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Chapter 12 · Verse 12 · Bhakti Yoga

Bhagavad Gita 12.12

transformative Jnana & Wisdom Karma & Action Attachment & Letting Go Mind & Meditation

Sanskrit

श्रेयो हि ज्ञानमभ्यासाज्ज्ञानाद्ध्यानं विशिष्यते।ध्यानात्कर्मफलत्यागस्त्यागाच्छान्तिरनन्तरम्।।12.12।।

Transliteration

śhreyo hi jñānam abhyāsāj jñānād dhyānaṁ viśhiṣhyate dhyānāt karma-phala-tyāgas tyāgāch chhāntir anantaram

Word by Word

śhreyaḥ better
hi for
jñānam knowledge
abhyāsāt than (mechanical) practice
jñānāt than knowledge
dhyānam meditation
viśhiṣhyate better
dhyānāt than meditation
karma-phala-tyāgaḥ renunciation of the fruits of actions
tyāgāt renunciation
śhāntiḥ peace
anantaram immediately
Simplified Perspective

Krishna reveals a ladder of liberation that ascends from external practice to inner knowing to meditative silence to the ultimate freedom of desireless action. Knowledge alone is sterile without the heat of meditation to burn its seeds into lived truth.

When you stop clinging to the outcomes of your work—not through exhaustion but through clear seeing—peace arrives not as something distant but as your own nature, already present, finally unveiled.

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Bhagavad Gita 12.12 — BG 12.12

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

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