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V.412.312.5

Chapter 12 · 20 verses

Chapter 12 · Verse 4·Spoken by Krishna

संनियम्येन्द्रियग्रामं सर्वत्र समबुद्धयः।ते प्राप्नुवन्ति मामेव सर्वभूतहिते रताः

sanniyamyendriya-grāmaṁ sarvatra sama-buddhayaḥ te prāpnuvanti mām eva sarva-bhūta-hite ratāḥ

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Sanskrit recitation by Swami Brahmānanda

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indriya-grāmamall the sensessarvatraeverywheresama-buddayaḥequally disposedprāpnuvantiachievemāmunto Meevacertainlysarva-bhūtahiteall living entities' welfareratāḥengaged.

Reading set · 5 translations · 3 commentaries

Translation · 5 voices

By fully controlling all the organs and remaining even-minded at all times, they, engaged in the welfare of all beings, attain Me alone.

Swami Gambiranandaafter Śaṅkara's bhāṣya· paired with Śaṅkara

Having subdued all the senses, being even-minded, and engaged in the welfare of all beings, they too come to Me only.

Swami Adidevanandaafter Rāmānuja's bhāṣya· paired with Rāmānuja

Who, by properly restraining the group of sense-organs, remain equanimous at all stages and find pleasure in the welfare of all beings—they attain nothing but Me.

Dr. S. Sankaranarayanafter Madhva's bhāṣya· paired with Madhva

Having restrained all the senses, being even-minded everywhere, and intent on the welfare of all beings, they verily come unto Me.

Swami SivanandaThe Bhagavad Gita

Subduing their senses, viewing all conditions of life with an equal eye, and working for the welfare of all beings, they assuredly come to Me.

Shri Purohit SwamiThe Geeta

ŚaṅkarācāryaGītā-bhāṣya
Advaita Vedānta· Classical
Machine translation · draft

Having well restrained, drawn in, the host of senses, and being everywhere, at all times, of even mind, of an understanding equal, alike, in the gaining of the wished-for and the unwished-for: those who are of this kind reach Me alone, given to the welfare of all beings. Nothing need be said of them, that they reach Me; for it has been said 'the knower is My very Self, that is My view' (Gītā 7.18). Of those who are of the very nature of the Blessed Lord nothing is to be said, that they are the most yoked or not the most yoked. But.

Contemporary English rendering of the Sanskrit bhāṣya, pending scholar review.

RāmānujācāryaGītā-bhāṣya
Viśiṣṭādvaita· Classical
Machine translation · draft

This is a brief sub-gloss. For a fuller reading of this verse, see Madhusūdana, Śaṅkara, or Rāmānuja above.

Ramanuja's commentary treats verses 12.3 through 12.4 as a single passage; it is given in full at verse 12.3.

Contemporary English rendering of the Sanskrit bhāṣya, pending scholar review.

MadhvācāryaGītā-bhāṣya
Dvaita· Classical
Machine translation · draft

This is a brief sub-gloss. For a fuller reading of this verse, see Madhusūdana, Śaṅkara, or Rāmānuja above.

Madhva's commentary treats verses 12.3 through 12.4 as a single passage; it is given in full at verse 12.3.

Contemporary English rendering of the Sanskrit bhāṣya, pending scholar review.