SANJAYA:-

1. THEN AROSE THE SPIRIT OF KRISHNA AND

SPOKE TO ARJUNA, HIS FRIEND, WHO WITH EYES
FILLED WITH TEARS, THUS HAD SUNK, INTO
DESPAIR AND GRIEF.
KRISHNA:-
2. WHENCE THIS LIFELESS DEJECTION, ARJUNA, IN
THIS HOUR, THE HOUR OF A TRIAL? STRONG
MEN KNOW NOT DESPAIR, ARJUNA, FOR THIS
WINS NEITHER HEAVEN NOR EARTH.
3. FALL NOT INTO DEGRADING WEAKNESS, FOR
THIS BECOMES NOT A MAN WHO IS A MAN.
THROW OFF THIS IGNOBLE DISCOURAGEMENT,
AND ARISE LIKE FIRE THAT BURNS ALL BEFORE
IT.
ARJUNA:-
4. I OWE VENERATION TO BHISHMA AND DRONA.
SHALL I KILL WITH MY ARROWS MY
GRANDFATHER’S BROTHER, GREAT BHISHMA?
SHALL MY ARROWS IN BATTLE SLAY DRONA, MY
TEACHER?
5. SHALL I KILL MY OWN MASTERS WHO, THOUGH
GREEDY OF MY KINGDOM, ARE YET MY SACRED
TEACHERS? I WOULD RATHER EAT IN THIS LIFE
THE FOOD OF A BEGGAR THAN EAT ROYAL FOOD
TASTING OF THEIR BLOOD.
6. AND WE KNOW NOT WHEATHER THEIR VICTORY
OR OURS BE BETTER FOR US. THE SONS OF MY
UNCLE AND KING DHRIYA-RASHTRA, ARE HERE
BEFORE US: AFTER THEIR DEATH, SHOULD WE
TO LIVE?
7. IN THE DARK NIGHT OF MY SOUL I FEEL
DESOLATION. IN MY SELFPITY I SEE NOT THE
WAY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. I AM THY DISCIPLE,
COME TO THEE IN SUPLICATION: BE A LIGHT
UNTO ME ON THE PATH OF MY DUTY.
8. FOR NEITHER THE KINGDOM OF THE EARTH, NOR
THE KINGDOM OF THE GODS IN HEAVEN, COULD
GIVE ME PEACE FROM THE FIRE OF SORROW
WHICH THUS BURNS MY LIFE.
SANJAY:-
9. WHEN ARJUNA THE GREAT WARRIOR HAD THUS
UNBURDENED HIS HEART, ‘I WILL NOT FIGHT,
KRISHNA,’ HE SAID AND THEN FELL SILENT.
10.KRISHNA SMILED AND SPOKE TO ARJUNA- THERE
BETWEEN THE TWO ARMIES THE VOICE OF GOD
SPOKE THESE WORDS:
:- KRISHNA:-
11.THY TEARS ARE FOR THOSE BEYOND TEARS;
AND ARE THY WORDS, WORDS OF WISDOM? THE
WISE GRIEVE NOT FOR THOSE WHO LIVE; AND
THEY GRIEVE NOT FOR THOSE WHO DIE—FOR
LIFE AND DEATH SHALL PASS AWAY.
12.BECAUSE WE ALL HAVE BEEN FOR ALL TIME: I
AND THOU, AND THOSE KINGS OF MEN. AND WE
 ALL SHALL BE FOR ALL TIME, WE ALL FOR EVER
AND EVER.
13.AS THE SPIRIT OF OUR MORTAL BODY WANDERS
ON IN CHILDHOOD, AND YOUTH AND OLD AGE,
THE SPIRIT WANDERS ON TO A NEW BODY: OF
THIS THE SAGE HAS NO DOUBTS.
14.FROM THE WORLD OF SENSES, ARJUNA, COMES
HEAT AND COMES COLD, AND PLEASURE AND
PAIN. THEY COME AND THEY GO: THEY ARE
TRANSIENT. ARISE ABOVE THEM, STRONG SOUL.
15.THE MAN WHOM THESE CAN NOT MOVE,
WHOSE SOUL IS ONE, BEYOND PLEASURE AND
PAIN, IS WORTHY OF LIFE IN ETERNITY.
16.THE UNREAL NEVER IS, THE REAL NEVER IS
NOT. THIS TRUTH INDEED HAS BEEN SEEN BY
THOSE WHO CAN SEE THR TRUE.
17.INTERWOVEN IN HIS CREATION, THE SPIRIT IS
BEYOND DESTRUCTION. NO ONE CAN BRING TO
AN END THE SPIRIT WHICH IS EVERLASTING.
