2.21 वेदाविनाशिनं नित्यं य एनमजमव्ययम्। कथं स पुरुषः पार्थ कं घातयति हन्ति कम्
ved
Word meanings
veda—knows;avināśhinam—imperishable;nityam—eternal;yaḥ—who;enam—this;ajam—unborn;avyayam—immutable;katham—how;saḥ—that;puruṣhaḥ—person;pārtha—Parth;kam—whom;ghātayati—causes to be killed;hanti—kills;kam—whom
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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Whoever realizes this to be changeless, destructionless, unborn, and immutable, how can that person be slain? How can they slay anyone else? O son of Prtha!
He who knows the Spirit as Indestructible, Immortal, Unborn, Always-the-Same, how should he kill or cause to be killed?
He who knows this (self) to be indestructible, unborn, unchanging and hence eternal - how and whom, O Arjuna, does he cause to be killed, and whom he kill?
O Partha, he who knows this One as indestructible, eternal, birthless and undecaying, how and whom does that person kill, or whom does he cause to be killed! [This is not a estion but only an emphatic denial.-Tr.]
Whosoever knows Him to be indestructible, eternal, unborn and inexhaustible, how can that man slay, O Arjuna, or cause to be slain?
2.23 नैनं छिन्दन्ति शस्त्राणि नैनं दहति पावकः। न चैनं क्लेदयन्त्यापो न शोषयति मारुतः
na
Word meanings
na—not;enam—this soul;chhindanti—shred;śhastrāṇi—weapons;na—nor;enam—this soul;dahati—burns;pāvakaḥ—fire;na—not;cha—and;enam—this soul;kledayanti—moisten;āpaḥ—water;na—nor;śhoṣhayati—dry;mārutaḥ—wind
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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Weapons cannot cut This; fire cannot burn This; water cannot make This wet; and the wind cannot make This dry.
Weapons cleave It not, fire burns It not, water drenches It not, and wind dries It not.
Weapons do not cleave It (the self), fire does not burn It, waters do not wet It, and wind does not dry It.
Weapons do not cut It, fire does not burn It, water does not moisten It, and air does not dry It.
Weapons cut It not, fire burns It not, water wets It not, wind dries It not.
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सांख्ययोग
Chapter 2: Sankhya Yoga
sāṃkhyayoga
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2.22 वासांसि जीर्णानि यथा विहाय नवानि गृह्णाति नरोऽपराणि। तथा शरीराणि विहाय जीर्णा न्यन्यानि संयाति नवानि देही
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Word meanings
vāsānsi—garments;jīrṇāni—worn-out;yathā—as;vihāya—sheds;navāni—new;gṛihṇāti—accepts;naraḥ—a person;aparāṇi—others;tathā—likewise;śharīrāṇi—bodies;vihāya—casting off;jirṇāni—worn-out;anyāni—other;sanyāti—enters;navāni—new;dehī—the embodied soul
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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Just as a man rejects tattered garments and takes on new ones, so too, the embodied Self, discarding worn-out bodies, rightly obtains new ones.
As a man discards his threadbare robes and puts on new, so the Spirit throws off Its worn-out bodies and takes fresh ones.
As a man casts off worn-out garments and puts on others that are new, so does the embodied self cast off Its worn-out bodies and enter into others that are new.
As after rejecting wornout clothes a man takes up other new ones, likewise after rejecting wornout bodies the embodied one unites with other new ones.
Just as a man casts off worn-out clothes and puts on new ones, so also the embodied Self casts off worn-out bodies and enters others that are new.
