📿 Shloka Collection

Ya Evam Vetti Purusham

Gita 13.24 Bhagavad Gita
📖 Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 13 — Kshetra Kshetragna Vibhaga Yoga
य एवं वेत्ति पुरुषं प्रकृतिं च गुणैः सह ।
सर्वथा वर्तमानोऽपि न स भूयोऽभिजायते ॥
Ya evam vetti purusham prakritim cha gunaih saha
Sarvatha vartamano'pi na sa bhuyo'bhijayate
यः
whoever
एवम्
in this way
वेत्ति
knows
पुरुषम्
Purusha
प्रकृतिम्
Prakriti
च
and
गुणैः सह
along with the gunas
सर्वथा
in every way
वर्तमानः
living, existing
अपि
even
न
not
सः
that person
भूयः
again
अभिजायते
is born

Here is the fruit of the entire teaching. Whoever truly understands Purusha and Prakriti with its gunas — that person is never born again. It does not matter whether they are a householder or a renunciant, in a city or a forest.

The phrase 'sarvatha vartamanah' — living in any way whatsoever — is remarkable. The liberation this knowledge brings is not tied to a particular lifestyle. Understanding, not circumstance, is what sets a person free.

This verse declares the fruit of the path of knowledge: freedom from rebirth. Discriminating the soul from Prakriti — seeing the soul as distinct from material nature — is itself the gateway to moksha.

In the Gita Press edition, this is the twenty-fourth shloka. The next two verses (13.25 and 13.26) describe the various paths through which different seekers arrive at this understanding.

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