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jyotiṣām api taj jyotis tamasaḥ param ucyate jñānaḿ jñeyaḿ jñāna-gamyaḿ hṛdi sarvasya viṣṭhitam Translation of Bhagavad Gita 13.18 He is the source of light in all luminous objects. He is beyond the darkness of matter...

iti kṣetraḿ tathā jñānaḿ jñeyaḿ coktaḿ samāsataḥ mad-bhakta etad vijñāya mad-bhāvāyopapadyate Translation of Bhagavad Gita 13.19 Thus the field of activities [the body], knowledge and the knowable have been summarily...

prakṛtiḿ puruṣaḿ caiva viddhy anādī ubhāv api vikārāḿś ca guṇāḿś caiva viddhi prakṛti-sambhavān Translation of Bhagavad Gita 13.20 Material nature and the living entities should be understood to be beginningless. Their...

karya-kara?a-kart?tve hetu? prak?tir ucyate puru?a? sukha-du?khana? bhokt?tve hetur ucyate Translation of Bhagavad Gita 13.21 Nature is said to be the cause of all material causes and effects, whereas the living entity is the...

puruṣaḥ prakṛti-stho hi bhuńkte prakṛti-jān guṇān kāraṇaḿ guṇa-sańgo ’sya sad-asad-yoni-janmasu Translation of Bhagavad Gita 13.22 The living entity in material nature thus follows the ways of life, enjoying the three...

upadraṣṭānumantā ca bhartā bhoktā maheśvaraḥ paramātmeti cāpy ukto dehe ’smin puruṣaḥ paraḥ Translation of Bhagavad Gita 13.23 Yet in this body there is another, a transcendental enjoyer, who is the Lord, the supreme...

ya evaḿ vetti puruṣaḿ prakṛtiḿ ca guṇaiḥ saha sarvathā vartamāno ’pi na sa bhūyo ’bhijāyate Translation of Bhagavad Gita 13.24 One who understands this philosophy concerning material nature, the living entity and the...

dhyānenātmani paśyanti kecid ātmānam ātmanā anye sāńkhyena yogena karma-yogena cāpare Translation of Bhagavad Gita 13.25 Some perceive the Supersoul within themselves through meditation, others through the cultivation of...

anye tv evam ajānantaḥ śrutvānyebhya upāsate te ’pi cātitaranty eva mṛtyuḿ śruti-parāyaṇāḥ Translation of Bhagavad Gita 13.26 Again there are those who, although not conversant in spiritual knowledge, begin to worship the...

yāvat sañjāyate kiñcit sattvaḿ sthāvara-jańgamam kṣetra-kṣetrajña-saḿyogāt tad viddhi bharatarṣabha Translation of Bhagavad Gita 13.27 O chief of the Bharatas, know that whatever you see in existence, both the moving and...