Sanskrit · Devanagari
अथ चैनं नित्यजातं नित्यं वा मन्यसे मृतम्। तथापि त्वं महाबाहो नैवं शोचितुमर्हसि ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
atha cainaṃ nityajātaṃ nityaṃ vā manyase mṛtam tathāpi tvaṃ mahābāho naivaṃ śocitumarhasi
English witness
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882you ought not to grieve But even if you think that it is constantly born and constantly dies still O you of mighty arms! you ought not to grieve thus. For to one that is born
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।2.26।। अथ च इति अभ्युपगमार्थः। एनं प्रकृतमात्मानं नित्यजातं लोकप्रसिद्ध्या प्रत्यनेकशरीरोत्पत्ति जातो जात इति मन्यसे तथा प्रतितत्तद्विनाशं नित्यं वा मन्यसे मृतं मृतो मृत इति तथापि तथाभावेऽपि आत्मनि त्वं महाबाहो न एवं शोचितुमर्हसि जन्मवतो नाशो नाशवतो जन्मश्चेत्येताववश्यंभाविनाविति।।तथा च सति
a53cb413aaed…Rāmānuja
2.26 Besides, if you consider this self as identical with the body, which is constantly born and constantly dies - which is nothing other than these characteristics of the body mentioned above -, even then it does not become you to feel grief; because, birth and death are inevitable for the body, whose nature is modification.
ae98346e747e…Swami Sivananda
2.26 अथ now? च and? एनम् this (Self)? नित्यजातम् constantly born? नित्यम् constantly? वा or? मन्यसे thinkest? मृतम् dead? तथापि even then? त्वम् thou? महाबाहो mightyarmed? न not? एवम् thus? शोचितुम् to grieve? अर्हसि (thou) oughtest.Commentary Lord Krishna here? for the sake of argument? takes up the popular supposition. Granting that the Self is again and again born whenever a body comes into being? and again and again dies whenever the body dies? O mightyarmed (O Arjuna of great valour and strength)? thou shouldst not grieve thus? because birth is inevitable to want is dead and death is inevitable to what is born. This is the inexorable or unrelenting Law of Nature.
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