Chapter 7 · Jnana Vijnana Yoga

ಶ್ರೀ ಭಗವಾನುವಾಚ ಮಯ್ಯಾಸಕ್ತಮನಾಃ ಪಾರ್ಥ ಯೋಗಂ ಯುಞ್ಜನ್ಮದಾಶ್ರಯಃ। ಅಸಂಶಯಂ ಸಮಗ್ರಂ ಮಾಂ ಯಥಾ ಜ್ಞಾಸ್ಯಸಿ ತಚ್ಛೃಣು

śhrī bhagavān uvācha mayyāsakta-manāḥ pārtha yogaṁ yuñjan mad-āśhrayaḥ asanśhayaṁ samagraṁ māṁ yathā jñāsyasi tach chhṛiṇu

📖 Meaning

The Blessed Lord said, "O Arjuna, hear how you shall, without doubt, know Me fully, with your mind intent on Me, practicing Yoga and taking refuge in Me."

ಜ್ಞಾನಂ ತೇಽಹಂ ಸವಿಜ್ಞಾನಮಿದಂ ವಕ್ಷ್ಯಾಮ್ಯಶೇಷತಃ। ಯಜ್ಜ್ಞಾತ್ವಾ ನೇಹ ಭೂಯೋಽನ್ಯಜ್ಜ್ಞಾತವ್ಯಮವಶಿಷ್ಯತೇ

jñānaṁ te ’haṁ sa-vijñānam idaṁ vakṣhyāmyaśheṣhataḥ yaj jñātvā neha bhūyo ’nyaj jñātavyam-avaśhiṣhyate

📖 Meaning

I will declare to you in full this knowledge combined with realization, after knowing which nothing else remains to be known here.

ಮನುಷ್ಯಾಣಾಂ ಸಹಸ್ರೇಷು ಕಶ್ಿಚದ್ಯತತಿ ಸಿದ್ಧಯೇ। ಯತತಾಮಪಿ ಸಿದ್ಧಾನಾಂ ಕಶ್ಿಚನ್ಮಾಂ ವೇತ್ತಿ ತತ್ತ್ವತಃ

manuṣhyāṇāṁ sahasreṣhu kaśhchid yatati siddhaye yatatām api siddhānāṁ kaśhchin māṁ vetti tattvataḥ

📖 Meaning

Among thousands of men, one may perchance strive for perfection; even among those successful strivers, only one may perchance know Me in essence.

ಭೂಮಿರಾಪೋಽನಲೋ ವಾಯುಃ ಖಂ ಮನೋ ಬುದ್ಧಿರೇವ ಚ। ಅಹಙ್ಕಾರ ಇತೀಯಂ ಮೇ ಭಿನ್ನಾ ಪ್ರಕೃತಿರಷ್ಟಧಾ

bhūmir-āpo ’nalo vāyuḥ khaṁ mano buddhir eva cha ahankāra itīyaṁ me bhinnā prakṛitir aṣhṭadhā

📖 Meaning

Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intellect, and egoism—thus is My Nature divided eightfold.

ಅಪರೇಯಮಿತಸ್ತ್ವನ್ಯಾಂ ಪ್ರಕೃತಿಂ ವಿದ್ಧಿ ಮೇ ಪರಾಮ್। ಜೀವಭೂತಾಂ ಮಹಾಬಾಹೋ ಯಯೇದಂ ಧಾರ್ಯತೇ ಜಗತ್

apareyam itas tvanyāṁ prakṛitiṁ viddhi me parām jīva-bhūtāṁ mahā-bāho yayedaṁ dhāryate jagat

📖 Meaning

O mighty-armed Arjuna, this is the inferior Prakriti; know it as distinct from My higher Prakriti, the very life-element, by which this world is upheld.

ಏತದ್ಯೋನೀನಿ ಭೂತಾನಿ ಸರ್ವಾಣೀತ್ಯುಪಧಾರಯ। ಅಹಂ ಕೃತ್ಸ್ನಸ್ಯ ಜಗತಃ ಪ್ರಭವಃ ಪ್ರಲಯಸ್ತಥಾ

etad-yonīni bhūtāni sarvāṇītyupadhāraya ahaṁ kṛitsnasya jagataḥ prabhavaḥ pralayas tathā

📖 Meaning

Know that these two are the womb of all beings; thus, I am the source and dissolution of the whole universe.

