7. Knowledge of the Self is Enlightenment

Jñāna Vijñāna Yog

BG 7.25

I am not visible to everyone, and remained veiled in illusion. This deluded world does not know me as the unborn and immutable.

नाहं प्रकाशः सर्वस्य योगमायासमावृतः
मूढोऽयं नाभिजानाति लोको मामजमव्ययम्

  • nāhaṁ — I do not

    • na — not

    • aham — I

  • prakāśhaḥ — manifest

  • sarvasya — to everyone

  • yoga-māyā-samāvṛitaḥ — veiled supreme righteousness

    • yoga — Yoga, righteous action

    • māyā — illusion

    • samāvṛitaḥ — veiled

  • mūḍho — deluded
    mūḍhaḥ

  • ’yaṁ — these

  • nābhijānāti — do not know

    • na — not

    • abhijānāti — know

  • loko — people
    lokaḥ

  • mām — me

  • ajam — unborn

  • avyayam — immutable

...7.22

But the fruit gained by such people of limited insight is perishable. The worshippers of the celestial gods will go to the gods, while my devotees come to me.

[23]

The ignorant think of me, the formless, as having a personality and form. They do not understand my imperishable and supreme nature.

[24]

I am not visible to everyone, and remained veiled in illusion. This deluded world does not know me as the unborn and immutable.

[25]

I know all beings of the past, present, and future, but none know me.

[26]

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Similar verses

Chapter 7, Verse 25