🪷 Bhagavad-Gītā · 14.2
Chapter 14 · गुणत्रयविभागयोग · Guṇa-Traya-Vibhāga-Yoga · "The Yoga of the Three-Guṇa Division" · Verse 2 of 27
🪷 English Translations
Five authentic English voices · each from a distinct sampradāya · together revealing the verse's full śabda-tattva.
Shri Purohit Swami · Poetic English · 1935 · public domain · Cosmo Press tradition
14.2 Dwelling in Wisdom and realising My Divinity, they are not born again when the universe is re-created at the beginning of every cycle, nor are they affected when it is dissolved.
Swami Sivananda · Direct prose · Divine Life Society
14.2 They who, having taken refuge in this knowledge, have attained to unity with Me, are neither born at the time of creation nor are they disturbed at the time of dissolution.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Word-key glosses · Advaita Ashrama · Śaṅkara-school
14.2 Agatah, those who attain; mama sadharmyam, identity with Me the supreme God, unity with My real nature-sadharmyam, however, does not mean similarity of attributes, for, in the scripture Gita, distinction between the Knower of the field and God is not admitted; and this statement of the result is by way of eulogy-; upasritya, by resorting to i.e. by following; idam, this; jnanam, Knowledge as described, i.e., by following the means to Knowledge; na, are not; upajayante, born, produced; api, even; sarge, during creation; nor do they vyathanti, suffer pain, i.e. they do not perish; pralaye, during dissolution, when even Brahma perishes.
The Lord says that association of this kind between the field and the Knower of the field is the origin of all beings:
Swami Ādidevānanda · Śrī-Vaiṣṇava perspective · Rāmānuja school
14.2 They, 'resorting to this knowledge' which will be expounded later, come to partake of My nature, and they attain My status. 'They are not born at the time of creation,' they are not subjected to the process of creation, and they 'suffer not at the time of dissolution,' i.e. they are not subjected to the distress involved in dissolution of the universe.
In order to show how the Gunas of Prakrti constitute the cause of bondage, Sri Krsna now declares that, the aggregation of beings, born from the conjunction of Purusa and Prakrti as stated already in the passages, 'Whatever being is born' (13.26), is brought about by the Lord Himself:
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Academic precision · modern scholarly
14.2. Holding on to this knowledge, they have attained the state of having attributes common with Me; [and] they are neither born even at the time of creation [of the world], nor do they come to grief at the time of dissolution [of it].
🪷 English Commentaries · The Ācārya Voices
The classical commentary tradition rendered in English · each ācārya speaks from their own sampradāya · the seer chooses the depth of darśana.
Swami Sivananda · Verse-by-verse word-keys with Sanskrit anchors
14.2 इदम् this? ज्ञानम् knowledge? उपाश्रित्य having taken refuge in? मम My? साधर्म्यम् unity? आगताः have attained to? सर्गे at the time of creation? अपि also? न not? उपजायन्ते are born? प्रलये at the time of dissolution? न not? व्यथन्ति are (they) disturbed? च and.Commentary Having resorted to this knowledge they (the sages) are assimilated into My own nature. They have attained to My Being. They have become identical with Me. They live in Me with no thought of thou or I. They go beyond birth and death. There is no birth for them when creation begins and there is no death for them at the time of dissolution. Having reached Me they attain eternity? immortality and perfection. Having become identical with Me through the attainment of the knowledge of the Self by practising the necessary means? they are neither born at the time of creation nor are they disited at the time of dissolution. Knowledge of the Self is eulogised by the Lord in this verse.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Advaita-school commentary (Śaṅkara tradition)
14.2 Agatah, those who attain; mama sadharmyam, identity with Me the supreme God, unity with My real nature-sadharmyam, however, does not mean similarity of attributes, for, in the scripture Gita, distinction between the Knower of the field and God is not admitted; and this statement of the result is by way of eulogy-; upasritya, by resorting to i.e. by following; idam, this; jnanam, Knowledge as described, i.e., by following the means to Knowledge; na, are not; upajayante, born, produced; api, even; sarge, during creation; nor do they vyathanti, suffer pain, i.e. they do not perish; pralaye, during dissolution, when even Brahma perishes.
The Lord says that association of this kind between the field and the Knower of the field is the origin of all beings:
Swami Ādidevānanda · Rāmānuja Śrī-Vaiṣṇava commentary
14.2 They, 'resorting to this knowledge' which will be expounded later, come to partake of My nature, and they attain My status. 'They are not born at the time of creation,' they are not subjected to the process of creation, and they 'suffer not at the time of dissolution,' i.e. they are not subjected to the distress involved in dissolution of the universe.
In order to show how the Gunas of Prakrti constitute the cause of bondage, Sri Krsna now declares that, the aggregation of beings, born from the conjunction of Purusa and Prakrti as stated already in the passages, 'Whatever being is born' (13.26), is brought about by the Lord Himself:
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Modern academic scholarship
14.2 Idam etc. Vyathanti : The suffix tip (Personal Termination, Third person, Singular) is due to Vedism. The same may be stated in other [similar] instances of the suffixes of Case Terminations and Personal Terminations.