ಮತ್ತಃ ಪರತರಂ ನಾನ್ಯತ್ಕಿಞ್ಚಿದಸ್ತಿ ಧನಞ್ಜಯ। ಮಯಿ ಸರ್ವಮಿದಂ ಪ್ರೋತಂ ಸೂತ್ರೇ ಮಣಿಗಣಾ ಇವ

mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat kiñchid asti dhanañjaya mayi sarvam idaṁ protaṁ sūtre maṇi-gaṇā iva

📖 Meaning

There is nothing higher than Me, O Arjuna. All this is strung on Me, like clusters of gems on a string.

ರಸೋಽಹಮಪ್ಸು ಕೌನ್ತೇಯ ಪ್ರಭಾಸ್ಮಿ ಶಶಿಸೂರ್ಯಯೋಃ। ಪ್ರಣವಃ ಸರ್ವವೇದೇಷು ಶಬ್ದಃ ಖೇ ಪೌರುಷಂ ನೃಷು

raso ’ham apsu kaunteya prabhāsmi śhaśhi-sūryayoḥ praṇavaḥ sarva-vedeṣhu śhabdaḥ khe pauruṣhaṁ nṛiṣhu

📖 Meaning

I am the flavor in water, O Arjuna; I am the light in the moon and the sun; I am the syllable Om in all the Vedas, sound in the ether and virility in men.

ಪುಣ್ಯೋ ಗನ್ಧಃ ಪೃಥಿವ್ಯಾಂ ಚ ತೇಜಶ್ಚಾಸ್ಮಿ ವಿಭಾವಸೌ। ಜೀವನಂ ಸರ್ವಭೂತೇಷು ತಪಶ್ಚಾಸ್ಮಿ ತಪಸ್ವಿಷು

puṇyo gandhaḥ pṛithivyāṁ cha tejaśh chāsmi vibhāvasau jīvanaṁ sarva-bhūteṣhu tapaśh chāsmi tapasviṣhu

📖 Meaning

I am the sweet fragrance in the earth and the brilliance in the fire, the life in all beings, and I am the austerity of ascetics.

ಬೀಜಂ ಮಾಂ ಸರ್ವಭೂತಾನಾಂ ವಿದ್ಧಿ ಪಾರ್ಥ ಸನಾತನಮ್। ಬುದ್ಧಿರ್ಬುದ್ಧಿಮತಾಮಸ್ಮಿ ತೇಜಸ್ತೇಜಸ್ವಿನಾಮಹಮ್

bījaṁ māṁ sarva-bhūtānāṁ viddhi pārtha sanātanam buddhir buddhimatām asmi tejas tejasvinām aham

📖 Meaning

Know Me, O Arjuna, as the eternal seed of all beings; I am the intelligence of the intelligent, and the splendour of the splendid objects.

ಬಲಂ ಬಲವತಾಂ ಚಾಹಂ ಕಾಮರಾಗವಿವರ್ಜಿತಮ್। ಧರ್ಮಾವಿರುದ್ಧೋ ಭೂತೇಷು ಕಾಮೋಽಸ್ಮಿ ಭರತರ್ಷಭ

balaṁ balavatāṁ chāhaṁ kāma-rāga-vivarjitam dharmāviruddho bhūteṣhu kāmo ’smi bharatarṣhabha

📖 Meaning

Of the strong, I am the strength devoid of desire and attachment, and in all beings, I am the desire in accordance with Dharma, O Arjuna.

ಯೇ ಚೈವ ಸಾತ್ತ್ವಿಕಾ ಭಾವಾ ರಾಜಸಾಸ್ತಾಮಸಾಶ್ಚ ಯೇ। ಮತ್ತ ಏವೇತಿ ತಾನ್ವಿದ್ಧಿ ನತ್ವಹಂ ತೇಷು ತೇ ಮಯಿ

ye chaiva sāttvikā bhāvā rājasās tāmasāśh cha ye matta eveti tān viddhi na tvahaṁ teṣhu te mayi

📖 Meaning

Whatever beings (and objects) that are pure, active, and inert, know that they proceed from Me. They are in Me, yet I am not in them.

