A declaration · reflective in mood · builds on earlier teachings
“What is eternal gets pulled around by what changes.”
The embodied being in this world is my eternal part, yet it draws the mind and the five senses, which rest in nature.
The verse in reading order — each Sanskrit word with its meaning beneath. Hover a word to focus on it.
Read literallymy indeed · part · in the world of living beings · become a living being · eternal · mind as the sixth, together with the five · senses · situated in nature · draws, pulls
The living being is Krishna's eternal part, but it gets pulled by the mind and senses that belong to nature and mistakes them for itself.
Krishna speaks this verse, on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, in the chapter titled "Purushottama Yoga" (The Yoga of the Supreme Person).
Verse 7 sits in Chapter 15 of the Bhagavad Gita — Purushottama Yoga, "The Yoga of the Supreme Person". The chapter has 20 verses in total.
You know the feeling: you meant to stay calm, then one comment, one craving, one memory drags you off center. The verse explains that pull as the mind and senses taking over.
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It shifts attention from blaming the self to seeing how nature drags awareness into identification.
What this verse means
The living being is Krishna's eternal part, but it gets pulled by the mind and senses that belong to nature and mistakes them for itself.
Context & commentary
On Kurukshetra, after Krishna has pointed Arjuna toward the supreme abode, he explains why embodied beings still wander. The true self is eternal and related to Krishna, yet the mind and senses, rooted in changing nature, pull it into identification and confusion.
Why this verse still matters
You know the feeling: you meant to stay calm, then one comment, one craving, one memory drags you off center. The verse explains that pull as the mind and senses taking over.
“You are larger than the impulses that tug at you.”
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