🪷 Bhagavad-Gītā · 2.30
Chapter 2 · सांख्ययोग · Sāṅkhya-Yoga · "The Yoga of Knowledge" · Verse 30 of 72
🪷 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
2.30 Be not anxious about these armies. The Spirit in man is imperishable.
Swami Sivananda · Direct prose · Divine Life Society
2.30 This, the Indweller in the body of everyone, is ever indestructible, O Arjuna; therefore, thou shouldst not grieve for any creature.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Word-key glosses · Advaita Ashrama · Śaṅkara-school
2.30 Because of being partless and eternal, ayam, this dehi, embodied Self; nityam avadhyah, can never be killed, under any condition. That being so, although existing sarvasya dehe, in all bodies, in trees etc., this One cannot be killed on account of Its being allpervasive. Since the indewelling One cannot be killed although the body of everyone of the living beings be killed, tasmat, therefore; tvam, you; na arhasi, ought not; socitum, to grieve; for sarvani bhutani, all (these) beings, for Bhisma and others.
Here [i.e. in the earlier verse.] it has been said that, from the standpoint of the supreme Reality, there is no occasion for sorrow or delusion. (This is so) not merely from the standpoint of the supreme Reality, but
Swami Ādidevānanda · Śrī-Vaiṣṇava perspective · Rāmānuja school
2.30 The self within the body of everyone such as gods etc., must be considered to be eternally imperishable, though the body can be killed. Therefore, all beings from gods to immovable beings, even though they possess different forms, are all uniform and eternal in their nature as described above. The ineality and the perishableness pertain only to the bodies. Therefore, it is not fit for you to feel grief for any of the beings beginning from gods etc., and not merely for Bhisma and such others.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Academic precision · modern scholarly
2.30. O descendant of Bharata ! This embodied One in the body of every one is for ever incapable of being slain. Therefore you should not lament over all beings.
🪷 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
2.30 देही indweller? नित्यम् always? अवध्यः indestructible? अयम् this? देहे in the body? सर्वस्य of all? भारत O Bharata? तस्मात् therefore? सर्वाणि (for) all? भूतानि creatures? न not? त्वम् thou? शोचितुम् to grieve? अर्हसि (thou) shouldst.Commentary The body of any creature may be destroyed but the Self cannot be killed. Therefore you should not grieve regarding any creature whatever? Bhishma or anybody else.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Advaita-school commentary (Śaṅkara tradition)
2.30 Because of being partless and eternal, ayam, this dehi, embodied Self; nityam avadhyah, can never be killed, under any condition. That being so, although existing sarvasya dehe, in all bodies, in trees etc., this One cannot be killed on account of Its being allpervasive. Since the indewelling One cannot be killed although the body of everyone of the living beings be killed, tasmat, therefore; tvam, you; na arhasi, ought not; socitum, to grieve; for sarvani bhutani, all (these) beings, for Bhisma and others.
Here [i.e. in the earlier verse.] it has been said that, from the standpoint of the supreme Reality, there is no occasion for sorrow or delusion. (This is so) not merely from the standpoint of the supreme Reality, but
Swami Ādidevānanda · Rāmānuja Śrī-Vaiṣṇava commentary
2.30 The self within the body of everyone such as gods etc., must be considered to be eternally imperishable, though the body can be killed. Therefore, all beings from gods to immovable beings, even though they possess different forms, are all uniform and eternal in their nature as described above. The ineality and the perishableness pertain only to the bodies. Therefore, it is not fit for you to feel grief for any of the beings beginning from gods etc., and not merely for Bhisma and such others.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Modern academic scholarship
2.30 Dehi etc. On these grounds, the permanent destruction-lessness of the Self [is established].
Swami Chinmayānanda · Chinmaya Mission · modern Vedantic teaching
।।2.30।। सबके शरीर में स्थित सूक्ष्म आत्मतत्त्व अवध्य है अर्थात् इसका वध नहीं किया जा सकता। केवल देह का ही नाश होता है। इसलिए अर्जुन को उपदेश किया जाता है कि इस महा समर में युद्ध करने और शत्रु संहार करने में किसी भी प्राणी के लिए शोक करना सर्वथा अनुचित है। युद्ध में वह शत्रुओं का सामना करे। यह उपदेश देने के पूर्व भगवान् श्रीकृष्ण ने अत्यन्त युक्तियुक्त शैली में आत्मा की अनश्वरता और शरीरों के नश्वर स्वभाव को सिद्ध किया है। श्रीशंकराचार्य सही कहते हैं कि 11वें श्लोक से प्रारम्भ किये गये प्रकरण का यहाँ उपसंहार किया गया है।अब तक यह बताया गया कि पारमार्थिक सत्य की दृष्टि से शोक करने का कोई कारण नहीं है। न केवल पारमार्थिक दृष्टि से बल्कि
🪷 Place in the Bhagavad-Gītā
- This is verse 30 of 72 in Chapter 2 · Sāṅkhya-Yoga (The Yoga of Knowledge)
- Chapter theme: Krishna's first teaching · the niṣkāma-karma sūtra · BG 2.47
- Ṣaṭka grouping: TVAM-Ṣaṭka (BG 1-6 · the jīva)
- Chapter hub: /sankhya-yoga
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सर्वम् कृष्णार्पणम् — this verse is one maṇi (jewel) on Krishna's thread (BG 7.7)