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Chapter 10 · Verse 3 · Vibhooti Yoga

Bhagavad Gita 10.3

transformative Self & Identity Karma & Action Jnana & Wisdom Moksha & Liberation

Sanskrit

यो मामजमनादिं च वेत्ति लोकमहेश्वरम्। असम्मूढः स मर्त्येषु सर्वपापैः प्रमुच्यते।।10.3।।

Transliteration

yo māmajam anādiṁ cha vetti loka-maheśhvaram asammūḍhaḥ sa martyeṣhu sarva-pāpaiḥ pramuchyate

In plain words

You are drowning in what you've done, or what's been done to you, and you believe the weight of it defines who you are. Krishna says: that guilt, that shame, that identity you've built around your mistakes—it is not you. The real you is untouched, eternal, and already free; when you stop believing the story your past tells about who you are, the chains fall away.

Word by Word

verseyaḥ who
mām me
ajam unborn
anādim beginningless
cha and
vetti know
loka of the universe
mahā-īśhvaram the Supreme Lord
asammūḍhaḥ undeluded
saḥ they
martyeṣhu among mortals
sarva-pāpaiḥ from all evils
pramuchyate are freed from-3
Simplified Perspective

Krishna reveals the secret that liberates: to know Him as eternal, beginningless, and the supreme Lord of all creation is to step out of delusion itself. This knowledge is not intellectual accumulation but a direct seeing through the veil of māyā that binds mortals to suffering.

When you truly recognize that the divine consciousness pervades and rules all existence, the weight of past actions dissolves—not because they disappear, but because you recognize yourself as the unchanging witness, not the doer. In our modern search for freedom, we often seek redemption through self-improvement alone; Krishna points to something deeper—that liberation comes from recognizing the eternal truth already within you.

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Bhagavad Gita 10.3 — BG 10.3

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Sanskrit text from the Bhagavad Gita (public domain). Commentary © Mahakatha.

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