Chapter 7 · Verse 18 · Gyaan Vigyana Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 7.18
Sanskrit
उदाराः सर्व एवैते ज्ञानी त्वात्मैव मे मतम्। आस्थितः स हि युक्तात्मा मामेवानुत्तमां गतिम्।।7.18।।
Transliteration
udārāḥ sarva evaite jñānī tvātmaiva me matam āsthitaḥ sa hi yuktātmā mām evānuttamāṁ gatim
In plain words
You've been searching outside yourself—for the right path, the right answer, the right person to fix this—when the deepest knowing has always been inside you. Krishna says: the moment you stop splitting yourself into the seeker and the sought, into the broken and the healed, you find the ground that was never actually shaken. That unity with something larger than your pain is not something you earn; it's what remains when you finally stop defending the walls you built to survive.
Word by Word
Krishna reveals the supreme paradox: all sincere seekers walk noble paths, yet the wise one—the jñānī—recognizes that true knowledge is not intellectual accumulation but the direct knowing of one's unity with the Divine Self. This is not pride but the deepest humility: the dissolution of the separate self into the infinite presence of God.
When you stop defending the illusion of separation and surrender into the truth that you already are That which you seek, you discover the ultimate refuge.
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Bhagavad Gita 7.18 — BG 7.18
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