Sanskrit · Devanagari
आब्रह्मभुवनाल्लोकाः पुनरावर्तिनोऽर्जुन। मामुपेत्य तु कौन्तेय पुनर्जन्म न विद्यते ॥
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ābrahmabhuvanāllokāḥ punarāvartino.arjuna māmupetya tu kaunteya punarjanma na vidyate
English witness
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882All worlds O Arjuna ! up to the world of Brahman are (destined) to return. But O son of Kuntī! after attaining to me there is no birth again.
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।8.16।। --,आ ब्रह्मभुवनात् भवन्ति अस्मिन् भूतानि इति भुवनम् ब्रह्मणो भुवनं ब्रह्मभुवनम् ब्रह्मलोक इत्यर्थः आ ब्रह्मभुवनात् सह ब्रह्मभुवनेन लोकाः सर्वे पुनरावर्तिनः पुनरावर्तनस्वभावाः हे अर्जुन। माम् एकम् उपेत्य तु कौन्तेय पुनर्जन्म पुनरुत्पत्तिः न विद्यते।।ब्रह्मलोकसहिताः लोकाः कस्मात् पुनरावर्तिनः कालपरिच्छिन्नत्वात्। कथम् --,
826f401f5124…Rāmānuja
8.16 All the worlds, from the realm of Brahma included in the Brahmanda (cosmic sphere), are spheres in which experiences conferring Aisvarya (prosperity and power) can be obtained. But they are destructible and those who attain them are subject to return. Therefore destruction, i.e., return is unavoidable for the aspirants for Aisvarya, as the regions where it is attained perish. On the contrary there is no rirth to those who attain Me, the Omniscient, who has true resolves, whose sport is creation, sustentation and dissolution of the entire universe, who is supremely compassionate and who is always of the same form. For these reasons there is no destruction in the case of those who attain Me. He now elucidates the time-period settled by the Supreme Person's will in regard to the evolution and dissolution of the worlds upto the cosmic sphere of Brahma and of those who are within them.
059b5fd11c3c…Swami Sivananda
8.16 आब्रह्मभुवनात् up to the world of Brahma? लोकाः worlds? पुनरावर्तिनः subject to return? अर्जुन O Arjuna? माम् Me? उपेत्य having attained? तु but? कौन्तेय O Kaunteya? पुनर्जन्म rirth? न not? विद्यते is.Commentary Those devotees who practise Daharopasana (a kind of meditation on the mystic space in the heart) and other devotees who reach Brahmaloka through the path of the gods (Devayana) and attain gradual liberation (KramaMukti) will not return again to this world. But those who reach Brahmaloka through the practice of the Panchagni Vidya (a ritual) will enjoy life in Brahmaloka and come back to this world.All the worlds are subjected to return because they are limited or conditioned by time.
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