18.FOR BEYOND TIME HE DWELLS IN THESE
BODIES, THOUGH THESE BODIES HAVE AN END
IN THEIR TIME; BUT HE REMAINS
IMMEASURABLE, IMMORTAL. THEREFORE, GREAT
WARRIOR, CARRY ON THY FIGHT.
19.IF ANY MAN THINKS HE SLAYS, IF ANOTHER
SLAIN, NEITHER KNOWS THE WAYS OF TRUTH.
THE ETERNAL IN MAN CAN NOT KILL: THE
ETERNAL IN MAN CAN NOT DIE.
20.HE IS NEVER BORN, AND HE NEVER DIES. HE IS
ETERNITY: HE IS FOR EVERMORE. NEVER-BORN
AND ETERNAL, BEYOND TIMES GONE OR TO
COME, HA DOES NOT DIE WHEN THE BODY DIES.
21.WHEN A MAN KNOWS HIM AS NEVER-BORN,
EVERLASTING, NEVER-CHANGING, BEYOND ALL
 DESTRUCTION, HOW CAN THAT MAN KILL A MAN,
OR CAUSE ANOTHER TO KILL?
22.AS A MAN LESVES OLD GARMENT AND PUTS ON
ONE THAT IS NEW, THE SPIRIT LEAVES HIS
MORTAL BODY AND WANDERS ON TO ONE THAT
IS NEW.
23.WEAPONS CAN NOT HURT THE SPIRIT AND FIRE
CAN NEVER BURN HIM. UNTOUCHED IS HE BY
DRENCHING WATERS, UNTOUCHED IS HE BY
PARCHING WINDS.
24.BEYOND THE POWER OF SWORD AND FIRE,
BEYOND THE POWER OF WATERS AND WINDS,
THE SPIRIT IS EVERLASTING, OMNIPRESENT,
NEVER-CHANGING, NEVER-MOVING, EVER ONE.
25.INVISIBLE IS HE TO MORTAL EYES, BEYOND
THOUGHT AND BEYOND CHANGE. KNOW THAT
HE IS, AND CEASE FROM SORROW.
26.BUT IF HE WERE BORN AGAIN AND AGAIN, AND
AGAIN AND AGAIN HE WERE TO DIE, EVEN THEN,
VICTORIOUIS MAN, CEASE THOU FROM SORROW.
27.FOR ALL THINGS BORN IN TRUTH MUST DIE,
AND OUT OF DEATH IN TRUTH COMES LIFE. FACE
TO FACE WITH WHAT MUST BE, CEASE THOU
FROM SORROW.
28. INVISIBLE BEFORE BIRTH ARE ALL BEINGS AND
AFTER DEATH INVISIBLE AGAIN. THEY ARE SEEN
BETWEEN TWO UNSEEN. WHY IN THIS TRUTH
FIND SORROW?
29.ONE SEES HIM IN A VISION OF WONDER, AND
ANOTHER GIVES US WORDS OF HIS WONDER.
THERE IS ONE WHO HEARS OF HIS WONDER;
BUT HE HEARS AND KNOWS HIM NOT.
30.THE SPIRIT THAT IS IN ALL BEINGS IS IMMORTAL
IN THEM ALL FOR THE DEATH OF WHAT CAN NOT
DIE, CEASE THOU TO SORROW.
31.THINK THEN ALSO OF THY DUTY AND DO NOT
WAVER. THERE IS NO GREATER GOOD FOR A
WARRIOR THAN TO FIGHT IN RIGHTEOUS WAR.
32.THERE IS A WAR THAT OPENS THE DOOR OF
HEAVEN, ARJUNA! HAPPY THE WARRIORS WHOSE
FATE IS TO FIGHT SUCH WAR.
33. BUT TO FORGO THIS FIGHT FOR
RIGHTEOUSNESS IS TO FORGO THY DUTY AND
HONOUR: IS TO FALL INTO TRANSGRESSION.
34.MEN WILL TELL OF THY DISHONOUR BOTH NOW
AND IN TIMES TO COME. AND TO A MAN WHO IS
IN HONOUR, DISHONOUR IS MORE THAN DEATH.
35.THE GREAT WARRIORS WILL SAY THAT THOU
HAST RUN FROM THE BATTLE THROUGH FEAR;
AND THOSE WHO THOUGHT GREAT THINGS OF
THEE WILL SPEAK OF THEE OF SCORN.
36.AND THINE ENEMIES WILL SPEAK OF THEE IN
CONTEMPTUOUS WORDS OF ILL-WILL AND
DERISION, POURING SCORN UPON THY
COURAGE. CAN THERE BE FOR A WARRIOR A
MORE SHAMEFUL FATE?
