Krishna's first answer to Arjuna's refusal to fight: the self cannot be slain. The typographical slip 'This in never born' for 'is never born' stands in the printed text and is reproduced rather than silently corrected. The parenthesis is Swarupananda's own note of a variant reading, and is his, not the Sanskrit.
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Passage
TextThis in never born, nor does It die. It is not that not having been It again comes into being. (Or according to another view: It is not that having been It again ceases to be). This is unborn, eternal, changeless, ever-Itself. It is not killed when the body is killed. 1 Reference Scheme Connections
Concerns
The doctrine of the deathless self on which rebirth rests.
Passage Of
Source Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita, English translation and commentarySwami Swarupananda
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1. Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita, English translation and commentary
Swami Swarupananda, Advaita Ashrama / Internet Sacred Text Archive, 1909Bhagavad Gita 2:20View the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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