Chapter 7: Jñāna Vijñāna Yoga – Knowledge and its Actualization: Verse 25
नाहं प्रकाश: सर्वस्य योगमायासमावृत: ।
मूढोऽयं नाभिजानाति लोको मामजमव्ययम् ॥
nāhaṃ prakāśa: sarvasya
yogamāyā-samāvṛta:
mūḍho’yaṃ nābhijānāti
loko mām-ajam-avyayam – 7.25
Enveloped in my yoga-māyā (caused by the projection of Nature’s guṇas), I am not revealed to all. This deluded world does not rightly know Me, the unborn and the inexhaustible.
Chapter 7: Jñāna Vijñāna Yoga – Knowledge and its Actualization - Verse 25
Ma Gurupriya
Krishna begins to expose the mystery and wonder of the Soul, which is manifest in the body. Any living body has the Soul within. In fact, the body becomes animate and active only due to the potential of the invisible inner Soul. It has all the greatness, wonder and mystery imaginable.
But none in the whole world is able to know this, assess its worth and wonder, due to the delusion cast by Nature’s guṇas. Though present within everyone’s body, none seems to get a clue or peep into it.
As is the body born and changeful, so is the Soul unborn, unchanging, permeating and all-encompassing. Krishna pointed this right in the beginning of the dialogue. To understand the Soul is to be like Krishna. To get the right exposure in this regard is very rare, to pursue it is even rarer. So wonderful is the presence animating and activating the body, as Krishna described earlier (2.29).
