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Chapter 14 · Verse 26 · Gunatraya Vibhaga Yoga

Bhagavad Gita 14.26

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Sanskrit

मां च योऽव्यभिचारेण भक्ितयोगेन सेवते।स गुणान्समतीत्यैतान् ब्रह्मभूयाय कल्पते।।14.26।।

Transliteration

māṁ cha yo ’vyabhichāreṇa bhakti-yogena sevate sa guṇān samatītyaitān brahma-bhūyāya kalpate

Word by Word

mām me
cha only
yaḥ who
avyabhichāreṇa unalloyed
bhakti-yogena through devotion
sevate serve
saḥ they
guṇān the three modes of material nature
samatītya rise above
etān these
brahma-bhūyāya level of Brahman
kalpate comes to
Simplified Perspective

When you offer yourself wholly to the Divine through unwavering devotion, you stop being shaped by the machinery of the three gunas—that constant play of passion, inertia, and harmony that binds all conditional existence. You begin to taste Brahman itself, that pure consciousness untouched by the modes of nature.

This is not escape from the world, but awakening to your true nature that was never bound to begin with. In our modern spiritual seeking, this means letting devotion become the acid that dissolves your identification with every mood, circumstance, and personality pattern you mistake for yourself.

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Bhagavad Gita 14.26 — BG 14.26

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

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