Chapter 16 · Verse 15 · Daivasura Sampad Vibhaga Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 16.15
Sanskrit
आढ्योऽभिजनवानस्मि कोऽन्योऽस्ति सदृशो मया।यक्ष्ये दास्यामि मोदिष्य इत्यज्ञानविमोहिताः।।16.15।।
Transliteration
āḍhyo ’bhijanavān asmi ko ’nyo ’sti sadṛiśho mayā yakṣhye dāsyāmi modiṣhya ity ajñāna-vimohitāḥ aneka-chitta-vibhrāntā moha-jāla-samāvṛitāḥ prasaktāḥ kāma-bhogeṣhu patanti narake ’śhuchau
In plain words
You may be counting your worth in what you own, what you've achieved, or who your family is—and believing that makes you safe, special, somehow exempt from pain. Krishna says: this counting is a kind of blindness that guarantees suffering, because everything you're clinging to will slip away, and then you'll be left with nothing but the emptiness you were trying to fill. The only thing that cannot be lost is the awareness inside you right now, watching all of it.
Word by Word
This verse reveals the asura's greatest blindness: the illusion of separation from the Divine, the belief that wealth and status make one exempt from life's laws. The asura mistakes temporary possessions for permanent identity, forgetting that all belongs to the eternal Self.
When we identify with our bank accounts, our achievements, our family name—rather than the witnessing consciousness within—we construct a prison of endless wanting that inevitably collapses into suffering.
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Bhagavad Gita 16.15 — BG 16.15
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