Shloka: BG 7.1
The Blessed Lord said, "O Arjuna, hear how you shall, without doubt, know Me fully, with your mind intent on Me, practic...
Shloka: BG 7.2
I will declare to you in full this knowledge combined with realization, after knowing which nothing else remains to be k...
Shloka: BG 7.3
Among thousands of men, one may perchance strive for perfection; even among those successful strivers, only one may perc...
Shloka: BG 7.4
Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intellect, and egoism—thus is My Nature divided eightfold.
Shloka: BG 7.5
O mighty-armed Arjuna, this is the inferior Prakriti; know it as distinct from My higher Prakriti, the very life-element...
Shloka: BG 7.6
Know that these two are the womb of all beings; thus, I am the source and dissolution of the whole universe.
Shloka: BG 7.7
There is nothing higher than Me, O Arjuna. All this is strung on Me, like clusters of gems on a string.
Shloka: BG 7.8
I am the flavor in water, O Arjuna; I am the light in the moon and the sun; I am the syllable Om in all the Vedas, sound...
Shloka: BG 7.9
I am the sweet fragrance in the earth and the brilliance in the fire, the life in all beings, and I am the austerity of ...
Shloka: BG 7.10
Know Me, O Arjuna, as the eternal seed of all beings; I am the intelligence of the intelligent, and the splendour of the...
Shloka: BG 7.11
Of the strong, I am the strength devoid of desire and attachment, and in all beings, I am the desire in accordance with ...
Shloka: BG 7.12
Whatever beings (and objects) that are pure, active, and inert, know that they proceed from Me. They are in Me, yet I am...
Shloka: BG 7.13
Deluded by these Natures, composed of the three qualities of Nature, all this world does not know Me as distinct from th...
Shloka: BG 7.14
Verily, this divine illusion of Mine, composed of the three qualities, is difficult to cross over; those who take refuge...
Shloka: BG 7.15
The evil-doers and the deluded, who are the lowest of men, do not seek Me; those whose knowledge is destroyed by illusio...
Shloka: BG 7.16
Four kinds of virtuous men worship Me, O Arjuna, and they are the distressed, the seekers of knowledge, the seekers of w...
Shloka: BG 7.17
Of them, the wise who are ever steadfast and devoted to the One, excel; for I am exceedingly dear to the wise, and they ...
Shloka: BG 7.18
Indeed, all these are noble; however, I consider the wise man as My very Self; for, he is steadfast in mind and establis...
Shloka: BG 7.19
At the end of many births, the wise man comes to Me, realizing that all this is Vaasudeva (the innermost Self); such a g...
Shloka: BG 7.20
Those whose wisdom has been taken away by this or that desire, go to other gods, following this or that rite, led by the...
Shloka: BG 7.21
Whatever form any devotee desires to worship with faith, I make that same faith of his firm and unflinching.
Shloka: BG 7.22
Endowed with that faith, he engages in the worship of that form and obtains his desired outcome, which is ordained by Me...
Shloka: BG 7.23
Verily, the reward (fruit) that accrues to those men of small intelligence is finite. The worshippers of the gods go to ...
Shloka: BG 7.24
The foolish think of Me, the Unmanifest, as having manifestation, not knowing My higher, immutable, and most excellent n...
Shloka: BG 7.25
I am not manifest to all, veiled as I am by the Yoga-Maya. This deluded world does not know Me, who am unborn and imperi...
Shloka: BG 7.26
I know, O Arjuna, the beings of the past, the present, and the future; however, no one knows Me.
Shloka: BG 7.27
O Bharata, all beings are subject to delusion at birth due to the delusion of the pairs of opposites arising from desire...
Shloka: BG 7.28
But those men of virtuous deeds, whose sins have come to an end and who are freed from the delusion of the pairs of oppo...
Shloka: BG 7.29
Those who strive for liberation from old age and death, taking refuge in Me, realize in full that Brahman, the whole kno...
Shloka: BG 7.30