Sanskrit · Devanagari
जन्म कर्म च मे दिव्यमेवं यो वेत्ति तत्त्वतः। त्यक्त्वा देहं पुनर्जन्म नैति मामेति सोऽर्जुन ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
janma karma ca me divyamevaṃ yo vetti tattvataḥ tyaktvā dehaṃ punarjanma naiti māmeti so.arjuna
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Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882Whoever truly knows thus my divine birth and work, casts off (this) body and is not born again. He comes to me O Arjuna! Many from whom affection
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।4.9।। जन्म मायारूपं कर्म च साधूनां परित्राणादि मे मम दिव्यम् अप्राकृतम् ऐश्वरम् एवं यथोक्तं यः वेत्ति तत्त्वतः तत्त्वेन यथावत् त्यक्त्वा देहम् इमं पुनर्जन्म पुनरुत्पत्तिं न एति न प्राप्नोति। माम् एति आगच्छति सः मुच्यते हे अर्जुन।।नैष मोक्षमार्ग इदानीं प्रवृत्तः किं तर्हि पूर्वमपि
3802fd6fa06d…Rāmānuja
4.9 He who knows truly My life and actions, super-natural and special to Me, which are intended solely for the protection of the good and to enable them to take refuge in Me, - Me who am devoid of birth, unlike ordinary beings whose birth is caused by Karma associated with Prakrti and its three Gunas producing the evil of bondage, and who is endowed with auspicious attributes such as Lordship over all, omniscience, infallible will etc., - such a person after abandoning the present body will never be born, but will reach Me only. By true knowledge of My divine birth and acts, all his sins that stand in his way of taking refuge in Me are destroyed. In this birth itself, resorting to Me in the manner already described, and loving Me and concentrating on Me alone, he reaches Me. Sri Krsna speaks of the same thing:
68a98e12601c…Swami Sivananda
4.9 जन्म birth? कर्म action? च and? मे My? दिव्यम् divine? एवम् thus? यः who? वेत्ति knows? तत्त्वतः in true light? त्यक्त्वा having abandoned? देहम् the body? पुनः again? जन्म birth? नः not? एति gets? माम् to Me? एति comes? सः he? अर्जुन O Arjuna.Commentary The Lord? though apparently born? is always beyond birth and death though apparently active for firmly establishing righteousness? He is ever beyond all actions. He who knows this is never born again. He attains knowledge of the Self and becomes liberated while living.The birth of the Lord is an illusion. It is Aprakrita (beyond the pale of Nature). It is divine. It is peculiar to the Lord. Though He appears in human form? His body is Chinmaya (full of consciousness? not inert matter as are human bodies composed of the five elements).
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