Daily mantras, Bhagavad Gita verses, Hindu festivals, deities, and philosophy from Shruti Vigyan.https://shrutivigyan.com/enhttps://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/108-names-durga/https://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/108-names-durga/108 sacred names of Goddess Durga, the divine mother of strength and protection. Chanted during Navratri and all nine forms of Devi.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/108-names-ganesha/https://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/108-names-ganesha/108 sacred names of Lord Ganesha chanted during puja for blessings, removal of obstacles, and fulfillment of wishes.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/108-names-lakshmi/https://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/108-names-lakshmi/108 sacred names of Goddess Lakshmi chanted on Fridays and Diwali for wealth, beauty, and prosperity.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/108-names-vishnu/https://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/108-names-vishnu/108 sacred names of Lord Vishnu, the preserver and protector of the universe.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/108-names-shiva/https://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/108-names-shiva/108 sacred names of Lord Shiva, chanted during Shivaratri, Mondays, and daily puja for blessings and liberation.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/aarti-kunj-bihari/https://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/aarti-kunj-bihari/O Kunj Bihari — Krishna who plays in the groves — all glory to You, Lord Girdhar who lifted the Govardhana mountain! You wear the vaijayanti garland, play the sweet flute, wear glittering earrings, anFri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/durga-chalisa/https://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/durga-chalisa/The Durga Chalisa praises the divine mother Durga across forty verses — celebrating her as the destroyer of evil, the giver of strength, and the supreme power behind all creation. Recited during NavraFri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/ganesh-chalisa/https://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/ganesh-chalisa/The Ganesh Chalisa is a forty-verse devotional hymn in praise of Lord Ganesha — the elephant-headed remover of obstacles, lord of beginnings, and son of Shiva and Parvati. Reciting it removes all hindFri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/gayatri-mantra/https://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/gayatri-mantra/We meditate upon the radiant glory of the divine light of Savitar (the solar deity). May that divine light illuminate and inspire our intellect.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/ganesh-vandana/https://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/ganesh-vandana/O Lord with the curved trunk and mighty form, whose brilliance equals that of a million suns — may You always bestow Your grace upon me and remove all obstacles from all my endeavors.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/hanuman-chalisa/https://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/hanuman-chalisa/The Hanuman Chalisa is a 40-verse devotional hymn composed by Tulsidas in praise of Lord Hanuman. Reciting it daily grants strength, removes fear, and protects devotees from all harm.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/jai-ambe-gauri/https://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/jai-ambe-gauri/The Jai Ambe Gauri aarti is sung in praise of Goddess Durga — the divine mother who is simultaneously fierce and compassionate. She is worshipped especially during Navratri and at all Shakti temples.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/jai-ganesh-deva/https://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/jai-ganesh-deva/The Ganesh Aarti sung at the beginning of all pujas, prayers, and auspicious occasions. It praises Lord Ganesha — son of Parvati and Shiva — as the remover of obstacles and the fulfiller of all desireFri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/lakshmi-aarti/https://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/lakshmi-aarti/O Mother Lakshmi, all glory to You! Hari Vishnu and Brahma serve You day and night. You are Uma, Rama, and Brahmani — the Mother of the Universe. The sun and moon meditate on You, and the sage Narada Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/lakshmi-chalisa/https://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/lakshmi-chalisa/The Lakshmi Chalisa praises Goddess Lakshmi — the divine mother of wealth, beauty, and grace — across forty devotional verses. Recited on Fridays and during Diwali, it invokes her blessings for prospeFri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/mahamrityunjaya-mantra/https://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/mahamrityunjaya-mantra/We worship the three-eyed Lord Shiva who is fragrant and who nourishes and nurtures all beings. May He liberate us from the fear of death, like a ripened cucumber separated from its vine, so that we mFri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/om-jai-jagdish-hare/https://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/om-jai-jagdish-hare/O Lord of the Universe, all glory to You! In an instant You remove the troubles of Your devotees and servants. Whoever meditates on You receives the fruit of that devotion — sorrow of the mind vanisheFri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/om-jai-shiv-omkara/https://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/om-jai-shiv-omkara/O Lord Shiva, the embodiment of Om — all glory to You! Brahma, Vishnu, and eternal Shiva are the three aspects you hold, along with Parvati as your consort. You reign with one face, four faces, or fivFri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/om-namah-shivaya/https://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/om-namah-shivaya/I bow to Shiva. Salutations to the auspicious one who is my inner Self.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/saraswati-aarti/https://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/saraswati-aarti/O Mother Saraswati, all glory to You! Renowned across all three worlds, endowed with every virtue and abundance. Moon-faced, seated on a lotus, dressed in pure white radiance — with the veena in your Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/saraswati-vandana/https://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/saraswati-vandana/She who is as pure white as jasmine, the moon, and snow — clothed in white, adorned with the beautiful veena — who sits on a white lotus and is always worshipped by Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva — may thaFri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/shiv-chalisa/https://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/shiv-chalisa/The Shiv Chalisa is a forty-verse devotional hymn praising Lord Shiva — the destroyer, the yogi, the compassionate lord of all. Reciting it on Mondays and during Mahashivaratri brings Shiva's blessingFri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/shiva-tandav-stotram/https://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/shiva-tandav-stotram/Shiva performs his fierce Cosmic Dance (Tandava) in the forest of his matted hair where the waters of the Ganga flow, wearing a garland of great serpents on his neck, to the sound of his damaru drum —Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/vishnu-sahasranama/https://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/vishnu-sahasranama/The Vishnu Sahasranama is the hymn of one thousand names of Lord Vishnu, preserved in the Anushasana Parva (the Book of Precepts) of the Mahabharata. It was revealed by Bhishma Pitamah to YudhishthiraFri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/shiva-panchakshara/https://shrutivigyan.com/daily/mantras/shiva-panchakshara/Five verses, each dedicated to one of the five syllables of Om Namah Shivaya (Na-Ma-Shi-Va-Ya), glorifying Shiva by his divine names and attributes. Composed by the great sage Adi Shankaracharya.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-1/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-1/Dhritarashtra said: O Sanjaya, what did my sons and the sons of Pandu do after assembling on the holy field of Kurukshetra, eager to fight?Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-10/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-10/Our army, protected by Bhishma, is unlimited and unconquerable. But the army of the Pandavas, protected by Bhima, is limited and can be overcome.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-11/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-11/All of you, stationed at your respective positions at every entry point of the battle formation, must fully support and protect Bhishma above all else.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-13/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-13/Then all at once, conches, kettledrums, small drums, war drums, and bugles were sounded together — and the combined uproar became utterly tumultuous.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-12/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-12/Then the mighty grandsire Bhishma, eldest of the Kurus, roared like a lion and blew his conch shell with great power — filling Duryodhana's heart with joy.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-14/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-14/Then, seated in their magnificent chariot yoked with white horses, Krishna and Arjuna blew their divine conch shells.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-15/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-15/Krishna blew his conch Panchajanya; Arjuna blew his conch Devadatta; and Bhima, of terrible deeds and wolf-like appetite, blew his mighty conch Paundra.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-16/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-16/King Yudhishthira, son of Kunti, blew his conch Anantavijaya; Nakula blew Sughosa; and Sahadeva blew Manipushpaka.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-17/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-17/The supreme archer Kashiraja, the great chariot warrior Shikhandi, Dhrishtadyumna, Virata, and the unconquered Satyaki — all blew their conches.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-18/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-18/Drupada, the sons of Draupadi, and mighty-armed Abhimanyu — son of Subhadra — all blew their individual conches, O lord of the earth.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-19/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-19/The tumultuous sound, reverberating through the sky and across the earth, shattered the hearts of the sons of Dhritarashtra.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-2/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-2/Sanjaya said: O King, having seen the Pandava army arrayed in military formation, King Duryodhana then approached his teacher Drona and spoke these words.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-20/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-20/Then, O King, seeing the sons of Dhritarashtra arranged in battle formation, Arjuna — whose flag bore the emblem of Hanuman — took up his bow as weapons were about to clash, and spoke these words to KWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-21/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-21/O Achyuta, please place my chariot in the middle between both armies.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-22/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-22/Let me see those who have assembled here, eager to fight, and with whom I must contend in this great battle.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-23/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-23/I wish to observe those who have assembled here, ready to fight, eager to please the evil-minded son of Dhritarashtra in battle.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-24/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-24/Sanjaya said: O descendant of Bharata, thus addressed by Gudakesha, Hrishikesha placed that finest of chariots in the middle between the two armies.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-25/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-25/In the presence of Bhishma, Drona and all the kings, Krishna said: O Partha, behold these Kurus assembled here.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-26/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-26/There Arjuna saw — standing arrayed — fathers, grandfathers, teachers, maternal uncles, brothers, sons, grandsons, and friends as well.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-27/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-27/Seeing fathers-in-law and dear friends in both armies — having beheld all those kinsmen thus arrayed — he, the son of Kunti...Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-29/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-29/My limbs are failing, my mouth dries up, my body trembles, and my hair stands on end.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-30/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-30/My Gandiva bow slips from my hand, my skin burns all over, I am unable to stand, and my mind seems to whirl.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-3/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-3/Duryodhana said: O Teacher, behold this great army of the sons of Pandu, so expertly arrayed in battle formation by your own talented disciple, the son of Drupada.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-31/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-31/O Keshava, I see only inauspicious omens, and I cannot foresee any good coming from killing my own kinsmen in this battle.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-32/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-32/O Govinda, what use is a kingdom to us? What are pleasures or even life itself? Those for whose sake we desire kingdom, enjoyments, and happiness now stand ready to fight against us.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-33/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-33/Teachers, fathers, sons, grandfathers, maternal uncles, fathers-in-law, grandsons, brothers-in-law, and all manner of kinsmen — all of them stand arrayed before us on this battlefield.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-28/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-28/Seeing my own kinsmen, O Krishna, arrayed here eager to fight, my limbs fail and my mouth is drying up.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-34/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-34/O Madhusudana, I do not wish to kill them even if they kill me — not even for sovereignty over the three worlds. How then for the sake of this earth alone?Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-35/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-35/O Janardana, what pleasure could we find in killing the sons of Dhritarashtra? Sin alone would overcome us by slaying these aggressors.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-36/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-36/Therefore we should not kill the sons of Dhritarashtra, our own kinsmen. O Madhava, how can we be happy by killing our own people?Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-37/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-37/Although these men, their hearts overtaken by greed, see no fault in destroying their dynasty or sin in betraying their friends...Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-39/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-39/With the destruction of the dynasty, the eternal family traditions are destroyed. When dharma is ruined, irreligion overcomes the entire family.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-4/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-4/Here in this army are great heroes and mighty bowmen equal in battle to Bhima and Arjuna themselves — Yuyudhana (Satyaki), Virata, and the great chariot-warrior Drupada.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-40/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-40/O Krishna, when irreligion becomes prevalent in the family, the women of the family become corrupted; O Varshneya, when women are thus corrupted, there arises an unwanted intermixture of classes.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-41/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-41/Such unwanted progeny causes hellish life for both the destroyers of the family and the family itself. The ancestors of such families fall down, because the offerings of food and water are stopped.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-38/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-38/O Janardana, why should we not know to turn ourselves away from this sin — we who can clearly see the fault in the destruction of the dynasty?Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-42/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-42/By the evil deeds of those who destroy the family and cause unwanted population, the eternal community traditions and family traditions are all devastated.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-44/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-44/Alas, how strange it is that we are prepared to commit great sin, driven by the desire for royal happiness, and are ready to kill our own kinsmen.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-43/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-43/O Janardana, I have heard from the disciplic succession that those men whose family traditions have been destroyed dwell in hell for an indefinite time.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-45/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-45/If the armed sons of Dhritarashtra were to kill me on the battlefield while I am unarmed and unresisting, that would be better for me.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-46/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-46/Sanjaya said: Having spoken thus on the battlefield, Arjuna cast aside his bow and arrows and sat down on the chariot seat, his mind overwhelmed with grief.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-47/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-47/Thus ends the first chapter of the Srimad Bhagavad Gita, in the Upanishads, the science of the Absolute, the scripture of yoga, in the dialogue between Sri Krishna and Arjuna, entitled 'Arjuna VishaadWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-5/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-5/Also Dhrishtaketu, Chekitana, the valiant King of Kashi, Purujit, Kuntibhoja, and Shaibya — all foremost among men.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-6/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-6/The valiant Yudhamanyu, the heroic Uttamauja, the son of Subhadra (Abhimanyu), and the sons of Draupadi — all of them are great chariot-warriors.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-9/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-9/And there are many other heroes who are ready to give up their lives for my sake, armed with various weapons and missiles, all experienced and skilled in warfare.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-8/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-8/There are yourself (Drona), Bhishma, Karna, and Kripa — who is ever victorious in battle — and also Ashvatthama, Vikarna, and the son of Somadatta (Bhurishrava).Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-7/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-1/verse-7/O best among the twice-born, hear now of the distinguished commanders of my army — I name the leaders for your information.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-1/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-1/The Supreme Lord said: Listen again, O mighty-armed Arjuna. Because you are My dear friend, for your benefit I shall speak to you further, giving knowledge that is better than what I have already explWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-11/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-11/To show them special mercy, I, dwelling in their hearts, destroy with the shining lamp of knowledge the darkness born of ignorance.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-10/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-10/To those who are constantly devoted and who worship Me with love, I give the yoga of understanding by which they come to Me.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-13/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-13/All the great sages such as Narada, Asita, Devala, and Vyasa confirm this truth about You, and now You Yourself are declaring it to me.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-14/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-14/O Krishna, I totally accept as truth all that You have told me. Neither the demigods nor the demons, O Lord, can understand Your personality.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-17/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-17/O Krishna, O supreme mystic, how shall I constantly meditate on You? And in what various forms are You to be remembered by me, O Lord?Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-15/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-15/Indeed, You alone know Yourself by Your own internal potency, O Supreme Person, O origin and Lord of all beings, O God of gods, O Lord of the universe!Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-18/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-18/O Janardana, please describe again in detail Your mystic power and opulences. I am never satiated hearing Your nectarean words.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-19/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-19/The Supreme Lord said: Yes, I shall describe to you My divine opulences — but only the principal ones, O best of the Kurus, for there is no end to My extent.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-16/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-16/Please describe in full Your divine opulences, by which You pervade all these worlds and remain situated in them.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-12/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-12/Arjuna said: You are the Supreme Brahman, the ultimate abode, the supreme purifier, the Absolute Truth and the eternal Divine Person. You are the primal God, transcendental and original, the unborn anWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-2/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-2/Neither the hosts of demigods nor the great sages know My origin or opulences, for in every respect I am the source of the demigods and sages.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-20/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-20/I am the Self, O Arjuna, seated in the hearts of all creatures. I am the beginning, the middle, and the end of all beings.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-21/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-21/Of the Adityas I am Vishnu; of lights I am the radiant sun; of the Maruts I am Marichi; and among the stars I am the moon.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-22/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-22/Of the Vedas I am the Sama Veda; of the gods I am Indra; of the senses I am the mind; and in living beings I am consciousness.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-25/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-25/Of the great sages I am Bhrigu; of words I am the transcendental Om; of sacrifices I am the chanting of holy names (japa); and of immovable things I am the Himalayas.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-26/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-26/Of all trees I am the Ashvattha (sacred fig); of the divine sages I am Narada; of the Gandharvas I am Chitraratha; and among the perfected beings I am Kapila Muni.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-23/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-23/Of the Rudras I am Shiva; of the Yakshas and Rakshasas I am Kubera, the lord of wealth; of the Vasus I am fire; and of the mountains I am Meru.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-24/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-24/O Arjuna, among priests know Me to be the chief, Brihaspati. Among generals I am Skanda (Kartikeya), and among bodies of water I am the ocean.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-28/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-28/Of weapons I am the thunderbolt; of cows I am the wish-fulfilling Kamadhenu; of progenitors I am Kandarpa (the god of love); and of serpents I am Vasuki.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-27/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-27/Of horses, know Me to be Ucchaihshrava, born from the churning of the ocean of nectar. Of lordly elephants I am Airavata, and among men I am the king.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-29/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-29/Among the many-hooded Nagas I am Ananta, and among aquatic beings I am Varuna. Among the ancestors I am Aryama, and among enforcers of law I am Yama, the lord of death.