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Chapter 13 · Nature, the Enjoyer and Consciousness · 35 verses

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1Remember who is speaking. Kṛṣṇa is speaking. Take the verse as He directs.
2Say the verse and its words. Read the Sanskrit, then each word with its meaning.
3Read the translation as it is. Let the translation say what it says, without adding your own meaning.
4Read the purport. Hear the verse through the disciplic succession.
5Bring your own question. Ask: where does this verse meet my life, my trouble, my doubt?
6Act on it, remembering Kṛṣṇa. Carry one instruction into your work today.

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Soul & knowledgeChapter 13 · Nature, the Enjoyer and Consciousness

13.27 13.29

Bhagavad-gītā As It Is · Text 13.28

Seeing rightly the body, soul and the Supreme

Īśvara · God

समं सर्वेषु भूतेषु तिष्ठन्तं परमेश्वरम् ।

विनश्यत्स्वविनश्यन्तं य: पश्यति स पश्यति ॥ २८ ॥

samaṁ sarveṣu bhūteṣu

tiṣṭhantaṁ parameśvaram

vinaśyatsv avinaśyantaṁ

yaḥ paśyati sa paśyati

Translation

One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies, and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul within the destructible body is ever destroyed, actually sees.

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io

Understand it

What this verse is saying, and where it sits in the story.

3 study points

Seeing Beyond the Body

1
One who truly sees knows that the Supersoul accompanies the soul in every body, and neither is ever destroyed.
2
Prabhupāda explains that good spiritual association helps us understand the body, the soul who owns it, and the Supersoul, the soul’s friend.
3
Seek the company of someone who truly knows spiritual subjects to understand that life does not end when the body is destroyed.

Key points from the purport

One who sees the indestructible Supersoul always accompanying the indestructible individual soul in all bodies, is the “actual seer”

Explains the man in real knowledge — To see the three things i.e. the body, its proprietor and the Supersoul as the friend of the soul, in their proper perspective

How such vision is possible — By good association with real knower of spiritual subjects

Two meanings of “paramesvara”

Maybe used for individual soul because he is the master of the body and remains unaffected with the destruction of the body

Also refers to Supersoul – In any case both the soul and the Supersoul are indestructible

Jnana-Chakshu: The Vision Of Knowledge

Those who see the distinction between the body, its owner and the Supersoul, and who recognize the process of liberation, can attain the Supreme goal (13.35)

Chapter 13, section V: Jnana-Chakshu: The Vision Of Knowledge