Bhagavad Gita 7.7 · BG 7.7
Chapter 7Verse 7
Jnana Vijnana Yoga
मत्तः परतरं नान्यत्किञ्चिदस्ति धनञ्जय। मयि सर्वमिदं प्रोतं सूत्रे मणिगणा इव॥
mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat kiñcid asti dhanañjaya, mayi sarvam idaṁ protaṁ sūtre maṇi-gaṇā iva
Translation
There is nothing higher than me, Arjuna. Everything that exists is strung on me, the way pearls are strung on a thread.
Everything that looks separate is strung on the same thread.
What does this mean?
A simple image for something hard to picture: an underlying unity holding together everything that looks separate. Different pearls, one thread running through all of them.
In simple words
Krishna says nothing stands above him, and that everything in existence is held together by him the way pearls are held on a single string. The pearls look separate. The thread runs through all of them.
The deeper idea
The image is doing careful work. Pearls on a thread are genuinely distinct, you can count them, and they're also not really separate, because one thing passes through every one of them. The verse points at a unity that doesn't erase differences. Things stay themselves while still being connected at a level you don't usually see. The claim that nothing is higher frames that underlying thread as the most basic fact about reality, not a nice add-on.
How it applies to life
It's easy to move through a day experiencing everything as disconnected fragments, separate people, separate problems, separate you. This verse offers the opposite starting assumption: that the separateness is the surface and something continuous runs underneath it. You don't have to accept the metaphysics to test the shift in attention. Looking for what connects a situation to the rest of your life, instead of treating it as an isolated crisis, tends to lower the panic.