady. Lord Vishnu continued, By reciting the First Chapter of theBhagavad-gita, that parrot had become completely pure. And by hearing

that recitation that prostitute also became completely pure. And by

receiving some of the pious results of hearing that recitation, Susharma

also become completely pure.

After discussing for some time the glories of the first chapter of Bhagavad-gita,

Susharma returned to his home, and the three of them individually engaged in

reciting the First Chapter of Srimad Bhagavad-gita, and very quickly attained

the supreme destination, Vaikuntha.

Anyone who recites, who hears, or studies the First Chapter of Bhagavad-gita,

will very easily cross over the ocean of material miseries, and attain the

service of the lotus-feet of Lord Krishna.

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The Shreemad Bhagavad Gita

Easy-to-Read English Text

Chapter One

Om Shree ParamaatmanE Namah

atha prathamoSdhyya |

dhtarra uvca |

dharma ketre kuruketre samavet yuyutsava |mmak pavcaiva kima kurvata sajaya || 1 ||

sajaya uvca |

dv tu pavnka vyha duryodhanastad |

cryamupa-sagamya rj vacanamabravt || 2 ||

payait puputrmcrya mahat camm |vyh drupadaputrea tava iyea dhmat || 3 ||

atra r mahevs bhmrjunasam yudhi |

yuyudhno viraca drupadaca mahratha || 4 ||

dhaketucekitna kirjaca vryavn |

purujit kuntibhojaca aibyaca narapugava || 5 ||

yudhmanyuca vikrnta uttamaujca vryavn |

saubhadro draupadeyca sarva eva mahrath || 6 ||

asmka tu vii ye tnnibodha dvijottama |

nyak mama sainyasya sartha tnbravmi te || 7 ||


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bhavnbhmaca karaca kpaca samitijaya |

avatthm vikaraca saumadattis tathaiva ca || 8 ||

anye ca bahava r madarthe tyaktajvit |

nana astraprahara sarve yuddhavirad || 9 ||

aparypta tadasmka bala bhm-bhirakitam |

parypta tvidamete bala bhm-bhirakitam || 10 ||

ayaneu ca sarveu yathbhgam-avasthit |

bhmamev-bhirakantu bhavanta sarva eva hi || 11 ||

tasya sajanayan hara kuruvddha pitmaha |sihanda vinadyoc-cai akha dadhmau pratpavn || 12 ||

tata akhca bheryaca paavnakagomukh |

sahasaiv-bhya-hanyanta sa abdas-tumuloSbhavat || 13 ||

tata vetairhayair yukte mahati syandane sthitau |

mdhava pavacaiva divyau akhau pradadh-matu || 14 ||

pcajanya hkeodevadatta dhanajaya |

paura dadhmau mahakha bhmakarm vkodara || 15 ||

ananta vijaya rj kuntputro yudhihira |

nakula sahadevaca sughoamaipupakau || 16 ||

kyaca paramevsa ikha ca mahratha |

dhadyumno viraca styakicparjita || 17 ||drupado draupadeyca sarvaa pthivpate |

saubhadraca mahbhu akhndadhmu pthakpthak || 18 ||


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sa ghoo dhrtarr hdayni vyadrayat |

nabhaca pthiv caiva tumulo vyanundayan || 19 ||

atha vyavasthitndvdhrtarrnkapidhvaja |

pravtte astrasampte dhanurudyamya pava || 20 ||

hkea tad vkyamidam-ha mahpate |

arjuna uvca |

senayor-ubhayor-madhye ratha sthpaya meScyuta || 21 ||

yvad-etnnirkeSha yoddhukmnavasthitn |kairmay saha yoddhavyamasmin raasamudyame || 22 ||

yotsyamnnavekeSha ya eteStra samgat |

dhrtarrasya durbuddheryuddhe priya cikrava || 23 ||

sajaya uvca |evamukto hkeo gukeena bhrata |

senayor ubhayor madhye sthpayitv rathottamam || 24 ||bhmadroapramukhata sarve ca mahkitm |

