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Kapila’s teaching to Devahūti (Kapila-gītā, Bhāgavata Purāṇa III.25–33) — Kapila

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Kapila’s teaching to Devahūti (Kapila-gītā, Bhāgavata Purāṇa III.25–33)

कपिलगीता (भागवतपुराण ३.२५–३३)

Kapila, sabio védico (pintura de la Company School)
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Nine chapters in which Kapila, presented as an incarnation of Viṣṇu, answers his mother Devahūti, who asks him to free her from attachment to the body and to “mine”. He expounds the Sāṃkhya principles, nature and puruṣa, the practice of yoga and meditation on the divine form, the kinds of devotion according to the three qualities, the cycle of transmigration and the fate of those who live for pleasure. Its thesis is that the mind bound to the qualities enslaves and the mind fixed on God liberates. It ends with Devahūti’s liberation.

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Authorship note

A discourse placed in Kapila’s mouth in book III of the Bhāgavata Purāṇa, a devotional text of debated date (c. 9th–10th centuries). It is a layer of the tradition distinct from classical Sāṃkhya; tradition also calls it “Kapila Stotra” or “Kapila-gītā”.

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English

  • Teachings of Lord Kapila, the Son of Devahuti

    Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 2007

    Translation: A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

    ISBN 9781845990664

  • Teachings of Lord Kapila, the Son of Devahuti — Kapila

    Teachings of Lord Kapila, the Son of Devahuti

    Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1977

    Translation: A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

    ISBN 9780892130085

    Comentario devocional de la tradición gauḍīya a III.25 (ISBN visto en Open Library).

Français

  • Le Bhâgavata Purâna, tome premier (livres I–III)

    Imprimerie royale (París), 1840

    Translation: Eugène Burnouf

    Dominio público; traducción francesa completa del libro III.

Sánscrito · संस्कृतम्

  • श्रीमद्भागवतपुराणम्, स्कन्धः ३, अध्यायाः २५–३३

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Sources

  • Burnouf, Eugène (trad.). Le Bhâgavata Purâna, ou Histoire poétique de Krĭchṇa, tome premier. París: Imprimerie royale, 1840. Libros I–III; prefacio sobre el relato de Kapila y Devahūti; I.3.10 (Kapila, quinta encarnación).

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