177. Bhagavad Gita | Chapter 15, Verses 7-9 | Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda
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🗓️ 21 May 2026
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Summary
Swami Sarvapriyananda continues teaching verse 6 from the fifteenth chapter, entitled Purushottama Yoga, the Yoga of the Supreme Being, of the Bhagavad Gita. This series of talks by Swami Sarvapriyananda on the Bhagavad Gita, 'the Song of God,' unfolds the highest truths of Vedanta.
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Chapter 15, Verse 7
ममैवांशो जीवलोके जीवभूत: सनातन: |
मन:षष्ठानीन्द्रियाणि प्रकृतिस्थानि कर्षति || 7||
mamaivānśho jīva-loke jīva-bhūtaḥ sanātanaḥ
manaḥ-ṣhaṣhṭhānīndriyāṇi prakṛiti-sthāni karṣhati
The embodied souls in this material world are My eternal fragmental parts. But bound by material nature, they are struggling with the six senses including the mind.
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Chapter 15, Verse 8
शरीरं यदवाप्नोति यच्चाप्युत्क्रामतीश्वर: |
गृहीत्वैतानि संयाति वायुर्गन्धानिवाशयात् || 8||
śharīraṁ yad avāpnoti yach chāpy utkrāmatīśhvaraḥ
gṛihītvaitāni sanyāti vāyur gandhān ivāśhayāt
As the air carries fragrance from place to place, so does the embodied soul carry the mind and senses with it, when it leaves an old body and enters a new one.
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Chapter 15, Verse 9
श्रोत्रं चक्षु: स्पर्शनं च रसनं घ्राणमेव च |
अधिष्ठाय मनश्चायं विषयानुपसेवते || 9||
śhrotraṁ chakṣhuḥ sparśhanaṁ cha rasanaṁ ghrāṇam eva cha
adhiṣhṭhāya manaśh chāyaṁ viṣhayān upasevate
Using the sense perceptions of the ears, eyes, skin, tongue, and nose, which are grouped around the mind, the embodied soul savors the objects of the senses.
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| 0:00.0 | OOWM, Vasudeva, Suttam, Devam, Kamsachanuram Ardhanam, |
| 0:10.0 | Devaki, Paramanaanandam,ita, can you hear me at the back? |
| 0:27.6 | Yes. |
| 0:28.6 | The Bhagavad Gita, we are studying the 15th chapter, |
| 0:33.6 | Puroshottama Yoga. |
| 0:36.6 | The sixth verse, a beautiful verse, |
| 0:39.3 | Nathbhahe Suryo, |
| 0:43.3 | Na shashanko, na pavakha, |
| 0:45.3 | Yadgatvana nivrattant, Taddhama, Paramamamamam. |
| 0:49.3 | We were discussing this last time. |
| 0:51.3 | I don't know when the last time was, but anyway. |
| 0:53.3 | This is the sixth |
| 0:54.5 | verse of the 15th chapter. Very poetic verse. So the 15th chapter, if you recall, it starts by |
| 1:01.2 | describing samsara, world, our lives. And it describes it as a tree, as the great Banyan tree, the great tree of samshaar. |
| 1:15.6 | And the tree is a little strange because its roots are up there, that means they are |
| 1:21.6 | transcendent, they are subtle. And its branches and leaves are down here, which means |
| 1:26.6 | our real nature, down here means this physical |
| 1:29.8 | world where we live, our bodies, this world we inhabit, what's going on here, other people, |
| 1:35.2 | this physical world of matter, and there are subtler and subtler layers to our existence. And the subtlest of all, the roots are in the air, |
| 1:48.0 | and the roots are above, and the branches are below, |
| 1:51.0 | of this very strange tree. |
| 1:53.0 | The roots means the source of all this, the origin of all this, |
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