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Chapter 4 · Verse 35 · Jnana Karma Sanyasa Yoga

Bhagavad Gita 4.35

transformative Self & Identity Attachment & Letting Go

Sanskrit

यज्ज्ञात्वा न पुनर्मोहमेवं यास्यसि पाण्डव। येन भूतान्यशेषेण द्रक्ष्यस्यात्मन्यथो मयि।।4.35।।

Transliteration

yaj jñātvā na punar moham evaṁ yāsyasi pāṇḍava yena bhūtānyaśheṣheṇa drakṣhyasyātmanyatho mayi

In plain words

You are caught in confusion because you keep seeing yourself as separate from everyone else—separate from your pain, separate from your purpose, even separate from God. Krishna says: when you recognize that the same life force flows through you, through your loved ones, through your suffering itself, the delusion that has been twisting you in knots will simply fall away. That recognition is not something you earn; it's something you remember.

Word by Word

yat which
jñātvā having known
na never
punaḥ again
moham delusion
evam like this
yāsyasi you shall get
pāṇḍava Arjun, the son of Pandu
yena by this
bhūtāni living beings
aśheṣhāṇi all
drakṣhyasi you will see
ātmani within me (Shree Krishna)
atho that is to say
mayi in me
Simplified Perspective

This verse reveals the supreme fruit of true knowledge: the dissolution of all delusion through direct recognition of the Self within all beings and within Krishna himself. When you truly know that the same consciousness animates every living thing—that there is no separation between the seer and the seen—the mind's ancient habit of creating division and confusion simply cannot persist.

This is not intellectual understanding, but the lived experience that transforms how you move through the world, freeing you from the reactive patterns that have kept you bound.

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Bhagavad Gita 4.35 — BG 4.35

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Sanskrit text from the Bhagavad Gita (public domain). Commentary © Mahakatha.

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