Lord Krishna

Divine Teacher

The Supreme Lord, the charioteer and divine guide of Arjuna. Krishna delivers the eternal wisdom of the Gita, revealing the nature of the soul, duty, and the path to liberation.

Speaking: Chapter 12, Verse 3

Verse 3

Hard Verse

The Yoga of Devotion

But those who worship the imperishable, the undefinable, the unmanifest, the omnipresent, the inconceivable, the immovable, the eternal—

Context & Meaning

This verse begins a two-verse description of the path of the unmanifest Absolute (akṣara-upāsanā). The qualities listed — undefinable, unmanifest, omnipresent, inconceivable, immovable, eternal — describe Brahman as it is beyond all attributes. This path is real and leads to liberation, but its characteristics already hint at the difficulty: how does one relate to what is inconceivable? How does one love what cannot be defined?

Scholar Commentaries

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Adi Shankaracharya

Advaita

This is the path of jñāna — the meditative absorption in the attributeless Brahman. Akṣara means imperishable; anirdeśya means that which cannot be pointed to or defined; avyakta means unmanifest. These qualities together point to the ultimate ground of being, which transcends all conceptual categories.