155. Bhagavad Gita Chapter 13 Verse 15 I Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Religion & Spirituality, Hinduism

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🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Verse 15 from the Thirteenth 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 13 Verse 15:

बहिरन्तश्च भूतानामचरं चरमेव च |

सूक्ष्मत्वात्तदविज्ञेयं दूरस्थं चान्तिके च तत् ||15||

Bahir antaśh cha bhūtānām acharaṁ charam eva cha

sūkṣhmatvāt tad avijñeyaṁ dūra-sthaṁ chāntike cha tat ||15||

🔴 He is within and without all beings. Though unmoving, He looks like one moving (because He is everywhere). He is both far and near. - far to the ignorant and near to the knowing ones. Owing to subtlety, He cannot be known like gross objects.

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0:00.0	Ome, Vasudeva,
0:03.0	Vsutam Devam,
0:06.0	Kamsachanuram Ardana
0:10.0	Devaki Paramanandam
0:15.0	Krishna Vande Jagad Guru
0:19.0	So we are studying the Bhagavad Ghiath Ghiath Gita, the 13th chapter, and we are going to do the 15th verse today.
0:30.6	If I'm not wrong. Yes. In these verses, Sri Krishna is answering a question which Arjuna has asked.
0:52.3	From the 12th verse to the, I think it's the 18th, yes.
0:57.0	Arjuna had asked six questions which are answered in this chapter, the 13th chapter.
1:06.0	The six questions are the field and the knower of the field, Shetrak Shetrakya.
1:12.9	Then there is the what is knowledge and what is to be known, Gyanam, Geyam.
1:19.2	And then what is spirit and what is nature, Prakriti Purusha.
1:24.2	It's basically the same question repeated three times, two sets, three sets of two pairs each.
1:30.3	Field and nor of the field. The field is everything and you are the knower of the field.
1:35.3	Ghanam and Geyam, sort of variation on that. What is knowledge and what is to be known.
1:41.3	And Prakriti and purusha, spirit and nature Again, like the field and the knower of the field.
1:47.0	So the fourth question is what is it to be known?
1:53.0	What are we trying to realize or what are we trying to know here?
1:57.0	Gayyam means knowable or the thing to be known. Not knowable, the thing to be known.
2:02.6	Thing to be known is the ultimate reality.
2:05.6	Atman or Brahman, our real nature of our self or the ultimate reality of the universe, Brahman,
2:12.6	the subject matter of all the Upanishads. That is the thing to be known.
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