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Chapter 14 · Verse 7 · Gunatraya Vibhaga Yoga

Bhagavad Gita 14.7

transformative Attachment & Letting Go Karma & Action Jnana & Wisdom

Sanskrit

रजो रागात्मकं विद्धि तृष्णासङ्गसमुद्भवम्।तन्निबध्नाति कौन्तेय कर्मसङ्गेन देहिनम्।।14.7।।

Transliteration

rajo rāgātmakaṁ viddhi tṛiṣhṇā-saṅga-samudbhavam tan nibadhnāti kaunteya karma-saṅgena dehinam

Word by Word

rajaḥ mode of passion
rāga-ātmakam of the nature of passion
viddhi know
tṛiṣhṇā desires
saṅga association
samudbhavam arises from
tat that
nibadhnāti binds
kaunteya Arjun, the son of Kunti
karma-saṅgena through attachment to fruitive actions
dehinam the embodied soul
Simplified Perspective

Lord Krishna reveals here the nature of rajas—the passionate mode that masquerades as energy and desire but actually binds the soul through endless craving. When we mistake ambition for purpose, when we confuse attachment to results with genuine engagement, we become enslaved to our own reactive nature.

The antidote is not to suppress desire but to redirect it toward truth, service, and liberation itself—this is how the householder rises above rajas without renouncing the world.

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Bhagavad Gita 14.7 — BG 14.7

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

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