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-3/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-3/He who knows Me as the unborn, the beginningless, the supreme Lord of all the worlds — he, among mortals, is undeluded, and he is freed from all sins.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-30/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-30/Among the Daityas I am the devotee Prahlada, among subduers I am time, among animals I am the lion, and among birds I am Garuda.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-31/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-31/Among purifiers I am the wind, among weapon-wielders I am Rama, among fish I am the shark, and among rivers I am the Ganges.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-32/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-32/O Arjuna, of all creations I am the beginning, the middle, and the end. Among all sciences I am the science of the self, and among those who argue I am the conclusive truth.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-34/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-34/I am all-devouring death, and I am the generating principle of all that is yet to be. Among feminine qualities I am fame, prosperity, speech, memory, intelligence, steadfastness, and forgiveness.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-36/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-36/I am the gambling of cheats, and the splendor of the splendid. I am victory, I am adventure, and I am the strength of the strong.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-35/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-35/Among the hymns of the Sama Veda I am the Brihatsama, and among Vedic meters I am the Gayatri. Among months I am Margashirsha, and among seasons I am flower-bearing spring.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-37/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-37/Among the Vrishnis I am Vasudeva, among the Pandavas I am Arjuna, among the sages I am Vyasa, and among the great thinkers I am Ushana.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-38/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-38/Among all means of suppressing lawlessness I am punishment, among those who seek victory I am morality, among secrets I am silence, and among the wise I am wisdom.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-39/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-39/And whatever is the seed of all existences, that am I, O Arjuna. There is no being — moving or non-moving — that can exist without Me.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-33/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-33/Among letters I am the letter A, and among compound words I am the dual compound. I alone am inexhaustible time, and I am the Creator whose face is turned in every direction.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-4/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-4/Intelligence, knowledge, freedom from doubt and delusion, forgiveness, truthfulness, control of the senses, control of the mind, happiness and distress, birth, death, fear, fearlessness, nonviolence, Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-40/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-40/O Parantapa, there is no end to My divine opulences. Whatever I have told you is merely an indication of the extent of My infinite glories.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-42/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-42/But what need is there, O Arjuna, for all this detailed knowledge? With a single fragment of Myself I pervade and support this entire universe.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-41/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-41/Whatever being is endowed with glory, beauty, or power — know that to be born from but a spark of My splendor.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-5/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-5/Nonviolence, equanimity, satisfaction, austerity, charity, fame and infamy — all these various qualities of living beings arise from Me alone.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-7/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-7/One who truly knows this glory and mystic power of Mine engages in unalloyed devotional service. Of this there is no doubt.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-8/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-8/I am the source of all spiritual and material worlds. Everything emanates from Me. The wise who perfectly know this engage in My devotional service and worship Me with all their hearts.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-6/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-6/The seven great sages and before them the four other great sages and the Manus (progenitors of mankind) come from Me, born of My mind, and all the living beings populating the various planets descend Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-9/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-10/verse-9/With their minds fixed on Me, their lives devoted to Me, enlightening one another and always speaking of Me, they are satisfied and blissful.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-1/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-1/Arjuna said: By hearing the supreme secret of spiritual knowledge which You have spoken out of compassion for me, my illusion has now been dispelled.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-10/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-10/Arjuna saw in that universal form — many mouths, many eyes, many wondrous sights, adorned with many divine ornaments, and bearing many divine weapons raised and ready.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-12/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-12/If a thousand suns were to rise simultaneously in the sky, their combined radiance might perhaps resemble the effulgence of that Supreme Being.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-14/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-14/Then, overwhelmed with wonder, his hair standing on end, Arjuna bowed his head before the Lord, joined his palms, and began to speak.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-15/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-15/Arjuna said: O Lord, I see in Your body all the gods and all varieties of living beings gathered together — Lord Brahma seated on his lotus throne, Lord Shiva, all the sages, and all the divine serpenWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-16/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-16/O Lord of the universe, O Universal Form! I see You with many arms, bellies, mouths, and eyes — Your infinite form extending in every direction. I can see no end, no middle, and no beginning in You.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-13/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-13/At that time, Arjuna could see the entire universe — divided into many parts yet standing together as one — in the body of the God of gods.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-11/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-11/He wore divine garlands and garments, was anointed with divine fragrances, was full of all wonders — the resplendent Lord, infinite, with faces on every side.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-18/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-18/You are the supreme imperishable, the ultimate object of knowledge. You are the supreme resting place of this entire universe. You are the inexhaustible guardian of eternal dharma. You are the eternalWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-17/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-17/I see You — wearing a crown, bearing a mace and disc — a mass of radiance, shining in every direction, blazing like fire and sun, difficult to look at, and immeasurable on all sides.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-19/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-19/You are without beginning, middle, or end. Your power is infinite. Your arms are countless. The sun and moon are Your eyes. I see blazing fire emanating from Your mouth, and by Your own radiance You aWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-2/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-2/O lotus-eyed one, I have heard from You in detail about the origin and dissolution of all living beings, and also of Your imperishable glory.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-20/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-20/The space between heaven and earth and all the directions are pervaded by You alone. O great soul, seeing this wonderful yet terrible form of Yours, the three worlds tremble with fear.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-21/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-21/All the hosts of gods are surrendering and entering into You. Some of them, very much afraid, are offering prayers with folded hands. Hosts of great sages and perfected beings, crying 'All peace!' areWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-22/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-22/The Rudras, Adityas, Vasus, Sadhyas, Vishvedevas, the twin Ashvins, Maruts, ancestors, Gandharvas, Yakshas, Asuras, and Siddhas — all are gazing upon You in astonishment.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-23/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-23/O great-armed one, seeing Your great form with its many mouths and eyes, its many arms, thighs, and feet, its many bellies, and its many terrible tusks — all the worlds are trembling with fear, and soWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-24/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-24/O Vishnu! Seeing You touching the sky, blazing with many colors, with mouths wide open and large radiant eyes — my inner self trembles. I find neither courage nor peace.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-26/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-26/All the sons of Dhritarashtra, together with the hosts of warrior kings — Bhishma, Drona, Karna — and also the chief warriors on our own side...Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-27/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-27/...they rush swiftly into Your terrible, fearful mouths. Some can be seen caught between Your teeth, their heads crushed to powder.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-25/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-25/Seeing Your mouths with their terrible tusks, blazing like the fire of cosmic dissolution — I lose my sense of direction and find no peace. Have mercy, O Lord of the gods, O refuge of the universe!Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-28/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-28/As the many torrents of rivers flow toward the ocean, so do all these heroes of the human world enter into Your blazing mouths.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-29/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-29/As moths rush with great speed into a blazing fire for their destruction, so do all these people rush with full speed into Your mouths for their destruction.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-3/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-3/O Supreme Lord, as You have described Yourself, O Supreme Person, I wish to see Your divine majestic form.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-30/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-30/You are licking up and devouring all people from all sides with Your flaming mouths. O Vishnu! Your fierce rays fill the entire universe with radiance and scorch it.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-31/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-31/Tell me who You are in this fierce form. I bow before You, O best among the gods — have mercy! I wish to understand You, the primeval Lord, for I do not know Your purpose.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-32/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-32/I am mighty Time, the destroyer of worlds, here to annihilate all people. Even without your participation, the warriors arrayed in the opposing armies shall cease to exist.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-33/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-33/Therefore arise and attain glory. Conquer your enemies and enjoy a flourishing kingdom. They are already slain by Me — be merely an instrument, O Savyasachi!Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-34/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-34/Drona, Bhishma, Jayadratha, Karna, and all the other great warriors — already slain by Me. Kill them! Do not be disturbed. Simply fight, and you shall conquer your enemies in battle.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-35/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-35/Sanjaya said: Having heard these words from Krishna, the crowned Arjuna, trembling and with folded hands, offered obeisances again and again. Then, bowing down and with a faltering voice, very much frWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-36/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-36/Arjuna said: O Hrishikesha, it is right that the world delights and rejoices in glorifying You. The demons flee in fear in all directions, and all the hosts of perfected beings bow down to You.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-37/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-37/O great soul, why should they not bow to You — the original creator, greater even than Brahma? O infinite one, O Lord of lords, O refuge of the universe, You are the imperishable, the cause and the efWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-38/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-38/You are the original God, the most ancient Person, the supreme sanctuary of this universe. You are the knower, the knowable, and the supreme abode. By You this entire universe is pervaded, O infinite Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-39/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-39/You are Vayu, Yama, Agni, Varuna, the moon, Brahma the lord of creatures, and the great-grandfather of all. Salutations to You a thousand times, and again and again salutations to You!Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-4/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-4/O Lord! O master of all mystic power! If You think it possible for me to behold it, then kindly reveal to me Your imperishable, eternal Self.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-40/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-40/Salutations to You from the front, from behind, and from all sides! O infinite power, O immeasurable valor — You pervade all, and therefore You are all!Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-41/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-41/Thinking of You as my friend, I rashly addressed You 'O Krishna,' 'O Yadava,' 'O my friend' — not knowing Your greatness. This was done by me out of foolishness or out of love.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-42/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-42/In whatever way I may have dishonored You in jest — while relaxing, lying down, sitting, or eating together, whether alone or in the company of others — O infallible Achyuta, I beg Your forgiveness, OWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-44/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-44/Therefore, bowing and prostrating my body before You, I beg Your grace, O praiseworthy Lord. As a father tolerates a son, as a friend forgives a friend, as a lover bears with the beloved — please be mWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-43/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-43/You are the father of this entire world — of all that moves and does not move. You are the greatest guru, supremely worshipable. No one is equal to You — how then could anyone surpass You in all the tWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-45/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-45/Seeing this form never seen before, I am gladdened, yet my mind trembles with fear. Please show me that gentle form again, O Lord. Be gracious, O Lord of lords, O refuge of the universe!Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-46/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-46/I wish to see You with crown, mace, and disc in hand. Please assume that four-armed form, O thousand-armed one, O universal form!Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-47/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-47/The Supreme Lord said: O Arjuna, being pleased with you, I have shown you by My own mystic power this supreme, effulgent, universal, infinite, and original form — which no one before you has ever seenWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-48/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-48/Neither by study of the Vedas, nor by sacrifices, nor by charity, nor by rituals, nor by severe austerities can I be seen in this form in the world of men — by anyone other than you, O best of the KurWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-49/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-49/Do not be disturbed or bewildered by seeing this terrible form of Mine. Be free from fear and with a pleased heart, behold again My gentle form.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-5/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-5/The Supreme Lord said: O Arjuna, son of Pritha! Behold now My divine opulences — hundreds and thousands of varied forms, in many different colors and shapes.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-50/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-50/Sanjaya said: Having spoken thus to Arjuna, Krishna displayed His own form again. The great soul reassumed His gentle, beautiful form and thus reassured the frightened Arjuna.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-51/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-51/Arjuna said: Seeing this gentle human form of Yours, O Janardana, I am now composed, my mind is restored, and I have returned to my own nature.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-52/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-52/The Supreme Lord said: This form of Mine that you have seen is very difficult to behold. Even the demigods are ever longing to see this form.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-54/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-54/But only by undivided devotional service can I be known, seen in truth, and entered into, O Arjuna, O scorcher of foes.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-53/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-53/Neither by the Vedas, nor by austerity, nor by charity, nor by worship can I be seen as you have seen Me.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-55/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-55/One who acts for Me, who considers Me the supreme goal, who is My devotee, who is free from attachment, and who bears no enmity toward any living being — such a person comes to Me, O Pandava.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-6/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-6/Behold the twelve Adityas, the eight Vasus, the eleven Rudras, the two Ashvini-kumaras, and the forty-nine Maruts. Behold, O Arjuna, many wonders never seen before!Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-7/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-7/O Arjuna, whatever you wish to see — behold now the entire universe with all its moving and non-moving beings, here in My single body, along with anything else you desire to see.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-8/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-8/But you cannot see Me with your present eyes. Therefore I give you divine eyes — behold My mystic opulence!Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-9/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-11/verse-9/Sanjaya said: O King, having spoken thus, the Supreme Lord of all mystic power, Hari, then revealed to Arjuna His supreme divine form.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-12/verse-1/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-12/verse-1/Arjuna said: Those devotees who are ever devoted and worship You in Your personal form, and those who worship the imperishable unmanifest — of these, who are most perfect in yoga?Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-12/verse-10/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-12/verse-10/If you are unable even to practice, then be devoted to working for Me. By performing actions for My sake, you will attain perfection.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-12/verse-11/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-12/verse-11/If you are unable even to do this, then take shelter of My yoga and renounce the fruits of all your actions, being self-controlled.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-12/verse-12/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-12/verse-12/Knowledge is better than mere practice; meditation is better than knowledge; renunciation of the fruits of action is better than meditation — for from such renunciation, peace immediately follows.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-12/verse-13/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-12/verse-13/One who hates no creature, who is friendly and compassionate to all, who is free from possessiveness and ego, who regards happiness and distress equally, and who is forgiving —Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-12/verse-14/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-12/verse-14/Ever satisfied, always engaged in yoga, self-controlled, of firm conviction, with mind and intelligence offered to Me — such a devotee is very dear to Me.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-12/verse-15/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-12/verse-15/He who does not cause distress to the world and is not disturbed by the world, who is free from joy, envy, fear, and anxiety — he is dear to Me.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-12/verse-16/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-12/verse-16/He who is without expectations, pure, expert, free from cares, untroubled, and who has renounced all selfish undertakings — such a devotee of Mine is dear to Me.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-12/verse-17/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-12/verse-17/He who neither rejoices nor hates, neither grieves nor desires, who renounces both good and evil — full of devotion, he is dear to Me.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-12/verse-18/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-12/verse-18/He who is equal toward friend and foe, equal in honor and dishonor, equal in cold and heat, in happiness and distress, and free from all attachment —Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-12/verse-19/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-12/verse-19/Equal in blame and praise, silent and reflective, satisfied with anything, without a fixed abode, steady-minded, and full of devotion — such a person is dear to Me.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-12/verse-2/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-12/verse-2/Those who fix their minds on My personal form and who always engage in worshipping Me with great and transcendental faith — I consider them to be most perfect in yoga.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-12/verse-20/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-12/verse-20/Those who follow this immortal path of dharma as I have described, with faith, making Me their supreme goal — those devotees are exceedingly dear to Me.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-12/verse-3/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-12/verse-3/But those who worship the imperishable, the indefinable, the unmanifest — that which is all-pervading, inconceivable, unchanging, immovable, and eternal —Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-12/verse-4/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-12/verse-4/Having controlled all their senses, being equal-minded everywhere, and devoted to the welfare of all beings — they also attain Me.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-12/verse-5/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-12/verse-5/For those whose minds are attached to the unmanifest, the difficulty is greater. The path of the unmanifest is very hard for embodied beings to reach.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-12/verse-7/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-12/verse-7/For those whose minds are fixed on Me, O Arjuna, I am soon their deliverer from the ocean of birth and death.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-12/verse-6/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-12/verse-6/But those who surrender all actions to Me, who regard Me as the supreme goal, and who worship Me through undivided devotion, meditating on Me —Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-12/verse-8/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-12/verse-8/Fix your mind upon Me, engage your intelligence in Me — you will live in Me alone hereafter, without a doubt.