ತ್ರಿಭಿರ್ಗುಣಮಯೈರ್ಭಾವೈರೇಭಿಃ ಸರ್ವಮಿದಂ ಜಗತ್। ಮೋಹಿತಂ ನಾಭಿಜಾನಾತಿ ಮಾಮೇಭ್ಯಃ ಪರಮವ್ಯಯಮ್

tribhir guṇa-mayair bhāvair ebhiḥ sarvam idaṁ jagat mohitaṁ nābhijānāti māmebhyaḥ param avyayam

📖 Meaning

Deluded by these Natures, composed of the three qualities of Nature, all this world does not know Me as distinct from them and immutable.

ದೈವೀ ಹ್ಯೇಷಾ ಗುಣಮಯೀ ಮಮ ಮಾಯಾ ದುರತ್ಯಯಾ। ಮಾಮೇವ ಯೇ ಪ್ರಪದ್ಯನ್ತೇ ಮಾಯಾಮೇತಾಂ ತರನ್ತಿ ತೇ

daivī hyeṣhā guṇa-mayī mama māyā duratyayā mām eva ye prapadyante māyām etāṁ taranti te

📖 Meaning

Verily, this divine illusion of Mine, composed of the three qualities, is difficult to cross over; those who take refuge in Me alone, can cross over this illusion.

ನ ಮಾಂ ದುಷ್ಕೃತಿನೋ ಮೂಢಾಃ ಪ್ರಪದ್ಯನ್ತೇ ನರಾಧಮಾಃ। ಮಾಯಯಾಪಹೃತಜ್ಞಾನಾ ಆಸುರಂ ಭಾವಮಾಶ್ರಿತಾಃ

na māṁ duṣhkṛitino mūḍhāḥ prapadyante narādhamāḥ māyayāpahṛita-jñānā āsuraṁ bhāvam āśhritāḥ

📖 Meaning

The evil-doers and the deluded, who are the lowest of men, do not seek Me; those whose knowledge is destroyed by illusion follow the ways of demons.

ಚತುರ್ವಿಧಾ ಭಜನ್ತೇ ಮಾಂ ಜನಾಃ ಸುಕೃತಿನೋಽರ್ಜುನ। ಆರ್ತೋ ಜಿಜ್ಞಾಸುರರ್ಥಾರ್ಥೀ ಜ್ಞಾನೀ ಚ ಭರತರ್ಷಭ

chatur-vidhā bhajante māṁ janāḥ sukṛitino ’rjuna ārto jijñāsur arthārthī jñānī cha bharatarṣhabha

📖 Meaning

Four kinds of virtuous men worship Me, O Arjuna, and they are the distressed, the seekers of knowledge, the seekers of wealth, and the wise, O Lord of the Bharatas.

ತೇಷಾಂ ಜ್ಞಾನೀ ನಿತ್ಯಯುಕ್ತ ಏಕಭಕ್ಿತರ್ವಿಶಿಷ್ಯತೇ। ಪ್ರಿಯೋ ಹಿ ಜ್ಞಾನಿನೋಽತ್ಯರ್ಥಮಹಂ ಸ ಚ ಮಮ ಪ್ರಿಯಃ

teṣhāṁ jñānī nitya-yukta eka-bhaktir viśhiṣhyate priyo hi jñānino ’tyartham ahaṁ sa cha mama priyaḥ

📖 Meaning

Of them, the wise who are ever steadfast and devoted to the One, excel; for I am exceedingly dear to the wise, and they are dear to Me.

ಉದಾರಾಃ ಸರ್ವ ಏವೈತೇ ಜ್ಞಾನೀ ತ್ವಾತ್ಮೈವ ಮೇ ಮತಮ್। ಆಸ್ಥಿತಃ ಸ ಹಿ ಯುಕ್ತಾತ್ಮಾ ಮಾಮೇವಾನುತ್ತಮಾಂ ಗತಿಮ್

udārāḥ sarva evaite jñānī tvātmaiva me matam āsthitaḥ sa hi yuktātmā mām evānuttamāṁ gatim

📖 Meaning

Indeed, all these are noble; however, I consider the wise man as My very Self; for, he is steadfast in mind and established in Me alone as the supreme goal.

