Chapter 9राजविद्याराजगुह्ययोगःRaja Vidya Raja Guhya Yoga

The proclamation of the royal knowledge (9.1–9.3). Krishna gives Arjuna, who is free of fault-finding, the most secret knowledge, together with realised knowledge (9.1); the king of sciences, the king of secrets, open to direct experience, in keeping with dharma, easy to practise, imperishable (9.2); people without faith, not attaining me, return to the world of death (9.3).

All-pervading yet unattached (9.4–9.10). All is pervaded by my unmanifest form; all beings are in me, I am not in them (9.4); "behold my divine yoga" — and beings are not in me either (9.5); like the wind in space (9.6); at the end of a kalpa all go into my prakriti, at its beginning I create again (9.7–9.8); actions do not bind me — I sit as one indifferent (9.9); under my supervision prakriti gives birth to the moving and unmoving (9.10).

Two kinds of people (9.11–9.15). The deluded disregard me in human form (9.11); vain hopes, vain actions — a fiendish and demonic nature (9.12); the great souls, in a divine nature, worship me with undivided minds (9.13); constant singing of praise, firm vows, bowing down (9.14); through the yajna of knowledge — as one, as many, as the one facing everywhere (9.15).

"I alone am all" (9.16–9.19). I am the kratu, the yajna, the svadha, the herb, the mantra, the ghee, the fire, the offering (9.16); the father, mother, sustainer and grandfather of the world; the one to be known, the purifier, Omkara, the Rig, Sama and Yajur (9.17); the goal, the supporter, the lord, the witness, the abode, the refuge, the friend (9.18); I give heat, I hold back and send forth the rain; immortality and death, being and non-being (9.19).

The limit of heaven, and yoga-kshema (9.20–9.22). Those who perform yajnas desiring heaven enjoy heaven and return when their merit is exhausted (9.20–9.21); for undivided devotees, I carry their yoga-kshema (9.22).

Other worship and simple devotion (9.23–9.28). The devotees of other gods too worship me alone — but not in the proper way (9.23); I alone am the enjoyer and lord of all yajnas (9.24); whoever worships whom, attains that (9.25); patraṃ puṣpaṃ phalaṃ toyam — what is given with love, accepted (9.26); whatever you do, eat, offer in the fire, give, or practise as austerity — offer it to me (9.27); freedom from good and bad fruits; through the yoga of renunciation you will attain me (9.28).

A door open to all (9.29–9.34). I am the same to all — none hateful, none favoured; devotees are in me, and I in them (9.29); even the worst wrongdoer, if he worships with undivided devotion, is to be regarded as a saint (9.30); he soon becomes righteous — "my devotee never perishes" (9.31); those whom society kept low — all attain the supreme goal (9.32); how much more, then, the spiritual seekers — in this impermanent world, worship me (9.33); man-manā bhava (9.34).