2. Transcendental Knowledge

Sānkhya Yog

BG 2.14

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.

मात्रास्पर्शास्तु कौन्तेय शीतोष्णसुखदुःखदाः
आगमापायिनोऽनित्यास्तांस्तितिक्षस्व भारत

  • mātrā-sparśhās — contact of the senses with the sense objects

    • mātrā — function of the organs

    • sparśhās — sensation, sense impression
      Sparśa is the unified phenomenon of the sense organ, the sense object, and the sense consciousness coming together.

  • tu — indeed

  • kaunteya — Arjuna

  • śhītoṣhṇa-sukha-duḥkha-dāḥ — give cold and heat, pain and pleasure

    • śhīta — winter

    • uṣhṇa — summer

    • sukha — happiness, pleasure

    • duḥkha — sorrow, pain

    • dāḥ — give

  • āgamāpāyino — come and go

    • āgama — come

    • apāyinaḥ — go

  • ’nityās — non-permanent

  • tans-titikṣhasva — tolerate them

    • tans — them

    • titikṣhasva — tolerate

  • bhārata — Arjuna

...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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Chapter 2, Verse 14