Bhagavad Gita Chapter 15, Verse 19 (BG 15.19) — Meaning, Translation & Commentary

15.19 यः who? माम् Me? एवम् thus? असम्मूढः undeluded? जानाति knows? पुरुषोत्तमम् the Supreme Purusha? सः he? सर्ववित् allknowing? भजति worships? माम् Me? सर्वभावेन with his whole being (heart)? भारत O Bharata.Commentary The glory of the knowledge of the Self is described in this verse.Asammudhah Undeluded? free from delusion. The undeluded does not identify himself with the physical body. He never looks upon the physical body? the lifeforce? senses? mind? intellect and the causal body as the Self or as belonging to himself? because he is resting in his own essential nature as ExistenceKnowledgeBliss Absolute and because he identifies himself with Brahman or the Supreme Being.That aspirant who knows that Sri Krishna is not a human being and that He is the highest Purusha or the Supreme Being is undeluded. Such an aspirant or devotee alone worships Him with his whole being. He is the Sarvavit or Sarvajna? allknower. He knows and realises that Lord Krishna? the supreme Lord? is the Inner Self of all beings. He beholds the One in the many? and the many in the One. For him there is neither high nor low? neither pleasure nor pain? neither virtue nor vice? neither good nor evil? neither likes nor dislikes.Me The Lord as specified above.Sarvavit One who knows everything in detail.Knows that I am He.Sarvabhavena With all his heart? with his whole being? wholeheartedly with his whole thought devoted exclusively to the Self of all with his whole mind centred on the Supreme Self alone.

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# BG 15.19 That person who has entirely abandoned the false identification with the body, mind, and intellect—and with the objects of experience, emotions, and thoughts that arise through them—is indeed free from delusion. Such a one is truly wise. To know Me in this way does not mean intellectual knowledge alone, but rather the direct, immediate experience of the atman itself. To know oneself as the very nature of the Supreme Self is true understanding. Having relinquished identification with what is not the Self, whoever has established complete unity with Me, the Supreme Lord, is the supreme devotee—one who worships Me with a whole heart. Identification with the beloved is everywhere recognized as the measure of love. The greater the love, the greater the identification. Therefore, even by the logic of mathematics, complete identification means complete love—the highest devotion. This Supreme Person, being consciousness itself, illuminates all events and the inner movements of all beings throughout the three dimensions of time. Therefore He is called omniscient. The devotee who achieves complete unity with this Supreme Person is also called all-knowing. The subject of this chapter is knowledge of the divine nature. Now Lord Sri Krishna praises this knowledge—the knowledge that forever liberates us from the bondage of suffering born of the body, the agitation born of the mind, and the restlessness born of the intellect.