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162. Bhagavad Gita Chapter 13 Verses 29-34I Swami Sarvapriyananda
Category: Religion & Spirituality
Duration: 01:19:33
Publish Date: 2025-06-08 20:39:04
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Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches verses 29-34 from the Thirteenth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. This series of talks unfolds the highest truths of Vedanta through the study of "The Song of God".


Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 13 Verse 29:

प्रकृत्यैव च कर्माणि क्रियमाणानि सर्वश: |

य: पश्यति तथात्मानमकर्तारं स पश्यति ||29||

prakṛityaiva cha karmāṇi kriyamāṇāni sarvaśhaḥ

yaḥ paśhyati tathātmānam akartāraṁ sa paśhyati ||29||


He is the real seer who perceives that Prakrti (i.e., one's body-mind born of Prakrti) alone is doing all works and that the Atman, the true spiritual self, is the actionless witness.


Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 13 Verse 30:

यदा भूतपृथग्भावमेकस्थमनुपश्यति |

तत एव च विस्तारं ब्रह्म सम्पद्यते तदा ||30||

yadā bhūta-pṛithag-bhāvam eka-stham anupaśhyati

tata eva cha vistāraṁ brahma sampadyate tadā ||30||


When one perceives the manifold objects as centred in the One and as evolved from It as well -- then he attains Brahman.


Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 13 Verse 31:

अनादित्वान्निर्गुणत्वात्परमात्मायमव्यय: |

शरीरस्थोऽपि कौन्तेय न करोति न लिप्यते ||31||

anāditvān nirguṇatvāt paramātmāyam avyayaḥ

śharīra-stho ’pi kaunteya na karoti na lipyate ||31||


That highest Self, being the immutable and unoriginated Spirit beyond Nature, is free from all action and stain, though dwelling in the body.


Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 13 Verse 32:

यथा सर्वगतं सौक्ष्म्यादाकाशं नोपलिप्यते |

सर्वत्रावस्थितो देहे तथात्मा नोपलिप्यते ||32||

yathā sarva-gataṁ saukṣhmyād ākāśhaṁ nopalipyate

sarvatrāvasthito dehe tathātmā nopalipyate ||32||


Just as the all-pervading Akasa, because of its subtlety, is not stained by anything, so this Atman, though abiding in all bodies, is never affected by any impurity.


Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 13 Verse 33:

यथा प्रकाशयत्येक: कृत्स्नं लोकमिमं रवि: |

क्षेत्रं क्षेत्री तथा कृत्स्नं प्रकाशयति भारत ||33||

yathā prakāśhayaty ekaḥ kṛitsnaṁ lokam imaṁ raviḥ

kṣhetraṁ kṣhetrī tathā kṛitsnaṁ prakāśhayati bhārata ||33||


Just as the single sun illumines the whole universe, so the (One) Indwelling Spirit enlivens all bodies (with self-consciousness)


Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 13 Verse 34:

क्षेत्रक्षेत्रज्ञयोरेवमन्तरं ज्ञानचक्षुषा |

भूतप्रकृतिमोक्षं च ये विदुर्यान्ति ते परम् ||34||

kṣhetra-kṣhetrajñayor evam antaraṁ jñāna-chakṣhuṣhā

bhūta-prakṛiti-mokṣhaṁ cha ye vidur yānti te param ||34||


Whoever perceives by spiritual insight the distinction between Ksetra (Nature) and Ksetrajna (Spirit) as also the freedom of the Spirit from the hold of Nature, they reach the Supreme.
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