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-12/verse-9/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-12/verse-9/If you are unable to fix your mind steadily upon Me, O Dhananjaya, then seek to reach Me by the yoga of regular practice.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-10/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-10/O son of Bharata! Sometimes the mode of goodness prevails, defeating passion and ignorance. Sometimes passion prevails, defeating goodness and ignorance. And sometimes ignorance prevails, defeating goWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-1/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-1/The Supreme Lord said: Again I shall declare to you the supreme knowledge, the best of all knowledge, knowing which all the sages have attained the highest perfection.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-11/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-11/When the light of knowledge shines through all the gates of the body, then it should be known that the mode of goodness has increased.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-12/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-12/O best of the Bharatas! When the mode of passion increases, the signs of greed, excessive activity, undertaking of ambitious projects, uncontrollable desire, and intense hankering become manifest.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-13/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-13/O son of the Kurus! When the mode of ignorance increases, darkness, inactivity, madness, and delusion become manifest.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-14/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-14/When one dies in the mode of goodness, one attains the pure higher planets of the great sages.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-15/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-15/When one dies in the mode of passion, he takes birth among those attached to fruitive activities; and when one dies in the mode of ignorance, he takes birth in animal species.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-16/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-16/The result of pious action performed in the mode of goodness is pure and is called sattvic. But action performed in the mode of passion results in misery, and action in the mode of ignorance results iWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-17/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-17/From the mode of goodness, real knowledge develops; from the mode of passion, greed develops; and from the mode of ignorance develop madness, delusion, and ignorance.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-20/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-20/When the embodied soul is able to transcend these three modes associated with the material body, he can become free from birth, death, old age, and the distresses arising from them, and can enjoy nectWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-19/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-19/When one properly sees that in all activities no performer is at work other than the three modes of material nature, and when one knows the Supreme Lord who is transcendental to these modes, that persWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-18/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-18/Those situated in the mode of goodness gradually go upward to the higher planets; those in the mode of passion remain on this earthly plane; and those in the abominable mode of ignorance go down to thWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-2/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-2/By taking shelter of this knowledge and becoming established in My divine nature, one is neither born at the time of creation nor disturbed at the time of dissolution.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-21/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-21/Arjuna inquired: O my Lord, by what symptoms is one known who has transcended the three modes? What is his behavior? And how does he transcend the modes of nature?Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-22/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-22/The Supreme Lord said: O son of Pandu, he who does not hate illumination, attachment, and delusion when they are present, nor longs for them when they disappear —Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-23/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-23/He who is seated as if neutral, who is undisturbed by the modes, who knows that only the modes are active, who remains firmly situated — such a person never wavers.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-24/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-24/He who is equal in pleasure and pain, who is self-composed, who regards a lump of earth, a stone, and gold as equal, who is equal toward the desirable and undesirable, who is steady, and who is equal Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-25/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-25/He who is equal in honor and dishonor, equal to friend and enemy, who has renounced all material undertakings — such a person is said to have transcended the modes of nature.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-26/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-26/One who engages in full devotional service, unfailing in all circumstances, at once transcends the modes of material nature and thus comes to the level of Brahman.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-3/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-3/O son of Bharata! The total material substance, called Brahman, is the womb, and I impregnate it with the seeds of all living beings. Thus the birth of all living entities becomes possible.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-27/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-27/And I am the basis of the impersonal Brahman, which is immortal, imperishable, eternal, and is the natural position of ultimate happiness.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-4/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-4/O son of Kunti! Whatever forms are produced in all the wombs of this material world, the great material nature (Brahman) is their mother and I am the seed-giving father.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-6/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-6/O sinless one! The mode of goodness, being purer than the other modes, is illuminating and frees one from all sinful reactions. Those situated in that mode become conditioned by a sense of happiness aWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-5/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-5/Material nature consists of three modes — goodness (sattva), passion (rajas), and ignorance (tamas). O mighty-armed Arjuna! When the eternal living entity comes in contact with material nature, he becWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-7/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-7/O son of Kunti! Know that the mode of passion is born of unlimited desires and longings. It binds the embodied soul through attachment to fruitive activities.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-8/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-8/O son of Bharata! Know that the mode of ignorance (tamas) is born of darkness and is the delusion of all embodied beings. It binds through madness, laziness, and excessive sleep.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-9/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-14/verse-9/O son of Bharata! The mode of goodness binds one to happiness, the mode of passion binds one to fruitive action, and the mode of ignorance, covering one's knowledge, binds one to madness.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-15/verse-1/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-15/verse-1/The Supreme Lord said: There is a banyan tree with its roots upward and branches downward, which is said to be imperishable. Its leaves are the Vedic hymns. One who knows this tree is the knower of thWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-15/verse-10/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-15/verse-10/The foolish cannot understand how a living entity can quit his body, nor can they understand what sort of body he enjoys under the spell of the modes of nature. But one whose eyes are trained in knowlWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-15/verse-11/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-15/verse-11/The endeavoring yogis who are situated in self-realization can see all this clearly. But those whose minds are not developed and who are not situated in self-realization cannot see what is taking placWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-15/verse-12/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-15/verse-12/The splendor of the sun, which illuminates the entire world, and which is in the moon and in fire — know that splendor to be Mine.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-15/verse-14/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-15/verse-14/I am the fire of digestion in the bodies of all living entities, and I join with the outgoing and incoming breath to digest the four kinds of food.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-15/verse-13/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-15/verse-13/I enter the earth and sustain all living beings with My energy. Becoming the moon, I nourish all plants and supply the juice of life.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-15/verse-16/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-15/verse-16/There are two classes of beings in this world — the fallible and the infallible. In the material world, every living entity is fallible, and in the spiritual world, every living entity is infallible.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-15/verse-17/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-15/verse-17/Besides these two, there is the greatest living personality, the Supreme Soul, the imperishable Lord Himself, who has entered the three worlds and is maintaining them.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-15/verse-15/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-15/verse-15/I am seated in everyone's heart, and from Me come memory, knowledge, and forgetfulness. I alone am the object of all the Vedas; I am the author of Vedanta, and I am the knower of the Vedas.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-15/verse-18/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-15/verse-18/Because I am transcendental, beyond both the fallible and the infallible, and because I am the greatest, I am celebrated both in the world and in the Vedas as the Supreme Person — Purushottama.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-15/verse-19/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-15/verse-19/Whoever knows Me without doubt as the Supreme Person — he knows everything and worships Me with his whole being, O Bharata.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-15/verse-2/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-15/verse-2/The branches of this tree extend both upward and downward, nourished by the three modes of material nature. The twigs are the sense objects. The roots also extend downward, bound to fruitive actions iWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-15/verse-20/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-15/verse-20/This is the most confidential part of the Vedic scriptures, O sinless one, and it is disclosed now by Me. Whoever understands this will become wise and his efforts will be fulfilled.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-15/verse-4/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-15/verse-4/After cutting this tree, one must seek that place from which, having gone, one never returns. One must surrender to that Supreme Person from whom everything began and from whom this ancient creation hWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-15/verse-3/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-15/verse-3/The real form of this tree cannot be perceived in this world. No one can understand where it ends, where it begins, or where its foundation is. But with determination, one must cut down this strongly Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-15/verse-5/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-15/verse-5/Those who are free from false prestige, illusion, and bad association, who are eternally engaged in spiritual knowledge, who are free from material desires, who are liberated from the dualities of hapWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-15/verse-6/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-15/verse-6/That supreme abode of Mine is not illuminated by the sun or moon, nor by fire or electricity. Those who reach it never return to this material world.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-15/verse-7/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-15/verse-7/The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the mind.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-15/verse-8/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-15/verse-8/The living entity in the material world carries his different conceptions of life from one body to another, just as the air carries aromas. Thus he takes one kind of body and again quits it to take anWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-15/verse-9/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-15/verse-9/The living entity, thus taking another gross body, obtains a certain type of ear, eye, tongue, nose, and sense of touch, which are grouped around the mind. He thus enjoys a particular set of sense objWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-1/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-1/Arjuna said: O Keshava, I wish to know about prakriti (nature), purusha (the enjoyer), the field (kshetra), the knower of the field (kshetrajna), knowledge, and the object of knowledge.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-10/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-10/Non-attachment, absence of over-affection for son, wife, home, and the rest, and constant even-mindedness upon the attainment of the desirable and the undesirable —Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-11/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-11/Constant and unalloyed devotion to Me, resorting to solitary places, and detachment from the general mass of people —Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-12/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-12/Constancy in self-knowledge, perception of the goal of knowledge of truth — all this is declared to be knowledge, and what is contrary to this is ignorance.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-13/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-13/I shall now explain the knowable, knowing which you will taste the eternal. Brahman, the spirit, beginningless and subordinate to Me, lies beyond the cause and effect of this material world.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-14/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-14/Everywhere are His hands and feet, His eyes, heads and faces, and He has ears everywhere. In this way the Supersoul exists, pervading everything in the world.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-15/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-15/The Supersoul is the original source of all senses, yet He is without senses. He is unattached, although He is the maintainer of all living beings. He transcends the modes of material nature, and at tWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-16/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-16/The Supreme Truth exists outside and inside all living beings, the moving and the nonmoving. Because He is subtle, He is beyond the power of the material senses to see or to know. Although far, far awWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-17/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-17/Although the Supersoul appears to be divided among all beings, He is never divided. He is situated as one. Although He is the maintainer of every living entity, it is to be understood that He devours Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-18/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-18/He is the source of light in all luminous objects. He is beyond the darkness of matter and is said to be knowledge, the object of knowledge, and the goal of knowledge. He is situated in everyone's heaWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-19/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-19/Thus the field of activities (the body), knowledge, and the knowable have been summarily described by Me. Only My devotees can understand this fully and thus attain My nature.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-2/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-2/The Supreme Lord said: O son of Kunti, this body is called the field (kshetra), and one who knows this body is called the knower of the field (kshetrajna) by those who know the truth.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-22/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-22/The living entity in material nature thus follows the ways of life, enjoying the three modes of nature. This is due to his association with that material nature. Thus he meets with good and evil amongWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-20/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-20/Material nature and the living entities should be understood to be beginningless. Their transformations and the modes of nature are products of material nature.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-23/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-23/Yet in this body there is another, a transcendental enjoyer, who is the Lord, the supreme proprietor, who exists as the overseer and permitter, and who is known as the Supersoul (Paramatma).Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-21/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-21/Nature is said to be the cause of all material causes and effects, whereas the living entity is the cause of the various sufferings and enjoyments in this world.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-24/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-24/One who understands this philosophy concerning material nature, the living entity, and the interaction of the modes of nature is sure to attain liberation. He will not take birth here again, regardlesWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-26/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-26/Yet others, who do not have spiritual knowledge, begin to worship the Supreme Person upon hearing about Him from others. They too, devoted to hearing from authorities, cross beyond the path of death.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-25/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-25/Some perceive the Supersoul within themselves through meditation, others through the cultivation of knowledge, and still others through working without selfish desire (karma yoga).Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-27/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-27/O best of the Bharatas, whatever being is born — whether moving or non-moving — know it to be a combination of the field of activities and the knower of the field.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-28/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-28/One who sees the Supreme Lord present equally in all beings, the imperishable within the perishable — that person truly sees.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-3/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-3/O scion of Bharata, know Me also as the knower in all fields. The knowledge of the field and its knower — that, in My opinion, is true knowledge.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-30/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-30/One who sees that all actions are performed by material nature alone, and that the self does nothing — that person truly sees.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-32/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-32/O son of Kunti, the imperishable Supreme Soul, being beginningless and beyond the material modes, neither acts nor is tainted — even while dwelling in the body.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-29/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-29/One who sees the Lord equally present everywhere does not degrade the self by the mind, and thus attains the supreme destination.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-33/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-33/Just as the all-pervading sky is never tainted due to its subtle nature, so the soul, though situated everywhere in the body, is never tainted.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-34/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-34/O son of Bharata, just as one sun illuminates the entire universe, so the soul — the knower of the field — illuminates the entire body with consciousness.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-31/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-31/When a wise person ceases to see different identities due to different bodies, and sees how beings are expanded everywhere, he attains the Brahman conception.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-35/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-35/Those who see with the eye of knowledge the difference between the body and its knower, and also the liberation of beings from material nature — they attain the Supreme.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-4/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-4/Now hear from Me in brief what the field is, what it is like, what its modifications are, where it comes from, who the knower of the field is, and what his powers are.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-5/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-5/This knowledge of the field and its knower has been sung by various sages in many ways, described in various Vedic hymns, and especially established with reasoning in the aphorisms of the Brahma SutraWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-6/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-6/The five great elements, false ego, intelligence, the unmanifest, the ten senses and the mind, the five objects of the senses, desire, hatred, happiness, distress, the aggregate body, consciousness, aWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-7/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-7/Desire, hatred, happiness, distress, the aggregate body, consciousness, and conviction — all these together, with their modifications, are considered to be the field of activities.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-8/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-8/Humility, pridelessness, nonviolence, tolerance, simplicity, approaching a bona fide spiritual master, cleanliness, steadiness, and self-control —Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-9/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-13/verse-9/Detachment from the objects of the senses, absence of false ego, and the perception of the evil of birth, death, old age, and disease —Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-1/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-1/Fearlessness, purity of heart, steadiness in knowledge and yoga, giving in charity, control of the senses, worship, study of scriptures, austerity, and straightforwardness —Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-10/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-10/Taking shelter of insatiable desire, absorbed in hypocrisy, false prestige, and pride, deluded beings accept impermanent things and engage in impure activities.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-11/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-11/They are beset by immeasurable anxieties that end only with death, considering sense gratification as the highest aim of life, and convinced that this is all there is.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-12/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-12/Bound by hundreds of ties of desire, devoted to lust and anger, they strive to accumulate wealth by unjust means for the sake of sense gratification.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-13/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-13/The demonic person thinks: 'Today I have gained this; tomorrow I shall fulfill this desire. This wealth is mine, and more shall be mine in the future.'Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-14/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-14/'That enemy has been slain by me, and I shall destroy others as well. I am the lord, I am the enjoyer, I am perfect, powerful, and happy.'Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-15/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-15/'I am wealthy and of noble birth. Who else is equal to me? I shall perform sacrifices, I shall give in charity, and I shall rejoice.' Thus they are deluded by ignorance.