Chapter 18 · Verse 16 · Moksha Sanyaas Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 18.16
Sanskrit
तत्रैवं सति कर्तारमात्मानं केवलं तु यः।पश्यत्यकृतबुद्धित्वान्न स पश्यति दुर्मतिः।।18.16।।
Transliteration
tatraivaṁ sati kartāram ātmānaṁ kevalaṁ tu yaḥ paśhyaty akṛita-buddhitvān na sa paśhyati durmatiḥ
In plain words
You are carrying a weight that was never yours to carry—the belief that you alone are responsible for every outcome, every failure, every broken thing. Krishna says: the deepest part of you is a witness, not the doer. Your body moves, your hands work, your heart breaks—but the Self within you remains untouched and free. When you stop gripping so hard to control what happens next, you stop drowning in shame for what already has.
Word by Word
Even as the Self remains eternally the witness—untouched by action, unbound by consequence—the foolish soul claims ownership of what the body does, enslaving itself in false doership. This delusion of 'I am the actor' is the very poison that binds us to karma's wheel; only when the mirror of intellect becomes pure does the soul recognize its eternal freedom.
—and feel the burden of false responsibility dissolve.
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Bhagavad Gita 18.16 — BG 18.16
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