buddhiḥ

व्यवसायात्मिका बुद्धिरेकेह कुरुनन्दन

buddhiḥ — intellect

On this path, son of Kuru, the resolute mind is single. The minds of the irresolute are many-branched and endless.

भोगैश्वर्यप्रसक्तानां तयापहृतचेतसाम्

buddhiḥ — intellect

For those attached to enjoyment and power, whose minds are carried off by such talk, no resolute understanding settles into stillness.

दूरेण ह्यवरं कर्म बुद्धियोगाद्धनञ्जय

buddhi-yogāt — with the intellect established in Divine knowledge

Action for the sake of its fruit is far inferior, Arjuna, to action guided by understanding. Take refuge in understanding. Those who work only for the fruit are wretched.

बुद्धियुक्तो जहातीह उभे सुकृतदुष्कृते

buddhi-yuktaḥ — endowed with wisdom

One joined to understanding lets go of both good and bad deeds. So devote yourself to yoga. Yoga is skill in action.

कर्मजं बुद्धियुक्ता हि फलं त्यक्त्वा मनीषिणः

buddhi-yuktāḥ — endowed with equanimity of intellect

The wise, joined to understanding, let go of the fruit born of action, and freed from the bondage of birth they reach a state beyond harm.

यदा ते मोहकलिलं बुद्धिर्व्यतितरिष्यति

buddhiḥ — intellect

When your understanding has crossed the swamp of confusion, then you will be indifferent to all you have heard and all you have yet to hear.

श्रुतिविप्रतिपन्ना ते यदा स्थास्यति निश्चला

buddhiḥ — intellect

When your understanding, no longer pulled about by scripture, stands still and steady in itself — then you will have reached yoga.

क्रोधाद्भवति संमोहः संमोहात्स्मृतिविभ्रमः

buddhi-nāśhaḥ — destruction of intellect

From anger, confusion. From confusion, memory fails. When memory fails, discernment is lost — and when discernment is lost, a person is lost.

प्रसादे सर्वदुःखानां हानिरस्योपजायते

buddhiḥ — intellect

In that peace all sorrows are destroyed, for with a tranquil mind the understanding soon settles firmly.

नास्ति बुद्धिरयुक्तस्य न चायुक्तस्य भावना

buddhiḥ — intellect

The unjoined have no understanding and no contemplation; without contemplation there is no peace, and without peace, where is happiness?

ज्यायसी चेत्कर्मणस्ते मता बुद्धिर्जनार्दन

buddhiḥ — intellect

If understanding is better than action, Krishna, why do you urge me into this terrible work?

व्यामिश्रेणेव वाक्येन बुद्धिं मोहयसीव मे

buddhim — intellect

Your words seem to point two ways, and they confuse me. Tell me plainly which one thing will lead me to the good.

न बुद्धिभेदं जनयेदज्ञानां कर्मसङ्गिनाम्

buddhi-bhedam — discord in the intellects

The wise should not unsettle the minds of the unknowing who are attached to their work. Let them instead be encouraged in all they do.

इन्द्रियाणि मनो बुद्धिरस्याधिष्ठानमुच्यते

buddhiḥ — the intellect

The senses, the mind and the understanding are said to be its dwelling place. Through these it deludes the embodied one, clouding knowledge.

इन्द्रियाणि पराण्याहुरिन्द्रियेभ्यः परं मनः

buddhiḥ — intellect

The senses are said to be greater than the body; greater than the senses is the mind; greater than the mind, the understanding; and greater than the understanding is that.

कर्मण्यकर्म यः पश्येदकर्मणि च कर्म यः

buddhi-mān — wise

The one who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is wise among people — joined, and complete in all their work.

स्पर्शान्कृत्वा बहिर्बाह्यांश्चक्षुश्चैवान्तरे भ्रुवोः

buddhiḥ — intellect

Keeping outward contacts outside, the gaze between the brows, the outgoing and incoming breaths made even,

यतेन्द्रियमनोबुद्धिर्मुनिर्मोक्षपरायणः

buddhiḥ — intelligence

senses, mind and understanding restrained, intent on release, free of longing, fear and anger — such a sage is always free.

