param

क्लैब्यं मा स्म गमः पार्थ नैतत्त्वय्युपपद्यते

param-tapa — conqueror of enemies

Do not give in to this unmanliness, son of Pritha. It does not suit you. Shake off this small weakness of heart and stand up.

न त्वेवाहं जातु नासं न त्वं नेमे जनाधिपाः

param — after

There was never a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor these kings; and there will never be a time when any of us cease to be.

विषया विनिवर्तन्ते निराहारस्य देहिनः

param — the Supreme

For the one who merely abstains, the objects fall away but the taste for them remains. Even that taste goes when the highest is seen.

देवान्भावयतानेन ते देवा भावयन्तु वः

parasparam — one another

Sustain the gods by this, and let the gods sustain you. Sustaining one another, you will reach the highest good.

तस्मादसक्तः सततं कार्यं कर्म समाचर

param — the Supreme

So do the work that falls to you, always, without attachment. Acting unattached, a person reaches the highest.

श्रेयान्स्वधर्मो विगुणः परधर्मात्स्वनुष्ठितात्

para-dharmāt — than another’s prescribed duties

Better your own work done imperfectly than another's done well. Better to die in your own work than to live in someone else's.

इन्द्रियाणि पराण्याहुरिन्द्रियेभ्यः परं मनः

parāṇi — superior

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.

एवं बुद्धेः परं बुद्ध्वा संस्तभ्यात्मानमात्मना

param — superior

Knowing that which is beyond the understanding, steadying the lower self by the higher, strike down this enemy, mighty-armed one — desire, so hard to master.

अपरं भवतो जन्म परं जन्म विवस्वतः

param — prior

Your birth was later; Vivasvan's was earlier. How am I to understand that you taught it in the beginning?

ज्ञानेन तु तदज्ञानं येषां नाशितमात्मनः

param — Supreme Entity

But for those in whom that ignorance of the self has been destroyed by knowledge, knowledge lights up the highest as the sun lights up everything.

मत्तः परतरं नान्यत्किञ्चिदस्ति धनञ्जय

para-taram — superior

There is nothing higher than me, Arjuna. All this is strung on me like pearls on a thread.

त्रिभिर्गुणमयैर्भावैरेभिः सर्वमिदं जगत्

param — the supreme

Deluded by these three states made of the strands, the whole world does not know me, who am above them and unchanging.

अव्यक्तं व्यक्ितमापन्नं मन्यन्ते मामबुद्धयः

param — Supreme

The unthinking suppose that I, the unmanifest, have taken on a form — not knowing my higher nature, which does not change.

वेदेषु यज्ञेषु तपःसु चैव दानेषु यत्पुण्यफलं प्रदिष्टम्

param — Supreme

Whatever merit is promised by the study of the Vedas, by offerings, by austerities and by giving — one who practises knows all of it, and goes beyond, to the first and highest place.

अवजानन्ति मां मूढा मानुषीं तनुमाश्रितम्

param — divine

The dim-witted disregard me, having taken on a human form — not knowing my higher nature, the great lord of beings.

परं ब्रह्म परं धाम पवित्रं परमं भवान्

param — Supreme

You are the supreme Brahman, the supreme abode, the highest purifier; the eternal divine person, the first of gods, unborn, all-pervading.

त्वमक्षरं परमं वेदितव्यं त्वमस्य विश्वस्य परं निधानम्

paramam — the supreme being

You are the imperishable, the highest to be known. You are the ultimate resting place of this world; you are the undying guardian of what is right; you are, I believe, the everlasting person.

कस्माच्च ते न नमेरन्महात्मन् गरीयसे ब्रह्मणोऽप्यादिकर्त्रे

param — beyond

And why should they not bow to you, great one, greater than Brahma, the first maker? Endless lord, god of gods, refuge of the world — you are the imperishable, what is and what is not, and what is beyond both.

त्वमादिदेवः पुरुषः पुराण स्त्वमस्य विश्वस्य परं निधानम्

param — Supreme

You are the first of gods, the ancient person, the ultimate resting place of this world; the knower and the known, and the highest dwelling. By you this world is pervaded, you of endless form.

मया प्रसन्नेन तवार्जुनेदं रूपं परं दर्शितमात्मयोगात्

param — divine

Out of grace toward you, Arjuna, I have shown you by my own power this highest form — radiant, universal, endless, primal — which no one before you has seen.

ज्योतिषामपि तज्ज्योतिस्तमसः परमुच्यते

param — beyond

The light of lights, said to be beyond the dark; it is knowledge, what is to be known, and what knowledge reaches — seated in the heart of all.

क्षेत्रक्षेत्रज्ञयोरेवमन्तरं ज्ञानचक्षुषा

param — the Supreme

Those who see with the eye of knowledge the difference between the field and its knower, and the freeing of beings from nature, reach the highest.

परं भूयः प्रवक्ष्यामि ज्ञानानां ज्ञानमुत्तमम्

param — supreme

I will declare again the highest knowledge, best of all knowledge, by knowing which those who practise have reached perfection.

नान्यं गुणेभ्यः कर्तारं यदा द्रष्टानुपश्यति

param — transcendental

When one who sees perceives no doer other than the strands, and knows what is beyond them, that one reaches my own state.

मूढग्राहेणात्मनो यत्पीडया क्रियते तपः

parasya — of others

Austerity performed out of confused notions, with self-torture, or in order to ruin another, is said to be of inertia.

श्रेयान्स्वधर्मो विगुणः परधर्मात्स्वनुष्ठितात्

para-dharmāt — than another’s dharma

Better your own work done imperfectly than another's done well. One who does the work born of their own nature takes on no fault.

व्यासप्रसादाच्छ्रुतवानेतद्गुह्यमहं परम्

param — supreme

By the grace of Vyasa I have heard this highest secret, this yoga, spoken by Krishna himself, the master of yoga, in person.