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Chapter 2<\/a><\/p>\n << Chapter 2 verse 20<\/a><\/p>\n vEdhAvinASinam nithyam ya Enam ajam avyayam |<\/em> pArtha – Oh arjuna! Oh arjuna! knowing this AthmA to be eternal due to that AthmA being indestructible, unborn and without any defects, how will a man kill or cause that AthmA to be killed?<\/p>\n \u2018Knowing this \u0101tm\u0101<\/em> to be indestructible, eternal and birthless, which person, P\u0101rtha! can any kill or cause to be killed?\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n Thus, how can any person, knowing \u0101tm\u0101<\/em> to be eternal by reason of its birthlessness and deathlessness and its inexhaustible nature, destroy any \u0101tm\u0101<\/em> which dwells in the numerous bodies of celestial, human, animal and vegetable kingdoms? Whom<\/em> can he kill? How<\/em> can he kill? How can one cause<\/em> killing?<\/span><\/p>\n Hence ignorance of the true nature of \u0101tm\u0101<\/em> is the cause of grief that is born by thinking: \u2018I cause these \u0101tm\u0101s<\/em> to be killed or I kill them.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n Admitting that what happens to the eternal \u0101tm\u0101s<\/em> is but disjunction from bodies, yet it may form good ground for regret that bodies, serving as they do as instruments for enjoying, or for securing enjoyment of pleasures, should so separate away! Reply to this objection:<\/span><\/p>\n >> Chapter 2 verse 22<\/a><\/p>\n archived in https:\/\/githa.koyil.org<\/a><\/p>\n pramEyam (goal) \u2013 http:\/\/koyil.org<\/a> SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 2 << Chapter 2 verse 20 SlOkam \u2013 Original vEdhAvinASinam nithyam ya Enam ajam avyayam | katham sa purusha: pArtha kam ghAthayathi hanthi kam || word-by-word meaning pArtha – Oh arjuna! ya: purusha: – that man Enam – this AthmA (Soul) avinASinam – indestructible … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-2","category-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}SlOkam \u2013 Original<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n katham sa purusha: pArtha kam ghAthayathi hanthi kam ||<\/em><\/p>\nword-by-word meaning<\/h3>\n
\nya: purusha: – that man
\nEnam – this AthmA (Soul)
\navinASinam – indestructible
\najam – unborn
\navyayam – without any defects
\nnithyam – eternal
\nvEdha – knows
\nsa: purusha: – that man
\nkam – an AthmA
\nkatham – how
\nhanthi – will kill?
\nkam – an AthmA
\nkatham – how
\ngAthayathi – (through others) will cause to be killed<\/p>\nSimple Translation<\/h3>\n
Rendering based on ALkoNdavilli gOvindhAchArya swAmy\u2019s English translation of gIthA bhAshyam<\/h3>\n
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