7. Knowledge of the Self is Enlightenment

Jñāna Vijñāna Yog

BG 7.15

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

न मां दुष्कृतिनो मूढाः प्रपद्यन्ते नराधमाः
माययापहृतज्ञाना आसुरं भावमाश्रिताः

  • na — not

  • māṁ — unto me

  • duṣhkṛitino — the evil doers
    duṣhkṛitinaḥ

  • mūḍhāḥ — the ignorant

  • prapadyante — surrender

  • narādhamāḥ — one who follows their basic nature
    nara-adhamāḥ

  • māyayāpahṛita-jñānā — those with deluded intellect living in illusion
    māyayā—by God’s material energy; apahṛita jñānāḥ—those with deluded intellect

    • māyayāpahṛita

    • jñānā

  • āsuraṁ — demonic

  • bhāvam — nature

  • āśhritāḥ — surrender

...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.

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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...
Chapter 7, Verse 15