adhyātmam
- with the thoughts resting on God
- the individual self
- the individual soul
- one’s own self
Also appears as adhyātma-chetasā, adhyātma-vidyā, adhyātma-sanjñitam, adhyātma, adhyātma-nityāḥ
In 8 verses
- 3.30
मयि सर्वाणि कर्माणि संन्यस्याध्यात्मचेतसा
adhyātma-chetasā — with the thoughts resting on God
Surrendering all your actions to me, your thoughts resting on what is highest, free of longing and free of “mine” — fight.
- 7.29
जरामरणमोक्षाय मामाश्रित्य यतन्ति ये
adhyātmam — the individual self
Those who take refuge in me and strive for release from old age and death know Brahman, and know the whole.
- 8.1
किं तद्ब्रह्म किमध्यात्मं किं कर्म पुरुषोत्तम
adhyātmam — the individual soul
What is that Brahman? What is the self? What is action? What is called the ground of matter, and what the ground of the gods?
- 8.3
अक्षरं ब्रह्म परमं स्वभावोऽध्यात्ममुच्यते
adhyātmam — one’s own self
The imperishable is the highest Brahman. One's own nature is called the self. The bringing forth of beings and their states is called action.
- 10.32
सर्गाणामादिरन्तश्च मध्यं चैवाहमर्जुन
adhyātma-vidyā — science of spirituality
I am the beginning, the middle and the end of creations, Arjuna. Among knowledges, the knowledge of the self; and among those who argue, the argument.
- 11.1
मदनुग्रहाय परमं गुह्यमध्यात्मसंज्ञितम्
adhyātma-sanjñitam — about spiritual knowledge
By your grace I have heard your highest word, the deepest secret, about the self — and by it my confusion is gone.
- 13.12
अध्यात्मज्ञाननित्यत्वं तत्त्वज्ञानार्थदर्शनम्
adhyātma — spiritual
constancy in knowledge of the self, and looking toward what knowledge is for — all this is called knowledge; what is otherwise is ignorance.
- 15.5
निर्मानमोहा जितसङ्गदोषा अध्यात्मनित्या विनिवृत्तकामाः
adhyātma-nityāḥ — dwelling constantly in the self and God
Free of vanity and delusion, having overcome the fault of attachment, constant in the self, free of longing, released from the opposites of pleasure and pain — such undeluded ones reach that unchanging place.