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Chapter 13 · Verse 13 · Ksetra Ksetrajna Vibhaaga Yoga

Bhagavad Gita 13.13

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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

Word by Word

jñeyam ought to be known
yat which
tat that
pravakṣhyāmi I shall now reveal
yat which
jñātvā knowing
amṛitam immortality
aśhnute one achieves
anādi beginningless
mat-param subordinate to me
brahma Brahman
na not
sat existent
tat that
na not
asat non-existent
uchyate is called
Simplified Perspective

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

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