Chapter 15 · Verse 5 · Purushottama Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 15.5
Sanskrit
निर्मानमोहा जितसङ्गदोषा अध्यात्मनित्या विनिवृत्तकामाः।द्वन्द्वैर्विमुक्ताः सुखदुःखसंज्ञै र्गच्छन्त्यमूढाः पदमव्ययं तत्।।15.5।।
Transliteration
nirmāna-mohā jita-saṅga-doṣhā adhyātma-nityā vinivṛitta-kāmāḥ dvandvair vimuktāḥ sukha-duḥkha-sanjñair gachchhanty amūḍhāḥ padam avyayaṁ tat
In plain words
You are exhausted by the weight of what you think you should be, and by grasping at outcomes that slip away no matter how hard you hold them. Krishna says: the peace you're looking for isn't found by fixing yourself or controlling life—it's found by releasing the grip itself, by letting go of the false idea that your worth depends on what happens next. When you stop fighting the waves of joy and sorrow, stop measuring yourself against others, stop demanding that life be different than it is, you touch something in you that cannot be touched—something steady, whole, and already free.
Word by Word
Krishna reveals the unmistakable marks of one who has realized the Eternal—they stand free from vanity and delusion, untouched by the poisonous attachments that bind lesser souls. Rooted perpetually in Self-knowledge, they have burned away all hunger for sensory pleasure, and the pairs of opposites—joy and sorrow, gain and loss—no longer sway them.
This is not a distant heaven but the living reality available to any sincere seeker who releases the false self and anchors in eternal consciousness. In our modern chaos of comparison and craving, this verse invites us to ask: What would it feel like to let go of one opinion about ourselves and rest, even for a moment, in the unchanging witness within?
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Bhagavad Gita 15.5 — BG 15.5
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