Chapter 10 · Verse 4 · Vibhooti Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 10.4
Sanskrit
बुद्धिर्ज्ञानमसंमोहः क्षमा सत्यं दमः शमः। सुखं दुःखं भवोऽभावो भयं चाभयमेव च।।10.4।।
Transliteration
buddhir jñānam asammohaḥ kṣhamā satyaṁ damaḥ śhamaḥ sukhaṁ duḥkhaṁ bhavo ’bhāvo bhayaṁ chābhayameva cha
In plain words
You are exhausted from fighting what keeps coming—the worry, the anger, the loss, the fear that won't leave. Krishna says: these states move through you like weather through the sky. You are not broken because you feel them; you are awake. When you stop bracing against pain and stop chasing permanent happiness, you find something steadier underneath—a clarity that doesn't depend on your circumstances changing.
Word by Word
Krishna reveals here the divine qualities that emerge when the heart awakens to its true nature—not as distant ideals, but as the very substance of the Self itself. Intellect clarifies, forgiveness dissolves the hard knots of resentment, truthfulness becomes the ground of all being, and the mind finds its home in equilibrium.
When you stop resisting life's dance of joy and sorrow, birth and death, fear and courage, you discover they are all expressions of the One consciousness moving through infinite forms—and this recognition is the gateway to freedom right now.
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Bhagavad Gita 10.4 — BG 10.4
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