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Chapter 13 · Verse 9 · Ksetra Ksetrajna Vibhaaga Yoga

Bhagavad Gita 13.9

contemplative Attachment & Letting Go Jnana & Wisdom Moksha & Liberation

Sanskrit

इन्द्रियार्थेषु वैराग्यमनहङ्कार एव च।जन्ममृत्युजराव्याधिदुःखदोषानुदर्शनम्।।13.9।।

Transliteration

indriyārtheṣhu vairāgyam anahankāra eva cha janma-mṛityu-jarā-vyādhi-duḥkha-doṣhānudarśhanam

Word by Word

indriya-artheṣhu toward objects of the senses
vairāgyam dispassion
anahankāraḥ absence of egotism
eva cha and also
janma of birth
mṛityu death
jarā old age
vyādhi disease
duḥkha evils
doṣha faults
anudarśhanam perception
Simplified Perspective

This verse reveals the hallmarks of true wisdom: a heart untethered from sensory cravings and an ego dissolving like morning mist. When you see clearly that birth, death, aging, and disease are woven into the fabric of embodied existence, you stop grasping at pleasure as your salvation.

This sobering vision is not meant to depress you—it frees you to seek what is eternal, unshaken by the body's inevitable decay.

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Bhagavad Gita 13.9 — BG 13.9

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

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