The entire content of this mail is based on Swami Adidevananda's translation of Sri Ramanuja Gita Bhashya, published by Sri Ramakrishna Math.
1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 2 - Samkhya Yoga - Sloka 17
Avinashi tu tat viddhi yena sarvam idam tatam I
Vinasham avyaysya sya na kah chit kartum arhati II
अविनाशी तु तत् विद्धि येन सर्वं इदं ततं ।
विनाशं अव्ययस्य स्य न कः चित कर्तुं अर्हति ।।
Know that to be indestructible by which all this is pervaded. None can cause the destruction of this Immutable.
Know that the self in its essential nature is imperishable. The whole insentient matter, which is different (from the self), is pervaded by the self. Because of pervasiveness and extreme subtlety, the self cannot be destroyed; for every entity other than the self is capable of being pervaded by the self, and hence they are grosser than It. Destructive agents like weapons, water, wind, fire etc. pervade the substances to be destroyed and disintegrate them. Even hammers and such other instruments rouse wind through violent contact with the objects and therefore destroy their objects. So, the essential nature of the self being subtler than anything else. It is imperishable.
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