📿 Shloka Collection

Mam Cha Yo Avyabhicharena

Gita 14.26 Bhagavad Gita
📖 Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 14 — Gunatraya Vibhaga Yoga
मां च योऽव्यभिचारेण भक्तियोगेन सेवते ।
स गुणान्समतीत्यैतान्ब्रह्मभूयाय कल्पते ॥
Mam cha yo avyabhicharena bhaktiyogena sevate
Sa gunan samatityaitan brahmabhuyaya kalpate
माम्
Me
and
यः
who
अव्यभिचारेण
with unwavering / exclusive
भक्तियोगेन
through the yoga of devotion
सेवते
serves
सः
that person
गुणान्
the gunas
समतीत्य
completely transcending
एतान्
these
ब्रह्मभूयाय
for becoming Brahman
कल्पते
becomes fit / qualified

Arjuna asked: how does one get beyond the gunas? Krishna's answer is direct. Whoever serves Me through unwavering, single-pointed bhakti yoga completely transcends these three gunas and becomes fit to realize Brahman.

After all the analysis of sattva, rajas, and tamas, after all the descriptions of signs and conduct, the actual method turns out to be startlingly simple: devotion. Not a complex meditation technique. Not years of philosophical study. Devotion to Krishna, offered without wavering, without a divided heart.

"Avyabhicharena" — without deviation — is the key word. Many people have devotion, but it shifts. Sometimes they are devoted, sometimes distracted. Sometimes to Krishna, sometimes to worldly gains. The qualifier here is steadiness. Unwavering bhakti, like a river that has found its course and flows only toward the ocean.

This is one of the Gita's most significant shlokas on bhakti. It stands alongside 18.66 ("mam ekam sharanam vraja") as a direct statement that devotion is the path to liberation. The final shloka of the chapter (14.27) will explain why Krishna is the ultimate refuge of this devotion.

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