7. Knowledge of the Self is Enlightenment

Jñāna Vijñāna Yog

BG 7.12

I am the source of all that is pure, all that is passionate, and all that is ignorant. They are within me, but I am not within them.

ये चैव सात्त्विका भावा राजसास्तामसाश्च ये
मत्त एवेति तान्विद्धि नत्वहं तेषु ते मयि

  • ye — whatever

  • chaiva — and certainly

    • cha — and

    • eva — certainly

  • sāttvikā — in the quality of purity

  • bhāvā — states of material existence

  • rājasās — in the quality of passion

  • tāmasāśh — in the quality of ignorance

  • cha — and

  • ye — whatever

  • matta — from me

  • eveti — thus indeed

    • eva — certainly

    • iti — thus

  • tān — those

  • viddhi — know

  • na — not

  • tvahaṁ — but I

    • tu — but

    • aham — I

  • teṣhu — in them

  • te — they

  • mayi — in me

...7.11

I am the source of all that is pure, all that is passionate, and all that is ignorant. They are within me, but I am not within them.

[12]

Deluded by these three qualities of nature (purity, passion, and ignorance), the entire world fails to recognize the supreme and imperishable.

[13]

This divine illusion is difficult to overcome. Only those who surrender themselves entirely to me can accomplish it.

[14]

The evil doers, the ignorant, the hedonistic, and deprived, all do not surrender to me.

[15]

7.16...

Similar verses

Chapter 7, Verse 12