📿 Shloka Collection

Vedaham Samatitani

Gita 7.26 Bhagavad Gita
📖 Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 7 — Gyana Vignyana Yoga
वेदाहं समतीतानि वर्तमानानि चार्जुन ।
भविष्याणि च भूतानि मां तु वेद न कश्चन ॥
Vedaham samatitani vartamanani charjuna
Bhavishyani cha bhutani mam tu veda na kashchana
वेद
I know
अहम्
I
समतीतानि
those who have passed (the past)
वर्तमानानि च
and those in the present
अर्जुन
O Arjuna
भविष्याणि च
and those in the future
भूतानि
beings
माम् तु
but Me
वेद
knows
न कश्चन
no one

Krishna states a truth that defines the gap between the divine and the created. I know every being — those who lived in the past, those alive now, and those yet to come. But no one knows Me.

A farmer knows every inch of his field — the texture of the soil, where the water pools, which corner gets the most sun. But the soil cannot know the farmer. The knower comprehends the known, but the known cannot grasp the knower in return. This is the nature of the relationship between the divine and creation.

This carries forward from 7.25 — Maya prevents recognition. And the next shloka, 7.27, will explain the root cause of this blindness: the delusion of duality born from desire and aversion.

Shloka 7.26 is a statement of the divine's omniscience alongside the world's ignorance. It deepens the point made in 7.3 — among thousands, barely one truly knows.

In the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, Yajnavalkya asks: 'vijnataram are kena vijaniyat' — by what means can the knower be known? The Gita's 'mam tu veda na kashchana' is a direct echo of that Upanishadic insight.

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