Chapter 2 · Verse 72 · Sankhya Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 2.72
Sanskrit
एषा ब्राह्मी स्थितिः पार्थ नैनां प्राप्य विमुह्यति। स्थित्वाऽस्यामन्तकालेऽपि ब्रह्मनिर्वाणमृच्छति।।2.72।।
Transliteration
eṣhā brāhmī sthitiḥ pārtha naināṁ prāpya vimuhyati sthitvāsyām anta-kāle ’pi brahma-nirvāṇam ṛichchhati
In plain words
You are exhausted from trying to control what cannot be controlled—your marriage, your child's path, your body's healing, the return of what was lost. Krishna says: there is a way to live where you stop grasping, stop resisting, stop drowning in fear of what might happen. When you release your grip on how things should be and simply witness your own life as it unfolds, something unshakeable in you awakens—and that is where real peace lives, even now.
Word by Word
This is the state of Brahman-realization, Arjuna—the unshakeable dwelling in your own true nature, where delusion cannot touch you. Once you know yourself as the eternal Self, even at the moment of death, you slip naturally into liberation, like a river flowing into the ocean.
This is not something earned through effort alone, but revealed through the clarity that comes when the mind stops claiming ownership of experience. When you stop resisting what is and simply abide as the witness, freedom becomes not a future promise but your present reality.
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Bhagavad Gita 2.72 — BG 2.72
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