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-16/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-16/Bewildered by many anxieties and caught in a net of delusion, addicted to sense gratification, they fall into an impure hell.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-17/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-17/Self-conceited, stubborn, and intoxicated by wealth and false prestige, they perform sacrifices in name only, out of pride, without following any scriptural rules.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-18/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-18/Taking shelter of false ego, strength, arrogance, desire, and anger, the demonic person becomes envious of God situated in their own body and in the bodies of others, and blasphemes the true religion.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-19/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-19/Those who are envious, cruel, and the lowest of mankind — I perpetually cast these hateful and inauspicious souls into demonic wombs in the cycle of birth and death.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-2/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-2/Non-violence, truthfulness, freedom from anger, renunciation, peacefulness, aversion to fault-finding, compassion toward all beings, freedom from greed, gentleness, modesty, and steady determination —Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-20/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-20/O son of Kunti, birth after birth these foolish souls attain demonic wombs, and without ever reaching Me, they sink to the lowest condition.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-21/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-21/There are three gates to hell, leading to the destruction of the self — lust, anger, and greed. Therefore, one should abandon all three.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-22/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-22/O son of Kunti, a person who is freed from these three gates of darkness acts for the welfare of the self, and thus attains the supreme destination.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-24/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-24/Therefore, let scripture be your authority in determining what should and should not be done. Understanding the scriptural injunctions, you should perform your duty in this world.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-23/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-23/One who discards the injunctions of scripture and acts according to one's own desires attains neither perfection, nor happiness, nor the supreme destination.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-3/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-3/Radiance, forgiveness, fortitude, cleanliness, freedom from malice, and absence of excessive pride — these are the qualities of one born to divine nature, O Arjuna.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-4/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-4/Hypocrisy, arrogance, conceit, anger, harshness, and ignorance — these are the qualities of one born to the demonic nature, O Partha.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-5/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-5/The divine nature leads to liberation, while the demonic nature leads to bondage. Do not grieve, O Arjuna — you are born with divine qualities.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-6/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-6/There are two types of created beings in this world — the divine and the demonic. The divine has been described in detail. Now hear from me about the demonic, O Partha.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-7/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-7/Those who are demonic do not know what is to be done and what is to be avoided. Neither purity, nor proper conduct, nor truth is found in them.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-8/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-8/They say that this world is unreal, without foundation, without a God. It is produced by mutual union alone, caused by nothing other than desire.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-9/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-16/verse-9/Holding such views, these lost souls of meager intelligence engage in cruel and harmful actions, arising as enemies for the destruction of the world.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-1/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-1/Arjuna said: O Krishna, what is the situation of those who do not follow the principles of scripture but worship according to their own faith? Are they in goodness, in passion, or in ignorance?Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-10/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-10/Food that is cooked more than three hours before eating, that is tasteless, stale, putrid, decomposed, and impure — such food is dear to those in the mode of ignorance.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-11/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-11/That sacrifice which is performed according to scriptural direction, by those who expect no reward, with the firm conviction that it is a duty — that sacrifice is sattvic (in the mode of goodness).Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-12/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-12/But that sacrifice which is performed for the sake of some material benefit, or for pride and ostentation, O best of the Bharatas — know that to be rajasic (in the mode of passion).Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-14/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-14/Worship of the Supreme Lord, the brahmanas, the spiritual master, and wise elders, along with purity, simplicity, celibacy, and nonviolence — this is called austerity of the body.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-15/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-15/Speaking words that are truthful, pleasing, beneficial, and not causing distress to others, and regular study of the Vedic scriptures — this is called austerity of speech.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-13/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-13/That sacrifice performed without regard for scriptural direction, without distribution of prasadam, without chanting of Vedic mantras, without proper remuneration to the priests, and without faith — tWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-16/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-16/Serenity of mind, gentleness, silence, self-control, and purity of thought — this is called austerity of the mind.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-18/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-18/Austerity performed with hypocrisy, for the sake of gaining respect, honor, and reverence from others, is said to be rajasic — it is unstable and temporary.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-17/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-17/This threefold austerity, practiced with supreme faith by steadfast persons who desire no reward, is declared to be sattvic — in the mode of goodness.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-19/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-19/Austerity performed with foolish stubbornness, through self-torture, or for the purpose of destroying others — that is declared to be tamasic, in the mode of ignorance.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-20/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-20/Charity given out of duty, without expectation of return, at the right place and time, and to a worthy person — that is considered sattvic charity.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-2/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-2/The Supreme Lord said: The faith of embodied beings is of three kinds, born of their own nature — sattvic (in goodness), rajasic (in passion), and tamasic (in ignorance). Now hear about this from Me.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-21/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-21/Charity given with the expectation of something in return, or with desire for future reward, or given grudgingly — that is considered rajasic.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-22/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-22/Charity given at the wrong place and time, to unworthy recipients, without respect, and with contempt — that is declared to be tamasic.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-23/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-23/Om Tat Sat — this has been declared as the threefold designation of Brahman. By this, the brahmanas, the Vedas, and the sacrifices were ordained in the beginning.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-24/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-24/Therefore, the acts of sacrifice, charity, and austerity as prescribed by scripture are always begun by the knowers of Brahman with the utterance of Om.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-25/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-25/Uttering 'Tat' — without aiming at any fruit — the various acts of sacrifice, austerity, and charity are performed by those who seek liberation.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-26/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-26/The word 'Sat' is used in the sense of reality and goodness, O Partha. Likewise, the word 'Sat' is used to describe auspicious action.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-27/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-27/Steadfastness in sacrifice, austerity, and charity is also called 'Sat.' And action performed for the sake of the Supreme is verily called 'Sat.'Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-28/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-28/Whatever is sacrificed, given, or performed, and whatever austerity is practiced without faith — it is called 'Asat,' O Partha. It is of no value, either here or hereafter.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-3/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-3/The faith of every person corresponds to their nature, O Arjuna. A human being is made of faith — whatever their faith is, that is what they are.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-4/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-4/Those in the mode of goodness worship the gods (devas); those in the mode of passion worship yakshas and rakshasas (demons); and those in the mode of ignorance worship ghosts and spirits of the dead.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-5/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-5/Those who practice severe austerities not enjoined by the scriptures, being driven by hypocrisy and ego, impelled by lust, attachment, and force —Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-6/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-6/Those who senselessly torture the material elements of the body, and also Me who dwells within — know them to be of demoniac resolve.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-7/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-7/Even the food that is preferred by each person is of three kinds. So too are sacrifice, austerity, and charity. Now hear of the distinctions among them.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-8/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-8/Foods that increase life span, purify existence, give strength, health, happiness, and satisfaction — such foods are juicy, smooth, substantial, and pleasing to the heart. They are dear to those in thWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-9/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-17/verse-9/Foods that are excessively bitter, sour, salty, hot, pungent, dry, and burning are preferred by those in the mode of passion. Such foods cause pain, distress, and disease.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-1/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-1/Arjuna said — O mighty-armed one, I wish to understand the true nature of renunciation (sannyasa) and of giving up (tyaga), and the difference between the two, O Hrishikesha, O slayer of the Keshi demWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-10/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-10/The wise renouncer, absorbed in goodness and free from all doubt, neither hates unpleasant work nor is attached to pleasant work.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-11/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-11/It is indeed impossible for any embodied being to give up all actions entirely. But one who renounces the fruits of action is truly called a renouncer.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-12/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-12/For those who do not renounce, three kinds of fruits accrue after death — desirable, undesirable, and mixed. But for those who are true renouncers, there are no such fruits to suffer or enjoy.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-13/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-13/O mighty-armed Arjuna, learn from Me the five causes for the accomplishment of all actions, as declared in the Vedanta philosophy.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-14/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-14/The body (seat of action), the doer, the various senses, the many kinds of efforts, and the divine will — these are the five factors of action.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-15/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-15/Whatever action a person performs through body, speech, or mind — whether right or wrong — these five factors are its cause.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-16/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-16/Therefore, one who — due to impure intelligence — sees oneself as the sole doer, not considering the five factors, such a fool does not see things as they are.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-17/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-17/One who is free from false ego, whose intelligence is not tainted — even if they slay in this world, they neither slay nor are they bound by their actions.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-19/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-19/Knowledge, action, and the doer are each of three kinds according to the three modes of material nature. Hear about them as they truly are, as described in the science of the gunas.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-18/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-18/Knowledge, the object of knowledge, and the knower — these three motivate action. The senses, the action, and the doer — these three constitute the basis of action.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-2/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-2/The Supreme Lord said — The wise understand sannyasa to be the giving up of desire-motivated actions. The experienced declare tyaga to be the giving up of the fruits of all actions.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-20/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-20/That knowledge by which one sees a single imperishable reality in all living beings — undivided among the divided — know that knowledge to be sattvic.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-21/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-21/That knowledge by which one sees different types of living entities in different bodies as separate and unrelated — know that knowledge to be in the mode of passion.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-22/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-22/And that knowledge by which one clings to one single activity as if it were everything, which is irrational, trivial, and has no basis in truth — that is declared to be in the mode of ignorance.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-23/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-23/Action that is regulated, performed without attachment, without love or hatred, and without desire for results — that is said to be in the mode of goodness.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-24/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-24/But action that is performed with desire for results, driven by ego, and done with great strain — that is declared to be in the mode of passion.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-25/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-25/Action undertaken out of delusion, without considering future consequences, loss, injury to others, or one's own ability — that is declared to be in the mode of ignorance.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-26/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-26/The doer who is free from attachment and false ego, endowed with determination and enthusiasm, and unmoved by success or failure — that doer is said to be in the mode of goodness.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-27/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-27/The doer who is attached, who desires the fruits of action, who is greedy, violent by nature, impure, and swayed by joy and sorrow — that doer is declared to be in the mode of passion.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-28/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-28/The doer who is undisciplined, materialistic, obstinate, deceitful, expert in insulting others, lazy, morose, and procrastinating — that doer is said to be in the mode of ignorance.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-29/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-29/O Dhananjaya, now hear from Me about the three types of intellect and determination, described fully and separately according to the three modes of nature.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-3/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-3/Some learned thinkers declare that all action is faulty and should be abandoned. Others say that acts of sacrifice, charity, and austerity should never be given up.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-30/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-30/O Partha, that intellect which knows when to act and when to withdraw, what ought to be done and what ought not, what is to be feared and what is not, and what binds and what liberates — that intellecWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-31/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-31/O Partha, that intellect which cannot correctly distinguish between dharma and adharma, between what should and should not be done — that intellect is in the mode of passion.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-32/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-32/That intellect which, covered by darkness, considers adharma to be dharma and sees all things in a perverted way — O Partha, that intellect is in the mode of ignorance.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-33/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-33/O Partha, that unswerving determination by which, through yoga, one controls the activities of the mind, the life breath, and the senses — that determination is in the mode of goodness.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-34/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-34/But O Arjuna, that determination by which one holds fast to dharma, sense enjoyment, and wealth, motivated by attachment and desire for results — that determination is in the mode of passion.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-35/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-35/O Partha, that determination by which a foolish person cannot go beyond dreaming, fear, grief, despair, and intoxication — such unintelligent determination is in the mode of ignorance.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-36/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-36/O best of the Bharatas, now hear from Me about the three kinds of happiness, in which the soul rejoices through practice and reaches the end of all suffering.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-37/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-37/That happiness which is like poison in the beginning but like nectar at the end, born from the clarity of self-knowledge — that happiness is said to be in the mode of goodness.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-38/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-38/That happiness which arises from the contact of the senses with their objects, which seems like nectar in the beginning but turns to poison in the end — that happiness is considered to be in the mode Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-39/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-39/That happiness which is deluding from beginning to end, arising from sleep, laziness, and negligence — that happiness is declared to be in the mode of ignorance.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-4/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-4/O best of the Bharatas, now hear My verdict on renunciation. O tiger among men, renunciation has been declared to be of three kinds.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-42/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-42/Peacefulness, self-control, austerity, purity, tolerance, honesty, knowledge, wisdom, and religiousness — these are the natural qualities and duties of a brahmana.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-41/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-41/O Parantapa, the duties of brahmanas, kshatriyas, vaishyas, and shudras are divided according to the qualities born of their own nature.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-40/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-40/There is no being on earth, in the heavenly realms, or among the devas that is free from the influence of these three modes born of material nature.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-43/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-43/Heroism, power, determination, skill, not fleeing from battle, generosity, and leadership — these are the natural qualities of work for a kshatriya.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-44/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-44/Agriculture, cow protection, and trade are the natural duties of a vaishya. And service is the natural duty of a shudra.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-45/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-45/Each person, devoted to their own duty, attains perfection. Now hear how one engaged in their own duty finds that perfection.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-47/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-47/It is better to perform one's own duty imperfectly than to perform another's duty perfectly. One who performs work prescribed by their own nature never incurs sin.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-46/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-46/He from whom all beings originate and by whom all this is pervaded — by worshipping Him through one's own duty, a person attains perfection.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-48/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-48/O son of Kunti, one should not abandon the duty born of one's nature, even if it has faults. For all undertakings are covered by some fault, just as fire is covered by smoke.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-5/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-5/Acts of sacrifice, charity, and austerity should not be abandoned — they must certainly be performed. Sacrifice, charity, and austerity are purifying even for great souls.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-50/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-50/O son of Kunti, learn from Me in brief how one who has attained this perfection reaches Brahman, the supreme state of transcendental knowledge.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-49/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-49/One who is self-controlled, unattached everywhere, and free from material desires attains the supreme perfection of freedom from karma through renunciation.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-51/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-51/Endowed with purified intellect, controlling the self with determination, renouncing the sense objects such as sound, and casting aside attachment and hatred...Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-52/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-52/...dwelling in solitude, eating lightly, with body, speech, and mind controlled, always devoted to meditation, and taking shelter of detachment...Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-53/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-53/...having given up false ego, false strength, false pride, lust, anger, and possessiveness — free from the sense of 'mine' and peaceful — such a person becomes fit for realization of Brahman.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-54/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-54/One who is thus established in Brahman, serene in spirit, neither grieves nor desires. Being equal toward all beings, such a person attains supreme devotion to Me.