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Chapter 6 · Verse 30 · Dhyana Yoga

Bhagavad Gita 6.30

devotional Attachment & Letting Go Self & Identity Bhakti & Devotion

Sanskrit

यो मां पश्यति सर्वत्र सर्वं च मयि पश्यति। तस्याहं न प्रणश्यामि स च मे न प्रणश्यति।।6.30।।

Transliteration

yo māṁ paśhyati sarvatra sarvaṁ cha mayi paśhyati tasyāhaṁ na praṇaśhyāmi sa cha me na praṇaśhyati

In plain words

You feel separate from God, from others, from the life you thought you'd have—and that separation is the root of your loneliness and fear. Krishna says: when you stop seeing yourself as cut off, when you begin to recognize the same sacred presence in every face and circumstance you encounter, you become irreplaceable to existence itself, and nothing that matters can ever be lost to you. This is not escape from your pain—it is the radical reframing that makes the pain survivable, even redemptive.

Word by Word

yaḥ who
mām me
paśhyati see
sarvatra everywhere
sarvam everything
cha and
mayi in me
paśhyati see
tasya for him
aham I
na not
praṇaśhyāmi lost
saḥ that person
cha and
me to me
na nor
praṇaśhyati lost
Simplified Perspective

When the eye of wisdom opens, you see not separation but the One dancing in all forms—the Divine in the beggar and the king, in the enemy and the beloved. In this vision of non-duality, you become irreplaceable to God, and God becomes inseparable from you.

This is the fruit of meditation: recognizing that the boundary between 'I' and 'Thou' was always drawn in ignorance, and in that recognition, you find yourself held eternally in the heart of existence itself.

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Bhagavad Gita 6.30 — BG 6.30

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

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