When he perceives the varied existence of beings as resting in the One, and their expansion from that alone, then he attains Brahman.
यदा भूतपृथग्भावमेकस्थमनुपश्यति | तत एव च विस्तारं ब्रह्म सम्पद्यते तदा ||१३-३१||
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The Bhagavad Gita, translated and commentated by S. Radhakrishnan, is one of the most scholarly and accessible English renderings of Hinduism's most beloved scripture — the dialogue between Arjuna and Lord Krishna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra. Radhakrishnan, philosopher and statesman, brings both rigorous intellectual insight and genuine spiritual depth to his translation and notes. This edition is treasured for its ability to illuminate the Gita's universal spiritual teaching across cultural and philosophical boundaries.
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- Krishna
- Tradition
- Hindu
- Source text
- Bhagavad Gita
- Chapter
- Bhagavad Gita 13.31
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- BG.13.31
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- EnlightenmentGod-RealisationOneness
Same theme, different voices
They consider the fourth to be this: not conscious of the inner, not conscious of the outer, not conscious of both, not a mass of consciousness, not conscious, not unconscious; unseen, beyond dealings, ungraspable, without marks, unthinkable, indescribable, whose essence is the certainty of the one Self, in which the world has ceased, tranquil, benign, non-dual. That is the Self; that is to be known.
नान्तःप्रज्ञं न बहिष्प्रज्ञं नोभयतःप्रज्ञं न प्रज्ञानघनं न प्रज्ञं नाप्रज्ञम् । अदृष्टमव्यवहार्यमग्राह्यमलक्षणं अचिन्त्यमव्यपदेश्यमेकात्मप्रत्ययसारं प्रपञ्चोपशमं शान्तं शिवमद्वैतं चतुर्थं मन्यन्ते स आत्मा स विज्ञेयः ॥ ७॥
Our mind becomes enlightened in such a way that we start seeing the image of God in every person. This makes us realize that no one is our enemy or stranger.
He warns that love only comes through humility and sorrow. He questions the magic garden, but it has no answers. Ultimately, he realizes that true love isn't just words, and he asks the Cup-bearer to silence the idle talk with the wisdom of divine knowledge.