uvca prtha payaitnsamavetnkurniti|| 25 ||

tatrpayatsthitnprtha pitnatha pitmahn |

crynmtulnbhrtnputrnpautrnsakhstath || 26 ||

vaurnsuhdacaiva senayor ubhayor api |

tnsamkya sa kaunteya sarvnbandhnavasthitn || 27 ||

kpay parayvio vidann-idam abravt |


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arjuna uvca |

dvema svajana kayuyutsu samupasthitam || 28 ||

sdanti mama gtri mukha ca pariuyati |vepathuca arre me romaharaca jyate || 29 ||

gva srasate hastttvak caiva paridahyate |

na ca aknom-yavasth-tu bhramatva ca me mana || 30 ||

nimittni ca paymi vipartni keava|

na ca reyoSnupaymi hatv svajanamhave || 31 ||

na kke vijaya kana ca rjya sukhni ca |

ki no rjyena govindaki bhogairjvitena v || 32 ||

yemarthe kkita no rjya bhog sukhni ca |

ta imeSvasthit yuddhe prs-tyaktv dhanni ca || 33 ||

cry pitara putr-stathaiva ca pitmah |

mtul vaur pautr yl sambandhinas-tath || 34 ||etnna hantumicchmi ghnatoSpi madhusdana|

api trailokya rjyasya heto ki nu mahkte || 35 ||

nihatya dhrtarrnna k prti syjjanrdana|

ppamevrayedasmnhatvaitntatyina || 36 ||

tasmn-nrh vaya hantu dhrtarrnsvabndhavn |

svajana hi katha hatv sukhina syma mdhava|| 37 ||

yadyap-yete na payanti lobhopa-hata cetasa |

kulakaya-kta doa mitra-drohe ca ptakam || 38 ||


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katha na eyamasmbhi ppdasmnnivartitum |

kulakaya-kta doa prapayadbhirjanrdana|| 39 ||

kula kaye praayanti kula dharmsantan |

dharme nae kula ktsnamadharmoSbhibhavat yuta || 40 ||

adharmbhi-bhavtkapraduyanti kulastriya |

stru dusu vreyajyate varasakara || 41 ||

sakaro narakyaiva kula-ghnn kulasya ca |

patanti pitaro hye luptapiodakakriy || 42 ||

doairetai kulaghnn varasakarakrakai |utsdyantejtidharm kuladharmca vat || 43 ||

utsanna kuladharm manuyjanrdana|

narakeSniyata vso bhavatty-anuuruma || 44 ||

aho bata mahatppakartu vyavasit vayam |

yad rjyasukhalobhena hantu svajanamudyat || 45 ||

yadi mmapratkramaastra astrapaya |

dhrtarr rae hanyus-tanme kematara bhavet || 46 ||

sajaya uvca |

evamuktv-rjuna sakhye ratho-pastha upviat |

visjya saara cpa okasavignamnasa || 47 ||

o tatsaditi rmadbhagavadgtsu upaniatsu brahma- vidyy yogastrerk-rjunasavde arjunavidayogo nma prathamoSdhyya ||1 ||


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Notes: meScyuta = may + acyuta this is a compounding of

words when two not-easily blendable vowels follow. TheS signindicates the a sound is blended with the previous one. The a is

very very important since it often indicates the opposite. In this

case, the name acyuta is opposite of cyuta which means fallen.

So, acyuta, for Krishna, means not fallen, One who is never

fallen. Arjuna is using that to imply that being his charioteer does

not mean that Krishna has fallen to some lower rank. Likewise,

think of the other places where this a is encountered. There is

always a negation. The most important is in verse 44 where the

word is aniyatam which means for an unspecified period of time,

in other words, for a long long time, as opposed to a specifiedtime. Being cast in hell (naraka) is like a prison sentence for a

specific length of time (niytam vaasa). Indefinite, or unspecified,

is aniyatam vaasa which is the result of progeny not knowing their

kuladharma and jaatidharma and the prays to be offered to

departed ancestors (lupta pinda udaka kriyaah of verse 42).

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I have uploaded chapter one in easy-to-read format without the sandhis (compounding of words).

This is now only in the Devanagari script. I will try to soon also upload an English transliteration

of chapter 1 in the same format and others can then use that as the basis for transliteration intoother languages.

