मत्तः परतरं नान्यत्किञ्चिदस्ति धनञ्जय।मयि सर्वमिदं प्रोतं सूत्रे मणिगणा इव ॥

Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.

• 7.1The Blessed Lord said, "O Arjuna, hear how you shall, without doubt, know Me fully, with your mind intent on Me, practicing Yoga and taking refuge in Me."
• 7.2I will declare to you in full this knowledge combined with realization, after knowing which nothing else remains to be known here.
• 7.3Among thousands of men, one may perchance strive for perfection; even among those successful strivers, only one may perchance know Me in essence.
• 7.4Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intellect, and egoism—thus is My Nature divided eightfold.
• 7.5O mighty-armed Arjuna, this is the inferior Prakriti; know it as distinct from My higher Prakriti, the very life-element, by which this world is upheld.
• 7.6Know that these two are the womb of all beings; thus, I am the source and dissolution of the whole universe.

• 7.7There is nothing higher than Me, O Arjuna. All this is strung on Me, like clusters of gems on a string.

• 7.8I am the flavor in water, O Arjuna; I am the light in the moon and the sun; I am the syllable Om in all the Vedas, sound in the ether and virility in men.
• 7.9I am the sweet fragrance in the earth and the brilliance in the fire, the life in all beings, and I am the austerity of ascetics.
• 7.10Know Me, O Arjuna, as the eternal seed of all beings; I am the intelligence of the intelligent, and the splendour of the splendid objects.
• 7.11Of the strong, I am the strength devoid of desire and attachment, and in all beings, I am the desire in accordance with Dharma, O Arjuna.
• 7.12Whatever beings (and objects) that are pure, active, and inert, know that they proceed from Me. They are in Me, yet I am not in them.
• 7.13Deluded by these Natures, composed of the three qualities of Nature, all this world does not know Me as distinct from them and immutable.
• 7.14Verily, this divine illusion of Mine, composed of the three qualities, is difficult to cross over; those who take refuge in Me alone, can cross over this illusion.

mattaḥ

than me

para-taram

superior

na

not

anyat kiñchit

anything else

asti

there is

dhanañjaya

Arjun, conqueror of wealth

mayi

in me

sarvam

all

idam

which we see

protam

is strung

sūtre

on a thread

maṇi-gaṇāḥ

beads

iva

like