सुखमात्यन्तिकं यत्तद्बुद्धिग्राह्यमतीन्द्रियम्

buddhi — by intellect

where one knows that limitless happiness, grasped by the understanding and beyond the senses; and standing there, does not stray from what is true —

तत्र तं बुद्धिसंयोगं लभते पौर्वदेहिकम्

buddhi-sanyogam — reawaken their wisdom

There the understanding gained in the former body returns, and from there one strives again for perfection, son of Kuru.

भूमिरापोऽनलो वायुः खं मनो बुद्धिरेव च

buddhiḥ — intellect

Earth, water, fire, air, space, mind, understanding and the sense of self — these are the eight divisions of my lower nature.

बीजं मां सर्वभूतानां विद्धि पार्थ सनातनम्

buddhiḥ — intellect

Know me as the eternal seed of all beings, son of Pritha. I am the understanding of the understanding, the splendour of the splendid.

तस्मात्सर्वेषु कालेषु मामनुस्मर युध्य च

buddhiḥ — intellect

So remember me at all times, and fight. With mind and understanding surrendered to me, you will surely come to me.

बुद्धिर्ज्ञानमसंमोहः क्षमा सत्यं दमः शमः

buddhiḥ — intellect

Understanding, knowledge, clarity, patience, truthfulness, restraint of the senses, calm of mind, pleasure and pain, coming to be and ceasing to be, fear and fearlessness,

तेषां सततयुक्तानां भजतां प्रीतिपूर्वकम्

buddhi-yogam — divine knowledge

To those constantly steady, who worship me with love, I give the understanding by which they come to me.

मय्येव मन आधत्स्व मयि बुद्धिं निवेशय

buddhim — intellect

Fix your mind on me alone; settle your understanding in me. Then you will dwell in me from now on. Of this there is no doubt.

सन्तुष्टः सततं योगी यतात्मा दृढनिश्चयः

buddhiḥ — intellect

content, self-governed, firm in resolve, always joined, with mind and understanding given to me — such a devoted one is dear to me.

महाभूतान्यहङ्कारो बुद्धिरव्यक्तमेव च

buddhiḥ — the intellect

The great elements, the sense of self, the understanding, the unmanifest, the ten senses and the one, and the five fields of the senses;

इति गुह्यतमं शास्त्रमिदमुक्तं मयाऽनघ

buddhvā — understanding

So I have declared this deepest teaching, sinless one. Understanding it, a person becomes awake, and all that they had to do is done.

यस्य नाहंकृतो भावो बुद्धिर्यस्य न लिप्यते

buddhiḥ — intellect

One whose nature is free of the sense of being the doer, whose understanding is unstained, does not kill and is not stained, even in killing.

प्रवृत्तिं च निवृत्तिं च कार्याकार्ये भयाभये

buddhiḥ — intellect

The understanding that knows action and inaction, what should be done and what should not, fear and fearlessness, bondage and release, is of clarity.

यया धर्ममधर्मं च कार्यं चाकार्यमेव च

buddhiḥ — intellect

The understanding by which one wrongly grasps what is right and what is not, and what should be done and what should not, is of restlessness.

अधर्मं धर्ममिति या मन्यते तमसाऽऽवृता

buddhiḥ — intellect

The understanding, wrapped in darkness, that takes what is wrong for what is right, and sees everything the wrong way round, is of inertia.

यत्तदग्रे विषमिव परिणामेऽमृतोपमम्

buddhi — intelligence

That which is like poison at first and like nectar in the end, born of the clarity of self-knowledge, is happiness of clarity.

चेतसा सर्वकर्माणि मयि संन्यस्य मत्परः

buddhi-yogam — having the intellect united with God

Give over every action to me in your thought, take me as the highest, hold to the yoga of understanding, and keep your mind always on me.