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Bhagavad Gita 15.20

Krishna calls this the most secret teaching and says understanding it brings wisdom and fulfilment.

इति गुह्यतमं शास्त्रमिदमुक्तं मयाऽनघ।
एतद्बुद्ध्वा बुद्धिमान्स्यात्कृतकृत्यश्च भारत॥

iti guhyatamaṃ śāstramidamuktaṃ mayā'nagha
etadbuddhvā buddhimānsyātkṛtakṛtyaśca bhārata

Translation

Sinless one, this is the most secret teaching, and I have now told it to you. Understanding it, a person becomes wise and has done all that was to be done, Bharata.

Hindi

हे निष्पाप अर्जुन, यह अत्यंत गोपनीय शास्त्र मैंने तुम्हें कह दिया। इसे समझकर मनुष्य बुद्धिमान हो जाता है और उसके सब कर्तव्य पूरे हो जाते हैं।

Commentary

Krishna calls the teaching of this chapter the most secret and addresses Arjuna as "sinless", a mark of his readiness to hear it. To understand the Purushottama is to be wise and to have nothing left undone. The sixteenth chapter turns to the other side of human nature, beginning at 16.1.

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