Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 7: The Yoga of Knowledge and Realisation

All 30 verses of Chapter 7 of the Bhagavad Gita in Sanskrit, with English translation, per-word meanings, and Adi Shankara's commentary.

• Verse 7.1 — With the mind intent on Me, O Pārtha, practising Yoga, and finding refuge in Me, how in…
• Verse 7.2 — I shall fully teach thee this knowledge combined with experience, which being known…
• Verse 7.3 — Among thousands of men, one perchance strives for perfection; even among those who strive…
• Verse 7.4 — Earth, water, fire, air, ether, thought (manas) and reason (buddhi), egoism (ahaṃkāra) —…
• Verse 7.5 — This is the inferior (Prakṛti); but as distinct from this know thou My superior Prakṛti…
• Verse 7.6 — Know that all beings have their birth in these. So, I am the source and dissolution of…
• Verse 7.7 — There is naught else higher than I, O Dhanañjaya: in Me all this is woven as clusters of…
• Verse 7.8 — I am the sapidity in water, O son of Kuntī. I am the light in the moon and the sun. I am…
• Verse 7.9 — And I am the agreeable odour in the earth and the brilliance in the fire, the vitality in…
• Verse 7.10 — Know Me, O Pārtha, as the eternal seed of all beings; I am the intelligence of the…
• Verse 7.11 — And of the energetic am I the energy devoid of passion and attachment; and in (all)…
• Verse 7.12 — And whatever beings are of sattva or of rajas or of tamas, know them to proceed from Me:…
• Verse 7.13 — Deluded by these three (sorts of) things composed of guṇas, all this world knows not Me…
• Verse 7.14 — Verily this Divine Illusion of Mine, made up of guṇas, is hard to surmount. Whoever seek…
• Verse 7.15 — Not Me do the evil-doers seek, the deluded, the vilest of men, deprived of wisdom by…
• Verse 7.16 — Four kinds of virtuous men worship Me, O Arjuna, — the distressed, the seeker of…
• Verse 7.17 — Of them the wise man, ever steadfast and devoted to the One, excels; for, excessively…
• Verse 7.18 — Noble indeed are all those; but the wise man, I deem, is the very Self; for, steadfast in…
• Verse 7.19 — At the end of many births, the man of wisdom comes to Me, (realising) that Vāsudeva is…
• Verse 7.20 — Those whose wisdom has been led away by this or that desire resort to other Gods, engaged…
• Verse 7.21 — Whatever devotee seeks to worship with faith what form soever, that same faith of his I…
• Verse 7.22 — Possessed of that faith he engages in the worship of that (form); thence he obtains his…
• Verse 7.23 — That result indeed is finite, (which accrues) to those men of small intellect…
• Verse 7.24 — The foolish regard Me as the unmanifested coming into manifestation, knowing not My…
• Verse 7.25 — I am not manifest to all, veiled (as I am) by Yoga-Māyā. This deluded world knows not Me…
• Verse 7.26 — I know, O Arjuna, the past and the present and the future beings, but Me nobody knows.
• Verse 7.27 — From the delusion of pairs caused by desire and aversion, O Bhārata, all beings are…
• Verse 7.28 — Those mortals of pure deeds whose sin has come to an end, who are freed from the delusion…
• Verse 7.29 — Whoever resorting to Me strive for liberation from decay and death, they realise in full…
• Verse 7.30 — Those who realise Me in the Adhibhūta (physical region), in the Adhidaiva (the divine…