Chapter 10 · Verse 5 · Vibhooti Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 10.5
Sanskrit
अहिंसा समता तुष्टिस्तपो दानं यशोऽयशः। भवन्ति भावा भूतानां मत्त एव पृथग्विधाः।।10.5।।
Transliteration
ahiṁsā samatā tuṣṭis tapo dānaṁ yaśo 'yaśaḥ bhavanti bhāvā bhūtānāṁ matta eva pṛthag-vidhāḥ
In plain words
You're looking at yourself and seeing only your failures, your anger, your jealousy, your ambition—and you're ashamed of what you see. But Krishna says: every quality you possess, the gentle and the driven, the content and the restless, comes from the same Divine source. You are not broken for having shadow alongside light; you are human, and all of it is sacred. Stop fighting yourself and start befriending what you've been taught to reject.
Word by Word
Krishna reveals here that all the qualities we observe in creation—from gentleness to ambition, from contentment to restlessness—flow directly from His being as the ground of all existence. These are not random traits scattered through the world, but divine expressions organized by His will.
When you recognize that even your capacity for nonviolence or your struggle with ego originates in the Divine, you stop judging yourself and others as separate from that sacred source, and instead begin to see every quality as an opportunity to align with your highest nature.
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Bhagavad Gita 10.5 — BG 10.5
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