Bhagavad Gita 2.52
Chapter 2, verse 52
Meaning
When your understanding gets through the tangled thicket of confusion, you will no longer be swayed by all you have heard, or all you have yet to hear.
The Sanskrit
यदा ते मोहकलिलं बुद्धिर्व्यतितरिष्यति ।
तदा गन्तासि निर्वेदं श्रोतव्यस्य श्रुतस्य च ॥ ५२ ॥
yadā te mohakalilaṃ buddhir vyatitariṣyati
tadā gantāsi nirvedaṃ śrotavyasya śrutasya ca
Say it
yuh-daa tay mo-huh-kuh-li-lum bud-dhir-vyuh-ti-tuh-rish-yuh-ti
tuh-daa gun-taa-si nir-vay-dum shro-tuv-yus-yuh shroo-tus-yuh chuh
Word by word
- yadā
- when
- te buddhiḥ
- your understanding
- moha-kalilam
- the thicket (or murk) of delusion
- vyatitariṣyati
- will cross beyond
- tadā gantāsi nirvedam
- then you will become indifferent
- śrotavyasya śrutasya ca
- to what is yet to be heard and what has been heard
Read it in context: verses 2.49–52Yoga is skill in actionWith the story so far, commentary, and today's lesson: The skill is in the doing
Another translation and audio recitation: verse 2.52 on holy-bhagavad-gita.org.
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