Sanskrit · Devanagari
अव्यक्तादीनि भूतानि व्यक्तमध्यानि भारत। अव्यक्तनिधनान्येव तत्र का परिदेवना ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
avyaktādīni bhūtāni vyaktamadhyāni bhārata avyaktanidhanānyeva tatra kā paridevanā
English witness
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882their middle state is perceived and their end again is unperceived. What (occasion is there for any) lamentation regarding them?
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।2.28।। अव्यक्तादीनि अव्यक्तम् अदर्शनम् अनुपलब्धिः आदिः येषां भूतानां पुत्रमित्रादिकार्यकरणसंघातात्मकानां तानि अव्यक्तादीनि भूतानि प्रागुत्पत्तेः उत्पन्नानि च प्राङ्मरणात् व्यक्तमध्यानि। अव्यक्तनिधनान्येव पुनः अव्यक्तम् अदर्शनं निधनं मरणं येषां तानि अव्यक्तनिधनानि। मरणादूर्ध्वमप्यव्यक्ततामेव प्रतिपद्यन्ते इत्यर्थः। तथा चोक्तम् अदर्शनादापतितः पुनश्चादर्शनं गतः। नासौ तव न तस्य त्वं वृथा का परिदेवना इति। तत्र का परिदेवना को वा प्रलापः अदृष्टदृष्टप्रनष्टभ्रान्तिभूतेषु भूतेष्वित्यर्थः।।दुर्विज्ञेयोऽयं प्रकृत आत्मा किं त्वामेवैकमुपालभे साधारणे भ्रान्तिनिमित्ते। कथं दुर्विज्ञेयोऽयमात्मा इत्यत आह
f67ac7825c7e…Rāmānuja
2.28 Human beings etc., (i.e., bodies) exist as entities; their previous stages are unknown, their middle stages in the form of man etc., are known, and their (final) and future stages are unknown. As they thus exist in their own natural stages, there is no cause for grief. After thus saying that there is no cause for grief even according to the view which identifies the body with the self, Sri Krsna proceeds to say that it is hard to find one who can be said to have truly perceived the Atman or spoken about It or heard about It or gained a true conception of It by hearing. For the Atman, which is actually different from the body, is of a wonderful nature.
bd2ea6bd5bf8…Swami Sivananda
2.28 अव्यक्तादीनि unmanifested in the beginning? भूतानि beings? व्यक्तमध्यानि manifested in their middle state? भारत O Bharata? अव्यक्तनिधनानि unmanifested again in the end? एव also? तत्र there? का what? परिदेवना grief.Commentary The physical body is a combination of the five elements. It is seen by the physical eyes only after the five elements have entered into such combination. After death? the body disintegrates and the five elements go back to their source it cannot be seen. Therefore? the body can be seen only in the middle state. The relationship as son? friend? teacher? father? mother? wife? brother and sister is formed through the body on account of attachment and Moha (delusion). Just as planks unite and separate in a river? just as pilgrims unite and separate in a public inn? so also fathers? mothers? sons and brothers unite and separate in this world. This world is a very big public inn. People unite and separate.There is no pot in the beginning and in the end. Even if you see the pot in the middle? you should think and feel that it is illusory and does not really exist. So also there is no body in the beginning and in the end. That which does not exist in the beginning and in the end must be illusory in the middle also. You must think and feel that the body does not really exist in the middle as well.He who thus understands the nature of the body and all human relationships based on it? will not grieve.
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