Sanskrit · Devanagari
श्रीभगवानुवाच। अशोच्यानन्वशोचस्त्वं प्रज्ञावादांश्च भाषसे। गतासूनगतासूंश्च नानुशोचन्ति पण्डिताः ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
śrībhagavānuvāca aśocyānanvaśocastvaṃ prajñāvādāṃśca bhāṣase gatāsūnagatāsūṃśca nānuśocanti paṇḍitāḥ
English witness
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882You have grieved for those who deserve no grief, and you talk words of wisdom. Learned men grieve not for the living nor the dead. Never did I not exist, nor you, nor these rulers of men
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।2.11।। अशोच्यान् इत्यादि । न शोच्या अशोच्याः भीष्मद्रोणादयः सद्वृत्तत्वात् परमार्थस्वरूपेण च नित्यत्वात् तान् अशोच्यान् अन्वशोचः अनुशोचितवानसि ते म्रियन्ते मन्निमित्तम् अहं तैर्विनाभूतः किं करिष्यामि राज्यसुखादिना इति। त्वं प्रज्ञावादान् प्रज्ञावतां बुद्धिमतां वादांश्च वचनानि च भाषसे। तदेतत् मौढ्यं पाण्डित्यं च विरुद्धम् आत्मनि दर्शयसि उन्मत्त इव इत्यभिप्रायः। यस्मात् गतासून् गतप्राणान् मृतान् अगतासून् अगतप्राणान् जीवतश्च न अनुशोचन्ति पण्डिताः आत्मज्ञाः। पण्डा आत्मविषया बुद्धिः येषां ते हि पण्डिताः पाण्डित्यं निर्विद्य इति श्रुतेः। परमार्थतस्तु तान् नित्यान् अशोच्यान् अनुशोचसि अतो मूढोऽसि इत्यभिप्रायः।।कुतस्ते अशोच्याः यतो नित्याः। कथम्
9bbaf98830fe…Rāmānuja
2.11 The Lord said You are grieving for those who do not deserve to be grieved for. You also speak words of wisdom about the nature of the body and the self as follows: 'The ancestors fall degraded, deprived of the ritual oblations of food and water' (I. 42). There is no reason for such grief for those who possess the knowledge of the nature of the body and the self. Those who know the exact truth will not grieve for those bodies from which life has departed and for those from whome the principle of life has not departed. They do not grieve for bodies or souls. Hence, in you this contradiction is visible - your grief at the thought 'I shall slay them?' and at the same time your talk about righteousness and unrighteousness, as if it were the result of knowledge of the self as distinct from the body. Therefore you do not know the nature of the body nor of the self which is distinct from the body and is eternal. Nor do you know of duties like war etc., which (as duty) constitute the means for the attainment of the self, nor of the fact that this war (which forms a duty in the present context), if fought without any selfish desire for results, is a means for the attainment of the knowledge of the true nature of the self. The implied meaning is this: This self, verily, is not dependent on the body for Its existence, nor is It subjected to destruction on the death of the body, as there is no birth or death for It. Therefore there is no cause for grief. But the body is insentient by nature, is subject to change, and its birth and death are natural; thus it (body) too is not to be grieved for. First listen about the nature of the self.
e3aefb328bd7…Swami Sivananda
2.11 अशोच्यान् those who should not be grieved for? अन्वशोचः hast grieved? त्वम् thou? प्रज्ञावादान् words of wisdom? च and? भाषसे speakest? गतासून् the dead? अगतासून् the living? च and? न अनुशोचन्ति grieve not? पण्डिताः the wise.Commentary -- The philosophy of the Gita begins from this verse.Bhishma and Drona deserve no grief because they are eternal in their real nature and they are virtuous men who possess very good conduct. Though you speak words of wisdom? you are unwise because you grieve for those who are really eternal and who deserve no grief. They who are endowed with the knowledge of the Self are wise men. They will not grieve for the living or for the dead because they know well that the Self is immortal and that It is unborn. They also know that there is no such a thing as death? that it is a separation of the astral body from the physical? that death is nothing more than a disintegration of matter and that the five elements of which the body is composed return to their source. Arjuna had forgotten the eternal nature of the Soul and the changing nature of the body. Because of his ignorance? he began to act as if the temporary relations with kinsmen? teachers? etc.? were permanent. He forgot that his relations with this world in his present life were the results of past actions. These? when exhausted? end all relationship and new ones ones crop up when one takes on another body.The result of past actions is known as karm and that portion of the karma which gave rise to the present incarnation is known as prarabdha karma.
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