Chapter 7 · Verse 12 · Gyaan Vigyana Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 7.12
Sanskrit
ये चैव सात्त्विका भावा राजसास्तामसाश्च ये। मत्त एवेति तान्विद्धि नत्वहं तेषु ते मयि।।7.12।।
Transliteration
ye chaiva sāttvikā bhāvā rājasās tāmasāśh cha ye matta eveti tān viddhi na tvahaṁ teṣhu te mayi
In plain words
You are not your anger, your anxiety, your numbness, or your patterns—they are just weather passing through you. Krishna says: all these states arise from one divine source, and you are the sky in which they move, not the clouds themselves. When you stop fighting what you feel and start recognizing it as temporary energy moving through you, you become free.
Word by Word
Krishna reveals the profound non-duality at the heart of creation: all three gunas—sattva, rajas, tamas—flow from Him alone, yet He remains untouched by their play, like the sun unaffected by the clouds it illuminates. This is not mere intellectual knowledge but the lived understanding that liberates—when you see the divine source behind every quality and tendency, you stop identifying with your conditioning and remember your eternal nature.
In your own life, recognizing that your patterns of goodness, passion, and inertia all arise from a single divine intelligence allows you to work with them consciously rather than being enslaved by them.
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Bhagavad Gita 7.12 — BG 7.12
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