A core teaching · expansive in mood · builds on earlier teachings
“True understanding makes beginning and ending stop ruling you.”
Having taken refuge in this knowledge, they attain my likeness. They are not born at creation, and they are not troubled at dissolution.
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With this knowledge, a person becomes like Krishna in nature. Such a person is no longer shaken by cosmic creation or destruction.
Krishna speaks this verse, on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, in the chapter titled "Gunatraya Vibhaga Yoga" (The Three Modes of Material Nature).
Verse 2 sits in Chapter 14 of the Bhagavad Gita — Gunatraya Vibhaga Yoga, "The Three Modes of Material Nature". The chapter has 27 verses in total.
You are standing in a hospital corridor after hearing that life will never be the same. This verse speaks to the part of you that can remain steady even when everything around you begins or ends.
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It shifts attention from temporary events to the unshaken ground beneath them.
What this verse means
With this knowledge, a person becomes like Krishna in nature. Such a person is no longer shaken by cosmic creation or destruction.
Context & commentary
On the battlefield of Kurukshetra, Arjuna is frozen between duty and grief. Krishna continues teaching the highest knowledge: those who understand it share his nature in a profound way, so even the greatest cycles of creation and dissolution no longer disturb them.
Why this verse still matters
You are standing in a hospital corridor after hearing that life will never be the same. This verse speaks to the part of you that can remain steady even when everything around you begins or ends.
“There is calm in knowing that what you truly are is untouched by beginnings and endings.”