Itihāsa / Mahābhārata / Anugītā

Anugītā (अनुगीता)

A second discourse of Kṛṣṇa to Arjuna, in the Āśvamedhika-parva. The war is over. Kṛṣṇa is still at Hāstinapura, and the horse has not yet been loosed. Arjuna says the teaching spoken between the two armies has slipped from him, and he asks to hear it again. Kṛṣṇa answers that the yoga of that morning is not a state he can simply put back on, and he teaches again in another voice. The chronicle of the horse already keeps the honesty of that forgetting. A teaching can be true and still leave the person who needed it.

The inner frame is a brāhmaṇa speaking to his wife, and a perfected guest who carries the talk further. They speak of the self, the elements, food, the breaths, and the conduct of a person who has heard and still has a life to live. Some lists call a stretch of that inner talk a Brahma-gītā. The Brahma Gītā of the Yoga Vāsiṣṭha is a different composition, at the crest of another book. The vulgate and the critical edition do not number this stretch with the same numerals. This page names the parva. No śloka is supplied from memory to look like the text.

What the talk is for

• The first teaching was spoken once, on the field. This one begins from the fact that the hearer did not keep it.
• A household is the classroom. The brāhmaṇa and his wife, and then the guest, hold the doctrine the war had put in Kṛṣṇa's mouth.
• The self is told apart from the body, the elements, and the breaths that keep the body going.
• Conduct remains. Hearing does not cancel the kingdom, the horse, or the days after the rite.

नेपालीमा

अनुगीता आश्वमेधिक पर्वमा कृष्णले अर्जुनलाई फेरि सुनाएको शिक्षा हो। युद्ध सकिएको छ। कृष्ण हस्तिनापुरमै छन्, घोडा अझै छोडिएको छैन। अर्जुन भन्छन्, दुई सेनाको बीचमा सुनेको कुरा आफूबाट खसेको छ, फेरि सुन्न चाहन्छन्। कृष्ण भन्छन्, त्यो बिहानको योग फेरि लगाइहाल्ने अवस्था होइन, र अर्कै स्वरमा सिकाउँछन्। घोडाको बसाइले त्यो बिर्सने इमानदारी पहिले नै राखेको छ। शिक्षा सत्य हुँदाहुँदै पनि जसलाई चाहिन्थ्यो उसमा नअडिन सक्छ। भित्री चौखटमा एक ब्राह्मणले पत्नीलाई भन्छन्, अनि एक सिद्ध अतिथिले कुरा अघि बढाउँछन्। आत्मा, तत्त्व, अन्न, प्राण, र सुनेपछि पनि बाँकी रहेको जीवनको आचरण यसको विषय हुन्। कतिपय सूचीले त्यो भित्री कुराको एउटा अंशलाई ब्रह्मगीता भन्छन्। योगवासिष्ठको ब्रह्मगीता अर्कै रचना हो, अर्कै पुस्तकको शिखर। प्रचलित पाठ र आलोचनात्मक संस्करणले यो अंशलाई एउटै अङ्क दिँदैनन्। यो पृष्ठले पर्वको नाम लिन्छ। पाठजस्तो देखाउन सम्झनाबाट कुनै श्लोक हालिएको छैन।

Where it sits

The Bhagvad Gītā is the hour on the field. The Sanatsujātīya is the hour before the war, when Dhṛtarāṣṭra fears death. The Mokṣadharma is Bhīṣma's hour on the arrows. This is the hour after the victory, when the first teaching did not stay. Four hours, one poem.