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 ||
जो मेरी इस विभूति और योग को तत्त्वतः जानता है, वह अविकल्प (अचल) योग से मुझमें युक्त हो जाता है—इसमें कोई संशय नहीं।
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.
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