Chapter 7: Jñāna Vijñāna Yoga – Knowledge and its Actualization: Verse 13
त्रिभिर्गुणमयैर्भावैरेभि: सर्वमिदं जगत् ।
मोहितं नाभिजानाति मामेभ्य: परमव्ययम् ॥
tribhir-guṇamayair-bhāvairebhi:
sarvam-idaṃ jagat
mohitaṃ nābhijānāti
mām-ebhya: param-avyayam – 7.13
This whole world is deluded by the mystic potential and display of the three guṇas, and as a result, it does not know Me, the supreme Presence, which, transcending these guṇas, remains imperishable.
Chapter 7: Jñāna Vijñāna Yoga – Knowledge and its Actualization - Verse 13
Ma Gurupriya
In the beginning itself Krishna explained how Nature with its three guṇas causes all our activities (3.5). Nevertheless, one gets deluded by a strong sense of ownership and possessiveness about whatever he does and meets.
Krishna makes the point clearer. All beings are made up of guṇas. Guṇa-influence is very strong. And none is prompted to probe deeper and get at one’s real identity.
Beyond senses, mind, intelligence and ego, guṇas cease. It is this transcendental level, that Krishna describes as unborn, undying, neither kills nor is killed, etc. (2.20). This inmost level is one’s real identity, the Soul, the all- pervading spiritual presence, like space. Krishna becomes the Lord due to this. He lives, moves and speaks in and from there.
Alas, none knows him like this, Krishna remarks with pity and compassion.
Experience this impersonal inmost reality and be like Krishna.