37.IN DEATH THY GLORY IN HEAVEN, IN VICTORY
THY GLORY ON EARTH. ARISE THEREFORE,
ARJUNA, WITH THY SOUL READY TO FIGHT.
38.PREPARE FOR WAR WITH PEACE IN THY SOUL.
BE IN PEACE IN PLEASURE AND PAIN, IN GAIN
AND IN LOSS, IN VICTORY OR IN THE LOSS OF
BATTLE. IN THIS PEACE THERE IS NO SIN.
39.THIS IS THE WISDOM OF SANKHYA—THE VISION
OF THE ETERNAL. HEAR NOW THE WISDOM OF
 YOGA, PATH OF THE ETERNAL AND FREEDOM
FROM BONDAGE.
40.NO STEP IS LOST ON THIS PATH, AND NO
DANGERS ARE FOUND. AND EVEN A LITTLE
PROGRESS IS FREEDOM FROM FEAR.
41.THE FOLLOWERS OF THIS PATH HAS THOUGHT,
AND THIS IS THE END OF HIS DETERMINATION.
BUT MANY-BRANCHED AND END-LESS ARE THE
THOUGHTS OF THE MAN WHO LACKS
DETERMINATION.
42.THERE ARE MEN WHO HAVE NO VISION, AND
YET THEY SPEAK MANY WORDS. THEY FOLLOW
THE LETTER OF THE VEDAS, AND THEY SAY;
‘THERE IS NOTHING BUT THIS.’
43.THEIR SOUL ARE WARPED WITH SELFISH
DESIRE, AND THEIR HEAVEN IS A DESIRE. THAY
HAVE PRAYERS FOR PLEASURES AND POWER,
THE REWARD OF WHICH IS EARTHLY REBIRTH.
44.THOSE WHO LOVE PLEASURE AND POWER
HEAR AND FOLLW THEIR WORDS: THEY HAVE
DETERMINATION EVER TO BE ONE WITH THE
ONE.
45.THE THREE GUNAS OF NATURE ARE THE
WORLD OF THE VEDAS. ARISE BEYOND THE
THREE GUNAS, ARJUNA! BE IN TRUTH ETERNAL,
BEYOND EARTHLY OPPOSITES. BEYOND GAINS
AND POSSESSIONS, POSSESS THINE OWN SOUL.
46.AS IS THE USE OF A WELL OF WATER WHERE
WATER EVERYWHERE OVERFLOWS, SUCH IS THE
USE OF ALL THE VEDAS TO THE SEER OF THE
SUPREME.
47.SET THY HEART UPON THY WORK, BUT NEVER
ON ITS REWARD. WORK NOT FOR A REWARD;
BUT NEVER CEASE TO DO THY WORK.
48.DO THY WORK IN THE PEACE OF YOGA AND,
FREE FROM SELFISH DESIRES, BE NOT MOVED IN
SUCCESS OR IN FAILURE. YOGA IS EVENNESS OF
MIND—A PEACE THAT IS EVER THE SAME.
49.FOR WORK DONE FOR A REWARD IS MUCH
LOWER THAN WORK DONE IN THE YOGA OF
WISDOM. SEEK SALVATION IN THE WISDOM OF
REASON. HOW POOR THOSE WHO WORK FOR A
REWARD!
50.IN THIS WISDOM A MAN GOES BEYOND WHAT IS
WELL DONE AND WHAT IS NOT WELL DONE. GO
THOU THEREFORE TO WISDOM: YOGA IS
WISDOM IN WORK.
51.SEERS IN UNION WITH WISDOM FORSAKE THE
REWARDS OF THEIR WORK, AND FREE FROM THE
BONDS OF BIRTH THEY GO TO THE ABODE OF
SALVATION.
52.WHEN THEY MIND LEAVES BEHIND ITS DARK
FOREST OF DELUSION, THOU SHALT GO BEYOND
THE SCRIPTURES OF TIMES PAST AND STILL TO
COME.
53.WHEN THY MIND, THAT MAY BE WAVERING IN
THE CONTRADICTIONS OF MANY SCRIPTURES,
SHALL REST UNSHAKEN IN DIVINE
CONTEMPLATION, THEN THE GOAL OF YOGA IS
THINE.
ARJUNA:--

54.HOW IS THE MAN OF TRANQUIL WISDOM, WHO

ABIDES IN DIVINE CONTEMPLATION? WHAT ARE
HIS WORDS? WHAT IS HIS SILENCE? WHAT IS HIS
WORK?
KRISHNA:--
55.WHEN A MAN SURRENDERS ALL DESIRES THAT
COME TO THE HEART AND BY THE GRACE OF
GOD FINDS THE JOY OF GOD, THEN HIS SOUL
HAS INDEED FOUND PEACE.
