Mūla — the verse
Gita Press numberingTranslation
Swami Gambhīrānanda · follows Śaṅkara-bhāṣyaAll this world, deluded as it is by these three qualities made of the gunas, does not know Me, who am transcendental to these and undecaying.
हिन्दी अनुवाद — Swami Tejomayānanda
त्रिगुणों से उत्पन्न इन भावों (विकारों) से सम्पूर्ण जगत् (लोग) मोहित हुआ इन (गुणों) से परे अव्यय स्वरूप मुझे नहीं जानता है।।
Pronunciation — Vaamshii
from VaamshiiWord by word
padārthaMeaning — Questions & Solutions
from Q&A with KnA“Deluded by these three states made of the guṇas, this whole world does not know Me, who am beyond them and imperishable.” Here the mechanism of ignorance is named. It is not that the Reality hides; it is that the guṇas — the very texture of the mind through which we look — colour and distort the seeing, as tinted glass colours the light. “This divine Māyā of Mine, made of the guṇas, is hard to cross; but those who take refuge in Me alone cross beyond it” (7.14). Māyā is not a wall built to keep us out; it is the film on our own eye, and refuge in the Real is what dissolves it.