Utkramantam Sthitam Vapi

The same event unfolds before everyone: someone is born, lives, and dies. The deluded see only the surface — a body arriving, existing, departing. The wise see something deeper: the soul entering, dwelling, experiencing through the play of the gunas, and eventually moving on.

When lightning flashes in the clouds, a person who understands will say: look at how the water droplets collided. A person without that knowledge will simply be startled. Same lightning, two very different ways of seeing.

The term 'jnana-chakshushah' means those who possess the eye of knowledge. This is not a physical eye. It is an inner capacity for discernment — the ability to see the soul behind the body, the conscious behind the material. Developing this vision requires viveka, the practice of clear discrimination.

Shloka 15.10 draws a line between the deluded (vimoodha) and the wise (jnana-chakshu). This distinction will be sharpened further in 15.11. The verse serves as a conclusion to the soul-description sequence of 15.7-9. In tradition, 'jnana-chakshu' is treated as a synonym for viveka-drishti (the vision of discernment), the same kind of vision described in Gita 13.34.