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कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते
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A guided meditation on this verse: settle, breathe with its meaning, rest in silence, and carry its essence into your day.
श्रीभगवानुवाच |
कालोऽस्मि लोकक्षयकृत्प्रवृद्धो
लोकान्समाहर्तुमिह प्रवृत्तः |
ऋतेऽपि त्वां न भविष्यन्ति सर्वे
येऽवस्थिताः प्रत्यनीकेषु योधाः ||११-३२||
śrībhagavānuvāca .
kālo.asmi lokakṣayakṛtpravṛddho lokānsamāhartumiha pravṛttaḥ .
ṛte.api tvāṃ na bhaviṣyanti sarve ye.avasthitāḥ pratyanīkeṣu yodhāḥ ||11-32||
Krishna speaks from the cosmic form — the most famous declaration in the Gita: "I am Time — the great destroyer of worlds — and I have come here to destroy. Even without your participation, none of these warriors standing in these armies will survive."
Listen
श्रीभगवानुवाच |
कालोऽस्मि लोकक्षयकृत्प्रवृद्धो
लोकान्समाहर्तुमिह प्रवृत्तः |
ऋतेऽपि त्वां न भविष्यन्ति सर्वे
येऽवस्थिताः प्रत्यनीकेषु योधाः ||११-३२||
śrībhagavānuvāca .
kālo.asmi lokakṣayakṛtpravṛddho lokānsamāhartumiha pravṛttaḥ .
ṛte.api tvāṃ na bhaviṣyanti sarve ye.avasthitāḥ pratyanīkeṣu yodhāḥ ||11-32||
BG 11.32
Settle
The divine reveals itself as Time itself, vast and unstoppable. This verse is not comforting. Sit with the vastness you do not control.
The essence
I am Time, and you are held by it.
Breathe
You meet what you cannot control You surrender to time's vastness
Contemplate
What are you trying to control that time will move regardless?
Take with you
Write of what it would mean to surrender to forces larger than you.