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-55/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-55/Through devotion alone can one know Me as I truly am — who I am and what I am. And having thus known Me in truth, one enters into Me immediately thereafter.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-56/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-56/My pure devotee, always engaged in all kinds of activities under My protection, attains by My grace the eternal and imperishable abode.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-57/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-57/Depend on Me for all your actions and work under My shelter. In such devotion, be fully conscious of Me at all times.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-59/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-59/If, out of false ego, you think 'I shall not fight,' your resolve is vain. Your own nature will compel you to act.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-6/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-6/O Partha! All these actions must be performed without attachment and without expectation of results — this is My definite and supreme verdict.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-58/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-58/If you become conscious of Me, you shall cross over all obstacles of life by My grace. But if you do not listen due to false ego, you shall be lost.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-60/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-60/O son of Kunti, bound by your own karma born of your nature, that which out of delusion you do not wish to do, you shall do even helplessly.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-61/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-61/The Lord dwells in the hearts of all beings, O Arjuna, causing all beings to revolve by His power of illusion, as if mounted on a machine.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-62/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-62/Take refuge in Him alone with your whole being, O Bharata. By His grace you shall attain supreme peace and the eternal abode.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-63/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-63/Thus I have taught you the most secret of all secrets. Reflect on this fully, and then do as you choose.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-64/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-64/Because you are My very dear friend, I shall speak to you again My supreme word, the most confidential of all. Hear this for your own benefit.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-65/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-65/Always think of Me, become My devotee, worship Me, and offer your homage unto Me. Thus you will come to Me without fail. I promise you this because you are My dear friend.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-66/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-66/Abandon all varieties of dharma and simply surrender unto Me alone. I shall liberate you from all sinful reactions. Do not fear.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-67/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-67/This confidential knowledge should never be spoken to one who is not austere, nor to one who is not devoted, nor to one who is not engaged in service, nor to one who is envious of Me.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-68/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-68/One who explains this supreme secret to My devotees, performing the highest devotion to Me, shall without doubt come to Me.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-69/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-69/There is no servant in this world more dear to Me than he, nor will there ever be one more dear.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-70/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-70/And I declare that whoever studies this sacred dialogue of ours worships Me through the sacrifice of knowledge.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-71/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-71/And whoever listens to this with faith and without envy is freed from sin and attains the auspicious worlds where the pious dwell.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-7/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-7/Prescribed duties should never be renounced. If one gives up prescribed duties out of delusion, such renunciation is declared to be in the mode of ignorance (tamas).Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-72/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-72/O Partha, have you heard this with a concentrated mind? O Dhananjaya, has your delusion born of ignorance been destroyed?Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-73/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-73/Arjuna said: O Achyuta, my delusion is destroyed. By Your grace I have regained my memory. I am firm, free from doubt. I shall act according to Your word.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-74/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-74/Sanjaya said: Thus I have heard this wonderful dialogue between Vasudeva (Krishna) and the great-souled Partha (Arjuna), so thrilling that my hair stands on end.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-76/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-76/O King, as I repeatedly remember this wonderful and sacred dialogue between Keshava and Arjuna, I rejoice again and again.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-77/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-77/And remembering again and again that most wonderful form of Hari, great is my astonishment, O King, and I rejoice again and again.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-78/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-78/Wherever there is Krishna, the master of mystic power, and wherever there is Arjuna, the supreme archer, there will also certainly be opulence, victory, extraordinary power, and morality. That is my cWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-75/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-75/By the grace of Vyasa, I have heard this supreme and most confidential yoga directly from Krishna, the master of all yoga, as He spoke it Himself.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-8/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-8/One who gives up prescribed duties because they are troublesome, or out of fear of bodily discomfort — such rajasic renunciation never yields the true fruit of renunciation.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-9/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-18/verse-9/O Arjuna, when prescribed duty is performed simply because it ought to be done, giving up all attachment and desire for the fruit — that renunciation is considered sattvic.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-10/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-10/In the beginning of creation, the Lord of all creatures sent forth generations of men and demigods, along with sacrifices for Vishnu, and blessed them by saying, 'Be thou happy by this yajna; it shallWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-1/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-1/O Janardana, O Keshava, if You think that intelligence is better than fruitive work, then why do You want to engage me in this terrible warfare?Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-12/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-12/In charge of the various necessities of life, the demigods, being satisfied by the performance of yajna, will supply all necessities to you. But he who enjoys such gifts without offering them to the dWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-11/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-11/The demigods, being pleased by sacrifices, will also please you; thus nourishing one another, you will attain the highest good.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-13/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-13/The devotees of the Lord are released from all kinds of sins because they eat food which is offered first for sacrifice. Others, who prepare food for personal sense enjoyment, verily eat only sin.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-14/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-14/All living bodies subsist on food grains, which are produced from rains. Rains are produced by performance of yajna, and yajna is born of prescribed duties.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-16/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-16/My dear Arjuna, one who does not follow in human life the cycle of sacrifice thus established by the Vedas certainly leads a life full of sin. Living only for the satisfaction of the senses, such a peWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-15/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-15/Regulated activities are prescribed in the Vedas, and the Vedas are directly manifested from the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Consequently the all-pervading Transcendence is eternally situated in aWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-17/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-17/But for one who takes pleasure in the self, whose human life is one of self-realization, and who is satisfied in the self only, fully satiated — for him there is no duty.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-18/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-18/A self-realized man has no purpose to fulfill in the discharge of his prescribed duties, nor has he any reason not to perform such work. Nor has he any need to depend on any other living being.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-19/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-19/Therefore, without being attached to the fruits of activities, one should act as a matter of duty, for by working without attachment one attains the Supreme.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-2/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-2/My intelligence is bewildered by Your equivocal instructions. Therefore, please tell me decisively which will be most beneficial for me.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-20/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-20/Kings such as Janaka attained perfection solely by performance of prescribed duties. Therefore, just for the sake of educating the people in general, you should perform your work.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-21/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-21/Whatever action a great man performs, common men follow. And whatever standards he sets by exemplary acts, all the world pursues.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-22/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-22/O son of Pritha, there is no work prescribed for Me within all the three planetary systems. Nor am I in want of anything, nor have I a need to obtain anything — and yet I am engaged in prescribed dutiWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-23/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-23/For if I ever failed to engage in carefully performing prescribed duties, O Partha, certainly all men would follow My path.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-24/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-24/If I did not perform prescribed duties, all these worlds would be put to ruination. I would be the cause of creating unwanted population, and I would thereby destroy the peace of all living beings.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-25/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-25/As the ignorant perform their duties with attachment to results, the learned may similarly act, but without attachment, for the sake of leading people on the right path.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-26/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-26/So as not to disrupt the minds of ignorant men attached to the fruitive results of prescribed duties, a learned person should not induce them to stop work. Rather, by working in the spirit of devotionWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-27/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-27/The bewildered spirit soul, under the influence of the three modes of material nature, thinks himself the doer of activities that are in actuality carried out by nature.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-28/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-28/But one who knows the truth, O mighty-armed, about the divisions of the gunas and their actions — knowing that it is the gunas that move among the gunas — is not attached.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-29/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-29/Those who are fully deluded by the qualities of material nature become attached to the activities of the gunas. The knower of the whole truth should not unsettle those fools of incomplete knowledge.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-3/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-3/The Supreme Lord said: O sinless Arjuna, I have already explained that there are two classes of men who try to realize the self. Some are inclined to understand it by empirical, philosophical speculatWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-30/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-30/Dedicating all actions to Me, with consciousness fixed in the Self, free from longing, free from possessiveness — fight, free from the fever of anxiety.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-31/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-31/Those human beings who always follow this teaching of Mine with faith and without envy — they too are freed from the bondage of karma.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-32/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-32/But those who, out of envy, do not follow My teaching — know them to be completely deluded in all knowledge, lost, and devoid of true awareness.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-33/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-33/Even the wise person acts according to their own nature. All beings follow their nature. What will suppression accomplish?Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-34/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-34/In each sense and for each sense-object, there exist both attraction and repulsion. One should never come under the sway of either of these two, for they are indeed the greatest obstacles on the path.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-35/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-35/It is far better to discharge one's prescribed duties, even though faultily, than another's duties perfectly. Destruction in the course of performing one's own duty is better than engaging in another'Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-36/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-36/Arjuna said: O descendant of Vrishni, by what is a person driven to commit sin even unwillingly, as if compelled by force?Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-37/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-37/The Blessed Lord said: It is desire, it is wrath — born of the quality of rajas — all-devouring and greatly sinful. Know this to be the enemy here in this world.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-38/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-38/As fire is covered by smoke, as a mirror by dust, and as an embryo is enclosed by the womb — so is this knowledge covered by that desire.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-39/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-39/Thus the knowledge of the knower is covered by this eternal enemy, O son of Kunti — by desire, which is like an insatiable fire.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-4/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-4/Not by merely abstaining from work can one achieve freedom from reaction, nor by renunciation alone can one attain perfection.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-40/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-40/The senses, the mind, and the intellect are said to be the seat of desire. Through these, desire bewilders the embodied soul by covering its knowledge.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-42/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-42/The senses are said to be superior to inert matter; the mind is superior to the senses; the intellect is superior to the mind; and that which is superior to the intellect — that is the Self.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-41/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-41/Therefore, O best of the Bharatas, regulate the senses from the very beginning and slay this sinful destroyer of knowledge and self-realization.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-43/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-43/Thus knowing the Self to be superior to the intellect, O mighty-armed, steady the self by the Self and slay the enemy in the form of desire — difficult though it is to overcome.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-5/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-5/Everyone is forced to act helplessly according to the qualities he has acquired from the modes of material nature; therefore no one can refrain from doing something, not even for a moment.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-6/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-6/One who restrains the senses of action but whose mind dwells on sense objects certainly deludes himself and is called a pretender.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-7/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-7/On the other hand, if a sincere person tries to control the active senses by the mind and begins karma yoga without attachment, he is by far superior.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-8/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-8/Perform your prescribed duty, for doing so is better than not working. One cannot even maintain one's physical body without work.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-9/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-3/verse-9/Work done as a sacrifice for Vishnu has to be performed, otherwise work causes bondage in this material world. Therefore, O son of Kunti, perform your prescribed duties for His satisfaction, and in thWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-1/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-1/I taught this imperishable yoga to Vivasvan the sun god. Vivasvan then taught it to Manu, the father of mankind. And Manu taught it to Ikshvaku.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-10/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-10/Freed from attachment, fear, and anger, fully absorbed in Me, taking refuge in Me, and purified by the fire of knowledge — many have attained My state of being.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-11/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-11/As all surrender to Me, I reward them accordingly. Everyone follows My path in all respects, O Arjuna.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-12/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-12/Those who desire quick results from their actions in this world worship the gods; in the human world, the fruits of action come swiftly.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-13/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-13/The four divisions of human society were created by Me according to the qualities and actions of people. Though I am the creator of this system, know Me as the non-doer, changeless.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-16/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-16/Even the wise are confused about what is action and what is inaction. I shall now explain to you what action is, knowing which you shall be freed from all misfortune.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-14/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-14/Actions do not taint Me, nor do I desire the fruits of action. One who knows Me in this way is also not bound by the results of their actions.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-15/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-15/Knowing this, even the ancient seekers of liberation performed action. Therefore you too must perform action, as the ancients did in former times.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-17/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-17/The nature of action must be understood, the nature of wrong action must be understood, and the nature of inaction must be understood. The path of action is very difficult to understand.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-18/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-18/One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is wise among men. Such a person is a yogi, a doer of all actions.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-19/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-19/One whose every undertaking is free from desire and personal intention, whose actions have been burned by the fire of knowledge — the wise call such a person learned.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-2/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-2/The saintly kings understood this yoga received through disciplic succession. But over the long course of time, O subduer of enemies, this yoga was lost in the world.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-21/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-21/Free from desires, with mind and self controlled, having given up all sense of possession, acting only for the body's basic maintenance — such a person incurs no sin.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-22/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-22/Content with whatever comes of itself, beyond the pairs of opposites, free from envy, same in success and failure — even while acting, such a person is never bound.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-23/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-23/The actions of one who is free from attachment, who is liberated, and whose mind is wholly established in knowledge — all such karma performed as sacrifice dissolves entirely.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-20/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-20/Having abandoned all attachment to the fruits of action, ever content, depending on no one, though fully engaged in action, such a person does nothing at all.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-27/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-27/Others offer all the actions of the senses and the functions of the life-breath into the fire of the yoga of self-restraint, kindled by knowledge.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-26/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-26/Some offer the senses — hearing and the rest — into the fires of self-restraint. Others offer sound and the other sense objects into the fires of the senses.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-25/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-25/Some yogis worship the gods through sacrifice; others offer sacrifice itself as an oblation into the fire of Brahman.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-24/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-24/Brahman is the ladle; Brahman is the oblation; Brahman pours the offering into the fire of Brahman. Brahman alone is the goal to be reached by one who is absorbed in Brahman through every action.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-28/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-28/Some offer their wealth as sacrifice; others offer austerity, others yoga practice, and still others offer the sacrifice of scriptural study and knowledge — all these are ascetics of firm vows.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-29/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-29/Others offer the outgoing breath into the incoming breath, and the incoming breath into the outgoing breath, restraining the movement of both — devoted to pranayama. Still others, with regulated eatinWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-3/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-3/That same ancient yoga I am now declaring to you today, for you are My devotee and My friend. This is indeed the supreme secret.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-30/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-30/All these knowers of sacrifice, their sins destroyed through sacrifice, partake of the nectar that remains from sacrifice and go to the eternal Brahman.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-32/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-32/Thus many kinds of sacrifices are spread out in the face of Brahman. Know them all to be born of action — and knowing this, you shall be liberated.