Bhagavad Gita 2.52

Sanskrit

यदा ते मोहकलिलं बुद्धिर्व्यतितरिष्यति । तदा गन्तासि निर्वेदं श्रोतव्यस्य श्रुतस्य च ॥2.52॥

Transliteration

yadā te mohakalilaṃ buddhirvyatitariṣyati | tadā gantāsi nirvedaṃ śrotavyasya śrutasya ca ‖2.52‖

Meaning

“When your intelligence crosses beyond the thicket of delusion, then you will attain indifference to what has been heard and what is yet to be heard.”

Key learning

Once your clear thinking pushes through confusion, the endless flood of other people's opinions stops controlling you. You're not ignorant; you simply rely on your own clear seeing instead of secondhand chatter. We all know the modern jungle of contradictory advice, feeds, and experts where a restless mind wanders for years. The way out isn't a better opinion, it's your own solid understanding.

How to apply this today

Notice how much you depend on the opinion stream. If ten more podcasts and forty more articles on the same problem leave you no clearer, you're circling in confusion; what you need is settled principles, not more input. Write your own one-page rules for repeated decisions about money, health, or conflict, so each settled rule retires a thousand future debates. Try a week with no news or advice content and see how much of your own clarity surfaces.

Theme: The Yoga of Knowledge

This verse is part of Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2: Sankhya Yoga , read all verses in this chapter.

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