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Bhagavad-gītā As It Is · Text 6.30
यो मां पश्यति सर्वत्र सर्वं च मयि पश्यति ।
तस्याहं न प्रणश्यामि स च मे न प्रणश्यति ॥ ३० ॥
yo māṁ paśyati sarvatra
sarvaṁ ca mayi paśyati
tasyāhaṁ na praṇaśyāmi
sa ca me na praṇaśyati
For one who sees Me everywhere and sees everything in Me, I am never lost, nor is he ever lost to Me.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioWhat this verse is saying, and where it sits in the story.
3 study points
Kṛṣṇa says that one who sees Him everywhere and everything in Him is never lost to Him, nor is He lost to that person.
Prabhupāda explains that everything is Kṛṣṇa’s energy. Love brings the devotee into a close relationship with Him, not a loss of individual existence.
Practice remembering that everything depends on Kṛṣṇa and belongs to Him.
He thus never loses the sight of the Supreme Lord, and never falls from the path of yoga
For one who sees Me everywhere and seeing everything in Me, for him...
I am never lost, nor is he ever lost to Me
This purport explains how a Krishna conscious persons fulfils the vision of a perfect yogi
A Krishna conscious person certainly sees Lord Krishna everywhere, and he sees everything in Krishna
While seeing all the separate manifestations of the material nature, He is conscious of Krishna, knowing that everything is a manifestation of Krishna’s energy
Basic principle of Krishna consciousness – Nothing can exist without Krishna and Krishna is the Lord of everything
Krishna consciousness is the development of love for Krishna
Ref. Brahma Samhita 5.38 “premanjana cchurita...”
It is the position transcendental even to the material liberation
An intimate relationship between the Lord and the devotee exists
In that stage the living entity can never be annihilated, nor is the Personality of Godhead ever out of the sight of the devotee
To merge in Krishna is spiritual annihilation. A devotee takes no such risk
In Krishna consciousness, the devotee becomes one with Krishna in the sense that Krishna becomes everything for the devotee and the devotee becomes full in loving Krishna
Text 6.30 refers to yogi turning in to a pure devotee — He cannot live for a movement without seeing the Lord within Himself
Texts 6.29 & 6.30
The benefits of such a vision are next delineated.
Texts 6.30 & 6.31
In the following verse Krishna directly describes Supersoul realization as worshipful service to Him, if the yogi has proper knowledge.
Krishna describes the practices of astanga-yoga
The result are ‘Yogarudha (the perfectional stage)’ and ultimately ‘the vision of the Supersoul’.
Learn the Sanskrit words of the verse.
The spiritual concepts this verse connects to.
Key ideas: bhakti, śaraṇāgati.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does BG 6.30 establish in Śrīla Prabhupāda's translation and purport, and how does it connect to bhakti & surrender?
Offer one act today with devotion.
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Study notes are editorial summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport.