Bhagavad Gita 7.26वेदाहं समतीतानि वर्तमानानि चार्जुन।भविष्याणि च भूतानि मां तु वेद न कश्चन ॥
vedāhaṁ samatītāni vartamānāni chārjuna
bhaviṣhyāṇi cha bhūtāni māṁ tu veda na kaśhchana
Sanskrit recitation
What you worship shapes you · 7.20–7.30 · Teaching
Translation
I know, O Arjuna, the beings of the past, the present, and the future; however, no one knows Me.
Hindi translation
हे अर्जुन ! जो प्राणी भूतकालमें हो चुके हैं, तथा जो वर्तमानमें हैं और जो भविष्यमें होंगे, उन सब प्राणियोंको तो मैं जानता हूँ; परन्तु मेरेको कोई (मूढ़ मनुष्य) नहीं जानता।
Meaning
Persons who are deluded by the three alities of Nature do not know the Lord. As they lack in the knowledge of His real nature, they do not adore Hi. But the Lord knows through His omniscience the beings of the past, the present and the future. He who worships the Lord with singleminded devotion knows Him in essence. He has knowledge of His real nature.
After Swami Sivananda
What you worship shapes you· 7.20–7.30→
Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.
- 7.20Those whose wisdom has been taken away by this or that desire, go to other gods, following…
- 7.21Whatever form any devotee desires to worship with faith, I make that same faith of his…
- 7.22Endowed with that faith, he engages in the worship of that form and obtains his desired…
- 7.23Verily, the reward (fruit) that accrues to those men of small intelligence is finite. The…
- 7.24The foolish think of Me, the Unmanifest, as having manifestation, not knowing My higher,…
- 7.25I am not manifest to all, veiled as I am by the Yoga-Maya. This deluded world does not…
7.26I know, O Arjuna, the beings of the past, the present, and the future; however, no one…
- 7.27O Bharata, all beings are subject to delusion at birth due to the delusion of the pairs of…
- 7.28But those men of virtuous deeds, whose sins have come to an end and who are freed from the…
- 7.29Those who strive for liberation from old age and death, taking refuge in Me, realize in…
- 7.30Those who know Me with the Adhibhuta (pertaining to the elements), Adhidaiva (pertaining…
Word-by-word→
- tu
- but
- cha
- also
- aham
- I
- mām
- me
- veda
- knows
- arjuna
- Arjun
- bhūtāni
- all living beings
- samatītāni
- the past
- na kaśhchana
- no one
- vartamānāni
- the present
- bhaviṣhyāṇi
- the future
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