Yathora

The Gita · Chapter 7

Bhagavad Gita 7.10

बीजं मां सर्वभूतानां विद्धि पार्थ सनातनम्। बुद्धिर्बुद्धिमतामस्मि तेजस्तेजस्विनामहम्॥

bījaṁ māṁ sarva-bhūtānāṁ viddhi pārtha sanātanam buddhir buddhimatām asmi tejas tejasvinām aham

Translation

Know Me, O Pârtha! as the eternal seed of all beings. I am the Reason of the Reason -endowed, the splendour of splendid things am I.

What it means

Know Me as the eternal seed of all beings; I am the intelligence of the intelligent, the splendor of the splendid. Every capacity has a donor. Our finest powers are borrowed light.

Try this today

Not one excellence among others but the excelling power itself, wherever it appears.

Something to reflect on

Which of my abilities is borrowed light, and from where?

Read it in Yathora
← 7.97.11 →

Translation by Annie Besant (1905, public domain). The meanings are original to Yathora, drawn from Shankara’s commentary.