SB 1.15.29–30
भक्त्या निर्मथिताशेष कषायधिषणोऽर्जुनः ॥ २९ ॥
गीतं भगवता ज्ञानं यत्तत्सङ्ग्राममूर्धनि ।
कालकर्मतमोरुद्धं पुनरध्यगमत्विभु: ॥ ३० ॥
bhaktyā nirmathitāśeṣa-kaṣāya-dhiṣaṇo’rjunaḥ
gītaṁ bhagavatā jñānaṁ yat tat saṅgrāma-mūrdhani
kāla-karma-tamo-ruddhaṁ punar adhyagamat vibhuḥ
Synonyms
dhiṣaṇaḥ — [with] his intellective faculty [buddhir yasya tathā-bhūtaḥ165]; nirmathita — cleansed [radically freed (unmūlita)]; aśeṣa — [of] all; kaṣāya — impurities [desire and so on (kāmādayaḥ)]; bhaktyā — by devotion [constituted of the essence of divine love (parama-prītyātmikayā)166]; paribṛṁhita-raṁhasā — which multiplied in waves [vardhitaṁ vego yasyās tayā]; anu-dhyāna — [through] constant remembrance [nirantaraṁ dhyānena]; vāsudeva-aṅghri — [of] the feet of Vāsudeva; arjunaḥ — Arjuna; vibhuḥ — now competent [to ascertain the truth (tattvāvadhāraṇa-samarthaḥ)167]; punaḥ adhyagamat — recollected [immediately intuited the reality of (yathārthatvenānu-bhūtavān)168]; tat — that; jñānam — knowledge; yat — which; gītam — was imparted [in the form of the Gītopaniṣad (gītopaniṣad-rūpeṇopadiṣṭam)169]; [to him]; bhagavatā — by Bhagavān; saṅgrāma-mūrdhani — on the battlefield [or at the outset of the battle (yuddhārambhe)]; [which till then]; ruddham — had remained suppressed [or covered (āvṛtam)]; kāla — [due to the influence of] time [as a functional capacity of Bhagavān’s will in regard to His līlā (bhagaval-līlecchāmayaḥ)170]; karma — action [Kṛṣṇa’s līlā]; tamaḥ — [and] darkness [the state of separation from Kṛṣṇa that is comparable to darkness (andhakāra-samas tad-viraha eva);171 or unheedfulness of that knowledge due to absorption in Kṛṣṇa’s līlā (tal-līlāveśena tad-ananusandhānam)172].
Translation
With his intellective faculty cleansed of all impurities by bhakti, which multiplied in waves through constant remembrance of the feet of Vāsudeva, Arjuna, now competent to ascertain the truth (vibhu), recollected the knowledge that was imparted to him by Bhagavān on the battlefield, which till then had remained suppressed due to the influence of time, action, and darkness.