Chapter 7: Jñāna Vijñāna Yoga – Knowledge and its Actualization: Verse 11
बलं बलवतां चाहं कामरागविवर्जितम् ।
धर्माविरुद्धो भूतेषु कामोऽस्मि भरतर्षभ ॥
balaṃ balavatām cāhaṃ
kāma-rāga-vivarjitam
dharmāviruddho bhūteṣu
kāmo’smi bharatarṣabha – 7.11
I am the vigour of the vigorous, devoid of greed and possessiveness. O bull among Bharatas, in all beings I am the desire that does not violate dharma.
Chapter 7: Jñāna Vijñāna Yoga – Knowledge and its Actualization - Verse 11
Ma Gurupriya
Strength and vigour are qualities everyone needs for doing anything substantial in life. All detest weakness. The strong and heroic alone attain good and great things in the world!
One must be healthy, strong and enduring to strive and attain the desired goal in any field of life. Krishna says he represents this most needed strength. But such strength should not be harmful or destructive to any. One’s valour should be employed in benign and benevolent ways, eschewing greed and possessiveness. Kāma and rāga will always desecrate one’s strength, putrefy its application, as it happened with the wicked Duryodhana.
Krishna denotes benevolent passion, not opposed to dictates of dharma. It is such immaculate passion that leads to marriage, birth of the new ones, rearing families and enabling societal life and interactions. It naturally follows that Krishna represents the good, noble and benevolent in all things of the world.
