Bhagavad Gita — Vibhuti Yoga, Shloka 7
Vibhuti Yoga
एतां विभूतिं योगं च मम यो वेत्ति तत्त्वतः । सोSविकल्पेन योगेन युज्यते नात्र संशयः ॥ १०.७ ॥
etāṁ vibhūtiṁ yogaṁ ca mama yo vetti tattvataḥ | so ’vikalpena yogena yujyate nātra saṁśayaḥ || 10.7 ||
He who truly knows this—My divine manifestations and My yoga—is united with Me through unwavering yoga; of this there is no doubt.
He who truly knows this My glory and My yoga is united with Me through unwavering yoga; of this there is no doubt.
Whoever knows in truth this My manifestation-power and (My) yoga, he is yoked by a yoga free from wavering; there is no doubt here.
‘avikalpa’ can mean ‘without alternatives/without conceptual fluctuation,’ hence ‘unwavering’ or ‘non-distracted.’ ‘vibhūti’ here is best understood as divine excellences/manifestations; ‘yoga’ as the Lord’s integrative power and also the practitioner’s disciplined union.
FAQs
The verse links understanding with steadiness: coherent insight into one’s ultimate commitments reduces indecision and supports sustained practice.
To know Krishna’s ‘vibhūti’ and ‘yoga’ is to recognize both immanence (manifestations) and transcendence (integrative power), yielding a stable relation to the ultimate.
It functions as a bridge: before listing vibhūtis in detail, Krishna states the soteriological payoff of grasping them ‘in truth.’
It can be applied to worldview formation: clarifying one’s highest values and their expression in life tends to produce more consistent, less conflicted action.