Now to begin with, [the Bhagavat] speaks of the seence in the cycle of birth and death. For, if what is to be abandoned is understood along with its cause then it is easy to abandon that -
Swami Chinmayānanda · Chinmaya Mission · modern Vedantic teaching
।।14.2।। इस अध्याय में उपदिष्ट ज्ञान की महत्ता सैद्धान्तिक दृष्टि से उतनी अधिक नहीं है? जितनी कि साधना में उसके द्वारा होने वाले लाभ से है। इस अध्याय के गम्भीर अभिप्रायों को सम्यक् रूप से जानने वाला साधक पूर्णत्व की स्थिति को प्राप्त होता है। भगवान् कहते हैं? वे मेरे स्वरूप को प्राप्त होते हैं।गीता में? भगवान् श्रीकृष्ण मैं शब्द का प्रयोग आध्यात्मिक पूर्णत्व की दृष्टि से ही करते हैं। इस अध्याय का विषय उन गुणों की क्रीड़ा का अध्ययन करना है? जो हमें उपाधियों ओर अहंभाव के साथ बांध देते हैं। यदि एक बार हम उनसे मुक्त होकर अपने मन पर होने वाले उनके प्रभाव को समाप्त कर दें? तो तत्क्षण ही जीव भाव से मुक्त होकर हम अपने पारमार्थिक स्वरूप का अनुभव कर सकते हैं।स्वप्नद्रष्टा को स्वप्नावस्था में सत्य प्रतीत होने वाले दुख जाग्रत् अवस्था में असत् हो जाते हैं। नियम यह है कि एक अवस्था के सुखदुखादि अनुभव अन्य अवस्था में प्रभावशील नहीं होते हैं। अत? आत्म अज्ञान की अवस्था का उपाधि तादात्म्य तथा तज्जनित संसार का बन्धन जीव को ही सत्य प्रतीत होता है आत्मज्ञानी पुरुष को नहीं। ज्ञानी पुरुष अपने उस सर्वत्र व्याप्त सत्यस्वरूप को पहचानता है? जिसकी न उत्पत्ति है और न प्रलय।इसे यहाँ एक वाक्य से इंगित किया गया है? वे सृष्टि के आदि में जन्म नहीं लेते हैं सृष्टि मन का एक खेल है। जब हम मन से तादात्म्य नहीं करेंगे? तब हम उससे अविच्छिन्न भी नहीं होंगे? और इस प्रकार हमें सृष्टि का कोई अनुभव भी नहीं होगा। उदाहरणार्थ? जब कोई व्यक्ति क्रोधावेश में आ जाता है? तब वह एक क्रोधी व्यक्ति के रूप में व्यवहार करता है परन्तु क्रोध से निवृत्त होने और मन के शान्त हो जाने पर वह वैसा व्यवहार नहीं कर सकता। मन की युक्ति यह है कि वह विचारों के द्वारा एक सृष्टि की कल्पना करता है? और फिर उसी के साथ तादात्म्य कर स्वयं को इस प्रकार बन्धन में अनुभव करता है मानो उससे मुक्ति पाना कदापि संभव ही न हो। जब तक हम मन में ही डूबे रहेंगे तब तक उसके क्षोभ से उद्वेलित भी होते रहेंगे। मन से अतीत अर्थात् मुक्त होने पर शुद्ध आत्मा में कोई सृष्टि नहीं है? तब हमें जन्म का अनुभव कैसे हो सकता है और उस स्थिति में प्रलय से भय कैसा वह पूर्ण मुक्ति की स्थिति है।परन्तु अपने मन पर विजय पाने के लिये? साधक को मन की उन युक्तियों (योजनाओं) का पूर्ण ज्ञान होना आवश्यक है? जिनके द्वारा यह प्राय उसे छलता रहता है। शत्रु पर आक्रमण करने के पूर्व उसकी रणनीति का ज्ञान प्राप्त करना अपरिहार्य होता है। इस दृष्टि से? भगवान् का यह कथन भी समीचीन है कि इन तीन गुणों का सम्पूर्ण ज्ञान साधक को अपने मन पर विजय प्राप्त कराने में सहायक होगा और इस प्रकार वह अपनी समस्त प्रकार की अपूर्णताओं से मुक्ति प्राप्त कर सकेगा।अब? भगवान् कहते हैं कि किस प्रकार जड़ और चेतन के सम्बन्ध में इस दुखपूर्ण संसार की उत्पत्ति होती है
🪷 Place in the Bhagavad-Gītā
- This is verse 2 of 27 in Chapter 14 · Guṇa-Traya-Vibhāga-Yoga (The Yoga of the Three-Guṇa Division)
- Chapter theme: Sattva · Rajas · Tamas · the guṇātīta-state · BG 14.26 bhakti-bridge
- Ṣaṭka grouping: ANTYA-Ṣaṭka (BG 13-18 · the resolution)
- Chapter hub: /guna-traya
🪷 ॐ नमो भगवते वासुदेवाय 🪷
सर्वम् कृष्णार्पणम् — this verse is one maṇi (jewel) on Krishna's thread (BG 7.7)