56.HE WHOSE MIND IS UNTROUBLED BY SORROWS,
AND FOR PLEASURES HE HAS NO LONGINGS,
BEYOND PASSION, AND FEAR AND ANGER, HE IS
THE SAGE OF UNWAVERING MIND.
57.WHO EVERYWHERE IS FREE FROM ALL TIES,
WHO NEITHER REJOICES NOR SORROWS IF
FORTUNE IS GOOD OR IS ILL, HIS IS A SERENE
WISDOM.
58.WHEN IN RECOLLECTION HE WITHDRAWS ALL
HIS SENSES FROM THE ATTRACTIONS OF THE
PLEASURES OF SENSE, EVEN AS A TORTIOSE
WITHDRAWS ALL ITS LIMBS, THEN HIS IS A
SEREN WISDOM.
59.PLEASURES OF SENSE, BUT NOT DESIRES,
DISAPPEAR FROM THE AUSTERE SOUL. EVEN
DESIRES DISAPPEAR WHEN THE SOUL HAS SEEN
THE SUPREME.
60.THE RESTLESS VIOLENCE OF THE SENSES
IMPETUOUSLY CARRIES AWAY THE MIND OF EVEN
A WISE MAN STRIVING TOWARDS PERFECTION.
61.BRINGING THEM INTO THE HARMONY OF
RECOLLECTION, LET HIM SIT IN DEVOTION AND
UNION, HIS SOUL FINDING REST IN ME. FOR
WHEN HIS SENSES ARE IN HARMONY, THEN HIS
IS A SEREN WISDOM.
62.WHEN A MAN DWELLS ON THE PLEASURES OF
SENSE, ATTRACTION FOR THEM ARISES IN HIM.
FROM ATTRACTIN ARISES DESIRE, THE LAST OF
POSSESSION, AND THIS LEADS TO PASSION, TO
ANGER.
63.FROM PASSION COMES CONFUSION OF MIND,
THEN LOSS OF REMEMBRANCE, THE
FORGETTING OF DUTY. FROM THIS LOSS COMES
THE RUIN OF REASON AND THE RUIN OF
REASON LEADS MAN TO DESTRUCTIN.
64.BUT THE SOUL THAT MOVES IN THE WORLD OF
SENSES AND YET KEEPS THE SENSES IN
HARMONY, FREE FROM ATTRACTION AND
AVERSION, FINDS REST IN QUIETNESS.
65.IN THIS QUIETNESS FALLS DOWN THE BURDEN
OF ALL HER SORROWS, FOR WHEN THE HEART
HAS FOUND QUIETNESS, WISDOM HAS ALSO
FOUND PEACE.
66.THERE IS NO WISDOM FOR A MAN WITHOUT
HARMONY, AND WITHOUT HARMONY THERE IS
NO CONTEMPLATION, WITHOUT CONTEMPLATION
THERE CAN NOT BE PEACE, AND WITHOUT
PEACE CAN THERE BE JOY?
67.FOR WHEN THE MIND BECOMES BOUND TO A
PASSION OF THE WANDERING SENSES, THIS
PASSION CARRIES AWAY MAN’S WISDOM, EVEN
AS THE WIND DRIVES A VESSEL ON THE WAVES.
68.THE MAN WHO THEREFORE IN RECOLLECTION
WITHDRAWS HIS SENSES FROM PLEASURES OF
SENSE, HIS IS A ASEREN WISDOM.
69.IN THE DARK NIGHT OF ALL BEINGS AWAKES TO
LIGHT THE TRANQUIL MAN. BUT WHAT IS DAY TO
OTHER BEINGS IS NIGHT FOR THE SAGE WHO
SEES.
70.EVEN AS ALL WATERS FLOW INTO THE OCEAN,
BUT THE OCEAN NEVER OVERFLOWS, EVEN SO
THE SAGE FEELS DESIRES, BUT HE IS EVER ONE
IN HIS INFINITR PEACE.
71.FOR THE MAN WHO FORSAKES ALL DESIRES
AND ABANDONS ALL PRIDE OF POSSESSION AND
OF SELF REACHES OF THE GOAL OF PEACE
SUPREME.
72.THIS IS THE ETERNAL IN MAN, O ARJUNA,
REACHING HIM ALL DELUSION IS GONE. EVEN IN
THE LAST HOUR OF HIS LIFE UPON EARTH, MAN
CAN REACH THE NIRVANA OF BRAHMAN—MAN
CAN FIND PEACE IN THE PEACE OF HIS GOD.
END OF PART TWO.