Shloka 2

विभूति-योगः (Vibhūti-yoga) — Exemplary Manifestations as a Contemplative Index

Devanagari script

अधियज्ञ: कथं कोअत्र देहेडस्मिन्‌ मधुसूदन । प्रयाणकाले च कथं ज्ञेयोडसि नियतात्मभि:

Transliteration

arjuna uvāca | adhiyajñaḥ kathaṁ ko 'tra dehe 'smin madhusūdana | prayāṇakāle ca kathaṁ jñeyo 'si niyatātmabhiḥ ||

Translation

హే మధుసూదనా! ఇక్కడ ‘అధియజ్ఞ’ ఎవరు? ఆయన ఈ దేహములో ఎలా నివసించుచున్నాడు? మరియు నియతాత్ములచే ప్రయాణకాలమున నీవు ఏ విధముగా తెలిసికొనబడుదువు?

Word by Word

• अधियज्ञः: the one presiding over sacrifice (Adhiyajna)
• अधियज्ञः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: अधियज्ञ
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• कथम्: how?
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: कथम्

• कः: who?
• कः: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: किम्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• अत्र: here
• अत्र: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अत्र

• देहे: in the body
• देहे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: देह
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• अस्मिन्: in this
• अस्मिन्: Adhikarana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अयम्
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• मधुसूदन: O slayer of Madhu (Krishna)
• मधुसूदन: Sampradana
• Type: Noun
• Root: मधुसूदन
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

• प्रयाणकाले: at the time of departure (death)
• प्रयाणकाले: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्रयाणकाल
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• कथम्: how?
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: कथम्

• ज्ञेयः: to be known / knowable
• Type: Adjective
• Root: ज्ञेय
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• असि: you are
• Type: Verb
• Root: अस्
• Form: Present, Second, Singular, Parasmaipada

• नियतात्मभिः: by the self-controlled (disciplined-minded) ones
• नियतात्मभिः: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: नियतात्मन्
• Form: Masculine, Instrumental, Plural

Speaker

अजुन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Arjuna
• Krishna (Madhusūdana)
• Adhiyajña

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Arjuna seeks clarity on the divine dimension of yajña (Adhiyajña) and the practical spiritual method: how disciplined practitioners can recognize and remember the Lord at the moment of death—linking inner realization with the final ethical-spiritual test of one’s life.

What is happening in the narrative?

On the battlefield discourse, after hearing Kṛṣṇa’s teaching on Brahman, the self, and karma, Arjuna asks follow-up questions: who the Adhiyajña is, how that reality is present within embodied life, and how yogic, self-controlled persons know Kṛṣṇa at life’s end.