Chapter 13 · Verse 13 · Ksetra Ksetrajna Vibhaaga Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 13.13
Sanskrit
ज्ञेयं यत्तत्प्रवक्ष्यामि यज्ज्ञात्वाऽमृतमश्नुते।अनादिमत्परं ब्रह्म न सत्तन्नासदुच्यते।।13.13।।
Transliteration
jñeyaṁ yat tat pravakṣhyāmi yaj jñātvāmṛitam aśhnute anādi mat-paraṁ brahma na sat tan nāsad uchyate
In plain words
When you're lost in pain—when you can't see your way forward, when despair wraps around you like it's the only truth—you're searching for something solid to hold onto. Krishna says: there is a knowing beyond all your confusion, a reality deeper than your suffering, that doesn't depend on whether you feel alive or dead, whether you're broken or whole. Stop trying to figure it all out with your mind. Turn toward that quiet witness inside you that has been with you through every dark moment. That is where freedom lives.
Word by Word
Krishna now unveils the supreme knowledge that liberates: Brahman, the beginningless Absolute, which transcends both existence and non-existence as the world knows them. This is not a concept to be grasped by the thinking mind alone, but a reality to be realized through direct knowing—a knowing that dissolves the knower into the known.
When you stop seeking Brahman as an object 'out there' and recognize it as the luminous awareness that witnesses all your experience, the chains of mortality fall away.
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Bhagavad Gita 13.13 — BG 13.13
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