{"id":6962,"date":"2026-09-16T20:04:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T14:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dixith.com\/jeevana-sutra\/bhagavad-gita-chapter-9-raja-vidya-raja-guhya-yoga-iast\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T16:02:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T10:32:50","slug":"bhagavad-gita-chapter-9-raja-vidya-raja-guhya-yoga-iast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dixith.com\/jeevana-sutra\/bhagavad-gita-chapter-9-raja-vidya-raja-guhya-yoga-iast\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhagavad Gita Chapter 9 in English IAST: R\u0101javidy\u0101 R\u0101jaguhya Yoga"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 9: R\u0101javidy\u0101 R\u0101jaguhya Yoga<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Thirty-four verses. The secret that is king of all knowledge, the Lord who pervades everything yet clings to nothing, the ways of seeing him in all things, and a devotion that even a leaf, a flower, a fruit or water can express are here.
Tap any verse card to open its page with the word-by-word meaning. Pages are ready for every verse of this chapter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

All eighteen chapters are listed here: \u015ar\u012bmad Bhagavad G\u012bt\u0101<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

1<\/span>\u015br\u012bbhagav\u0101nuv\u0101ca
ida\u1e43 tu te guhyatama\u1e43 pravak\u1e63y\u0101myanas\u016byave|
j\u00f1\u0101na\u1e43 vij\u00f1\u0101nasahita\u1e43 yajj\u00f1\u0101tv\u0101 mok\u1e63yase’\u015bubh\u0101t || 1 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 9.1 \u2192<\/span><\/a>2<\/span>r\u0101javidy\u0101 r\u0101jaguhya\u1e43 pavitramidamuttamam|
pratyak\u1e63\u0101vagama\u1e43 dharmya\u1e43 susukha\u1e43 kartumavyayam || 2 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 9.2 \u2192<\/span><\/a>3<\/span>a\u015braddadh\u0101n\u0101\u1e25 puru\u1e63\u0101 dharmasy\u0101sya parantapa|
apr\u0101pya m\u0101\u1e43 nivartante m\u1e5btyusa\u1e43s\u0101ravartmani || 3 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 9.3 \u2192<\/span><\/a>4<\/span>may\u0101 tatamida\u1e43 sarva\u1e43 jagadavyaktam\u016brtin\u0101|
matsth\u0101ni sarvabh\u016bt\u0101ni na c\u0101ha\u1e43 te\u1e63vavasthita\u1e25 || 4 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 9.4 \u2192<\/span><\/a>5<\/span>na ca matsth\u0101ni bh\u016bt\u0101ni pa\u015bya me yogamai\u015bvaram|
bh\u016btabh\u1e5bnna ca bh\u016btastho mam\u0101tm\u0101 bh\u016btabh\u0101vana\u1e25 || 5 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 9.5 \u2192<\/span><\/a>6<\/span>yath\u0101k\u0101\u015basthito nitya\u1e43 v\u0101yu\u1e25 sarvatrago mah\u0101n|
tath\u0101 sarv\u0101\u1e47i bh\u016bt\u0101ni matsth\u0101n\u012btyupadh\u0101raya || 6 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 9.6 \u2192<\/span><\/a>7<\/span>sarvabh\u016bt\u0101ni kaunteya prak\u1e5bti\u1e43 y\u0101nti m\u0101mik\u0101m|
kalpak\u1e63aye punast\u0101ni kalp\u0101dau vis\u1e5bj\u0101myaham || 7 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 9.7 \u2192<\/span><\/a>8<\/span>prak\u1e5bti\u1e43 sv\u0101mava\u1e63\u1e6dabhya vis\u1e5bj\u0101mi puna\u1e25 puna\u1e25|
bh\u016btagr\u0101mamima\u1e43 k\u1e5btsnamava\u015ba\u1e43 prak\u1e5bterva\u015b\u0101t || 8 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 9.8 \u2192<\/span><\/a>9<\/span>na ca m\u0101\u1e43 t\u0101ni karm\u0101\u1e47i nibadhnanti dhana\u00f1jaya|
ud\u0101s\u012bnavad\u0101s\u012bnamasakta\u1e43 te\u1e63u karmasu || 9 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 9.9 \u2192<\/span><\/a>10<\/span>may\u0101dhyak\u1e63e\u1e47a prak\u1e5bti\u1e25 s\u016byate sacar\u0101caram|
hetun\u0101nena kaunteya jagadviparivartate || 10 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 9.10 \u2192<\/span><\/a>11<\/span>avaj\u0101nanti m\u0101\u1e43 m\u016b\u1e0dh\u0101 m\u0101nu\u1e63\u012b\u1e43 tanum\u0101\u015britam|
