{"id":6485,"date":"2026-09-16T20:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dixith.com\/jeevana-sutra\/bhagavad-gita-chapter-7-jnana-vijnana-yoga-iast\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T13:58:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T08:28:23","slug":"bhagavad-gita-chapter-7-jnana-vijnana-yoga-iast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dixith.com\/jeevana-sutra\/bhagavad-gita-chapter-7-jnana-vijnana-yoga-iast\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhagavad Gita Chapter 7 in English IAST: J\u00f1\u0101na Vij\u00f1\u0101na Yoga"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 7: J\u00f1\u0101na Vij\u00f1\u0101na Yoga<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Thirty verses. The two natures of the Lord, the world strung on him like gems on a thread, the maya that is hard to cross, and the four kinds of people who worship him are here.
Tap any verse card to open its page with the word-by-word meaning. Pages are ready for every verse of this chapter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

All eighteen chapters are listed here: \u015ar\u012bmad Bhagavad G\u012bt\u0101<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

1<\/span>\u015br\u012bbhagav\u0101nuv\u0101ca
mayy\u0101saktaman\u0101\u1e25 p\u0101rtha yoga\u1e43 yu\u00f1janmad\u0101\u015braya\u1e25|
asa\u1e43\u015baya\u1e43 samagra\u1e43 m\u0101\u1e43 yath\u0101 j\u00f1\u0101syasi tacch\u1e5b\u1e47u || 1 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 7.1 \u2192<\/span><\/a>2<\/span>j\u00f1\u0101na\u1e43 te’ha\u1e43 savij\u00f1\u0101namida\u1e43 vak\u1e63y\u0101mya\u015be\u1e63ata\u1e25|
yajj\u00f1\u0101tv\u0101 neha bh\u016byo’nyajj\u00f1\u0101tavyamava\u015bi\u1e63yate || 2 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 7.2 \u2192<\/span><\/a>3<\/span>manu\u1e63y\u0101\u1e47\u0101\u1e43 sahasre\u1e63u ka\u015bcidyatati siddhaye|
yatat\u0101mapi siddh\u0101n\u0101\u1e43 ka\u015bcinm\u0101\u1e43 vetti tattvata\u1e25 || 3 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 7.3 \u2192<\/span><\/a>4<\/span>bh\u016bmir\u0101po’nalo v\u0101yu\u1e25 kha\u1e43 mano buddhireva ca|
aha\u1e45k\u0101ra it\u012bya\u1e43 me bhinn\u0101 prak\u1e5btira\u1e63\u1e6dadh\u0101 || 4 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 7.4 \u2192<\/span><\/a>5<\/span>apareyamitastvany\u0101\u1e43 prak\u1e5bti\u1e43 viddhi me par\u0101m|
j\u012bvabh\u016bt\u0101\u1e43 mah\u0101b\u0101ho yayeda\u1e43 dh\u0101ryate jagat || 5 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 7.5 \u2192<\/span><\/a>6<\/span>etadyon\u012bni bh\u016bt\u0101ni sarv\u0101\u1e47\u012btyupadh\u0101raya|
aha\u1e43 k\u1e5btsnasya jagata\u1e25 prabhava\u1e25 pralayastath\u0101 || 6 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 7.6 \u2192<\/span><\/a>7<\/span>matta\u1e25 paratara\u1e43 n\u0101nyatki\u00f1cidasti dhana\u00f1jaya|
mayi sarvamida\u1e43 prota\u1e43 s\u016btre ma\u1e47iga\u1e47\u0101 iva || 7 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 7.7 \u2192<\/span><\/a>8<\/span>raso’hamapsu kaunteya prabh\u0101smi \u015ba\u015bis\u016bryayo\u1e25|
pra\u1e47ava\u1e25 sarvavede\u1e63u \u015babda\u1e25 khe pauru\u1e63a\u1e43 n\u1e5b\u1e63u || 8 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 7.8 \u2192<\/span><\/a>9<\/span>pu\u1e47yo gandha\u1e25 p\u1e5bthivy\u0101\u1e43 ca teja\u015bc\u0101smi vibh\u0101vasau|
j\u012bvana\u1e43 sarvabh\u016bte\u1e63u tapa\u015bc\u0101smi tapasvi\u1e63u || 9 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 7.9 \u2192<\/span><\/a>10<\/span>b\u012bja\u1e43 m\u0101\u1e43 sarvabh\u016bt\u0101n\u0101\u1e43 viddhi p\u0101rtha san\u0101tanam|
buddhirbuddhimat\u0101masmi tejastejasvin\u0101maham || 10 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 7.10 \u2192<\/span><\/a>11<\/span>bala\u1e43 balavat\u0101\u1e43 c\u0101ha\u1e43 k\u0101mar\u0101gavivarjitam|
dharm\u0101viruddho bh\u016bte\u1e63u k\u0101mo’smi bharatar\u1e63abha || 11 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 7.11 \u2192<\/span><\/a>12<\/span>ye caiva s\u0101ttvik\u0101 bh\u0101v\u0101 r\u0101jas\u0101st\u0101mas\u0101\u015bca ye|
matta eveti t\u0101nviddhi na tvaha\u1e43 te\u1e63u te mayi || 12 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 7.12 \u2192<\/span><\/a>13<\/span>tribhirgu\u1e47amayairbh\u0101vairebhi\u1e25 sarvamida\u1e43 jagat|
mohita\u1e43 n\u0101bhij\u0101n\u0101ti m\u0101mebhya\u1e25 paramavyayam || 13 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 7.13 \u2192<\/span><\/a>14<\/span>daiv\u012b hye\u1e63\u0101 gu\u1e47amay\u012b mama m\u0101y\u0101 duratyay\u0101|
m\u0101meva ye prapadyante m\u0101y\u0101met\u0101\u1e43 taranti te || 14 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 7.14 \u2192<\/span><\/a>15<\/span>na m\u0101\u1e43 du\u1e63k\u1e5btino m\u016b\u1e0dh\u0101\u1e25 prapadyante nar\u0101dham\u0101\u1e25|