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Sri Vallabha Mahaganapati of Flushing, New York

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Yesterday at 6:55amEdited(Jan 21, 2015)

A word-for-word grammatical analysis of the famous Charama Sloka, Sarva dharmaan parityajyafrom the Gita is presented here. Note that the analysis is actually consistent with translations
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available but their significance is often overlooked because of widely held misbeliefs and/or pre-

conceived notions. .

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THE SHREE KRISHNA CHARAMA SLOKAA.pdf version 4

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Vj Laxmanan January 19 at 6:36pmEdited

WHAT IS GITA?

When I say "Gita" everyone knows what I mean. I really don't have to

elaborate. If I am not referring to the name of a young girl, or a woman, it

means the Holy scripture revered by Hindus all over the world and held high

over their heads. The holy book is never to be even placed on the ground

although we are often guilty of doing so, especially when we chant the verses

from the Gita at our temples and then we find copies of the Gita lying on thefloor!

This is the only scripture glorified as having been spoken by the Lord Himself,

the Lord being Krishna... yaa swayam Padmanaabhasya mukhapadmaat

vinisrutaa ... says the Gita Mahaatmyam... that scripture that was released

from the lotus-mouth of the Lord Padmanaabhi Himself.

Padmaanabhi, of course, is the form of the Lord lying in the waters of the

Pralayaa, as described in the Srimad Bhagavatam (Canto 3, chapter 8, verses

15 to 18).

Krishna Himself says in chapter 4 of the Gita (verses 1 to 3) that He has

spoken the same to many others, many times, starting with the Sun-god, who

then spoke to His son, Vivaswaan, who spoke it to Ikshvaaku and so on the
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scripture has been transmitted down the ages through the succession of

disciples (paramparaa). No other scripture is glorified in such a manner.

In the Srimad Bhagavatam, as well, in Canto 11, in the conversation with His

cousin Uddava, when Uddava asks the Lord to describe His glories and

vibhutis, Bhagavan tells Uddava, "For that matter, exactly the same question

was asked by Arjuna, in the middle of the battlefield, when he was confused

and refused to fight..." (Canto 11, chapter 6, verses 6 to 8). Here we have direct

confirmation about what happened in the battlefield of Kurukshetra.

In the Gita Mahaatmyam (glories of the Bhagavad Gita), as described in the

Padma Purana, the Lord, in His conversation with Mahaalakshmi says that the

Gita is He personified. "The first five chapters of the Gita are to be understood,

in order, as My five lotus-faces. The next ten chapters are My ten arms. The

sixteenth chapter is My stomach and the 17th and 18th chapters are My twolotus feet. One who understands the Gita in this manner, to be My moorthi in

the form of words (vaangmayee moorthi), with all My opulences (aishwaree),

will come to fully realize Me." No other scripture has ever been glorified in

this way.

In the famous composition known as the Bhaja Govindam, by Adi Sankara,

there two verses which talk about the Gita, i.e., the Bhagavad Gita, verses 20

and 27. "Bhagavad Geetaa kincid adheetaa", says Sankara in verse 20... a little

bit of the study of the Gita... and a little bit of the holy waters of the Gita ... onewho has tasted them has no reason to enter into any arguments with the

messengers of Yama, i.e., the Lord of death and his messengers will not even

dare to approach this person upon his or her death. The person will go

straight to VaikunTha. In verse 27, Adi Sankara says, Geyam Geetaa naama

sahasram... One should always sing (or chant) the Gita and the sahasranamam.

" Again, when we say Gita and Sahasranamam, no adjective is needed to

describe what is meant. When one says Gita, it is automatically understood

that one is talking about the Bhagavad Gita spoken to Arjuna. When one says

Sahasranamam, it is immediately understood that Vishnu Sahasranamam is

what is being referred to.

