Shloka 5

Rāja-Vidyā Rāja-Guhya Yoga (राजविद्या राजगुह्य योग) — The Yoga of Royal Knowledge and Royal Secret

Devanagari script

अपरेयमितत्त्वन्यां प्रकृतिं विद्धि मे पराम्‌ । जीवभूतां महाबाहो ययेदं धार्यते जगत्‌

Transliteration

aparāyam itas tv anyāṁ prakṛtiṁ viddhi me parām | jīva-bhūtāṁ mahā-bāho yayedaṁ dhāryate jagat ||

Translation

Đây là Prakṛti thấp (aparā) của Ta; nhưng hỡi bậc đại dũng, hãy biết rằng Ta còn có một Prakṛti khác, cao hơn—mang bản chất sinh linh—nhờ đó toàn thể thế gian này được nâng đỡ và kết giữ.

Word by Word

• अपरा: lower, inferior
• अपरा: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अपरा (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• इयम्: this
• इयम्: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: इदम् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• इति: thus
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति

• अन्याम्: other, another
• अन्याम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अन्य (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Feminine, Accusative, Singular

• प्रकृतिम्: nature, prakriti
• प्रकृतिम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्रकृति (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Feminine, Accusative, Singular

• विद्धि: know (you)
• Type: Verb
• Root: विद् (धातु)
• Form: Imperative, Second, Singular

• मे: of me, my
• मे: Sampradana
• Type: Noun
• Root: अस्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Genitive, Singular

• पराम्: higher, supreme
• पराम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: परा (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Feminine, Accusative, Singular

• जीवभूताम्: having become the living (principle)
• जीवभूताम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: जीवभूत (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Feminine, Accusative, Singular

• महाबाहो: O mighty-armed one
• Type: Noun
• Root: महाबाहु (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

• यया: by which
• यया: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Feminine, Instrumental, Singular

• इदम्: this
• इदम्: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: इदम् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• धार्यते: is sustained/borne
• Type: Verb
• Root: धृ (धातु)
• Form: Present, Third, Singular, Passive

• जगत्: the world
• जगत्: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: जगत् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

अजुन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Arjuna (Mahābāhu)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse distinguishes two levels of nature: the lower, inert material basis and the higher, conscious life-principle (jīva) through which the world is sustained. It frames moral responsibility and spiritual inquiry by pointing beyond matter to the living, conscious dimension that enables agency.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Bhīṣma Parva’s teaching context, the speaker addresses Arjuna directly, shifting the discussion from the constituents of material existence to the higher principle of life that upholds the cosmos, preparing Arjuna to understand duty and action with a deeper metaphysical grounding.