Lord Krishna

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 7, Verse 27

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Verse 27

The Yoga of Knowledge and Realization

O scion of Bharata, O conqueror of the foe, all living entities are born into delusion, bewildered by dualities arisen from desire and hate.

Context & Meaning

All beings enter existence bewildered by the pairs of opposites — attraction and aversion, pleasure and pain, love and hatred. These dualities are the fundamental condition of conditioned life. They are not evil; they are the structure of experience in duality. The spiritual path is the gradual transcendence of their pull.

Scholar Commentaries

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Ramanujacharya

Vishishtadvaita

The root of saṃsāra is icchā (desire) and dveṣa (aversion). These two, arising together, create the oscillating world of dvandva — the pairs of opposites that bind the soul to repeated birth and death.