m\u0101yay\u0101pah\u1e5btaj\u00f1\u0101n\u0101 \u0101sura\u1e43 bh\u0101vam\u0101\u015brit\u0101\u1e25 || 15 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 7.15 \u2192<\/span><\/a>16<\/span>caturvidh\u0101 bhajante m\u0101\u1e43 jan\u0101\u1e25 suk\u1e5btino’rjuna|
\u0101rto jij\u00f1\u0101surarth\u0101rth\u012b j\u00f1\u0101n\u012b ca bharatar\u1e63abha || 16 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 7.16 \u2192<\/span><\/a>17<\/span>te\u1e63\u0101\u1e43 j\u00f1\u0101n\u012b nityayukta ekabhaktirvi\u015bi\u1e63yate|
priyo hi j\u00f1\u0101nino’tyarthamaha\u1e43 sa ca mama priya\u1e25 || 17 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 7.17 \u2192<\/span><\/a>18<\/span>ud\u0101r\u0101\u1e25 sarva evaite j\u00f1\u0101n\u012b tv\u0101tmaiva me matam|
\u0101sthita\u1e25 sa hi yukt\u0101tm\u0101 m\u0101mev\u0101nuttam\u0101\u1e43 gatim || 18 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 7.18 \u2192<\/span><\/a>19<\/span>bah\u016bn\u0101\u1e43 janman\u0101mante j\u00f1\u0101nav\u0101nm\u0101\u1e43 prapadyate|
v\u0101sudeva\u1e25 sarvamiti sa mah\u0101tm\u0101 sudurlabha\u1e25 || 19 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 7.19 \u2192<\/span><\/a>20<\/span>k\u0101maistaistairh\u1e5btaj\u00f1\u0101n\u0101\u1e25 prapadyante’nyadevat\u0101\u1e25|
ta\u1e43 ta\u1e43 niyamam\u0101sth\u0101ya prak\u1e5bty\u0101 niyat\u0101\u1e25 svay\u0101 || 20 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 7.20 \u2192<\/span><\/a>21<\/span>yo yo y\u0101\u1e43 y\u0101\u1e43 tanu\u1e43 bhakta\u1e25 \u015braddhay\u0101rcitumicchati|
tasya tasy\u0101cal\u0101\u1e43 \u015braddh\u0101\u1e43 t\u0101meva vidadh\u0101myaham || 21 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 7.21 \u2192<\/span><\/a>22<\/span>sa tay\u0101 \u015braddhay\u0101 yuktastasy\u0101r\u0101dhanam\u012bhate|
labhate ca tata\u1e25 k\u0101m\u0101nmayaiva vihit\u0101nhi t\u0101n || 22 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 7.22 \u2192<\/span><\/a>23<\/span>antavattu phala\u1e43 te\u1e63\u0101\u1e43 tadbhavatyalpamedhas\u0101m|
dev\u0101ndevayajo y\u0101nti madbhakt\u0101 y\u0101nti m\u0101mapi || 23 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 7.23 \u2192<\/span><\/a>24<\/span>avyakta\u1e43 vyaktim\u0101panna\u1e43 manyante m\u0101mabuddhaya\u1e25|
para\u1e43 bh\u0101vamaj\u0101nanto mam\u0101vyayamanuttamam || 24 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 7.24 \u2192<\/span><\/a>25<\/span>n\u0101ha\u1e43 prak\u0101\u015ba\u1e25 sarvasya yogam\u0101y\u0101sam\u0101v\u1e5bta\u1e25|
m\u016b\u1e0dho’ya\u1e43 n\u0101bhij\u0101n\u0101ti loko m\u0101majamavyayam || 25 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 7.25 \u2192<\/span><\/a>26<\/span>ved\u0101ha\u1e43 samat\u012bt\u0101ni vartam\u0101n\u0101ni c\u0101rjuna|
bhavi\u1e63y\u0101\u1e47i ca bh\u016bt\u0101ni m\u0101\u1e43 tu veda na ka\u015bcana || 26 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 7.26 \u2192<\/span><\/a>27<\/span>icch\u0101dve\u1e63asamutthena dvandvamohena bh\u0101rata|
sarvabh\u016bt\u0101ni sammoha\u1e43 sarge y\u0101nti parantapa || 27 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 7.27 \u2192<\/span><\/a>28<\/span>ye\u1e63\u0101\u1e43 tvantagata\u1e43 p\u0101pa\u1e43 jan\u0101n\u0101\u1e43 pu\u1e47yakarma\u1e47\u0101m|
te dvandvamohanirmukt\u0101 bhajante m\u0101\u1e43 d\u1e5b\u1e0dhavrat\u0101\u1e25 || 28 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 7.28 \u2192<\/span><\/a>29<\/span>jar\u0101mara\u1e47amok\u1e63\u0101ya m\u0101m\u0101\u015britya yatanti ye|
te brahma tadvidu\u1e25 k\u1e5btsnamadhy\u0101tma\u1e43 karma c\u0101khilam || 29 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 7.29 \u2192<\/span><\/a>30<\/span>s\u0101dhibh\u016bt\u0101dhidaiva\u1e43 m\u0101\u1e43 s\u0101dhiyaj\u00f1a\u1e43 ca ye vidu\u1e25|
pray\u0101\u1e47ak\u0101le’pi ca m\u0101\u1e43 te viduryuktacetasa\u1e25 || 30 ||<\/span><\/span>Meaning of verse 7.30 \u2192<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n

o\u1e43 tatsaditi \u015br\u012bmadbhagavadg\u012bt\u0101s\u016bpani\u1e63atsu brahmavidy\u0101y\u0101\u1e43 yoga\u015b\u0101stre \u015br\u012bk\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47\u0101rjunasa\u1e43v\u0101de j\u00f1\u0101navij\u00f1\u0101nayogo n\u0101ma saptamo’dhy\u0101ya\u1e25 ||<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About Jnana Vijnana Yoga<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The sixth chapter closed with the words \u2018the one who worships me with faith is the most steadfast\u2019. The seventh begins to say who the Lord at the centre of that devotion is. In the tradition that sees the Gita as three groups of six chapters, the second group begins here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The chapter holds both a large picture of the origin of the world and small everyday things. Its special way of seeing finds the Lord in the taste of water, the fragrance of the earth, the light of the moon and the sun, and the intelligence of the intelligent. Its last two verses leave six new words behind, and the eighth chapter opens with the question about them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How the chapter moves<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  • Verses 1 to 3: The promise to teach knowledge and realised knowledge in full, and a word on how rare that knowledge is.