Shloka 9
ध्यानयोगः — Dhyāna-Yoga
Discipline of Meditation and Mental Restraint
जन्म कर्म च मे दिव्यमेवं यो वेत्ति तत्त्वतः । त्यक्त्वा देहं पुनर्जन्म नैति मामेति सो<र्जुन,हे अर्जुन! मेरे जन्म और कर्म दिव्य अर्थात् निर्मल और अलौकिक हैं--इस प्रकार जो मनुष्य तत्त्वसे जान लेता है*, वह शरीरको त्यागकर फिर जन्मको प्राप्त नहीं होता; किंतु मुझे ही प्राप्त होता है
janma karma ca me divyam evaṁ yo vetti tattvataḥ | tyaktvā dehaṁ punarjanma naiti mām eti so 'rjuna ||
Arjuna, My birth and My deeds are divine—pure and beyond ordinary limitation. Whoever truly knows this in its reality, upon leaving the body does not enter another birth; rather, that one attains Me.
अजुन उवाच
Educational Q&A
True realization of the Lord’s divine nature—His appearance (janma) and deeds (karma) as transcendent and not karma-bound—breaks the cycle of rebirth; at death, such a knower attains the Lord rather than returning to samsara.
In the midst of the Kurukshetra setting, Krishna instructs Arjuna on the path of liberation. Here He states that understanding His divine manifestation and actions ‘as they truly are’ leads to freedom from rebirth and culminates in reaching Him.