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-31/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-31/O best of the Kurus, even this world is not for one who performs no sacrifice — how then the next?Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-33/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-33/O scorcher of enemies, the sacrifice of knowledge is superior to any material sacrifice. All action, O Partha, without exception, finds its culmination in knowledge.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-34/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-34/Seek that knowledge through humble surrender, sincere inquiry, and service. The wise who have seen the truth will instruct you in that knowledge.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-35/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-35/Having known this, O Pandava, you will not again fall into delusion. By this knowledge you will see all beings without exception within the Self — and then in Me.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-36/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-36/Even if you are the most sinful of all sinners, you shall cross over all sin by the boat of knowledge alone.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-37/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-37/Just as a blazing fire reduces firewood to ashes, O Arjuna, so the fire of knowledge reduces all karma to ashes.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-38/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-38/There is nothing in this world as purifying as knowledge. In time, the person perfected in yoga discovers this within themselves.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-39/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-39/The person of faith who is devoted to it and has mastered the senses obtains knowledge. Having obtained knowledge, they swiftly attain supreme peace.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-4/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-4/Arjuna said: Vivasvan's birth was prior to yours. How then am I to understand that you taught this yoga to him in the beginning?Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-40/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-40/The ignorant, the faithless, and the doubting self perish. For the doubting soul there is neither this world, nor the next, nor any happiness.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-42/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-42/Therefore, cut asunder the doubt born of ignorance that dwells in your heart with the sword of knowledge. Stand established in yoga. Arise, O Bharata!Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-5/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-5/Many births have passed for both you and Me, O Arjuna. I remember all of them. You do not, O subduer of enemies.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-41/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-41/One who has renounced actions through yoga, whose doubts are cut asunder by knowledge, and who is self-possessed — actions do not bind that person, O Dhananjaya.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-6/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-6/Although I am unborn and My soul is imperishable, and although I am the Lord of all beings, I appear in every age by presiding over My own divine nature through My internal potency.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-7/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-7/Whenever there is a decline of righteousness and rise of unrighteousness, O Bharata, at that time I manifest Myself.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-8/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-8/To deliver the pious and to annihilate the miscreants, and to reestablish the principles of righteousness, I advent Myself millennium after millennium.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-9/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-4/verse-9/One who knows the truth of My divine birth and activities, O Arjuna, does not take birth again upon leaving the body. He comes to Me.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-1/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-1/Sanjaya said: Seeing Arjuna full of compassion, his mind depressed, his eyes full of tears, Madhusudana (Krishna) spoke the following words.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-12/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-12/Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-11/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-11/You grieve for those who should not be grieved for, yet you speak words of wisdom. The wise do not grieve for the living or the dead.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-10/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-10/O Dhritarashtra, Krishna, the master of the senses, as if smiling, spoke these words to the grief-stricken Arjuna between the two armies.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-13/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-13/Just as the soul in this body passes through childhood, youth, and old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. The wise person is not confused by this.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-14/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-14/O son of Kunti, the contacts between the senses and the sense objects give rise to feelings of cold and heat, pleasure and pain. They come and go; they are impermanent. Bear them, O Bharata.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-15/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-15/O best among men, the person whom these (pairs of opposites) do not afflict, who is the same in pleasure and pain, who is wise and steady — that person is fit for immortality.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-16/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-16/The unreal never is. The real never ceases to be. The conclusion about both has been clearly perceived by the seers of truth.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-17/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-17/Know that which pervades the entire body is indestructible. No one is able to destroy the imperishable soul.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-18/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-18/The material body of the indestructible, immeasurable and eternal living entity is sure to come to an end; therefore, fight, O descendant of Bharata.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-19/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-19/He who thinks the soul is a slayer and he who thinks the soul is slain — both fail to perceive the truth. This soul neither slays nor is slain.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-2/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-2/Whence has come upon you, O Arjuna, in this crisis this depression, this unmanliness? It does not become you. Do not yield to impotence, O Arjuna. It does not befit you. Such dejection is not for an AWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-20/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-20/The soul is never born, nor does it die. It has never come into being and will never come to be. It is unborn, eternal, ever-existing, and primeval. It is not slain when the body is slain.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-21/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-21/O Partha, how can a person who knows that the soul is indestructible, eternal, unborn and immutable kill anyone or cause anyone to kill?Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-23/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-23/Weapons cannot cut the soul, fire cannot burn it, water cannot wet it, and wind cannot dry it.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-22/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-22/Just as a person puts on new garments, giving up old and worn-out ones, similarly, the soul accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-24/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-24/This soul cannot be cut, burned, wetted, or dried. It is eternal, all-pervading, unchanging, immovable, and everlasting.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-25/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-25/This soul is said to be unmanifest, unthinkable, and immutable. Therefore, knowing this, you should not grieve for the body.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-26/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-26/But if you think that the soul is perpetually born and always dies, still you have no reason to lament, O mighty-armed Arjuna.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-27/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-27/For one who is born, death is certain; and for one who has died, birth is certain. Therefore in this inevitable duty, you should not lament.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-28/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-28/All created beings are unmanifest before birth, manifest in the middle state, and unmanifest again after death. So what is there to grieve about, O Bharata?Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-30/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-30/O Bharata, the soul that dwells within the body of every living being is eternally indestructible. Therefore you should not grieve for any living being.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-29/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-29/Some look upon the soul as amazing, some describe it as amazing, and some hear of it as amazing, while others, even after hearing about it, cannot understand it at all.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-3/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-3/Do not yield to unmanliness, O Arjuna. It does not befit you. Shake off faint-heartedness and arise, O scorcher of enemies!Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-31/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-31/Considering your own duty, you should not waver. Indeed, there is no better engagement for a warrior than a battle fought on righteous principles.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-32/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-32/O Partha, happy are the kshatriyas to whom such fighting opportunities come unsought, opening the doors of the heavenly planets.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-33/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-33/If, however, you do not perform your religious duty of fighting, then you will certainly incur sins for neglecting your duties and lose your reputation as a fighter.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-34/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-34/People will always speak of your disgrace, and for a respectable person, dishonor is worse than death.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-35/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-35/The great generals who have highly esteemed your name and fame will think that you have left the battlefield out of fear only, and thus they will consider you insignificant.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-36/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-36/Your enemies will describe you in many unkind words and scorn your ability. What could be more painful for you?Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-37/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-37/O son of Kunti, either you will be killed on the battlefield and attain the heavenly planets, or you will conquer and enjoy the earthly kingdom. Therefore, get up with determination and fight.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-38/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-38/Fight for the sake of fighting, without considering happiness or distress, loss or gain, victory or defeat — and by so doing you shall never incur sin.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-39/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-39/Thus far I have described this knowledge to you through analytical study. Now listen as I explain it in terms of working without fruitive results. O son of Pritha, when you act in such knowledge you cWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-4/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-4/Arjuna said: O Madhusudana, how can I counterattack with arrows in battle against Bhishma and Drona, who are worthy of my worship, O destroyer of enemies?Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-40/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-40/In this path there is no loss of effort, and there is no adverse result. Even a little practice of this discipline protects one from great danger.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-41/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-41/Those who are on this path are resolute in purpose, and their aim is one. O beloved child of the Kurus, the intelligence of those who are irresolute is many-branched and endless.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-42/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-42/Men of small knowledge are very much attached to the flowery words of the Vedas, which recommend various fruitive activities for elevation to heavenly planets, and so on.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-43/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-43/Those whose minds are distorted by material desires surrender unto demigods and follow the particular rules and regulations of worship according to their own natures.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-44/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-44/In the minds of those who are too attached to sense enjoyment and material opulence, and who are bewildered by such things, the resolute determination for devotional service to the Supreme Lord does nWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-45/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-45/The Vedas deal mainly with the three modes of material nature. O Arjuna, rise above these three modes. Be free from the pairs of opposites, always established in pure goodness, free from the anxiety oWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-46/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-46/All purposes that are served by a small pond can at once be served by a great reservoir of water. Similarly, all the purposes of the Vedas can be served to one who knows the purpose behind them.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-47/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-47/You have a right to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions. Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your activities, and never be attached tWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-48/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-48/O Dhananjaya, perform your duties established in yoga, abandoning all attachment to success or failure. Such evenness of mind is called yoga.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-5/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-5/It would be far better to live in this world by begging than to slay these great-souled teachers. Even though they may be greedy for gain, they are still my gurus. If I were to kill them, all my enjoyWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-50/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-50/One who is endowed with wisdom casts off both good and bad deeds even in this life. Therefore strive for yoga — for yoga is skill in action.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-49/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-49/O Dhananjaya, keep all abominable activities far distant by devotional service, and in that consciousness surrender unto the Lord. Those who want to enjoy the fruits of their work are misers.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-51/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-51/By thus engaging in devotional service to the Lord, great sages or devotees free themselves from the results of work in the material world. In this way they become free from the cycle of birth and deaWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-52/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-52/When your intelligence has passed out of the dense forest of delusion, you shall become indifferent to all that has been heard and all that is to be heard.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-53/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-53/When your mind is no longer disturbed by the flowery language of the Vedas, and when it remains fixed in the trance of self-realization, then you will have attained the divine consciousness.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-54/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-54/O Keshava, what are the signs of one who has transcended and is established in steady wisdom? How does the sthitaprajna speak? How does he sit? How does he walk?Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-55/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-55/O Arjuna, when a person completely gives up all desires that dwell in the mind, and is satisfied in the Self alone by the Self, then that person is said to be one of steady wisdom.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-56/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-56/One whose mind is undisturbed in misery, who does not long for pleasure, who is free from attachment, fear, and anger — that sage is said to be of steady mind.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-57/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-57/In the material world, one who is unaffected by whatever good or evil he may obtain, neither praising it nor despising it, is firmly fixed in perfect knowledge.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-58/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-58/One who is able to withdraw the senses completely from sense objects, as the tortoise draws its limbs within the shell, is firmly established in perfect wisdom.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-59/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-59/The embodied soul may be restricted from sense enjoyment, though the taste for sense objects remains. But, ceasing such engagements by experiencing a higher taste, he is fixed in consciousness.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-60/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-60/The senses are so strong and impetuous, O Arjuna, that they forcibly carry away the mind even of a man of discrimination who is endeavoring to control them.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-6/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-6/We do not even know which is better for us — conquering them or being conquered by them. The sons of Dhritarashtra stand before us. If we slay them, we would not even wish to live.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-61/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-61/One who restrains his senses, keeping them under full control, and fixes his consciousness upon Me, is known as a man of steady intelligence.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-62/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-62/While contemplating the objects of the senses, a person develops attachment for them. From attachment, desire is born. From desire, anger arises.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-64/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-64/But a person free from all attachment and aversion and able to control his senses through regulative principles of freedom can obtain the complete mercy of the Lord.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-66/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-66/One who is not connected with the Supreme can have neither transcendental intelligence nor a steady mind, without which there is no possibility of peace. And how can there be any happiness without peaWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-65/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-65/For one thus satisfied in the Lord's grace, the threefold miseries of material existence exist no longer; in such satisfied consciousness, one's intelligence is soon well established.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-67/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-67/As a strong wind sweeps away a boat on the water, even one of the roaming senses on which the mind focuses can carry away a man's intelligence.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-63/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-63/From anger comes complete delusion. From delusion comes bewilderment of memory. From bewilderment of memory comes the destruction of intelligence. And from the destruction of intelligence, one is ruinWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-69/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-69/What is night for all beings is the time of awakening for the self-controlled; and the time of awakening for all beings is night for the introspective sage.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-68/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-68/Therefore, O mighty-armed, one whose senses are restrained from their objects is certainly of steady intelligence.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-7/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-7/My nature is overpowered by the weakness of pity and my mind is confused about duty. I ask you — tell me decisively what is good for me. I am your disciple. Please instruct me, for I have taken refugeWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-70/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-70/As rivers flow into the ocean which is ever being filled yet remains unmoved, so too do all desires enter into the person who remains still — that person attains peace, not the one who craves the fulfWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-71/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-71/A person who has given up all desires for sense gratification, who lives free from desires, who has given up all sense of proprietorship and is devoid of false ego — he alone can attain real peace.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-72/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-72/O Partha, this is the divine state. Having attained it, one is no longer bewildered. Being established in it even at the hour of death, one attains liberation in Brahman.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-8/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-8/I cannot find anything that could drive away this grief that is drying up my senses — not even an unrivalled and prosperous kingdom on earth, nor sovereignty over all the gods.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-9/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2/verse-9/Sanjaya said: Having spoken thus to Krishna, the master of the senses, Arjuna — the conqueror of sleep — said 'I shall not fight,' and fell silent.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-1/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-1/Arjuna said: O Krishna, you praise renunciation of actions and also yoga. Tell me definitively which of these two is better.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-10/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-10/One who performs all actions by dedicating them to Brahman and abandoning attachment is not tainted by sin — just as a lotus leaf is not wetted by water.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-11/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-11/The yogis, abandoning attachment, act with the body, mind, intelligence, and even the senses — solely for the purpose of self-purification.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-12/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-12/The steadfast one, abandoning the fruits of action, attains the peace born of unwavering devotion. The unsteady one, driven by desire and attached to results, becomes bound.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-13/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-13/The self-controlled embodied being, having mentally renounced all actions, dwells happily in the nine-gated city — neither acting nor causing others to act.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-14/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-14/The Lord of the body creates neither the sense of doership nor the actions of people, nor the union with the fruits of action — it is one's own nature that acts.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-15/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-15/The all-pervading Lord accepts neither the sin nor the merit of anyone. Knowledge is covered by ignorance — and by that, all living beings are deluded.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-16/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-16/But for those whose ignorance of the Self is destroyed by knowledge, that knowledge illumines the Supreme — like the sun illumines everything at dawn.