The Lord dwells in the heart-region of all beings, Arjuna, causing all beings to revolve, as if mounted on a machine, by his power of maya.
ईश्वरः सर्वभूतानां हृद्देशेऽर्जुन तिष्ठति | भ्रामयन्सर्वभूतानि यन्त्रारूढानि मायया ||१८-६१||
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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.
- Author
- Krishna
- Tradition
- Hindu
- Source text
- Bhagavad Gita
- Chapter
- Bhagavad Gita 18.61
- Verse / page
- BG.18.61
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- Divine WillMaya (Illusion)Omnipresence
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Though I am unborn, my Self imperishable, and the Lord of all beings, I take command of my own material nature and come into being through my own power of illusion.
अजोऽपि सन्नव्ययात्मा भूतानामीश्वरोऽपि सन् | प्रकृतिं स्वामधिष्ठाय सम्भवाम्यात्ममायया ||४-६||
A saint lives according to God's will.
When people asked Jesus, "What is the greatest work of all?", he replied, "To love God and to surrender to his will."
The man who abides in the will of God wills nothing else than what God is, and what He wills.