Chapter 11 · Verse 32 · Vishwaroopa Darshana Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 11.32
Sanskrit
श्री भगवानुवाच कालोऽस्मि लोकक्षयकृत्प्रवृद्धो लोकान्समाहर्तुमिह प्रवृत्तः। ऋतेऽपि त्वां न भविष्यन्ति सर्वे येऽवस्थिताः प्रत्यनीकेषु योधाः।।11.32।।
Transliteration
śhrī-bhagavān uvācha kālo ’smi loka-kṣhaya-kṛit pravṛiddho lokān samāhartum iha pravṛittaḥ ṛite ’pi tvāṁ na bhaviṣhyanti sarve ye ’vasthitāḥ pratyanīkeṣhu yodhāḥ
In plain words
You are carrying the weight of outcomes that were never yours to control — whether it's saving a marriage, winning back someone you love, healing your child, or stopping what feels inevitable. Krishna says: you are not the one who decides what lives and what dies, what stays and what goes. Your job is only to show up and do what love requires of you right now, and to let Time itself handle the rest.
Word by Word
Krishna reveals himself as Kala—Time itself, the cosmic force of transformation and dissolution. He is not speaking as destroyer out of anger, but as the eternal principle that unmakes what has run its course, making space for renewal.
The warriors arrayed before Arjuna have already been claimed by Time; their fate is written. In your own life, when you recognize that you are not the doer but a willing instrument of a larger unfolding, the burden of outcome dissolves and you act with clarity.
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Bhagavad Gita 11.32 — BG 11.32
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