Ramanuja's Gita Bhashyam - Chapter 2 - sloka 21

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

1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 2 - Samkhya Yoga - Sloka 21

Veda avinashinam nityam yah enam ajam avyayam I

Katham sah purushah partha  kam ghatayati  hanti kam II Sloka 21

वेद अविनाशिनं नित्यं यः एनं अजं अव्ययं ।

कथं सः पुरुषः पार्थ कं घातयति हन्ति कं ।। श्लोक २१ 

He who knows this self to be indestructible, 

unborn,

 

 unchanging and hence eternal,   how and whom O Arjuna, can he cause to be killed, and whom does he kill.

He who knows the self to be eternal, as It is indestructible, unborn and changeless - how can that person be said to be t

 

he cause of death of the self, be it 

 

of the self existing in the bodies of gods or animals or immovables? Whom does he kill? The meaning is - how can he destroy any one or cause any one to slay? H

 

ow does he become an instrument for slaying? The meaning is this : the feeling of sorrow: 

 

"I cause the slaying of these selves, I slay these" has its basis solely in ignorance about the true nature of self.