Bhagavad Gita · Chapter 15 · Verse 7
BG 15.7
Verse 7 of Chapter 15 — The Supreme Person.
mamaivāṁśo jīva-loke jīva-bhūtaḥ sanātanaḥ | manaḥ ṣaṣṭhānīndriyāṇi prakṛti-sthāni karṣati ||
Sanskrit / Transliteration
TRANSLATION
The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling hard with the six senses, which include the mind.
EXPLANATION
The soul as a fragment of the divine. Not fully identical (as Advaita teaches), not completely separate (as strict Dvaita teaches), but a genuine fragment — partaking of the same nature while being individual. This verse grounds the Gita's teaching on identity: you are neither God in full (which would eliminate the need for practice) nor something entirely other than God (which would make union impossible). You are a fragment — genuinely connected, genuinely individual. The 'struggling' with the senses describes the conditioned state before realization.