🪷 Bhagavad-Gītā · 7.13

Chapter 7 · ज्ञानविज्ञानयोग · Jñāna-Vijñāna-Yoga · "The Yoga of Knowledge & Realization" · Verse 13 of 30

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🪷 English Translations

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Shri Purohit Swami · Poetic English · 1935 · public domain · Cosmo Press tradition

7.13 The inhabitants of the world, misled by those natures which the Qualities have engendered, know not that I am higher than them all, and that I do not change.

Swami Sivananda · Direct prose · Divine Life Society

7.13 Deluded by these Natures (states or things) composed of the three alities of Nature all this world does not know Me as distinct from them and immutable.

Swami Gambīrānanda · Word-key glosses · Advaita Ashrama · Śaṅkara-school

7.13 Sarvam, all; idam, this; jagat, world, the aggregate of creatures; mohitam, deluded as it is-made to have indiscrimination; hih, by these; aforesaid tribhih, three; bhavaih, things, in the forms of attachment, repulsion, delusion, etc; and gunamayaih, made of the gunas, of the transformations of the gunas; na abhijanati, does not know; mam, Me; who am param, transcendental to, distinct, different; hyah, from these gunas as referred to above; and am avyayam, undecaying, i.e. free from all (the six kinds of) changes in things, viz birth etc. [See note on p.38.-Tr.] How, again, do they cross over this divine Maya of Visnu, constituted by the three gunas? That is being stated:

Swami Ādidevānanda · Śrī-Vaiṣṇava perspective · Rāmānuja school

7.13 Now, in this way, the whole universe, consisting of animate and inanimate entities belonging to Me, evolves from time to time from Me only, is absorbed in Me, and abides in Me alone. It constitutes My body and has Me for its self. Whether in the causal state or in the state of effect, it is I who have all these entities as My modes, because all entities form My body. Thus, in regard to all these modes, I am superior to them, as I am their cause, principal, and as I possess a complex of countless auspicious attributes like knowledge, strength etc. In every way I remain as the highest being. There exists none higher than Myself. Such being the case, I am superior to these entities composed of the alities of Sattva, Rajas and Tamas - superior to them by My extraordinary attributes and by having these various modes for My enjoyment. I am the highest and immutable, i.e., I form a unity in Myself. This world constituted of gods, men, animals and immovables, and deluded by the three Gunas of Prakrti and its evolutes are inferior and transient. The forms of bodies, senses and objects of enjoyment comprising the world are there in accordance with their past Karmas. No one in the world knows Me. How is it possible that all experiencing beings think as enjoyable objects which are inferior, constituted of the Gunas and are transient, while You exist - You who are of the nature of unbounded and abundant bliss, who has an eternal unchanging form and who is the source of the enjoyableness of even the objects of the world? Sri Krsna replies:

Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Academic precision · modern scholarly

7.13. Being duluded by these three beings of the Strands, this entire world does not recognise Me Who am eternal and transcending these [Strands].

🪷 Hindi Translation · हिन्दी अनुवाद

For the Hindi-aware seer · Pūjya Swami Rāmsukhdās ji's translation · the highest-readability modern Hindi rendering · Gītā-Press Gorakhpur tradition.

🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Sādhaka-Sañjīvanī tradition · Gītā-Press Gorakhpur · highest modern Hindi reading

।।7.13।। किन्तु - इन तीनों गुणरूप भावोंसे मोहित यह सब जगत् इन गुणोंसे अतीत अविनाशी मुझे नहीं जानता।

🪷 English Commentaries · The Ācārya Voices

The classical commentary tradition rendered in English · each ācārya speaks from their own sampradāya · the seer chooses the depth of darśana.

Swami Sivananda · Verse-by-verse word-keys with Sanskrit anchors

7.13 त्रिभिः by three? गुणमयैः composed of Gunas? भावैः by natures? एभिः by these? सर्वम् all? इदम् this? जगत् world? मोहितम् deluded? न not? अभिजानाति knows? माम् Me? एभ्यः from them? परम् higher? अव्ययम् immutable.Commentary Persons of this world are deluded by the three alities of Nature or Maya. Affection? attachment and infatuated love are all modifications of these alities. On account of delusion created by these three alities they are not able to break the worldly ties and to turn the mind towards the Supreme Soul? the Lord of the three alities.Avyayam Immutable or unchangeable or inexhaustible or imperishable. The Self is of one homogeneous essence. It has not got the six changes or modifications (Shad Bhava Vikaras) which the body has? viz.? existence? birth? growth? modification? decay and death. (Cf.VII.25)

Swami Gambīrānanda · Advaita-school commentary (Śaṅkara tradition)