para\u1e43 bh\u0101vamaj\u0101nanto mama bh\u016btamahe\u015bvaram || 11 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 9.11 \u2192<\/span><\/a>12<\/span>mogh\u0101\u015b\u0101 moghakarm\u0101\u1e47o moghaj\u00f1\u0101n\u0101 vicetasa\u1e25|
r\u0101k\u1e63as\u012bm\u0101sur\u012b\u1e43 caiva prak\u1e5bti\u1e43 mohin\u012b\u1e43 \u015brit\u0101\u1e25 || 12 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 9.12 \u2192<\/span><\/a>13<\/span>mah\u0101tm\u0101nastu m\u0101\u1e43 p\u0101rtha daiv\u012b\u1e43 prak\u1e5btim\u0101\u015brit\u0101\u1e25|
bhajantyananyamanaso j\u00f1\u0101tv\u0101 bh\u016bt\u0101dimavyayam || 13 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 9.13 \u2192<\/span><\/a>14<\/span>satata\u1e43 k\u012brtayanto m\u0101\u1e43 yatanta\u015bca d\u1e5b\u1e0dhavrat\u0101\u1e25|
namasyanta\u015bca m\u0101\u1e43 bhakty\u0101 nityayukt\u0101 up\u0101sate || 14 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 9.14 \u2192<\/span><\/a>15<\/span>j\u00f1\u0101nayaj\u00f1ena c\u0101pyanye yajanto m\u0101mup\u0101sate|
ekatvena p\u1e5bthaktvena bahudh\u0101 vi\u015bvatomukham || 15 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 9.15 \u2192<\/span><\/a>16<\/span>aha\u1e43 kraturaha\u1e43 yaj\u00f1a\u1e25 svadh\u0101hamahamau\u1e63adham|
mantro’hamahamev\u0101jyamahamagniraha\u1e43 hutam || 16 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 9.16 \u2192<\/span><\/a>17<\/span>pit\u0101hamasya jagato m\u0101t\u0101 dh\u0101t\u0101 pit\u0101maha\u1e25|
vedya\u1e43 pavitramo\u1e45k\u0101ra \u1e5bks\u0101ma yajureva ca || 17 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 9.17 \u2192<\/span><\/a>18<\/span>gatirbhart\u0101 prabhu\u1e25 s\u0101k\u1e63\u012b niv\u0101sa\u1e25 \u015bara\u1e47a\u1e43 suh\u1e5bt|
prabhava\u1e25 pralaya\u1e25 sth\u0101na\u1e43 nidh\u0101na\u1e43 b\u012bjamavyayam || 18 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 9.18 \u2192<\/span><\/a>19<\/span>tap\u0101myahamaha\u1e43 var\u1e63a\u1e43 nig\u1e5bh\u1e47\u0101myuts\u1e5bj\u0101mi ca|
am\u1e5bta\u1e43 caiva m\u1e5btyu\u015bca sadasacc\u0101hamarjuna || 19 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 9.19 \u2192<\/span><\/a>20<\/span>traividy\u0101 m\u0101\u1e43 somap\u0101\u1e25 p\u016btap\u0101p\u0101 yaj\u00f1airi\u1e63\u1e6dv\u0101 svargati\u1e43 pr\u0101rthayante|
te pu\u1e47yam\u0101s\u0101dya surendralokama\u015bnanti divy\u0101ndivi devabhog\u0101n || 20 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 9.20 \u2192<\/span><\/a>21<\/span>te ta\u1e43 bhuktv\u0101 svargaloka\u1e43 vi\u015b\u0101la\u1e43 k\u1e63\u012b\u1e47e pu\u1e47ye martyaloka\u1e43 vi\u015banti|
eva\u1e43 tray\u012bdharmamanuprapann\u0101 gat\u0101gata\u1e43 k\u0101mak\u0101m\u0101 labhante || 21 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 9.21 \u2192<\/span><\/a>22<\/span>anany\u0101\u015bcintayanto m\u0101\u1e43 ye jan\u0101\u1e25 paryup\u0101sate|
te\u1e63\u0101\u1e43 nity\u0101bhiyukt\u0101n\u0101\u1e43 yogak\u1e63ema\u1e43 vah\u0101myaham || 22 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 9.22 \u2192<\/span><\/a>23<\/span>ye’pyanyadevat\u0101 bhakt\u0101 yajante \u015braddhay\u0101nvit\u0101\u1e25|
te’pi m\u0101meva kaunteya yajantyavidhip\u016brvakam || 23 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 9.23 \u2192<\/span><\/a>24<\/span>aha\u1e43 hi sarvayaj\u00f1\u0101n\u0101\u1e43 bhokt\u0101 ca prabhureva ca|
na tu m\u0101mabhij\u0101nanti tattven\u0101ta\u015bcyavanti te || 24 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 9.24 \u2192<\/span><\/a>25<\/span>y\u0101nti devavrat\u0101 dev\u0101npit\u1e5dny\u0101nti pit\u1e5bvrat\u0101\u1e25|
bh\u016bt\u0101ni y\u0101nti bh\u016btejy\u0101 y\u0101nti mady\u0101jino’pi m\u0101m || 25 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 9.25 \u2192<\/span><\/a>26<\/span>patra\u1e43 pu\u1e63pa\u1e43 phala\u1e43 toya\u1e43 yo me bhakty\u0101 prayacchati|
