Bhagavad Gita 13.14 Meaning: Sarvendriyagunabhasam

Bhagavad Gita 13.14

सर्वेन्द्रियगुणाभासं सर्वेन्द्रियविवर्जितम् ।असक्तं सर्वभृच्चैव निर्गुणं गुणभोक्तृ च ॥

Sarvendriyagunabhasam sarvendriyavivarjitamAsaktam sarvabhrichchaiva nirgunam gunabhoktri cha

sarvendriyaguṇābhāsaṃ sarvendriyavivarjitam |asaktaṃ sarvabhṛccaiva nirguṇaṃ guṇabhoktṛ ca ||

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Our explanation Krishna goes on. It shines through the workings of all the senses, he says, yet has no senses. It is unattached, yet supports all. It is free of the qualities (guṇas), yet it experiences them. The verse holds these opposites together to show that it is not like any thing we know.

हिंदी अर्थ कृष्ण आगे बताते हैं कि वह सब इंद्रियों के कार्यों में चमकता है, फिर भी उसकी कोई इंद्रिय नहीं। वह अनासक्त है, फिर भी सबको धारण करता है। वह गुणों से रहित है, फिर भी गुणों का अनुभव करता है। श्लोक इन उलटी बातों को साथ रखकर बताता है कि वह किसी जानी-पहचानी वस्तु जैसा नहीं।

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सर्वेन्द्रियगुणाभासम् sarvendriyaguṇābhāsam · shining through the workings of all the senses (compound (neuter), nominative singular) Dictionary: sarva, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 1184, col. 3 “whole, entire, all, every”; indriya, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 167, col. 2 “faculty of sense, sense, organ of sense”; guṇa, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 357, col. 1 “a quality, peculiarity, attribute or property”; ā-bhāsa, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 145, col. 2 “colour, appearance”
सर्वेन्द्रियविवर्जितम् sarvendriyavivarjitam · without any of the senses (compound (neuter), nominative singular) Dictionary: sarva, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 1184, col. 3 “whole, entire, all, every”; indriya, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 167, col. 2 “faculty of sense, sense, organ of sense”; vi-varjita, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 988, col. 3 “avoided, left, abandoned by, destitute or deprived of, free or exempt from”
असक्तम् asaktam · unattached (adjective (neuter), nominative singular) Dictionary: a-sakta, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 118, col. 1 “detached from worldly feelings or passions, unattached”
सर्वभृत् sarvabhṛt · supporting all (compound (neuter), nominative singular) Dictionary: sarva-bhṛt, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 1186, col. 3 “all-sustaining or all-supporting”
च ca · and (indeclinable) Dictionary: 2. ca, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 380, col. 1 “and, both, also, moreover, as well as”
एव eva · also (indeclinable) Dictionary: 1. eva, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 232, col. 2 “just, exactly, very, same, only, even, alone, merely”
निर्गुणम् nirguṇam · free of the qualities (guṇas) (adjective (neuter), nominative singular) Dictionary: nir-guṇa, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 541, col. 1 “devoid of all qualities or properties”
गुणभोक्तृ guṇabhoktṛ · experiencer of the qualities (compound (neuter), nominative singular) Dictionary: guṇa, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 357, col. 1 “a quality, peculiarity, attribute or property”; bhoktṛ, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 760, col. 1 “one who enjoys or eats, enjoyer, eater, experiencer, feeler, sufferer”
च ca · and (indeclinable) Dictionary: 2. ca, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 380, col. 1 “and, both, also, moreover, as well as”

Cf. Svetâsvatara, p. 331. He has no ears, but has the quality of hearing, and so forth; unattached=really out of relation to everything, though seeming to be connected with other things through delusion. ↩

I. e. he perceives them. ↩

Bhagavad Gita 13.14: meaning and translation

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