Chapter 7 · Verse 23 · Gyaan Vigyana Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 7.23
Sanskrit
अन्तवत्तु फलं तेषां तद्भवत्यल्पमेधसाम्। देवान्देवयजो यान्ति मद्भक्ता यान्ति मामपि।।7.23।।
Transliteration
antavat tu phalaṁ teṣhāṁ tad bhavatyalpa-medhasām devān deva-yajo yānti mad-bhaktā yānti mām api
In plain words
You may have spent years chasing partial answers—asking others to fix what only feels fixable, praying to forces outside yourself, grasping at temporary relief. Krishna says: the moment you stop trying to collect blessings and instead offer your whole heart to what is real and eternal, you step out of the cycle of disappointment into something that cannot be taken away. Your suffering ends not when circumstances change, but when you stop dividing your love between a hundred small hopes and give it entirely to what is true.
Word by Word
Krishna draws a sharp line here between two paths of worship: those who seek the gods receive the gods' blessings—finite, temporary, bound by celestial cycles—while those who surrender to Him alone reach Him directly, the infinite source. The difference is not in ritual complexity but in the object of love; small understanding clings to intermediate powers, but mature devotion recognizes that all worship ultimately returns to the Supreme.
When your heart turns from collecting blessings to offering itself, you step from the realm of diminishing returns into the eternal.
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Bhagavad Gita 7.23 — BG 7.23
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