Chapter 7
Jnana Vijnana Yoga
Knowledge and Realization
- Verse 7.1O son of Prithâ! now hear how you can without doubt know me fully, fixing your mind on me, and resting in me, and…
- Verse 7.2I will now tell you exhaustively about knowledge together with experience; that being known, there is nothing further…
- Verse 7.3Among thousands of men, only some work for perfection; and even of those who have reached perfection, and who are…
- Verse 7.4Earth, water, fire, air, space, mind, understanding, and egoism, thus is my nature divided eightfold.
- Verse 7.5But this is a lower (form of my) nature. Know (that there is) another (form of my) nature, and higher than this, which…
- Verse 7.6Know that all things have these (for their) source. I am the producer and the destroyer of the whole universe.
- Verse 7.7There is nothing else, O Dhanañgaya! higher than myself; all this is woven upon me, like numbers of pearls upon a…
- Verse 7.8I am the taste in water, O son of Kuntî! I am the light of the sun and moon. I am 'Om' in all the Vedas, sound in…
- Verse 7.9I am the fragrant smell in the earth, refulgence in the fire; I am life in all beings, and penance in those who…
- Verse 7.10Know me, O son of Prithâ! to be the eternal seed of all beings; I am the discernment of the discerning ones, and I the…
- Verse 7.11I am also the strength, unaccompanied by fondness or desire, of the strong. And, O chief of the descendants of…
- Verse 7.12And all entities which are of the quality of goodness, and those which are of the quality of passion and of darkness,…
- Verse 7.13The whole universe deluded by these three states of mind, developed from the qualities, does not know me, who am…
- Verse 7.14for this delusion of mine, developed from the qualities, is divine and difficult to transcend. Those cross beyond this…
- Verse 7.15Wicked men, doers of evil (acts), who are deluded, who are deprived of their knowledge by (this) delusion, and who…
- Verse 7.16But, O Arguna! doers of good (acts) of four classes worship me: one who is distressed, one who is seeking after…
- Verse 7.17Of these, he who is possessed of knowledge, who is always devoted, and whose worship is (addressed) to one (Being)…
- Verse 7.18All these are noble. But the man possessed of knowledge is deemed by me to be my own self. For he with (his) self…
- Verse 7.19At the end of many lives, the man possessed of knowledge approaches me, (believing) that Vâsudeva is everything. Such…
- Verse 7.20Those who are deprived of knowledge by various desires approach other divinities, observing various regulations, and…
- Verse 7.21Whichever form (of deity) any worshipper wishes to worship with faith, to that form I render his faith steady.
- Verse 7.22Possessed of that faith, he seeks to propitiate (the deity in) that (form), and obtains from it those beneficial…
- Verse 7.23But the fruit thus (obtained) by them, who have little judgment, is perishable. Those who worship the divinities go to…
- Verse 7.24The undiscerning ones, not knowing my transcendent and inexhaustible essence, than which there is nothing higher,…
- Verse 7.25Surrounded by the delusion of my mystic power, I am not manifest to all. This deluded world knows not me unborn and…
- Verse 7.26I know, O Arguna! the things which have been, those which are, and those which are to be. But me nobody knows.
- Verse 7.27All beings, O terror of (your) foes! are deluded at the time of birth by the delusion, O descendant of Bharata! caused…
- Verse 7.28But the men of meritorious actions, whose sins have terminated, worship me, being released from the delusion (caused)…
- Verse 7.29Those who, resting on me, work for release from old age and death, know the Brahman, the whole Adhyâtma, and all action.
- Verse 7.30And those who know me with the Adhibhûta, the Adhidaiva, and the Adhiyagña, having minds devoted to abstraction, know…