Akṣara Brahma Yoga

8.23

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Sanskrit · Devanagari

यत्र काले त्वनावृत्तिमावृत्तिं चैव योगिनः। प्रयाता यान्ति तं कालं वक्ष्यामि भरतर्षभ ॥

Sanskrit · IAST

yatra kāle tvanāvṛttimāvṛttiṃ caiva yoginaḥ prayātā yānti taṃ kālaṃ vakṣyāmi bharatarṣabha

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Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882
is to be attained to by reverence not (directed) to another. I will state the times, O descendant of Bharata! at which devotees departing (from this world) go, never to return, or to return.

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Commentary · Sanskrit

Śaṅkarācārya

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।।8.23।। -- यत्र काले प्रयाताः इति व्यवहितेन संबन्धः। यत्र यस्मिन् काले तु अनावृत्तिम् अपुनर्जन्म आवृत्तिं तद्विपरीतां चैव। योगिनः इति योगिनः कर्मिणश्च उच्यन्ते कर्मिणस्तु गुणतः -- कर्मयोगेन योगिनाम् (गीता 3।3) इति विशेषणात् -- योगिनः। यत्र काले प्रयाताः मृताः योगिनः अनावृत्तिं यान्ति यत्र काले च प्रयाताः आवृत्तिं यान्ति तं कालं वक्ष्यामि भरतर्षभ।।तं कालमाह --,

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Translation · English

Rāmānuja

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8.23 - 8.24 Here, the term 'time' denotes a path, having many deities beginning with day and ending with year. The deities preside over divisions of time. The meaning is - I declare to you the path departing in which Yogins do not return and also the path departing in which the doers of good actions return. By the clause, 'Light in the form of fire, the day, bright fortnight, six months of the northern course,' year also is denoted.

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Swami Sivananda

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8.23 यत्र where? काले in time? तु verily? अनावृत्तिम् nonreturn? आवृत्तिम् return? च and? एव even? योगिनः Yogis? प्रयाताः departing? यान्ति go to? तम् that? कालम् time? वक्ष्यामि (I) will tell? भरतर्षभ O chief of Bharatas.Commentary I shall declare to you? O Prince of the Bharatas? the time at which if the Yogis leave their body they will not be born again and also when if they die they will be born again.To return means to be born again.

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