159. Bhagavad Gita Chapter 13 Verses 22-23I Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Religion & Spirituality, Hinduism

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🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Verses 22-23 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 22:

उपद्रष्टानुमन्ता च भर्ता भोक्ता महेश्वर: |

परमात्मेति चाप्युक्तो देहेऽस्मिन्पुरुष: पर: ||22||

Upadraṣhṭānumantā cha bhartā bhoktā maheśhvaraḥ

paramātmeti chāpy ukto dehe ’smin puruṣhaḥ paraḥ ||22||

🔴 In this body there is also the Transcendent and the Supreme Spirit, who is described as the Supreme Self and Sovereign Lord, the unconcerned Witness, the Sanctioner, the Supporter, and the Enjoyer.

🔆 Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 13 Verse 23:

य एवं वेत्ति पुरुषं प्रकृतिं च गुणै: सह |

सर्वथा वर्तमानोऽपि न स भूयोऽभिजायते ||23||

Ya evaṁ vetti puruṣhaṁ prakṛitiṁ cha guṇaiḥ saha

sarvathā vartamāno ’pi na sa bhūyo ’bhijāyate ||23||

🔴 Whoever thus knows the Purusa (Spirit) and Prakriti (Nature) along with its effects, will never be born again, whatever be his mode of living.

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0:00.0	Ome, Vasudeva,
0:04.0	Vsutam, Deva,
0:08.0	Kamsachanuram Ardana,
0:12.0	Devaki, Paramanandam,
0:16.0	Krishna, Vandhya, Krishna one day Jagad Guru. Good evening and amaste everybody.
0:43.7	We are also very happy to welcome Brahmacharini Durga who is from our Santa Barbara convent and she's at the Harvard Divinity School right now so
0:52.5	we're studying the 13 chapter of the Bhagavad Gita, where Arjuna asked six questions.
1:03.0	Prakritim purusham jaiva, kreitragyam eva, etaededhiditam with chami,
1:10.0	gyanam ganyam jayyam jayyam Eivā, Eta, Vedidhya, Gyanam Geyam, Chaeshava.
1:12.6	O Krishna, I would like to know these things.
1:16.6	What is Prakriti, nature?
1:19.6	What is Purusha, which is spirit?
1:21.6	What is the field and what is the field knower?
1:25.6	Shetra, Shetragyam.
1:26.6	What is to be known, the goal of knowledge, and what is knowledge?
1:31.3	So six questions.
1:33.3	Our of these, now, Krishna is on the final two.
1:38.3	That is Prakriti and Purusha. He's already answered what is field and field knower,
1:42.3	what is knowledge and what is to be known.
1:46.0	And now is on Prakriti and Purusha.
1:49.0	Prakriti means nature, just everything, whatever is objective.
1:54.0	And Purusha is consciousness, the spirit, the self.
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