2. Transcendental Knowledge

Sānkhya Yog

BG 2.12

There was never a time in the past, and there will never be a time in the future, when any of us cease to exist.

न त्वेवाहं जातु नासं न त्वं नेमे जनाधिपाः
न चैव न भविष्यामः सर्वे वयमतः परम्

  • na — never

  • tvevāhaṁ — I indeed
    tu—however; eva—certainly; aham—I;

  • jātu — at any time

  • nāsaṁ — not exist
    āsam—exist

  • na — never

  • tvaṁ — you

  • neme — nor these

    • na — nor

    • ime — these

  • janādhipāḥ — kings
    jana-adhipāḥ—kings

  • na — never

  • chaiva — also indeed

  • na bhaviṣhyāmaḥ — shall not exist

  • sarve — all

  • vayamataḥ — of us from now

    • vayam — all of us

    • ataḥ — from now

  • param — after

...2.10

Krishna said: You speak these words that sound of wisdom, yet you are grieving for those who should not be grieved for. The wise do not grieve for the living nor do they grieve for the dead.

[11]

There was never a time in the past, and there will never be a time in the future, when any of us cease to exist.

[12]

Just as the soul travels in one body from childhood and youth into old age, it passes into a new body after one's death - the wise have no delusions about this.

[13]

The contact of the senses with the sense objects produce cold and heat, happiness and sorrow. They rise and fall. They are impermanent. Learn to tolerate them, Arjuna.

[14]

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Similar verses

Chapter 2, Verse 12