A declaration · expansive in mood · builds on earlier teachings
“Everything that appears rises from one source and returns there.”
Know that all beings are born from these two natures. I am the source and the dissolution of the entire universe.
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All beings arise from these two natures. Krishna says he is the source and end of the whole universe.
Krishna speaks this verse, on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, in the chapter titled "Jnana Vijnana Yoga" (Knowledge and Wisdom).
Verse 6 sits in Chapter 7 of the Bhagavad Gita — Jnana Vijnana Yoga, "Knowledge and Wisdom". The chapter has 30 verses in total.
Sitting in a maternity ward one week and at a cremation ghat the next, you feel how fragile life is. Krishna names one source for both the birth and the ending.
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Every being comes from Krishna's two natures, and he calls himself the origin and dissolution of the universe.
What this verse means
All beings arise from these two natures. Krishna says he is the source and end of the whole universe.
Context & commentary
After naming lower and higher nature, Krishna says every being comes from their union and that he is both the origin and the end of everything.
What it looks like today
Sitting in a maternity ward one week and at a cremation ghat the next, you feel how fragile life is. Krishna names one source for both the birth and the ending.
“The world is not random or separate from its source; it rests in a living divine presence.”
Explore related themes: prakriti (31 verses), bhagavan (11 verses)