There are many Sahasranamams addressed to many deities. All are referred to

by name. If we wish to call attention to any other Sahasranamam, we have to

specify the name of the deity, such as Lalithaa Sahasranaamam (again very

widely chanted, especially by women in South India), or Lakshmi

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Likewise, there are many other sections from various scriptures to which the

title "Gita" is attached, such as Kapila Gita (Canto 3, chapters 23 to 33) and

Uddava Gita (Canto 11, chapters 6 to 29), for example, both portions of the

Srimad Bhagavatam. What does this mean?

IMHO, it means that the conversations described in these sections of the

Srimad Bhagavatam are so sacred that they are to be compared with the

instructions received by Arjuna, in the battlefield of Kurukshetra.

The teachings of the Gita are thus universal, to be cherished by ALL, applicable

at all times, and will liberate every one who takes up the study of the Gita,

notwithstanding some contrary descriptions and glorifications of other

"Gitas". Everything else needs an adjective before the word Gita. The Gita

needs no such adjective. It is the One and only Supreme text.

Recall also what Krishna Himself says in the Gita, chapters 2, 11, and 15. In

chapter 2, verses 41 to 46, He describes the flawed interpretations of the

Vedas by so-called (Vedic) scholars but they are called "avipaschita" which

means foolish. Then Krishna delivers the essence of the Vedic purpose via the

famous sloka 47 (KarmaNyeva adhikaaras te) of chapter 2 and those that

follow in verses 48 to 53 (karmajam buddhi yuktaah hi...). After showing His

Vishwaroopam (Universal form) to Arjuna in chapter 11, He tells him that

such a darshanam (sight) of His form cannot be achieved even with all the

mastery of the Vedas, by all the tapas, by all austerities, by all charities(daanam), by all fire sacrifices and offerings (ijyayaa) made into the fire

(chapter 11, verses 53 and 54). Only by bhakti, and Arjuna was a bhakta by

Krishna's own words, can one become blessed to even witness such a glorious

form of the Lord. (Understanding and full comprehension is a different matter

- yo vetti tatvatahaa... as in chapter 4, verse 9.)

Then in chapter 15, verse 15, the chapter known as the Purushottama yoga

chapter, Krishna says clearly that "I am what is to be known from the Vedas, I

am the One who created the Vedas, I am the only One who knows the Vedas.."

The Vedas are NOT superior to Krishna. Krishna and the One who spoke the

Gita is the One who is superior to the Vedas. The Vedas being apaurusheyam

(not made by any man but just revealed) does not make them superior to the

Lord Himself and the words that were spoken by Him and came out of His

lotus-mouth at the time of Arjuna's lamentation at the battle field of

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The famous sloka of chapter 18, verse 66, Sarva dharmaan parityajya ..., is

glorified as the charama sloka, the ultimate message of the Gita. "We can tare

up the whole book and just keep this one sloka", I heard recently during a

discourse. That is an exaggeration (atishayokti), as we call it and should be

excused. But, seriously, to understand this one sloka and to understand themeaning of one word of this sloka, one will need the remaining 699 slokas.

Indeed, as I heard another famous Puraanikar, PuNDarika Maharaj Goswami,

say it, "One can take any sloka of the Gita and start a discourse and one will

need all the remaining 699 slokas to complete the discourse."

It is indeed foolishness to think that the Gita being a part of the Mahabharata

makes it a scripture of lower importance (shruti, smruti, itihaasa, puraNa in

order - since Mahabharata is itihaasa). Gita transcends them all. It is the

vaangmoorti of the Lord Himself as stated in the Padma Purana and the words

are spoken directly by the Lord Himself. When the Lord is standing in front ofyou (or Arjuna), in a human form, He is not a purusha (chapter 9, verse 11,

aslso chapter 10, verse 3), He is not an ordinary human and His words do not

become "paurusheya". He is still the Purushottama. The words He speaks are

still apaurusheya,,, indeed even more exalted than the shruti where the source

of the sound vibrations is NOT seen.

These words of the Gita are ALL what we ALL need to know (yat jnaatva na

iha bhooyonyat jnaatavyam avashishyate, chapter 7, verse 2), every one of us

without exception.

Let not our ahankaram and self-importance and ego and self-proclaimed ideas

of scholarship delude us into thinking that there is anything superior to the

"Gita".

See, you know what I mean when I said "Gita" without any qualifications. smile

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