All Life Is Yoga: Bhagavadgita

I. The Message of the Gita

1. The Message of the Gita



II. The Secret of the Gita

1. In Order to Realise the Teaching of the Gita, it is Necessary to Loosen the Knot of Action

2. The Great Secret of the Gita: The Sacrifice to the Divine

3. This is the Demand Made on Us

4. Read the Gita and Take Krishna as the Symbol of the Immanent God



III. Bhagavadgita

1. The Yoga of the Dejection of Arjuna

2. Sankhya Yoga

3. The Yoga of Action

4. The Yoga of Knowledge

5. The Yoga of Renouncing Work

6. The Yoga of Contemplation

7. The Yoga of Knowledge and Wisdom

8. The Yoga of Imperishable Brahman

9. The Yoga of the King of Knowledge and of the King of Secret

10. The Yoga of Vibhuti

11. The Yoga of Beholding the Form of All

12. The Yoga of Devotion

13. The Yoga of the Field and of the Knower of the Field

14. The Yoga of Division into Three Gunas

15. The Yoga of the Supreme Person

16. The Yoga of Division into the Perfections of Divinities and Demons

17. The Yoga of Threefold Faith

18. The Yoga of Liberation



"There are four very great events in history, the siege of Troy, the life and crucifixion of Christ, the exile of Krishna in Brindavan and the colloquy with Arjuna on the field of Kurukshetra. The siege of Troy created Hellas, the exile in Brindavan created devotional religion, (for before there was only meditation and worship,) Christ from his cross humanised Europe, the colloquy at Kurukshetra will yet liberate humanity. Yet it is said that none of these four events ever happened." (SRI AUROBINDO)







Sri Aurobindo considers the message of the Gita to be the basis of the great spiritual movement which has led and will lead humanity more and more to its liberation, that is to say, to its escape from falsehood and ignorance, towards the truth. From the time of its first appearance, the Gita has had an immense spiritual action; but with the new interpretation that Sri Aurobindo has given to it, its influence has increased considerably and has become decisive." (THE MOTHER)







The translation of the Gita printed here was put together from different sources by Anilbaran Roy, one of Sri Aurobindo’s direct disciples, who lived in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry from 1926 to 1964. He relied as much as he could on Sri Aurobindo’s translations and paraphrases, which were written as part of the running prose of the “Essays of the Gita”. Sri Aurobindo sometimes translated whole slokas, sometimes only isolated words or phrases; some slokas he left untranslated. These translations cover about one-third of the text of the Gita. It should be mentioned that Sri Aurobindo did not consider the passages he translated to be parts of a finished translation of the Gita. In 1934 he wrote to a disciple, “The translations in the Essays are more explanatory than textually precise or cast in a literary style.”