Chapter 16 · Verse 13 · Daivasura Sampad Vibhaga Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 16.13
Sanskrit
इदमद्य मया लब्धमिमं प्राप्स्ये मनोरथम्।इदमस्तीदमपि मे भविष्यति पुनर्धनम्।।16.13।।
Transliteration
idam adya mayā labdham imaṁ prāpsye manoratham idam astīdam api me bhaviṣhyati punar dhanam
In plain words
You're gripping so hard—at what you have, at what you think you need, at the future you're trying to control—and that grip is what's suffocating you. Krishna says: you are not the owner of anything, not your success, not your loss, not your body, not tomorrow. The moment you stop believing your peace depends on holding on, you find it was never actually in your hands to lose.
Word by Word
This verse reveals the asura's fatal delusion: the belief that the self is the doer, that what is grasped today defines tomorrow, that accumulation is security. The Gita shows us how this grasping mind creates bondage—each possession becomes a chain, each future desire a prison.
When we release the illusion of ownership and recognize that all wealth, all gain, all loss flows through us rather than from us, we step into freedom even while acting in the world.
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Bhagavad Gita 16.13 — BG 16.13
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