tadaha\u1e43 bhaktyupah\u1e5btama\u015bn\u0101mi prayat\u0101tmana\u1e25 || 26 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 9.26 \u2192<\/span><\/a>27<\/span>yatkaro\u1e63i yada\u015bn\u0101si yajjuho\u1e63i dad\u0101si yat|
yattapasyasi kaunteya tatkuru\u1e63va madarpa\u1e47am || 27 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 9.27 \u2192<\/span><\/a>28<\/span>\u015bubh\u0101\u015bubhaphalaireva\u1e43 mok\u1e63yase karmabandhanai\u1e25|
sa\u1e43ny\u0101sayogayukt\u0101tm\u0101 vimukto m\u0101mupai\u1e63yasi || 28 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 9.28 \u2192<\/span><\/a>29<\/span>samo’ha\u1e43 sarvabh\u016bte\u1e63u na me dve\u1e63yo’sti na priya\u1e25|
ye bhajanti tu m\u0101\u1e43 bhakty\u0101 mayi te te\u1e63u c\u0101pyaham || 29 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 9.29 \u2192<\/span><\/a>30<\/span>api cetsudur\u0101c\u0101ro bhajate m\u0101mananyabh\u0101k|
s\u0101dhureva sa mantavya\u1e25 samyagvyavasito hi sa\u1e25 || 30 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 9.30 \u2192<\/span><\/a>31<\/span>k\u1e63ipra\u1e43 bhavati dharm\u0101tm\u0101 \u015ba\u015bvacch\u0101nti\u1e43 nigacchati|
kaunteya pratij\u0101n\u012bhi na me bhakta\u1e25 pra\u1e47a\u015byati || 31 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 9.31 \u2192<\/span><\/a>32<\/span>m\u0101\u1e43 hi p\u0101rtha vyap\u0101\u015britya ye’pi syu\u1e25 p\u0101payonaya\u1e25|
striyo vai\u015by\u0101stath\u0101 \u015b\u016bdr\u0101ste’pi y\u0101nti par\u0101\u1e43 gatim || 32 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 9.32 \u2192<\/span><\/a>33<\/span>ki\u1e43 punarbr\u0101hma\u1e47\u0101\u1e25 pu\u1e47y\u0101 bhakt\u0101 r\u0101jar\u1e63ayastath\u0101|
anityamasukha\u1e43 lokamima\u1e43 pr\u0101pya bhajasva m\u0101m || 33 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 9.33 \u2192<\/span><\/a>34<\/span>manman\u0101 bhava madbhakto mady\u0101j\u012b m\u0101\u1e43 namaskuru|
m\u0101mevai\u1e63yasi yuktvaivam\u0101tm\u0101na\u1e43 matpar\u0101ya\u1e47a\u1e25 || 34 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 9.34 \u2192<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n

o\u1e43 tatsaditi \u015br\u012bmadbhagavadg\u012bt\u0101s\u016bpani\u1e63atsu brahmavidy\u0101y\u0101\u1e43 yoga\u015b\u0101stre \u015br\u012bk\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47\u0101rjunasa\u1e43v\u0101de r\u0101javidy\u0101r\u0101jaguhyayogo n\u0101ma navamo’dhy\u0101ya\u1e25 ||<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About Raja Vidya Raja Guhya Yoga<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The seventh chapter opened with words about knowledge and its realisation. The ninth chapter opens again with the same words, adding the adjective \u2018most secret\u2019. Krishna calls this knowledge the king of knowledge and the king of secrets. That is where the chapter gets its name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first part of the chapter states one of the subtlest principles of the Gita: the Lord who pervades everything and yet clings to nothing. The second part states the simplest word on devotion: a leaf, a flower, a fruit, a little water, given with devotion, is enough for him. Two of the Gita\u2019s best known promises, \u2018yogakshemam vahamy aham\u2019 and \u2018na me bhaktah pranashyati\u2019, are also in this chapter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How the chapter moves<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  • Verses 1 to 3: The secret knowledge that is king of all knowledge. It comes within direct experience and is easy to practise. Those without faith return again to samsara.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Verses 4 to 6: The paradox that all beings are in me, I am not in them, and they are not in me either, with the image of the wind in space.