ಬಹೂನಾಂ ಜನ್ಮನಾಮನ್ತೇ ಜ್ಞಾನವಾನ್ಮಾಂ ಪ್ರಪದ್ಯತೇ। ವಾಸುದೇವಃ ಸರ್ವಮಿತಿ ಸ ಮಹಾತ್ಮಾ ಸುದುರ್ಲಭಃ

bahūnāṁ janmanām ante jñānavān māṁ prapadyate vāsudevaḥ sarvam iti sa mahātmā su-durlabhaḥ

📖 Meaning

At the end of many births, the wise man comes to Me, realizing that all this is Vaasudeva (the innermost Self); such a great soul (Mahatma) is very hard to find.

ಕಾಮೈಸ್ತೈಸ್ತೈರ್ಹೃತಜ್ಞಾನಾಃ ಪ್ರಪದ್ಯನ್ತೇಽನ್ಯದೇವತಾಃ। ತಂ ತಂ ನಿಯಮಮಾಸ್ಥಾಯ ಪ್ರಕೃತ್ಯಾ ನಿಯತಾಃ ಸ್ವಯಾ

kāmais tais tair hṛita-jñānāḥ prapadyante ’nya-devatāḥ taṁ taṁ niyamam āsthāya prakṛityā niyatāḥ svayā

📖 Meaning

Those whose wisdom has been taken away by this or that desire, go to other gods, following this or that rite, led by their own nature.

ಯೋ ಯೋ ಯಾಂ ಯಾಂ ತನುಂ ಭಕ್ತಃ ಶ್ರದ್ಧಯಾರ್ಚಿತುಮಿಚ್ಛತಿ। ತಸ್ಯ ತಸ್ಯಾಚಲಾಂ ಶ್ರದ್ಧಾಂ ತಾಮೇವ ವಿದಧಾಮ್ಯಹಮ್

yo yo yāṁ yāṁ tanuṁ bhaktaḥ śhraddhayārchitum ichchhati tasya tasyāchalāṁ śhraddhāṁ tām eva vidadhāmyaham

📖 Meaning

Whatever form any devotee desires to worship with faith, I make that same faith of his firm and unflinching.

ಸ ತಯಾ ಶ್ರದ್ಧಯಾ ಯುಕ್ತಸ್ತಸ್ಯಾರಾಧನಮೀಹತೇ। ಲಭತೇ ಚ ತತಃ ಕಾಮಾನ್ಮಯೈವ ವಿಹಿತಾನ್ ಹಿ ತಾನ್

sa tayā śhraddhayā yuktas tasyārādhanam īhate labhate cha tataḥ kāmān mayaiva vihitān hi tān

📖 Meaning

Endowed with that faith, he engages in the worship of that form and obtains his desired outcome, which is ordained by Me alone.

ಅನ್ತವತ್ತು ಫಲಂ ತೇಷಾಂ ತದ್ಭವತ್ಯಲ್ಪಮೇಧಸಾಮ್। ದೇವಾನ್ದೇವಯಜೋ ಯಾನ್ತಿ ಮದ್ಭಕ್ತಾ ಯಾನ್ತಿ ಮಾಮಪಿ

antavat tu phalaṁ teṣhāṁ tad bhavatyalpa-medhasām devān deva-yajo yānti mad-bhaktā yānti mām api

📖 Meaning

Verily, the reward (fruit) that accrues to those men of small intelligence is finite. The worshippers of the gods go to them, whereas My devotees come to Me.

ಅವ್ಯಕ್ತಂ ವ್ಯಕ್ಿತಮಾಪನ್ನಂ ಮನ್ಯನ್ತೇ ಮಾಮಬುದ್ಧಯಃ। ಪರಂ ಭಾವಮಜಾನನ್ತೋ ಮಮಾವ್ಯಯಮನುತ್ತಮಮ್

avyaktaṁ vyaktim āpannaṁ manyante mām abuddhayaḥ paraṁ bhāvam ajānanto mamāvyayam anuttamam

📖 Meaning

The foolish think of Me, the Unmanifest, as having manifestation, not knowing My higher, immutable, and most excellent nature.

