मयैतदुक्तं वो विप्रा गुह्यं यत् साङ्ख्ययोगयो: । जानीत मागतं यज्ञं युष्मद्धर्मविवक्षया ॥ ३८ ॥
mayaitad uktaṁ vo viprā guhyaṁ yat sāṅkhya-yogayoḥ jānīta māgataṁ yajñaṁ yuṣmad-dharma-vivakṣayā
- mayā
- by Me
- etat
- this (knowledge)
- uktam
- has been spoken
- vaḥ
- unto you
- viprāḥ
- O brāhmaṇas
- guhyam
- confidential
- yat
- which
- sāṅkhya
- of the philosophical method of distinguishing matter from spirit
- yogayoḥ
- and the aṣṭāṅga-yoga system
- jānīta
- please understand
- mā
- Me
- āgatam
- who have arrived
- yajñam
- as Viṣṇu, the Supreme Lord of sacrifice
- yuṣmat
- your
- dharma
- religious duties
- vivakṣayā
- with the desire to explain
My dear brāhmaṇas, I have now explained to you the confidential knowledge of Sāṅkhya, by which one philosophically distinguishes matter from spirit, and of aṣṭāṅga-yoga, by which one links up with the Supreme. Please understand that I am the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu, and that I have appeared before you desiring to explain your actual religious duties.