Friday, April 29, 2011

Ramanuja's Gita Bhashyam - Chapter 2 - sloka 26


The entire content of this mail is from Swami Adidevananda's translation of  The Gita Bhashya, published by Ramakrishna Mission.

The materialistic standpoint - 26-28
1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 2 - Samkhya Yoga - Sloka 26

Atha chainam nitya jatam nityam va manyase mrutam I
Tatha api tvam mahabaho na enam shochitum arhasi II sloka 26
अथ चैनं नित्य जातं नित्यं वा मान्यसे मृतं ।
तथा अपि त्वं महाबाहो न एनं शोचितुम अर्हसि ।। श्लोक २६ 

Or if you hold this self as being constantly born and as constantly dying, even then, O mighty armed one, it does not become you to feel grief.

Besides, if you consider this self as identical with the body, which is constantly born and constantly dies  - which is nothing other than these characteristics of the body mentioned above - even then it does not become you to feel grief; because, birth and death are inevitable for the body, whose nature is modification.

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