ನಾಹಂ ಪ್ರಕಾಶಃ ಸರ್ವಸ್ಯ ಯೋಗಮಾಯಾಸಮಾವೃತಃ। ಮೂಢೋಽಯಂ ನಾಭಿಜಾನಾತಿ ಲೋಕೋ ಮಾಮಜಮವ್ಯಯಮ್

nāhaṁ prakāśhaḥ sarvasya yoga-māyā-samāvṛitaḥ mūḍho ’yaṁ nābhijānāti loko mām ajam avyayam

📖 Meaning

I am not manifest to all, veiled as I am by the Yoga-Maya. This deluded world does not know Me, who am unborn and imperishable.

ವೇದಾಹಂ ಸಮತೀತಾನಿ ವರ್ತಮಾನಾನಿ ಚಾರ್ಜುನ। ಭವಿಷ್ಯಾಣಿ ಚ ಭೂತಾನಿ ಮಾಂ ತು ವೇದ ನ ಕಶ್ಚನ

vedāhaṁ samatītāni vartamānāni chārjuna bhaviṣhyāṇi cha bhūtāni māṁ tu veda na kaśhchana

📖 Meaning

I know, O Arjuna, the beings of the past, the present, and the future; however, no one knows Me.

ಇಚ್ಛಾದ್ವೇಷಸಮುತ್ಥೇನ ದ್ವನ್ದ್ವಮೋಹೇನ ಭಾರತ। ಸರ್ವಭೂತಾನಿ ಸಂಮೋಹಂ ಸರ್ಗೇ ಯಾನ್ತಿ ಪರನ್ತಪ

ichchhā-dveṣha-samutthena dvandva-mohena bhārata sarva-bhūtāni sammohaṁ sarge yānti parantapa

📖 Meaning

O Bharata, all beings are subject to delusion at birth due to the delusion of the pairs of opposites arising from desire and aversion, O Parantapa.

ಯೇಷಾಂ ತ್ವನ್ತಗತಂ ಪಾಪಂ ಜನಾನಾಂ ಪುಣ್ಯಕರ್ಮಣಾಮ್। ತೇ ದ್ವನ್ದ್ವಮೋಹನಿರ್ಮುಕ್ತಾ ಭಜನ್ತೇ ಮಾಂ ದೃಢವ್ರತಾಃ

yeṣhāṁ tvanta-gataṁ pāpaṁ janānāṁ puṇya-karmaṇām te dvandva-moha-nirmuktā bhajante māṁ dṛiḍha-vratāḥ

📖 Meaning

But those men of virtuous deeds, whose sins have come to an end and who are freed from the delusion of the pairs of opposites, worship Me steadfastly, with their vows.

ಜರಾಮರಣಮೋಕ್ಷಾಯ ಮಾಮಾಶ್ರಿತ್ಯ ಯತನ್ತಿ ಯೇ। ತೇ ಬ್ರಹ್ಮ ತದ್ವಿದುಃ ಕೃತ್ಸ್ನಮಧ್ಯಾತ್ಮಂ ಕರ್ಮ ಚಾಖಿಲಮ್

jarā-maraṇa-mokṣhāya mām āśhritya yatanti ye te brahma tadviduḥ kṛitsnam adhyātmaṁ karma chākhilam

📖 Meaning

Those who strive for liberation from old age and death, taking refuge in Me, realize in full that Brahman, the whole knowledge of the Self, and all action.

ಸಾಧಿಭೂತಾಧಿದೈವಂ ಮಾಂ ಸಾಧಿಯಜ್ಞಂ ಚ ಯೇ ವಿದುಃ। ಪ್ರಯಾಣಕಾಲೇಽಪಿ ಚ ಮಾಂ ತೇ ವಿದುರ್ಯುಕ್ತಚೇತಸಃ

sādhibhūtādhidaivaṁ māṁ sādhiyajñaṁ cha ye viduḥ prayāṇa-kāle ’pi cha māṁ te vidur yukta-chetasaḥ

📖 Meaning

Those who know Me with the Adhibhuta (pertaining to the elements), Adhidaiva (pertaining to the gods), and the Adhiyajna (pertaining to the sacrifice) know Me even at the time of death, remaining steadfast in mind.