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Chapter 7 · Verse 26 · Gyaan Vigyana Yoga

Bhagavad Gita 7.26

devotional Attachment & Letting Go

Sanskrit

वेदाहं समतीतानि वर्तमानानि चार्जुन। भविष्याणि च भूतानि मां तु वेद न कश्चन।।7.26।।

Transliteration

vedāhaṁ samatītāni vartamānāni chārjuna bhaviṣhyāṇi cha bhūtāni māṁ tu veda na kaśhchana

In plain words

You are exhausting yourself trying to see what comes next — the outcome of your marriage, your health, your child's path, whether the money will return. Krishna says: I hold what was, what is, and what will be. You don't have to. The moment you stop white-knuckling the future, you stop drowning in it. You are known completely by something infinitely larger than your fear.

Word by Word

veda know
aham I
samatītāni the past
vartamānāni the present
cha and
arjuna Arjun
bhaviṣhyāṇi the future
cha also
bhūtāni all living beings
mām me
tu but
veda knows
na kaśhchana no one
Simplified Perspective

Krishna reveals the seamless omniscience that defines the Divine—He alone holds all time, past and present and future, within His consciousness, while remaining utterly unknowable to creation itself. This is not boasting but the tender paradox of grace: the Infinite knows you completely, while you are invited into the gradual discovery of yourself through surrender to Him.

When you stop demanding to understand God and instead allow yourself to be understood by Him, the entire architecture of your anxiety about the future collapses.

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Bhagavad Gita 7.26 — BG 7.26

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

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