Chapter 13 · Verse 32 · Ksetra Ksetrajna Vibhaaga Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 13.32
Sanskrit
अनादित्वान्निर्गुणत्वात्परमात्मायमव्ययः।शरीरस्थोऽपि कौन्तेय न करोति न लिप्यते।।13.32।।
Transliteration
anāditvān nirguṇatvāt paramātmāyam avyayaḥ śharīra-stho ’pi kaunteya na karoti na lipyate
In plain words
You are carrying a weight that was never yours to carry — the blame, the guilt, the feeling that you broke something and now you're stained by it forever. Krishna says: there is a part of you that remains untouched by what you've done, by what's been done to you, by the mess of this life. You are not your failures, your illness, your debts, your broken marriage — you are the awareness watching it all, and that awareness has never been anything less than whole.
Word by Word
The Supreme Self is beginningless, beyond all material qualities, imperishable — dwelling in your body yet never truly contained by it. Though Krishna speaks of the Atman as present in the body, the Self remains forever untouched by action, unstained by the world's movements, like the witness-sky unaffected by clouds passing through it.
This recognition liberates you from the false burden of being the doer: you are not the actor in life's drama, merely the eternal consciousness observing it all. When you truly understand this, the weight of guilt, responsibility, and identity dissolves — you live freely as the untainted awareness itself.
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Bhagavad Gita 13.32 — BG 13.32
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