Chapter 15 · Verse 6 · Purushottama Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 15.6
Sanskrit
न तद्भासयते सूर्यो न शशाङ्को न पावकः।यद्गत्वा न निवर्तन्ते तद्धाम परमं मम।।15.6।।
Transliteration
na tad bhāsayate sūryo na śhaśhāṅko na pāvakaḥ yad gatvā na nivartante tad dhāma paramaṁ mama
In plain words
When you're exhausted from chasing what glitters — the approval, the fix, the return of what was lost, the guarantee that everything will work out — you're looking for light in all the wrong places. Krishna says: there is a home in you that doesn't depend on any of it. Stop trying to illumine your way forward with the sun, the moon, the fire of your own effort. That deepest part of you, the one that doesn't need anything to prove its worth, is already whole.
Word by Word
Krishna reveals the supreme abode that transcends all light — the sun cannot illumine it, the moon cannot reach it, fire cannot touch it. This is the eternal home of consciousness itself, beyond all material radiance and temporal change.
When a soul reaches this paramam dhama through sincere devotion and wisdom, it never returns to the cycle of becoming and unbecoming. In your own spiritual journey, recognize that true fulfillment lies not in chasing the bright distractions of the world, but in turning inward to the luminous stillness that needs no external light.
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Bhagavad Gita 15.6 — BG 15.6
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