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“What changes is not the whole of what you are.”
पृथ्वी, जल, तेज, वायु, आकाश ये पञ्चमहाभूत और मन, बुद्धि तथा अहंकार यह आठ प्रकारके भेदोंवाली मेरी अपरा प्रकृति है । हे महाबाहो इस अपरा प्रकृतिसे भिन्न जीवरूप बनी हुई मेरी परा प्रकृतिको जान, जिसके द्वारा यह जगत् धारण किया जाता है ॥
श्लोक क्रम में — हर संस्कृत शब्द और नीचे उसका अर्थ। किसी शब्द पर जाकर उसे देखें।
शब्दशःearth · water · fire · air · ether · mind · intellect · indeed · and · ego · thus · this · my · separate · nature · eightfold
Krishna names eight parts of his lower nature: the five elements, mind, intellect, and ego. This is the material side of existence, not the highest reality.
यह श्लोक Krishna द्वारा कहा गया है, कुरुक्षेत्र की भूमि पर, अध्याय "ज्ञान विज्ञान योग" में।
श्लोक 4 भगवद् गीता के 7वें अध्याय में है — ज्ञान विज्ञान योग। इस अध्याय में कुल 30 श्लोक हैं।
You are overwhelmed by your own reactions, your thoughts, and the noise around you. This verse helps you see those layers as parts of life, not the deepest truth about you.
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It shifts attention from identifying with the changing mind-body complex to seeing it as only the lower field.
इस श्लोक का अर्थ
Krishna names eight parts of his lower nature: the five elements, mind, intellect, and ego. This is the material side of existence, not the highest reality.
संदर्भ और टिप्पणी
On Kurukshetra, Arjuna stands frozen while Krishna begins to explain the structure of reality. After promising full knowledge, Krishna first separates the changing world into eight parts: the elements, mind, intellect, and ego. This verse sets up the contrast with the higher nature that follows.
आज के जीवन में महत्व
You are overwhelmed by your own reactions, your thoughts, and the noise around you. This verse helps you see those layers as parts of life, not the deepest truth about you.
“You can stop mistaking the changing layers of life for what is ultimate.”
संबंधित विषय: manas (49 श्लोक), prakriti (31 श्लोक), buddhi (26 श्लोक)