Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Verses 13-16 from the Seventh chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. This series of talks unfolds the highest truths of Vedanta through the study of "The song of God".

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 7, Verse 13:

त्रिभिर्गुणमयैर्भावैरेभि: सर्वमिदं जगत् |

मोहितं नाभिजानाति मामेभ्य: परमव्ययम् || 13||

tribhir guṇa-mayair bhāvair ebhiḥ sarvam idaṁ jagat

mohitaṁ nābhijānāti māmebhyaḥ param avyayam

🔴 Deluded by the mental states accruing from the three Gunas of Prakrti, this world knows not Me, the Imperishable, transcending these Gunas.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 7, Verse 14:

दैवी ह्येषा गुणमयी मम माया दुरत्यया |

मामेव ये प्रपद्यन्ते मायामेतां तरन्ति ते || 14||

daivī hyeṣhā guṇa-mayī mama māyā duratyayā

mām eva ye prapadyante māyām etāṁ taranti te

🔴 My divine Maya (power) constituted of the three Gunas is difficult to overcome. Whoever takes refuge in Me alone, in utter devotion, overcomes it.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 7, Verse 15:

न मां दुष्कृतिनो मूढा: प्रपद्यन्ते नराधमा: |

माययापहृतज्ञाना आसुरं भावमाश्रिता: || 15||

na māṁ duṣhkṛitino mūḍhāḥ prapadyante narādhamāḥ

māyayāpahṛita-jñānā āsuraṁ bhāvam āśhritāḥ

🔴 The lowest type of men, evil, foolish and demonic in nature, being deprived of right understanding by Maya, never take refuge in Me with devotion.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 7, Verse 16:

चतुर्विधा भजन्ते मां जना: सुकृतिनोऽर्जुन |

आर्तो जिज्ञासुरर्थार्थी ज्ञानी च भरतर्षभ || 16||

chatur-vidhā bhajante māṁ janāḥ sukṛitino ’rjuna

ārto jijñāsur arthārthī jñānī cha bharatarṣhabha

🔴 O Arjuna, the greatest of the Bharata race!Four kinds of pious men adore Me. They are the distressed one, the Knowledge-seeker, the wealth-seeker, and the knower.

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