Chapter 13 · Verse 28 · Ksetra Ksetrajna Vibhaaga Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 13.28
Sanskrit
समं सर्वेषु भूतेषु तिष्ठन्तं परमेश्वरम्।विनश्यत्स्वविनश्यन्तं यः पश्यति स पश्यति।।13.28।।
Transliteration
samaṁ sarveṣhu bhūteṣhu tiṣhṭhantaṁ parameśhvaram vinaśhyatsv avinaśhyantaṁ yaḥ paśhyati sa paśhyati
In plain words
You are watching things you love fall apart—a marriage, a body, a future you planned—and it feels like everything is dying, including you. Krishna says: there is something in you that does not die, something in the person you're losing that does not die, and this unchanging presence is so real it makes all the breaking feel like clouds moving across an unchanging sky. When you stop gripping the form and touch that eternal thing underneath, the pain of loss becomes bearable—even sacred.
Word by Word
This verse reveals the supreme vision that transforms a seeker forever: seeing the unchanging Consciousness equally present in all beings, the eternal witness within the perishable forms that rise and fall around us. The Supreme Self stands untouched by the mortality that surrounds it, like the sky unaffected by clouds.
When you glimpse this truth—that the same imperishable Atman animates the falling leaf and the beating heart—you have truly seen. In daily life, this means meeting each person and creature with the recognition that an eternal presence dwells within them, dissolving judgment and opening compassion.
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Bhagavad Gita 13.28 — BG 13.28
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