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भोक्तारं यज्ञतपसां सर्वलोकमहेश्वरम्। सुहृदं सर्वभूतानां ज्ञात्वा मां शान्तिमृच्छति।।5.29।।

bhoktāraṁ yajña-tapasāṁ sarva-loka-maheśhvaram suhṛidaṁ sarva-bhūtānāṁ jñātvā māṁ śhāntim ṛichchhati

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 5, Verse 29
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
He who knows Me as the enjoyer of sacrifices and austerities, the great Lord of all the worlds, and the friend of all beings, attains peace.

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: knowing Krishna as the enjoyer of sacrifice and austerity, the great Lord of all worlds, the friend of all beings, one attains peace, ending the chapter by locating peace specifically in relationship, not just personal discipline alone.

In life: personal discipline alone, without any sense of connection to something or someone beyond yourself, can start to feel isolating and thin after a while.

Teaching: pair your personal discipline and inner work with some genuine sense of connection, to people, to a purpose, to something beyond just your own individual progress, that combination is what actually produces lasting peace.

bhoktāramthe enjoyer
yajñasacrifices
tapasāmausterities
sarva-lokaof all worlds
mahā-īśhvaramthe Supreme Lord
su-hṛidamthe selfless Friend
sarvaof all
bhūtānāmthe living beings
jñātvāhaving realized
māmme (Lord Krishna)
śhāntimpeace
ṛichchhatiattains

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
5.29 भोक्तारम् the enjoyer? यज्ञतपसाम् of sacrifices and austerities? सर्वलोकमहेश्वरम् the great Lord of all worlds? सुहृदम् friend? सर्वभूतानाम् of all beings? ज्ञात्वा having known? माम् Me? शान्तिम् peace? ऋच्छति attains.Commentary I am the Lord of all sacrifices and austerities. I am their author? goal and their God. I am the friend of all beings? the doer of good to them without expecting any return for it. I am the dispenser of the fruits of all actions and the silent witness of their minds? thoughts and actions as I dwell in their hearts. On knowing Me? they attain peace and liberation or Moksha (deliverance from the round of birth and death and all worldly miseries and sorrows). (Cf.V.15IX.24)Thus in the Upanishads of the glorious Bhagavad Gita? the science of the Eternal? the scripture of Yoga? the dialogue between Sri Krishna and Arjuna? ends the fifth discourse entitledThe Yoga of Renunciation of Action.