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Saptasloki Gita

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Contents

Dedication ................................................................................................................................................... 3

Introduction ................................................................................................................................................ 4

Saptasloki Gita ............................................................................................................................................ 5

Sloka # 1 – Book 8, Verse 13 .................................................................................................................. 5

Sloka # 2 – Book 11, Verse 36 ................................................................................................................ 6

Sloka # 3 – Book 13, Verse 14 ................................................................................................................ 7

Sloka # 4 – Book 8, Verse 9 .................................................................................................................... 8

Sloka # 5 – Book 15, Verse 1 .................................................................................................................. 9

Sloka # 6 – Book 15, Verse 15 .............................................................................................................. 10

Sloka # 7 – Book 18, Verse 65 .............................................................................................................. 11

Further Notes ............................................................................................................................................ 12

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Dedication

I dedicate this write-up to a friend, philosopher and guide who showered the light of Krsna in

my life during some of my darkest days.

jaya sri-krishna-chaitanya

prabhu nityananda

sri-adwaita gadadhara

shrivasadi-gaura-bhakta-vrinda

Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare

Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare

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Introduction

“Advise everyone to follow the instructions of Srimad Bhagavad-Gita as spoken by Lord Krishna. In this

way authorized by Me become a spiritual master and redeem this world.”

~ Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

Gita Jayanti is celebrated as the day when Sri Krsna spoke the Bhagawad Gita to his friend

Arjuna on the battle field of Kurukshetra. It is celebrated on the Ekadasi, 11th day of the waxing

moon of Margashirsha month (November-December) in the Hindu calendar. This year, the

Ekadasi tithi starts on December 11 2013 8 15 PM CST and ends on December 12 9 PM CST.

Bhagawad Gita has 700 verses. Sapta Sloki Gita contains only 7 slokas (verses). These seven

slokas in this order from Bhagawad Gita have been published by Gita press, Gorakpur, in their

collection of stotras called Stotraratnavali. It presents in a nutshell, the teachings contained in

the 700 slokas of Bhagawad Gita. This Saptha Sloki Gita is recited as a daily prayer by Kashmiri

Pundits for hundreds of years.

However, before I write about those verses, I wanted to give few of my personal favorite verse

from Gita.

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Sloka # 1 – Book 8, Verse 13

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Further Notes

“Seven” is an occult number. Saptasloki Gita summarizes the synopsis of Bhagwad Gita at

many levels. Bhagawad Gita is composed of the following 18 chapters (Source – Wikipedia)–

1. Arjuna–Visada yoga (The Distress of Arjuna contains 46 verses): Arjuna has requested

Krishna to move his chariot between the two armies. His growing dejection is described

as he fears losing friends and relatives as a consequence of war.

2. Sankhya yoga (The Book of Doctrines contains 72 verses): After asking Krishna for help,

Arjuna is instructed into various subjects such as, Karma yoga, Gyaana yoga, Sankhya

yoga, Buddhi yoga and the immortal nature of the soul. This chapter is often considered

the summary of the entire Bhagavad Gita.

3. Karma yoga (Virtue in Work contains 43 verses): Krishna explains how performance of

prescribed duties, but without attachment to results, is the appropriate course of action

for Arjuna.

4. Gyaana–Karma-Sanyasa yoga (The Religion of Knowledge contains 42 verses): Krishna

reveals that he has lived through many births, always teaching yoga for the protection of

the pious and the destruction of the impious and stresses the importance of accepting a

guru.

5. Karma–Sanyasa yoga (Religion by Renouncing Fruits of Works contains 29 verses):

Arjuna asks Krishna if it is better to forgo action or to act ("renunciation or discipline of

action"). Krishna answers that both are ways to the same goal, but that acting in Karma

yoga is superior.

6. Dhyan yoga or Atmasanyam yoga (Religion by Self-Restraint contains 47 verses):

Krishna describes the Ashtanga yoga. He further elucidates the difficulties of the mind

and the techniques by which mastery of the mind might be gained.

7. Gyaana–ViGyaana yoga (Religion by Discernment contains 30 verses): Krishna describes

the absolute reality and its illusory energy Maya.

8. Aksara–Brahma yoga (Religion by Devotion to the One Supreme God contains 28

verses): This chapter contains eschatology of the Bhagavad Gita. Importance of the last

thought before death, differences between material and spiritual worlds, and light and

dark paths that a soul takes after death are described.

