gatim

यामिमां पुष्पितां वाचं प्रवदन्त्यविपश्चितः

gatim — progress

Those of small understanding speak flowery words, delighting in the letter of the scriptures, and say there is nothing more —

कामात्मानः स्वर्गपरा जन्मकर्मफलप्रदाम्

gatim — progress

driven by desire, aiming at higher worlds, promising good birth as the fruit of action, full of elaborate rites for enjoyment and power.

कर्मणो ह्यपि बोद्धव्यं बोद्धव्यं च विकर्मणः

gatiḥ — the true path

One must understand action, and also what should not be done, and also inaction. The way of action is deep.

अयतिः श्रद्धयोपेतो योगाच्चलितमानसः

gatim — destination

One who has faith but is slack, whose mind wanders from yoga, and who fails to reach its perfection — where does such a person go, Krishna?

प्रयत्नाद्यतमानस्तु योगी संशुद्धकिल्बिषः

gatim — path

Striving with effort, purified of fault, perfected across many births, the practitioner then reaches the highest goal.

उदाराः सर्व एवैते ज्ञानी त्वात्मैव मे मतम्

gatim — goal

All of them are worthy, but the one who knows is my very self, as I see it. Steady, that person has taken me as the highest goal.

ओमित्येकाक्षरं ब्रह्म व्याहरन्मामनुस्मरन्

gatim — goal

uttering the single syllable Om — Brahman — and remembering me, one who departs on leaving the body goes to the highest.

अव्यक्तोऽक्षर इत्युक्तस्तमाहुः परमां गतिम्

gatim — destination

That unmanifest and imperishable is called the highest destination. Having reached it, one does not return. It is my own abode.

गतिर्भर्ता प्रभुः साक्षी निवासः शरणं सुहृत्

gatiḥ — the supreme goal

I am the goal, the upholder, the lord, the witness, the dwelling, the refuge, the friend; the origin, the dissolution, the ground, the resting place, and the imperishable seed.

मां हि पार्थ व्यपाश्रित्य येऽपि स्युः पापयोनयः

gatim — destination

For all who take refuge in me, son of Pritha — however low their birth, women, merchants, labourers — reach the highest goal.

क्लेशोऽधिकतरस्तेषामव्यक्तासक्तचेतसाम्

gatiḥ — path

The trouble is greater for those whose minds are set on the unmanifest, for the unmanifest is hard to reach.

समं पश्यन्हि सर्वत्र समवस्थितमीश्वरम्

gatim — destination

For seeing the lord present equally everywhere, one does not harm oneself by oneself, and so reaches the highest.

असुरीं योनिमापन्ना मूढा जन्मनि जन्मनि

gatim — destination

Falling into such wombs, the deluded do not reach me, birth after birth, Arjuna, and go down to the lowest state.

एतैर्विमुक्तः कौन्तेय तमोद्वारैस्त्रिभिर्नरः

gatim — goal

A person freed from these three gates of darkness, son of Kunti, does what is good for the self, and so goes to the highest.

यः शास्त्रविधिमुत्सृज्य वर्तते कामकारतः

gatim — goal

One who casts aside what the scriptures direct and acts on the impulse of desire reaches neither perfection nor happiness nor the highest goal.