| Arjuna. Who is that BRAHMA?
What that Soul of Souls, The ADHYATMAN? What, Thou Best of
All! Thy work, the KARMA? Tell me what it is Thou namest ADHIBHUTA? What again
Means ADHIDAIVA? Yea, and how it comes Thou canst be ADHIYAJNA
in thy flesh? Slayer of Madhu! Further, make me know How good men find thee in the hour of death?
Krishna. I BRAHMA am! the One Eternal GOD, And ADHYATMAN is
My Being's name, The Soul of Souls! What goeth forth from Me, Causing all life to live, is KARMA
called: And, Manifested in divided forms, I am the ADHIBHUTA, Lord
of Lives; And ADHIDAIVA, Lord of all the Gods, Because I am
PURUSHA, who begets.
And ADHIYAJNA, Lord of Sacrifice,
I- speaking with thee in this body here- Am, thou embodied one! (for
all the shrines Flame unto Me!) And, at the hour of death, He that
hath meditated Me alone, In putting off his flesh, comes forth to Me,
Enters into My Being- doubt thou not! But, if he meditated otherwise
At hour of death, in putting off the flesh, He goes to what he looked
for, Kunti's Son! Because the Soul is fashioned to its like.
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