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-18/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-18/The truly learned, with equal vision, see the same Self in a learned and humble brahmin, in a cow, in an elephant, in a dog, and in an outcast who eats dogs.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-17/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-17/Those whose intellect is fixed in the Supreme, whose very self is absorbed in the Supreme, whose faith is rooted in the Supreme, who have taken refuge in the Supreme — their sins washed away by knowleWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-19/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-19/Even here in this life, creation is conquered by those whose mind is established in equanimity. Brahman is flawless and equal — therefore they are established in Brahman.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-2/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-2/The Supreme Lord said: Both renunciation of action and yoga of action lead to liberation. But of these two, karma yoga is superior to renunciation of action.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-20/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-20/One who neither rejoices upon receiving the pleasant nor grieves upon receiving the unpleasant — with steady intellect, undeluded, knowing Brahman — is established in Brahman.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-21/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-21/One who is unattached to external sense pleasures finds happiness within the Self. Such a person, with the self united in Brahman through yoga, attains imperishable happiness.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-22/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-22/The enjoyments born of sense contacts are only sources of pain; they have a beginning and an end, O son of Kunti. The wise person does not rejoice in them.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-23/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-23/One who can withstand the force of desire and anger even here in this body, before leaving it — that person is a yogi, that person is happy.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-24/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-24/One who finds happiness within, joy within, and likewise light within — that yogi, having become Brahman, attains Brahman-nirvana.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-25/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-25/Brahman-nirvana is attained by the sages whose sins are destroyed, whose doubts are cut asunder, who are self-controlled, and who rejoice in the welfare of all beings.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-29/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-29/Knowing Me as the enjoyer of all sacrifices and austerities, as the great Lord of all worlds, and as the friend of all beings — one attains peace.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-28/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-28/The sage whose senses, mind, and intellect are controlled, who is devoted to liberation, from whom desire, fear, and anger have departed — that one is ever liberated.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-27/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-27/Shutting out all external sense contacts, fixing the gaze between the eyebrows, equalizing the in-breath and out-breath moving within the nostrils — with senses, mind, and intellect restrained, the saWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-3/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-3/Know that one to be an ever-renouncer who neither hates nor desires. Free from dualities, O mighty-armed, such a person is easily liberated from bondage.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-4/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-4/Only the childish say that Sankhya and yoga are different — not the learned. One who is perfectly established in even one of them obtains the fruits of both.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-26/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-26/Brahman-nirvana is ever present on all sides for those who have renounced desire and anger, who have subdued their minds, and who are knowers of the Self.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-5/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-5/The state reached by the followers of Sankhya is also reached by the practitioners of yoga. One who sees Sankhya and yoga as one truly sees.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-6/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-6/But renunciation, O mighty-armed, is difficult to attain without yoga. The sage endowed with yoga quickly attains Brahman.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-7/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-7/The one endowed with yoga, pure of soul, self-controlled, with senses conquered, whose self has become the self of all beings — though acting, is not tainted.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-8/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-8/The knower of truth, absorbed in divine consciousness, thinks 'I do nothing at all' — even while seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, moving, sleeping, breathing, speaking, releasing, holding,Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-9/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-5/verse-9/Speaking, releasing, accepting, opening and closing the eyes — one who knows the truth holds firmly that the senses are merely moving among sense objects, and that he himself does nothing at all.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-10/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-10/O son of Pritha, know that I am the eternal seed of all living beings. I am the intelligence of the intelligent and the splendor of the splendid.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-11/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-11/I am the strength of the strong, devoid of passion and desire. O best of the Bharatas, I am sex life that is not contrary to dharma.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-1/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-1/The Supreme Lord said: Now hear, O son of Pritha, how by practicing yoga with your mind attached to Me and taking complete refuge in Me, you shall know Me fully, without any doubt.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-13/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-13/Deluded by the three modes of material nature — goodness, passion, and ignorance — the entire world does not know Me, who am transcendental to them and inexhaustible.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-14/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-14/This divine energy of Mine, consisting of the three modes of material nature, is difficult to overcome. But those who have surrendered unto Me can easily cross beyond it.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-12/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-12/Know that all states of being — whether in goodness, passion, or ignorance — come from Me alone. I am not in them; they are in Me.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-15/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-15/Those who are foolish, who are the lowest of mankind, whose knowledge is stolen by illusion, and who partake of the demonic nature — such miscreants do not surrender unto Me.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-16/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-16/O Arjuna, four kinds of pious men worship Me — the distressed, the seeker of wealth, the inquisitive, and the wise, O best of the Bharatas.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-17/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-17/Of these, the wise one who is constantly engaged in pure, single-pointed devotion is the best. I am very dear to him, and he is very dear to Me.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-19/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-19/After many births and deaths, he who is actually in knowledge surrenders unto Me, knowing Me to be the cause of all causes and all that is. Such a great soul is very rare.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-18/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-18/All these devotees are undoubtedly noble souls, but I consider the wise one to be as My very self. Being fixed in devotion, he is established in Me alone as the supreme goal.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-2/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-2/I shall now declare to you in full this knowledge together with direct realization, knowing which nothing further remains to be known in this world.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-20/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-20/Those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires surrender to lesser gods, following particular rules and rites according to their own natures.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-22/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-22/Endowed with that faith, he worships that particular deity and obtains his desires. But in truth, these benefits are bestowed by Me alone.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-21/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-21/I am in everyone's heart as the Supersoul. As soon as one desires to worship some deity with faith, I make that very faith steady and unwavering.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-23/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-23/Men of small intelligence worship the demigods, and their fruits are limited and temporary. Those who worship the demigods go to them; My devotees come to Me.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-24/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-24/Unintelligent men think I was impersonal before and have now assumed this personality. They do not know My supreme, imperishable, transcendental nature.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-25/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-25/I am not manifest to everyone, being veiled by My internal potency yoga-maya. This deluded world does not know Me as the unborn and imperishable.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-26/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-26/O Arjuna, as the Supreme Lord I know everything — all that has passed, all that is happening now, and all that is yet to come. I know all living beings, but no one truly knows Me.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-28/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-28/Those persons who have acted piously in previous and present lives, whose sinful reactions are completely eradicated, are freed from the delusion of dualities and worship Me with determination.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-27/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-27/O Bharata, O scorcher of foes, all beings are born into delusion — overcome by the dualities of desire and hatred arising from illusion.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-3/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-3/Among thousands of human beings, scarcely one strives for perfection; and among those who have achieved perfection, scarcely one knows Me in truth.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-4/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-4/Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence, and false ego — altogether these eight constitute My separated material energies.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-29/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-29/Those who strive for liberation from old age and death, taking refuge in Me, know Brahman completely, along with the self in its entirety and all the principles of action.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-30/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-30/Those who know Me as the governing principle of material manifestation, of the demigods, and of all methods of sacrifice can, with steadfast mind, understand and know Me even at the time of death.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-5/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-5/Besides this inferior nature, O mighty-armed Arjuna, know that there is My superior energy, which comprises the living entities who are sustaining this entire material world.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-6/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-6/Know that all living beings have their source in these two natures. I am the origin of the entire universe as well as the dissolution into which everything merges.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-7/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-7/O conqueror of wealth, there is no truth superior to Me. Everything rests upon Me, as pearls are strung on a thread.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-8/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-8/O son of Kunti, I am the taste of water, the light of the sun and moon, the sacred syllable Om in the Vedas, sound in ether, and ability in human beings.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-1/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-1/One who performs prescribed duty without depending on the fruits of action is both a sannyasi and a yogi — not one who has merely given up ritual fire, nor one who has ceased from action.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-10/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-10/A yogi should constantly engage his body, mind, and soul in relationship with the Supreme. He should live in seclusion, alone, always carefully controlling his mind, free from desires and the sense ofWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-9/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-7/verse-9/I am the original fragrance of the earth, the heat in fire, the life of all that lives, and the austerity of all ascetics.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-12/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-12/Having set up a firm seat in a sacred place, the yogi should sit and practice yoga to purify the heart — controlling the mind and senses, making the mind one-pointed, with all mental and sensory activWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-11/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-11/To practice yoga, one should go to a secluded place and should lay kusha grass on the ground and then cover it with a deerskin and a soft cloth. The seat should be neither too high nor too low and shoWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-13/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-13/The yogi should hold his body, neck, and head erect in a straight line and stare steadily at the tip of the nose. Thus, with an unagitated, subdued mind, devoid of fear, completely free from sex life,Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-14/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-14/Thus, with an unagitated, subdued mind, devoid of fear, completely free from sex life, one should meditate upon Me within the heart and make Me the ultimate goal of life.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-15/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-15/Thus practicing control of the body, mind, and activities, the mystic transcendentalist, with a regulated mind, attains the kingdom of God — the peace of cessation of material existence — by ceasing aWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-16/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-16/There is no possibility of one's becoming a yogi, O Arjuna, if one eats too much or eats too little, sleeps too much or does not sleep enough.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-17/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-17/He who is regulated in his habits of eating, sleeping, recreation and work can mitigate all material pains by practicing the yoga system.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-18/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-18/When the yogi, by practice of yoga, disciplines his mental activities and becomes situated in transcendence — devoid of all material desires — he is said to be well established in yoga.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-19/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-19/As a lamp in a windless place does not waver, so the yogi whose mind is controlled remains always steady in his meditation on the transcendent Self.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-2/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-2/Know that what is called renunciation is the same as yoga, O Pandava; for no one becomes a yogi without renouncing selfish purpose.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-20/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-20/In the stage of perfection called trance, or samadhi, one's mind is completely restrained from material mental activities by practice of yoga. This perfection is characterized by one's ability to see Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-21/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-21/In the stage of perfection, one experiences boundless transcendental happiness realized through transcendental senses. Established thus, one never departs from the truth, and upon gaining this, one thWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-22/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-22/Upon gaining this, one thinks there is no greater gain. Being situated in such a position, one is never shaken, even in the midst of the greatest difficulty.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-23/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-23/One should know that the severance of union with suffering is called yoga. This yoga is to be practiced with determination and with a mind free from despondency.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-24/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-24/One should practice yoga with determination and without despondency. One should abandon, without exception, all desires born of mental scheming and should, by the mind alone, draw the senses from all Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-25/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-25/Gradually, step by step, one should become situated in trance by means of intelligence sustained by full conviction, and thus the mind should be fixed in the Self alone and should think of nothing elsWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-26/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-26/From wherever the mind wanders due to its flickering and unsteady nature, one must certainly withdraw it and bring it back under the control of the Self.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-28/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-28/Thus the self-controlled yogi, always engaging the self in yoga practice, becomes free of all material contamination and achieves the highest stage of perfect happiness in transcendental loving servicWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-27/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-27/The yogi whose mind is fixed on Me attains the highest happiness. By virtue of his identity with Brahman, he is liberated; his mind is peaceful, his passions are quieted, and he is freed from sin.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-29/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-29/A person united in yoga sees the Self dwelling in all beings, and all beings dwelling in the Self. Such a yogi sees equally everywhere.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-3/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-3/For a sage who wishes to ascend to yoga, action is said to be the means; for one who has already ascended to yoga, tranquility is said to be the means.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-30/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-30/For one who sees Me everywhere and sees everything in Me, I am never lost, and such a person is never lost to Me.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-31/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-31/The yogi who worships Me as dwelling in all beings, established in oneness — that yogi, whatever his manner of living, abides always in Me.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-32/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-32/O Arjuna, that yogi is considered the highest who, by comparison with himself, sees equally everywhere — whether in pleasure or in pain.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-33/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-33/Arjuna said: O Madhusudana, the yoga of equanimity you have described — I do not see how it can be steady, given the restlessness of the mind.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-34/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-34/For the mind is restless, turbulent, obstinate and very strong, O Krishna, and to subdue it, I think, is more difficult than controlling the wind.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-35/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-35/Lord Sri Krishna said: O mighty-armed son of Kunti, it is undoubtedly very difficult to curb the restless mind, but it is possible by suitable practice and by detachment.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-36/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-36/For one whose mind is uncontrolled, yoga is difficult to attain — this is My opinion. But for one whose mind is controlled and who strives by proper means, it is possible to achieve.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-37/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-37/Arjuna said: O Krishna, what is the fate of the unsuccessful yogi who begins with faith but whose mind strays from yoga and who fails to attain the highest perfection of yoga?Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-38/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-38/O mighty-armed Krishna, does not such a person — fallen from both paths, without any support, bewildered on the path to Brahman — perish like a torn cloud with no place to stand?Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-39/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-39/O Krishna, please dispel this doubt of mine completely. There is no one other than You who can destroy this doubt.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-4/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-4/When one neither clings to sense objects nor to actions, having renounced all purposeful intention — that one is said to have ascended to yoga.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-40/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-40/The Supreme Lord said: O Partha, neither in this world nor in the next is there destruction for such a person. My dear friend, one who performs good deeds never comes to an evil end.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-41/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-41/Having attained the worlds of the pious and dwelling there for many long years, the one who has fallen from yoga is then reborn in the home of the righteous and prosperous.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-42/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-42/Or, if the fallen yogi had practised for a long time, he is born into a family of wise yogis. Such a birth in this world is most rare and precious.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-43/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-43/O Arjuna, in that new birth the yogi regains the divine consciousness of the previous life and strives further toward complete perfection.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-44/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-44/By the force of his previous practice he is drawn toward yoga irresistibly, even without his will. Such a sincere inquirer into yoga transcends the mere ritualism of the Vedas.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-45/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-45/But the yogi who strives diligently with sincere effort, purified of all impurities, and who achieves perfection through many lifetimes, then attains the supreme destination.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-46/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-46/A yogi is superior to ascetics, greater even than those of knowledge, and greater than those who perform rituals. Therefore, O Arjuna, become a yogi.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-47/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-47/Of all yogis, the one who worships Me with faith, their inner self absorbed in Me — I consider that devotee to be the most united with Me.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-5/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-5/One must deliver himself with the help of his mind, and not degrade himself. The mind is the friend of the conditioned soul, and his enemy as well.