Chapter 5 · Verse 17 · Karma Sanyasa Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 5.17
Sanskrit
तद्बुद्धयस्तदात्मानस्तन्निष्ठास्तत्परायणाः। गच्छन्त्यपुनरावृत्तिं ज्ञाननिर्धूतकल्मषाः।।5.17।।
Transliteration
tad-buddhayas tad-ātmānas tan-niṣhṭhās tat-parāyaṇāḥ gachchhantyapunar-āvṛittiṁ jñāna-nirdhūta-kalmaṣhāḥ
In plain words
You're scattered—your mind pulled in a hundred directions, your heart loyal to something that keeps shifting, your identity tangled in what others expect or what you've lost. Krishna says: there is a way to stop fracturing yourself. When you let one true thing—call it love, call it service, call it God—organize everything you think and do, the old stains wash away, and you finally stop running in circles. You can come home to yourself.
Word by Word
When your intellect, heart, and entire being become absorbed in the Divine—when God is not a concept but your very substance—you cross the threshold of return. This is the promise of unified consciousness: knowledge purifies the deepest karmic stains, and you emerge into moksha, never again bound by the cycle of birth and death.
In our modern lives consumed by fragmented attention, this verse calls us to examine where our true loyalty lies—what is the one thing that organizes all our thinking and action?
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Bhagavad Gita 5.17 — BG 5.17
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