Bhagavad Gītā · Chapter 14, Verse 2
इदं ज्ञानमुपाश्रित्य मम साधर्म्यमागताः।सर्गेऽपि नोपजायन्ते प्रलये न व्यथन्ति च।।
idaṁ jñānam upāśritya mama sādharmyam āgatāḥ
sarge ’pi nopajāyante pralaye na vyathanti ca
also searched as "idam jnanam upashritya mama sadharmyam agatah"
Translation
Resorting to this knowledge, partaking in My Nature, they are not born at the time of creation nor do they suffer at the time of dissolution.
Vāṇi's rendering
Rooted in this knowing, they share my own nature — unborn when worlds begin, untouched when worlds dissolve.
Word by word
| Sanskrit & transliteration | Meaning |
|---|---|
| इदंidaṁ | this |
| ज्ञानम्jñānam | knowing, the wisdom just spoken of |
| उपाश्रित्यupāśritya | having taken shelter in, having stood firmly upon |
| ममmama | my, of me |
| साधर्म्यम्sādharmyam | sameness of nature, sharing the same way of being |
| आगताःāgatāḥ | they who have come to, arrived at |
| सर्गेsarge | at the sending forth of worlds, at creation |
| अपिapi | even (joined as sarge 'pi by sandhi) |
| नna | not (joined as nopajāyante by sandhi) |
| उपजायन्तेupajāyante | they are born, they come into being |
| प्रलयेpralaye | at the dissolving of worlds |
| नna | not |
| व्यथन्तिvyathanti | they tremble, they are shaken |
| चca | and |
Frequently asked
What does Bhagavad Gita Chapter 14 Verse 2 mean?
It means those who stand rooted in this knowing come to share Krishna's own nature. Worlds are sent forth and worlds fall away; such a one is not produced by the first and not shaken by the second. The verse does not promise a world without endings. It promises someone in you that endings cannot reach.
What does idam jnanam upashritya mama sadharmyam agatah mean?
Having taken shelter in this knowing, they have come to sameness of nature with Krishna. Upāśritya is the word for leaning your full weight on something. Sādharmya is not merger and not reward — it is what remains once you stop identifying with what begins and ends.
Does this verse mean I will not be born again?
Krishna says the one rooted in this knowing is not born when worlds begin. What takes birth is the field — body, name, the shifting weather of feeling. The knower of that field was never manufactured, so it is not remade at any creation. Birth continues to happen. It stops happening to you.
How does this verse help with grief?
Grief assumes that when something dissolves, you dissolve with it. Krishna denies exactly that: untouched when worlds dissolve. He does not say the loss is unreal or the ache small. He says there is a ground in you the loss cannot enter. Stand there while the rest passes.
Read every verse this way, held — inside Vāṇi.
View on the App Store
Commentary
Worlds are made and unmade; the verse does not stop them. It changes who you are while they happen. Sādharmya — sharing a nature — is not a reward for the knowing, it is what the knowing already is. Arjuna is being told that the field in front of him, with all its beginnings and endings, is not the whole of what he is. Grief comes from believing you begin when the world begins and end when it ends. You do not. When the next thing in your life dissolves, notice that something in you did not flinch.