Word meanings
- jarā
- from old age
- maraṇa
- and death
- mokṣāya
- for liberation
- mām
- me
- āśritya
- take shelter in
- yatanti
- strive
- ye
- who
- te
- they
- brahma
- Brahman
- tat
- that
- viduḥ
- know
- kṛtsnam
- everything
- adhyātmam
- the individual self
- karma
- karmic action
- ca
- and
- akhilam
- entire
Translations
Those who strive for liberation from old age and death, taking refuge in Me, realize in full that Brahman, the whole knowledge of the Self, and all action.
Those who make Me their refuge, striving for liberation from decay and death, realize the Supreme Spirit, which is their own real Self, and in which all action finds its consummation.
Those who strive by resorting to Me for becoming free from old age and death, they know Brahman, the individual Self, and all about actions. [They know Brahman as being all the individual entities and all actions. This verse prescribes meditation on the qualified Brahman for aspirants of the middle class. Verses beginning with the 14th speak about the realization of the unqualified Brahman by aspirants of the highest class.]
जरा (वृद्धावस्था) और मरण (मृत्यु) से मोक्ष पानेके लिये जो मेरा आश्रय लेकर प्रयत्न करते हैं, वे उस ब्रह्मको, सम्पूर्ण अध्यात्मको और सम्पूर्ण कर्मको भी जान जाते हैं।Commentary
They attain to the full knowledge of the Self or perfect knowledge of Brahman. They attain to the Bhuma or the Highest or the Unconditioned. All their doubts are totally destroyed. They fully realise now? All is Vaasudeva. All indeed is Brahman. There is no such thing as diversity. They are not rorn here and have thus conered old age and death. They are liberated here and now.