Bhagavad Gita · 15.10 · The Yoga of the Supreme Divine Personality·10 of 20
उत्क्रामन्तं स्थितं वापि भुञ्जानं वा गुणान्वितम्।विमूढा नानुपश्यन्ति पश्यन्ति ज्ञानचक्षुषः ॥
utkrāmantaṁ sthitaṁ vāpi bhuñjānaṁ vā guṇānvitam
vimūḍhā nānupaśhyanti paśhyanti jñāna-chakṣhuṣhaḥ
Sanskrit recitation
A spark of the divine in you · 15.7–15.11 · Teaching
Translation
The deluded do not see Him who departs, stays, and enjoys; but those who possess the eye of knowledge behold Him.
Meaning
Though the Self is nearest and comes most easily within their field of vision or consciousness, the ignorant and the deluded are not able to behold Him, because they are swayed by the alities of Nature their minds constantly run towards the sensual objects and are saturated with passion they identify the Self with the body their vision is engrossed in external forms. But those who are endowed with the inner eye of intuition do behold Him.Yama said to Nachiketas The selfexistent Brahma created the senses with outgoing tendencies therefore man beholds the external universe and not the internal Self. He aded But some wise men with their senses turned away from the objects, desirous of immortality, turn their gaze inwards and behold the Self within (seated in their heart). (Katha Upanishad IV.1)Those who possess the inner eye of knowledge behold that the Self is entirely distinct from the body. They realise the Selfs separate existence from the body and know that the body moves and acts on account of Its presence therein, just as the iron moves and acts in the presence of the magnet.
After Swami Sivananda
A spark of the divine in you· 15.7–15.11→
Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.
- 15.7An eternal portion of Myself having become a living soul in the world of life, draws to itself the five senses, with the mind as the sixth, abiding in Nature.
- 15.8When the Lord, as the individual soul, obtains a body and when He leaves it, He takes these with Him, just as the wind takes the scents from their seats (flowers, etc.).
- 15.9Presiding over the ears, eyes, touch, taste, smell, and mind, it enjoys the objects of the senses.
15.10The deluded do not see Him who departs, stays, and enjoys; but those who possess the eye of knowledge behold Him.
- 15.11The yogis striving for perfection behold Him dwelling in the Self; but, the unrefined and unintelligent, even though striving, do not see Him.
Word-by-word→
- na
- not
- vā
- or
- sthitam
- residing
- vā api
- or even
- paśhyanti
- behold
- bhuñjānam
- enjoys
- utkrāmantam
- departing
- anupaśhyanti
- percieve
- guṇa-anvitam
- under the spell of the modes of material nature
- vimūḍhāḥ
- the ignorant
- jñāna-chakṣhuṣhaḥ
- those who possess the eyes of knowledge
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