Sanskrit · Devanagari
देहिनोऽस्मिन्यथा देहे कौमारं यौवनं जरा। तथा देहान्तरप्राप्तिर्धीरस्तत्र न मुह्यति ॥
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dehino.asminyathā dehe kaumāraṃ yauvanaṃ jarā tathā dehāntaraprāptirdhīrastatra na muhyati
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Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882in this body infancy and youth and old age (come) to the embodied (self) so does the acquisition of another body a sensible man is not deceived about that The contacts of the senses
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।2.13।। देहः अस्य अस्तीति देही तस्य देहिनो देहवतः आत्मनः अस्मिन् वर्तमाने देहे यथा येन प्रकारेण कौमारं कुमारभावो बाल्यावस्था यौवनं यूनो भावो मध्यमावस्था जरा वयोहानिः जीर्णावस्था इत्येताः तिस्रः अवस्थाः अन्योन्यविलक्षणाः। तासां प्रथमावस्थानाशे न नाशः द्वितीयावस्थोपजने न उपजननम् आत्मनः। किं तर्हि अविक्रियस्यैव द्वितीयतृतीयावस्थाप्राप्तिः आत्मनो दृष्टा। तथा तद्वदेव देहाद् अन्यो देहो देहान्तरं तस्य प्राप्तिः देहान्तरप्राप्तिः अविक्रियस्यैव आत्मन इत्यर्थः। धीरो धीमान् तत्र एवं सति न मुह्यति न मोहमापद्यते।। यद्यपि आत्मविनाशनिमित्तो मोहो न संभवति नित्य आत्मा इति विजानतः तथापि शीतोष्णसुखदुःखप्राप्तिनिमित्तो मोहो लौकिको दृश्यते सुखवियोगनिमित्तो मोहः दुःखसंयोगनिमित्तश्च शोकः। इत्येतदर्जुनस्य वचनमाशङ्क्य भगवानाह
ed0b8f30aa63…Rāmānuja
2.13 As the self is eternal, one does not grieve, thinking that the self is lost, when an embodied self living in a body gives up the state of childhood and attains youth and other states. Similarly, the wise men, knowing that the self is eternal, do not grieve, when the self attains a body different from the present body. Hence the selves, being eternal, are not fit objects for grief. This much has to be done here; the eternal selves because of Their being subject ot beginningless Karma become endowed with bodies suited to Their Karmas. To get rid of this bondage (of bodies), embodied beings perform duties like war appropriate to their stations in life with the help of the same bodies in an attitude of detachment from the fruits as prescribed by the scripture. Even to such aspirants, contacts with sense-objects give pleasure and pain, arising from cold, heat and such other things. But these experiences are to be endured till the acts enjoined in the scriptures come to an end. The Lord explains the significance immediately afterwards:
aadbd81ca522…Swami Sivananda
2.13 देहिनः of the embodied (soul)? अस्मिन् in this? यथा as? देहे in body? कौमारम् childhood? यौवनम् youth? जरा old age? तथा so also? देहान्तरप्राप्तिः the attaining of another body? धीरः the firm? तत्र thereat? न not? मुह्यति grieves.Commentary -- Just as there is no interruption in the passing of childhood into youth and youth into old age in this body? so also there is no interruption by death in the continuity of the ego. The Self is not dead at the termination of the stage? viz.? childhood. It is certainly not born again at the beginning of the second stage? viz.? youth. Just as the Self passes unchanged from childhood to youth and from yourth to old age? so also the Self passes unchanged from one body into,another. Therefore? the wise man is not at all distressed about it.
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