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karpanya-dosopahata-svabhavah prcchami tvam dharma-sammudha-cetah yac chreyah syan niscitam bruhi tan me shishyas te ’ham sadhi mam tvam prapannam Translation of Bhagavad Gita 2.7 Now I am confused about my duty and have lost...

na hi prapaśyāmi mamāpanudyād yac chokam ucchoṣaṇam indriyāṇām avāpya bhūmāv asapatnam ṛddhaḿ rājyaḿ surāṇām api cādhipatyam Translation of Bhagavad Gita 2.8 I can find no means to drive away this grief which is drying up...

sañjaya uvāca evam uktvā hṛṣīkeśaḿ guḍākeśaḥ parantapaḥ na yotsya iti govindam uktvā tūṣṇīḿ babhūva ha Translation of Bhagavad Gita 2.9 Sanjaya said: Having spoken thus, Arjuna, chastiser of enemies, told Krishna,...

tam uvāca hṛṣīkeśaḥ prahasann iva bhārata senayor ubhayor madhye viṣīdantam idaḿ vacaḥ Translation of Bhagavad Gita 2.10 O descendant of Bharata, at that time Krishna, smiling, in the midst of both the armies, spoke the...

śrī-bhagavān uvāca aśocyān anvaśocas tvaḿ prajñā-vādāḿś ca bhāṣase gatāsūn agatāsūḿś ca nānuśocanti paṇḍitāḥ Translation of Bhagavad Gita 2.11 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: While speaking learned words, you are...

na tv evāhaḿ jātu nāsaḿ na tvaḿ neme janādhipāḥ na caiva na bhaviṣyāmaḥ sarve vayam ataḥ param Translation of Bhagavad Gita 2.12 Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future...

dehino ‘smin yathā dehe kaumāraḿ yauvanaḿ jarā tathā dehāntara-prāptir dhīras tatra na muhyati Translation of Bhagavad Gita 2.13 As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age,...

mātrā-sparśās tu kaunteya śītoṣṇa-sukha-duḥkha-dāḥ āgamāpāyino ‘nityās tāḿs titikṣasva bhārata Translation of Bhagavad Gita 2.14 O son of Kunti, the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their...

yam hi na vyathayanty ete purusham purusharsabha sama-duhkha-sukham dhiram so ’mrtatvaya kalpate  Translation of Bhagavad Gita 2.15 O best among men [Arjuna], the person who is not disturbed by happiness and distress and is...

nāsato vidyate bhāvo nābhāvo vidyate sataḥ ubhayor api dṛṣṭo ‘ntas tv anayos tattva-darśibhiḥ Translation of Bhagavad Gita 2.16 Those who are seers of the truth have concluded that of the nonexistent [the material...