Gopalavedha Geetha

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Sloka 12

na tvevaham jatu nasam na tvam neme janadhipah |
na chaiva na bhavisyamah sarve vayam atah param || (2.12)

Bhagwad Geeta

Meaning 12

Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be.

Sloka 13

dehino 'smin yatha dehe kaumaram yauvanam jara |
tatha dehantara-praptir dhiras tatra na muhyat || (2.13)

Bhagwad Geeta

Meaning 13

As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A self-realized soul is not bewildered by such a change.

Sloka 14

matra-sparsas tu kaunteya sitosna-sukha-duhkha-dah |
agamapayino 'nityas tams titiksasva bharata || (2.14)

Bhagwad Geeta

Meaning 14

O son of Kunti, the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed.

Sloka 15

yam hi na vyathayanty ete purusam purusarsabha |
sama-duhkha-sukham dhiram so 'mrtatvaya kalpate || (2.15)

Bhagwad Geeta

Meaning 15

O best among men [Arjuna], the person who is not disturbed by happiness and distress and is steady in both is certainly eligible for liberation.

Sloka 16

nasato vidyate bhavo nabhavo vidyate satah |
ubhayor api drsto 'ntas tv anayos tattva-darsibhih || (2.16)

Bhagwad Geeta

Meaning 16

Those who are seers of the truth have concluded that of the nonexistent there is no endurance, and of the existent there is no cessation. This seers have concluded by studying the nature of both.

Sloka 17

avinasi tu tad viddhi yena sarvam idam tatam |
vinasam avyayasyasya na kascit kartum arhati || (2.17)

Bhagwad Geeta

Meaning 17

Know that which pervades the entire body is indestructible. No one is able to destroy the imperishable soul.

Sloka 18

antavanta ime deha nityasyoktah saririnah |
anasino 'prameyasya tasmad yudhyasva bharata || (2.18)

Bhagwad Geeta

Meaning 18

Only the material body of the indestructible, immeasurable and eternal living entity is subject to destruction; therefore, fight, O descendant of Bharata.

Sloka 19

ya enam vetti hantaram yas cainam manyate hatam |
ubhau tau na vijanito nayam hanti na hanyate || (2.19)

Bhagwad Geeta

Meaning 19

He who thinks that the living entity is the slayer or that he is slain, does not understand. One who is in knowledge knows that the self slays not nor is slain.

Sloka 20

na jayate mriyate va kadacin
nayam bhutva bhavita va na bhuyah
ajo nityah sasvato 'yam purano
na hanyate hanyamane sarire || (2.20)

Bhagwad Geeta

Meaning 20

For the soul there is never birth nor death. Nor, having once been, does he ever cease to be. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing, undying and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain.