Sanskrit · Devanagari
देही नित्यमवध्योऽयं देहे सर्वस्य भारत। तस्मात्सर्वाणि भूतानि न त्वं शोचितुमर्हसि ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
dehī nityamavadhyo.ayaṃ dehe sarvasya bhārata tasmātsarvāṇi bhūtāni na tvaṃ śocitumarhasi
English witness
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882This embodied (self), O descendant of Bharata! within every one's body is ever indestructible. Therefore you ought not to grieve for any being.
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।2.30।। देही शरीरी नित्यं सर्वदा सर्वावस्थासु अवध्यः निरवयवत्वान्नित्यत्वाच्च तत्र अवध्योऽयं देहे शरीरे सर्वस्य सर्वगतत्वात्स्थावरादिषु स्थितोऽपि सर्वस्य प्राणिजातस्य देहे वध्यमानेऽपि अयं देही न वध्यः यस्मात् तस्मात् भीष्मादीनि सर्वाणि भूतानि उद्दिश्य न त्वं शोचितुमर्हसि।।इह परमार्थतत्त्वापेक्षायां शोको मोहो वा न संभवतीत्युक्तम्। न केवलं परमार्थतत्त्वापेक्षायामेव। किं तु
53149568114a…Rāmānuja
2.30 The self within the body of everyone such as gods etc., must be considered to be eternally imperishable, though the body can be killed. Therefore, all beings from gods to immovable beings, even though they possess different forms, are all uniform and eternal in their nature as described above. The ineality and the perishableness pertain only to the bodies. Therefore, it is not fit for you to feel grief for any of the beings beginning from gods etc., and not merely for Bhisma and such others.
41143db2956a…Swami Sivananda
2.30 देही indweller? नित्यम् always? अवध्यः indestructible? अयम् this? देहे in the body? सर्वस्य of all? भारत O Bharata? तस्मात् therefore? सर्वाणि (for) all? भूतानि creatures? न not? त्वम् thou? शोचितुम् to grieve? अर्हसि (thou) shouldst.Commentary The body of any creature may be destroyed but the Self cannot be killed. Therefore you should not grieve regarding any creature whatever? Bhishma or anybody else.
f5076bce1100…These supplied texts come from the pinned VedicScriptures dataset under GPL-3.0 and await independent alignment review.