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-6/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-6/For him who has conquered the mind, the mind is the best of friends; but for one who has failed to do so, his mind will remain the greatest enemy.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-7/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-7/For one who has conquered the mind and attained tranquility, the Supreme Self is already realized. For such a person, cold and heat, pleasure and pain, honor and dishonor are all the same.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-8/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-8/A person is said to be established in self-realization and is called a yogi — or mystic — when he is fully satisfied by virtue of acquired knowledge and realization. Such a person is situated in transWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-9/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-6/verse-9/When a man treats equally the honest well-wishers, affectionate benefactors, the neutral, the mediators, the envious, the friends, the pious and the sinners — he is considered to be even more advancedWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-1/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-1/Arjuna said: O Supreme Person, what is Brahma? What is the self (Adhyatma)? What is karma? What is called the material manifestation (Adhibhuta)? And what is called Adhidaiva — the realm of the demigoWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-10/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-10/One who at the time of death fixes the life air between the eyebrows and, fully absorbed in devotion by the power of yoga, with an unwavering mind remembers the Supreme Divine Person — he attains thatWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-11/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-11/Those who know the Vedas call it the imperishable syllable Om — that into which the great renunciants, free from attachment, enter. Desiring this goal, people practice brahmacharya. I will now explainWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-12/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-12/The yogic situation is that of detachment from all sense activities. Closing all the doors of the senses, fixing the mind in the heart, placing the life air at the top of the head — thus one is establWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-13/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-13/After being situated in this yoga practice, if one vibrates the sacred syllable Om — the single syllable of Brahma — and remembers Me while departing from the body, he attains the supreme destination.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-14/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-14/O Partha, for one who always remembers Me with undivided mind, I am easy to attain — for that yogi who is constantly engaged in devotional service.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-15/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-15/Having attained Me, the great souls — those who have reached the highest perfection — never again take birth in this temporary world, which is full of miseries.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-16/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-16/From the highest planet in the material world down to the lowest, all are places of misery wherein repeated birth and death take place. But one who attains to My abode, O son of Kunti, never takes birWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-17/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-17/Those who know that one day of Brahma lasts a thousand yuga cycles, and that his night ends after a thousand yuga cycles — they truly know day and night.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-18/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-18/At the beginning of Brahma's day, all living beings emerge from the unmanifest. And at the arrival of his night, they all dissolve back into the unmanifest.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-19/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-19/Again and again, when Brahma's day arrives, all living beings come into being, and with the arrival of Brahma's night they are helplessly dissolved — O son of Pritha, the same multitude of beings takeWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-2/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-2/O Madhusudana, who is Adhiyajna, and how does He dwell in this body? And how can those who are self-controlled know You at the time of death?Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-20/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-20/Yet there is another eternal unmanifest nature, transcendental to this manifest and unmanifest matter, which is never destroyed when all beings are annihilated.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-21/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-21/That which the Vedantists describe as unmanifest and imperishable, that which is the supreme destination, from which having attained one never returns — that is My supreme abode.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-22/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-22/The Supreme Person, who is greater than all, is attainable only by unalloyed devotion, O son of Pritha. Although He dwells in His abode, all living beings are situated within Him and the entire creatiWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-23/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-23/O best of the Bharatas! Now I shall describe to you the different times at which yogis depart from this world, some to return and some never to return.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-24/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-24/Those who know the Supreme Brahman attain that Supreme by departing this world during the influence of the fire-god, in the light, at an auspicious moment of the day, during the bright fortnight of thWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-25/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-25/The yogi who departs this world during smoke, night, the dark fortnight, or during the six months when the sun travels in the south reaches the moon but comes back to the material world again.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-26/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-26/According to Vedic opinion, there are two eternal paths in this world — one of light and one of darkness. By one, a person goes never to return; by the other, they come back again.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-27/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-27/O Arjuna! Although the devotees know these two paths, they are never bewildered. Therefore, be always fixed in devotion — be yoga-yukta at all times.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-28/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-28/A person who accepts the path of devotion is not deprived of the results of studying the Vedas, performing sacrifices, undertaking austerities, or giving charity. By simply performing devotional serviWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-3/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-3/The Supreme Lord said: The indestructible, transcendental living entity is called Brahma, and its eternal nature is called Adhyatma (the self). Action — the offering that causes the material bodies ofWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-5/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-5/And whoever, at the time of death, gives up the body while remembering Me alone — he attains My nature. Of this there is no doubt.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-4/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-4/O best of the embodied beings, the constantly changing physical nature is called Adhibhuta. The cosmic form of the Lord, encompassing all the demigods, is called Adhidaiva. And I — the Supersoul — dweWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-6/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-6/O son of Kunti, whatever state of being one remembers when giving up the body at the end of life — that state alone will one attain, having always been absorbed in that state of being.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-7/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-7/Therefore, O Arjuna, always think of Me and at the same time carry out your prescribed duty of fighting. With your mind and intelligence surrendered to Me, you will attain Me without doubt.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-8/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-8/He who meditates on Me as the Supreme Divine Person, his mind constantly engaged in remembering Me without deviation — he certainly reaches Me, O Partha.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-1/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-1/The Supreme Lord said: My dear Arjuna, because you are never envious of Me, I shall impart to you this most confidential knowledge and realization, knowing which you shall be freed from the miseries oWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-10/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-10/O son of Kunti, this material nature, working under My supervision, produces all moving and non-moving beings. Under its rule this manifestation is created and annihilated again and again.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-9/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-8/verse-9/One should meditate upon the Supreme Person as the one who knows everything, who is the oldest, who is the controller, who is smaller than the smallest, who is the maintainer of everything, whose formWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-11/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-11/Fools deride Me when I descend in human form. They do not know My transcendent nature as the supreme master of all that exists.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-12/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-12/Those who are thus bewildered are attracted to demonic and atheistic views. In that deluded condition, their hopes for liberation, their fruitive activities, and their pursuit of knowledge are all futWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-13/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-13/But the great souls, O Partha, who take shelter of the divine nature, worship Me with undivided minds, knowing Me as the imperishable origin of all beings.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-14/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-14/Always glorifying Me, striving with great determination, bowing down before Me with devotion, they worship Me, ever united in devotion.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-15/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-15/Others worship Me through the sacrifice of knowledge — some seeing Me as one with them, others as separate, and still others worship My universal form in various ways.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-16/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-16/I am the Vedic ritual, I am the sacrifice, I am the oblation to the ancestors, I am the healing herb, I am the sacred chant, I am the ghee, I am the fire, and I am the act of offering.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-17/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-17/I am the father of this universe, the mother, the sustainer, and the grandfather. I am the object of knowledge, the purifier, the syllable Om, and also the Rig, Sama, and Yajur Vedas.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-18/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-18/I am the goal, the sustainer, the master, the witness, the abode, the refuge, and the dearest friend. I am the creation, the dissolution, the foundation, the resting place, and the imperishable seed.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-19/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-19/O Arjuna, I give heat, I withhold and send forth the rain. I am immortality and also death, I am both being and non-being.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-2/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-2/This knowledge is the king of all learning, the most secret of all secrets. It is the purest, and because it gives direct perception of the self through realization, it is the perfection of dharma. ItWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-20/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-20/Those who study the three Vedas and drink the soma juice, purified of sins, worship Me through sacrifices and pray for passage to heaven. They reach the holy world of Indra and enjoy the celestial pleWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-21/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-21/Having enjoyed the vast heavenly world, when their merit is exhausted, they return to this mortal world. Thus, those who follow the Vedic principles seeking sense enjoyment achieve only the cycle of cWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-22/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-22/For those who worship Me with devotion, meditating on My transcendental form, I carry what they lack and preserve what they have.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-23/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-23/O son of Kunti, even those who are devotees of other gods and worship them with faith, they too worship Me alone, but by the wrong method.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-24/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-24/I am the only enjoyer and the only Lord of all sacrifices. But those who do not recognize My true divine nature fall down from their position.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-25/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-25/Worshippers of the devas go to the devas. Worshippers of the ancestors go to the ancestors. Worshippers of ghosts and spirits go to them. But those who worship Me come to Me.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-26/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-26/If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, a fruit, or water, I will accept it.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-27/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-27/Whatever you do, whatever you eat, whatever you offer in sacrifice, whatever you give, whatever austerity you perform — do that as an offering to Me.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-28/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-28/In this way you shall be freed from the bondage of actions and their auspicious and inauspicious results. With your mind fixed on Me through this yoga of renunciation, you shall be liberated and come Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-29/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-29/I am equal to all living beings. No one is hateful to Me, nor is anyone especially dear. But those who worship Me with devotion are in Me, and I am also in them.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-3/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-3/O Parantapa, those who have no faith in this dharma do not attain Me. They return to the path of birth and death in this material world.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-30/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-30/Even if a man of very evil conduct worships Me with undivided devotion, he should be considered saintly, for he is rightly resolved in his determination.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-31/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-31/He quickly becomes righteous and attains eternal peace. O son of Kunti, declare boldly that My devotee never perishes.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-32/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-32/O Partha, those who take shelter in Me, though they be of sinful birth — women, vaishyas, and shudras — even they attain the supreme destination.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-33/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-33/How much more then the righteous brahmanas, the devoted royal sages! Having come to this impermanent and joyless world, engage yourself in loving devotion to Me.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-4/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-4/This entire universe is pervaded by Me in My unmanifest form. All beings rest in Me, but I do not rest in them.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-5/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-5/And yet everything that is created does not rest in Me. Behold My mystic opulence! Although I am the maintainer of all beings and although I am everywhere, I am not part of this cosmic manifestation —Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-34/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-34/Fix your mind on Me, be devoted to Me, worship Me, bow down to Me. So shall you come to Me. I promise you truly, for you are dear to Me.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-6/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-6/Just as the mighty wind, blowing everywhere, always rests in the sky, so understand that all created beings rest in Me.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-7/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-7/O son of Kunti, at the end of the cosmic cycle all beings enter into My material nature, and at the beginning of the next cycle, by My potency, I create them again.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-8/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-8/Taking hold of My own material nature, I create again and again the entire multitude of beings, who are helpless, being under the control of material nature.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-9/https://shrutivigyan.com/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/chapter-9/verse-9/O Dhananjaya, all these actions do not bind Me. I remain seated as if neutral, unattached to these material activities.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/festivals/diwali/https://shrutivigyan.com/festivals/diwali/Festival of Lights — celebrates the return of Lord Rama to Ayodhya, the victory of light over darkness, knowledge over ignorance, and good over evil.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/festivals/dussehra/https://shrutivigyan.com/festivals/dussehra/Vijaya Dashami — the Victory Tenth, celebrating both Rama's defeat of Ravana and Durga's defeat of Mahishasura, marking the triumph of dharma over adharma.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/festivals/ganesh-chaturthi/https://shrutivigyan.com/festivals/ganesh-chaturthi/A ten-day festival celebrating the birth of Lord Ganesha, the remover of obstacles and lord of new beginnings, culminating in the grand immersion of clay idols.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/festivals/holi/https://shrutivigyan.com/festivals/holi/Festival of colors celebrating the victory of good over evil, the arrival of spring, and the divine love of Radha and Krishna.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/festivals/janmashtami/https://shrutivigyan.com/festivals/janmashtami/The midnight birthday of Lord Krishna, the eighth avatar of Vishnu — celebrated with fasting, the rocking of the divine cradle, and the joyous breaking of the Dahi Handi pot.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/festivals/maha-shivaratri/https://shrutivigyan.com/festivals/maha-shivaratri/The great night of Lord Shiva — a sacred vigil celebrating Shiva's cosmic dance, his marriage to Parvati, and the night he drank the world's poison to save creation.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/festivals/navratri/https://shrutivigyan.com/festivals/navratri/Nine sacred nights dedicated to the nine forms of the Divine Mother — a festival of fasting, dance, and devotion celebrating Shakti's victory over the forces of darkness.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/festivals/ram-navami/https://shrutivigyan.com/festivals/ram-navami/The birthday of Lord Rama, the seventh avatar of Vishnu and the embodiment of dharma — celebrated on the ninth day of Chaitra Shukla Paksha.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/festivals/makar-sankranti/https://shrutivigyan.com/festivals/makar-sankranti/A solar harvest festival marking the sun's entry into Capricorn and the beginning of Uttarayana — the auspicious northward journey of the sun, celebrated across India under many names.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/deities/durga/https://shrutivigyan.com/deities/durga/The invincible goddess of power, war, and protection — Durga is the combined shakti of all the gods, the supreme warrior who defeats what cannot otherwise be defeated.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/deities/ganesha/https://shrutivigyan.com/deities/ganesha/Remover of obstacles, patron of beginnings, arts, sciences, and wisdom. First deity invoked in any Hindu ritual.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/deities/hanuman/https://shrutivigyan.com/deities/hanuman/Embodiment of devotion, strength, and selfless service. Divine monkey devotee of Rama, symbol of bhakti, courage, and celibacy.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/deities/krishna/https://shrutivigyan.com/deities/krishna/The eighth avatar of Vishnu, divine teacher of the Bhagavad Gita, the embodiment of divine love — Krishna is at once the playful child, the devoted lover, the fearless warrior, and the supreme teacherFri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/deities/lakshmi/https://shrutivigyan.com/deities/lakshmi/The goddess of wealth, beauty, grace, and good fortune — Lakshmi bestows not just material prosperity but the inner richness of virtue, love, and spiritual well-being.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/deities/parvati/https://shrutivigyan.com/deities/parvati/The goddess of love, fertility, devotion, and divine power — Parvati is the Shakti (energy) of Shiva himself, without whom he is inert; she is the cosmic mother, the embodiment of supreme devotion.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/deities/rama/https://shrutivigyan.com/deities/rama/The seventh avatar of Vishnu and Maryada Purushottam — the perfect human being — Rama's life is the supreme teaching on duty, honor, righteousness, and the power of love.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/deities/saraswati/https://shrutivigyan.com/deities/saraswati/The goddess of learning, knowledge, music, arts, speech, and wisdom — Saraswati is the divine source of all creative and intellectual power.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/deities/shiva/https://shrutivigyan.com/deities/shiva/The Destroyer in the Trimurti, the Supreme Being in Shaivism, embodiment of consciousness, asceticism, and cosmic dance. Known as Mahadeva — the Great God.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/deities/vishnu/https://shrutivigyan.com/deities/vishnu/The Preserver of the Universe in the Trimurti, Vishnu maintains cosmic order (dharma), descending to earth in avatar form whenever creation is threatened.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/philosophy/advaita-vedanta/https://shrutivigyan.com/philosophy/advaita-vedanta/Advaita Vedanta — Shankaracharya's non-dual philosophy. Atman equals Brahman. The four mahavakyas, the three states analysis, and the modern teachers who carry this living tradition.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/philosophy/ahimsa/https://shrutivigyan.com/philosophy/ahimsa/Ahimsa — non-violence in Hindu philosophy. Not just physical, but in thought, word, and deed. Gandhi's satyagraha, the Bhagavad Gita paradox, vegetarianism, and daily practice.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/philosophy/atman/https://shrutivigyan.com/philosophy/atman/Atman — the eternal Self in Hindu philosophy. The pure consciousness within you that is unchanging, deathless, and identical to Brahman. Upanishadic teaching explained simply.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/philosophy/bhakti-yoga/https://shrutivigyan.com/philosophy/bhakti-yoga/Bhakti Yoga — the yoga of devotion. The nine forms of bhakti, the great bhakti saints from Mirabai to Kabir, and how love for God transforms the heart. Accessible and profound.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/philosophy/diwali-usa-guide/https://shrutivigyan.com/philosophy/diwali-usa-guide/Understanding How to Celebrate Diwali in the USA — Complete Guide in Hindu philosophyFri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/philosophy/brahman/https://shrutivigyan.com/philosophy/brahman/Brahman — the ultimate reality in Hindu philosophy. Sat-Chit-Ananda: pure being, consciousness, and bliss. The ground of all existence explained through the Upanishads.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/philosophy/ganesh-puja-vidhi/https://shrutivigyan.com/philosophy/ganesh-puja-vidhi/Understanding Ganesh Puja Vidhi in Hindu philosophyFri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:01 GMThttps://shrutivigyan.com/philosophy/dharma/https://shrutivigyan.com/philosophy/dharma/What is Dharma in Hinduism? The cosmic order, moral law, and individual duty — the foundation of Hindu ethics and spirituality. 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