bhūtāni

अव्यक्तादीनि भूतानि व्यक्तमध्यानि भारत

bhūtāni — created beings

Beings are unmanifest before they appear, manifest in between, and unmanifest again when they go. Why grieve over this?

देही नित्यमवध्योऽयं देहे सर्वस्य भारत

bhūtāni — living entities

The one who dwells in the body of every being cannot be killed. So do not grieve for any creature.

अकीर्तिं चापि भूतानि कथयिष्यन्ति तेऽव्ययाम्

bhūtāni — people

People will speak of your disgrace, and it will not be forgotten. For one who has been honoured, dishonour is worse than dying.

या निशा सर्वभूतानां तस्यां जागर्ति संयमी

bhūtāni — creatures

What is night for all beings is waking for the self-controlled; what is waking for all beings is night for the sage who sees.

अन्नाद्भवन्ति भूतानि पर्जन्यादन्नसम्भवः

bhūtāni — living beings

Beings live on food; food comes from rain; rain comes from sacrifice; and sacrifice arises from action.

सदृशं चेष्टते स्वस्याः प्रकृतेर्ज्ञानवानपि

bhūtāni — all living beings

Even one who knows acts according to their own nature. All beings follow their nature. What can suppression do?

यज्ज्ञात्वा न पुनर्मोहमेवं यास्यसि पाण्डव

bhūtāni — living beings

Knowing it, you will not fall into this confusion again. By it you will see all beings, without exception, in yourself and in me.

सर्वभूतस्थमात्मानं सर्वभूतानि चात्मनि

bhūtāni — living beings

One joined in yoga sees the self in all beings and all beings in the self — sees the same everywhere.

एतद्योनीनि भूतानि सर्वाणीत्युपधारय

bhūtāni — living beings

Know that all beings have their source in these two. I am the origin of the whole world, and its dissolution.

वेदाहं समतीतानि वर्तमानानि चार्जुन

bhūtāni — all living beings

I know all beings past, present and yet to come, Arjuna — but no one knows me.

इच्छाद्वेषसमुत्थेन द्वन्द्वमोहेन भारत

bhūtāni — living beings

By the confusion of opposites, arising from wanting and not wanting, all beings are bewildered at birth.

पुरुषः स परः पार्थ भक्त्या लभ्यस्त्वनन्यया

bhūtāni — beings

That highest person, son of Pritha, is reached by devotion to nothing else — he in whom all beings rest, and by whom all this is pervaded.

न च मत्स्थानि भूतानि पश्य मे योगमैश्वरम्

bhūtāni — all living beings

And yet beings do not rest in me. Look at my mastery: I sustain all beings, and I am not in them.

यान्ति देवव्रता देवान् पितृ़न्यान्ति पितृव्रताः

bhūtāni — to the ghosts

Those devoted to the gods go to the gods; to the ancestors, to the ancestors; to the spirits, to the spirits. Those who make their offering to me come to me.

गामाविश्य च भूतानि धारयाम्यहमोजसा

bhūtāni — living beings

Entering the earth, I support all beings by my strength; and becoming the moisture of taste, I nourish all plants.

द्वाविमौ पुरुषौ लोके क्षरश्चाक्षर एव च

bhūtāni — beings

There are two beings in this world: the perishable and the imperishable. All creatures are the perishable; the unchanging is called the imperishable.