Chapter 7 · Verse 29·Spoken by Krishna
जरामरणमोक्षाय मामाश्रित्य यतन्ति ये। ते ब्रह्म तद्विदुः कृत्स्नमध्यात्मं कर्म चाखिलम्
jarā-maraṇa-mokṣhāya mām āśhritya yatanti ye te brahma tadviduḥ kṛitsnam adhyātmaṁ karma chākhilam
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Sanskrit recitation by Swami Brahmānanda
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Those who strive by resorting to Me for becoming free from old age and death, they know Brahman, the individual Self, and all about actions. [They know Brahman as being all the individual entities and all actions. This verse prescribes meditation on the qualified Brahman for aspirants of the middle class. Verses beginning with the 14th speak about the realization of the unqualified Brahman by aspirants of the highest class.]
Swami Gambiranandaafter Śaṅkara's bhāṣya· paired with Śaṅkara
Those who take refuge in Me and strive for deliverance from old age and death, know Brahman (or the Self) and all about the nature of that Self, and the entire Karma (or activities leading to rebirth).
Swami Adidevanandaafter Rāmānuja's bhāṣya· paired with Rāmānuja
Those who, relying on Me, strive to achieve freedom from old age and death, realize all to be the Brahman and realize all the actions governing the Self.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayanafter Madhva's bhāṣya· paired with Madhva
Those who strive for liberation from old age and death, taking refuge in Me, realize in full that Brahman, the whole knowledge of the Self, and all action.
Swami SivanandaThe Bhagavad Gita
Those who make Me their refuge, striving for liberation from decay and death, realize the Supreme Spirit, which is their own real Self, and in which all action finds its consummation.
Shri Purohit SwamiThe Geeta
Those who, for release from old age and death, taking refuge in Me, the supreme Lord, with their minds gathered upon Me, strive and make effort: they know that Brahman, the supreme, entire; they know the whole of what pertains to the Self, the thing whose object is the inmost Self; and they know action in its entirety.
Contemporary English rendering of the Sanskrit bhāṣya, pending scholar review.
This is a brief sub-gloss. For a fuller reading of this verse, see Madhusūdana, Śaṅkara, or Rāmānuja above.
Those who, taking refuge in Me, strive for release from age and death, for the sight of the own-form of the self as set apart from matter, they know that Brahman, and know wholly the adhyatma, and know action entire.
Contemporary English rendering of the Sanskrit bhāṣya, pending scholar review.
'For release from old age and death': this is for the setting-aside of other desires, or for the praise of attachment to release; it is not an injunction. For in the Naradiya there is the praise of the other over the seeker of release, 'than the seeker of release, better still is one who does not seek release and has one-pointed devotion'; and there is 'not the unending'. And in the Bhagavata there is the mark, 'the activity of the gods, who are marked by the gunas and whose works are heard of from scripture, which belongs to one whose mind is fixed on sattva alone; the unmotived devotion to the Lord, which is weightier than mere perfection, which swiftly wears away the sheath as fire wears away what it has swallowed' (Bhagavata 3.25.32-33). And the Gita-kalpa says, 'all the Vedas have the gods for their object, the gods have Narayana for their object, Narayana has release for His object, and release is held to have no further object. Thus for the middling devotees, and for the one-pointed, there is nothing further; their object is the God Narayana, and all else has Him for its object'. And those very ones know Him, as the scripture says, 'whomever He chooses' (Katha Upanishad 2.22; Mundaka Upanishad 3.2.3).
Contemporary English rendering of the Sanskrit bhāṣya, pending scholar review.