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ये चैव सात्त्विका भावा राजसास्तामसाश्च ये। मत्त एवेति तान्विद्धि नत्वहं तेषु ते मयि।।7.12।।

ye chaiva sāttvikā bhāvā rājasās tāmasāśh cha ye matta eveti tān viddhi na tvahaṁ teṣhu te mayi

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 7, Verse 12
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
Whatever beings (and objects) that are pure, active, and inert, know that they proceed from Me. They are in Me, yet I am not in them.

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: know that the states of goodness, passion, and ignorance all proceed from Krishna, though he is not in them, they are in him, framing him as the source of all conditions, including the difficult ones, without being confined by any of them.

In life: someone who can hold difficult states, anger, confusion, low motivation, without being fully identified with or trapped by them has a real, useful kind of freedom.

Teaching: practice noticing a difficult state arising in you, passion, low motivation, confusion, without immediately becoming fully identified with it, that gap is the actual freedom being described here.

yewhatever
chaand
evacertainly
sāttvikāḥin the mode of goodness
bhāvāḥstates of material existence
rājasāḥin the mode of passion
tāmasāḥin the mode of ignorance
chaand
yewhatever
mattaḥfrom me
evacertainly
itithus
tānthose
viddhiknow
nanot
tubut
ahamI
teṣhuin them
tethey
mayiin me

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
7.12 ये whatever? च and? एव even? सात्त्विकाः pure? भावाः natures? राजसाः active? तामसाः inert? च and? ये whatever? मत्तः from Me? एव even? इति thus? तान् them? विद्धि know? न not? तु indeed? अहम् I? तेषु in them? ते they? मयि in Me.Commentary This is a world of the three Gunas? viz.? Sattva (purity)? Rajas (passion) and Tamas (inertia). All sentient and insentient objects are the aggregate of these three alities of Nature. One ality predominates in them and the predominant ality imparts to the object its distinctive character or definite properties.In the gods? sages milk and green gram? Sattva is predominant. In Gandharvas (a class of celestials)? kings? warriors and chillies? Rajas is predominant. In demons? Sudras? garlic? onion and meat? Tamas is predominant.Though these beings and objects proceed from Me? I am not in them they are in Me. I am independent. I am the support for them they depend on Me just as the superimposed snake depends on the rope. The snake is in the rope? but the rope is never in the snake. The waves belong to the ocean but the ocean does not belong to the waves. (Cf.IX.4and6)