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Verses 7 to 10: The cycle in which beings dissolve into his prakriti at the end of a kalpa and are born again. Action does not bind him, who remains as though indifferent.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Verses 11 and 12: The deluded who, not knowing his higher nature in human form, disregard him.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Verses 13 to 15: The devotion, praise and bowing of great souls of divine nature. Three ways of worshipping him through the sacrifice of knowledge.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Verses 16 to 19: The garland that begins \u2018I am the rite, I am the sacrifice\u2019: father, mother, goal, friend, immortality and death, being and non-being, all are he.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Verses 20 to 22: Ritualists who go to heaven and return, and the promise that he himself carries the gain and keeping of those devoted to nothing else.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Verses 23 to 25: Worship of other deities too reaches him in the end, but worshippers go to whatever they worship.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Verses 26 to 28: A leaf, a flower, a fruit, water. The yoga of renunciation that offers all doing, eating and giving to him.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Verses 29 to 34: The Lord who is the same to all, a path open even to one of bad conduct, the promise \u2018my devotee never perishes\u2019 and the closing call \u2018manmana bhava\u2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    All in him: three readings<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    The acharyas resolve the paradox of verses four, five and six in three ways. For Shankara beings are in him because he is their Self. He is not in them, for he has contact with nothing. For Ramanuja beings are his body, and he is the inner controller who rules them from within. His being does not depend on them, and he bears them by his will. For Madhva the key is the word \u2018avyaktamurti\u2019: that is why, though pervading everything, he is not seen. In his reading, \u2018not in me\u2019 means beings do not rest touching him as things rest on the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    At \u2018ekatvena prithaktvena bahudha\u2019 in verse fifteen the acharyas part again. For Shankara these are three kinds of worshippers. For Ramanuja it is a single meditation on the one who has the whole world for his body. For Madhva they are the oneness of Narayana, his distinctness from everything and his many forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    These pages do not decide between the readings. Wherever the acharyas part, each position is recorded in its own terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    A path open to all<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    From verse twenty-six the chapter opens the door of devotion to everyone. No costly offerings are needed, a leaf is enough. Even when past conduct has been bad, a right resolve changes a life. Verse thirty-two speaks of birth and social station. Shankara and Ramanuja read its word \u2018papayonayah\u2019 together with the list that follows, while Sridhara Swami separates them into distinct groups. The classical commentators wrote with the society of their own time in mind. Only the closing words of the verse are the same for all: all who take refuge reach the highest goal. On that verse\u2019s page we have given the verse and the commentaries without altering them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Sources:<\/strong> several.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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