Swami Ādidevānanda · Rāmānuja Śrī-Vaiṣṇava commentary

Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Modern academic scholarship

7.12-13 Ye ca etc. Tribhih etc. The [Strands] Sattva etc., are derived from Me, and not I from them. That is why he who has achieved his identity with the Bhagavat (the Absolute), properly realises all [objects] as being the Bhagavat [Himself]. On the other hand, the person who is established in the knowledge of objects of umpteen varieties does not understand the reality of the Bhagavat. This krama (traditional order) pleases the mind of all. With this idea only the Lord is going to declare presently 'Vasudeva is all'. There the meaning is this : He, whose internal organ is favoured by the descent of the Supreme Energy or grace (Sakti-pata) that arises after [teaching the stage of] eableness of effects of actions (karma-samata) that is brought about by the enjoyment [of effects] through many births; and who realises the reality of Bhagavat, with conviction 'verily all is Vasudeva' - that person is the great Soul and he is difficult to find. But, not knowing in this manner and, on the contrary, being duluded by the Strands, Sattva etc., this world, fails to perceive the reality of Vasudeva, transcending the Strands. [The Lord] declares why the persons established exclusively in the Sattva etc. (Strands), are not conscious of the real nature of the Bhagavat :

Swami Chinmayānanda · Chinmaya Mission · modern Vedantic teaching

।।7.13।। प्रश्न यह है कि यदि त्रिगुणों से परे कोई परम अव्यय तत्त्व है तो सामान्य मनुष्य उसे क्यों नहीं जान पाता है पूर्ण साक्षात्कार न भी सहज हो तब भी कम से कम उसके अस्तित्व के विषय में तो उसे शंका नहीं होनी चाहिए इसका उत्तर इस श्लोक में दिया गया है।त्रिगुणों से उत्पन्न राग द्वेषादि विकारों के कारण मनुष्य अपने दिव्य स्वरूप को भूलकर उपाधियों के साथ तादात्म्य स्थापित करके केवल विषयोपभोग का ही जीवन जीते हैं। स्वाभाविक है कि इस आसक्ति के कारण स्वस्वरूप की ओर इनका ध्यान तक नहीं जाता। एक बार स्तम्भ में प्रेत का आभास होने पर वह स्तम्भ उससे आच्छादित हो जाता है। यह एक तथ्य है कि जब तक यह आभास बना रहता है तब तक स्तम्भ का एक इञ्च भाग भी मोहित व्यक्ति को नहीं दिखाई देता इसी प्रकार माया से उत्पन्न उपाधियों के साथ तादात्म्य के कारण आत्मा को मानो जीवभाव प्राप्त हो जाता है। यह जीव बाह्य जगत् में व्यस्त और आसक्त होकर अपने शुद्ध स्वरूप को पहचानने में स्वयं को असमर्थ पाता है। स्वयं में स्वयं के साथ स्वयं का चल रहा लुकाछिपी का यह खेल विचित्र एवं रहस्यमय है जिसके कारण यह अपने लिए और जगत् के लिए अनन्त दुख और विक्षेप उत्पन्न करता रहता है।अगले श्लोक में इस आवरण शक्ति की परिभाषा का वर्णन किया गया है

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🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Sādhaka-Sañjīvanī · Hindi vyākhyā · the modern bilingual anchor

।।7.13।। व्याख्या--'त्रिभिर्गुणमयैर्भावैरेभिः ৷৷. परमव्ययम्'--सत्त्व रज और तम--तीनों गुणोंकी वृत्तियाँ उत्पन्न और लीन होती रहती हैं। उनके साथ तादात्म्य करके मनुष्य अपनेको सात्त्विक, राजस और तामस मान लेता है अर्थात् उनका अपनेमें आरोप कर लेता है कि 'मैं सात्त्विक, राजस और तामस हो गया हूँ।' इस प्रकार तीनों गुणोंसे मोहित मनुष्य ऐसा मान ही नहीं सकता कि मैं परमात्माका अंश हूँ। वह अपने अंशी परमात्माकी तरफ न देखकर उत्पन्न और नष्ट होनेवाली वृत्तियोंके साथ अपना सम्बन्ध मान लेता है--यही उसका मोहित होना है। इस प्रकार मोहित होनेके कारण वह 'मेरा परमात्माके साथ नित्य-सम्बन्ध है'--इसको समझ ही नहीं सकता।

🪷 Place in the Bhagavad-Gītā

This is verse 13 of 30 in Chapter 7 · Jñāna-Vijñāna-Yoga (The Yoga of Knowledge & Realization)
Chapter theme: Krishna-Tattva · BG 7.7 mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat · Krishna IS the thread
Ṣaṭka grouping: TAT-Ṣaṭka (BG 7-12 · the Lord)
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