9. Raja–Vidya–Raja–Guhya yoga (Religion by the Kingly Knowledge and the Kingly

Mystery contains 34 verses): Krishna explains how His eternal energy pervades, creates,

preserves, and destroys the entire universe.

10. Vibhuti–Vistara–yoga (Religion by the Heavenly Perfections contains 42 verses): Krishna

is described as the ultimate cause of all material and spiritual existence. Arjuna accepts

Krishna as the Supreme Being, quoting great sages who have also done so.

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11. Visvarupa–Darsana yoga (The Manifesting of the One and Manifold contains 55 verses):

On Arjuna's request, Krishna displays his "universal form" (Viśvarūpa), a theophany of

a being facing every way and emitting the radiance of a thousand suns, containing all

other beings and material in existence.

12. Bhakti yoga (The Religion of Faith contains 20 verses): In this chapter Krishna glorifies

the path of devotion to God. Krishna describes the process of devotional service (Bhakti

yoga). He also explains different forms of spiritual disciplines.

13. Ksetra–Ksetrajna Vibhaga yoga (Religion by Separation of Matter and Spirit contains 35

verses): The difference between transient perishable physical body and the immutable

eternal soul is described. The difference between individual consciousness and universal

consciousness is also made clear.

14. Gunatraya–Vibhaga yoga (Religion by Separation from the Qualities contains 27 verses):

Krishna explains the three modes (gunas) of material nature pertaining to goodness,

passion, and nescience. Their causes, characteristics, and influence on a living entity are

also described.

15. Purusottama yoga (Religion by Attaining the Supreme contains 20 verses): Krishna

identifies the transcendental characteristics of God such as, omnipotence, omniscience,

and omnipresence. Krishna also describes a symbolic tree (representing material

existence), which has its roots in the heavens and its foliage on earth. Krishna explains

that this tree should be felled with the "axe of detachment", after which one can go

beyond to his supreme abode.

16. Daivasura–Sampad–Vibhaga yoga (The Separateness of the Divine and Undivine

contains 24 verses): Krishna identifies the human traits of the divine and the demonic

natures. He counsels that to attain the supreme destination one must give up lust, anger,

greed, and discern between right and wrong action by discernment through Buddhi and

evidence from the scriptures.

17. Sraddhatraya-Vibhaga yoga (Religion by the Threefold Kinds of Faith contains 28

verses): Krishna qualifies the three divisions of faith, thoughts, deeds, and even eating

habits corresponding to the three modes (gunas).

18. Moksha–Sanyasa yoga (Religion by Deliverance and Renunciation contains 78 verses):

In this chapter, the conclusions of previous seventeen chapters are summed up. Krishna

asks Arjuna to abandon all forms of dharma and simply surrender unto him and

describes this as the ultimate perfection of life.

Saptasloki Gita contains the following verses from the Books 8 (Aksara–Brahma yoga, 2 verses),

11 (Visvarupa–Darsana yoga, 1 verse), 13 (Ksetra–Ksetrajna Vibhaga yoga, 1 verse), 15

(Purusottama yoga, 2 verses), 18 (Moksha–Sanyasa yoga, 1 verse)

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The translation of these verses is provided below, as per His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta

Swami Prabhupada (Source - http://www.asitis.com/ )–

• After being situated in this yoga practice and vibrating the sacred syllable om, the

supreme combination of letters, if one thinks of the Supreme Personality of Godhead

and quits his body, he will certainly reach the spiritual planets.

• Hrsikesa, the world becomes joyful upon hearing Your name, and thus everyone

becomes attached to You. Although the perfected beings offer You their respectful

homage, the demons are afraid, and they flee here and there. All this is rightly done.

• Everywhere are His hands and legs, His eyes and faces, and He hears everything. In this

way the Supersoul exists.

• One should meditate upon the Supreme Person as the one who knows everything, as He

who is the oldest, who is the controller, who is smaller than the smallest, who is the

maintainer of everything, who is beyond all material conception, who is inconceivable,

and who is always a person. He is luminous like the sun and, being transcendental, is

beyond this material nature.

• The Blessed Lord said: There is a banyan tree which has its roots upward and its

branches down and whose leaves are the Vedic hymns. One who knows this tree is the

knower of the Vedas.

• I am seated in everyone's heart, and from Me come remembrance, knowledge and

forgetfulness. By all the Vedas I am to be known; indeed I am the compiler of Vedanta,

and I am the knower of the Vedas.

• Always think of Me and become My devotee. Worship Me and offer your homage unto

Me. Thus you will come to Me without fail. I promise you this because you are My very

dear friend.

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