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Verses 4 to 7: The lower nature of eight parts, the higher nature that is the principle of life, and the world strung on the Lord like gems on a thread.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Verses 8 to 12: The taste in water, the fragrance of the earth, the strength of the strong, desire not contrary to dharma: the Lord in the essence of each thing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Verses 13 to 15: The delusion of the three gunas, the maya that is hard to cross, surrender as the way across, and those who do not take refuge.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Verses 16 to 19: The four kinds of devotees, the distressed, the seeker of knowledge, the seeker of wealth and the wise, and the rare great soul who knows \u2018Vasudeva is all\u2019.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Verses 20 to 23: The worship of other deities, the Lord who makes even that faith firm, and the difference between limited and endless fruit.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Verses 24 to 28: The error of taking the Lord for an ordinary man, the veil of yoga-maya, the delusion of liking and aversion, and release from it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Verses 29 and 30: Six words, Brahman, adhyatma, karma, adhibhuta, adhidaiva and adhiyajna, and remembrance at the time of departure from this world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    The higher nature: three readings<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    The acharyas understand the \u2018jivabhuta\u2019 higher nature of the fifth verse differently. For Shankara it is the knower of the field, the pure nature that is the Lord\u2019s own self. For Ramanuja it is the whole body of conscious selves, different in kind from insentient nature. For Madhva it is Shri, whose nature is consciousness and who holds the life of the jivas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    These pages do not decide between the readings. Wherever the acharyas part, each position is recorded in its own terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Four kinds of devotees<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    The sixteenth verse calls even the distressed and the seeker of wealth \u2018sukritinah\u2019, people of merit. Though the wise one is special, the eighteenth verse says \u2018all these are noble\u2019. The twenty-first carries this generosity further: whatever form anyone worships with faith, the Lord makes that very faith firm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Sources:<\/strong> several.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The thirty verses of Bhagavad Gita Chapter 7 in English IAST transliteration, each linked to its page with word-by-word meaning, Kannada and English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"_manohara_link_phrases":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[187,188],"class_list":["post-6485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bhagavad-gita","tag-krishna","tag-shlokada-artha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dixith.com\/jeevana-sutra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dixith.com\/jeevana-sutra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dixith.com\/jeevana-sutra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dixith.com\/jeevana-sutra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dixith.com\/jeevana-sutra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dixith.com\/jeevana-sutra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6560,"href":"https:\/\/dixith.com\/jeevana-sutra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6485\/revisions\/6560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dixith.com\/jeevana-sutra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dixith.com\/jeevana-sutra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dixith.com\/jeevana-sutra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dixith.com\/jeevana-sutra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}