BHAGAVAD GEETA: 43 - Swami Advayanandaji.

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BHAGAVAD GEETA 

Chapter - 2

Discourse – 2 (72 Slogas)

“Yoga of the SUPREME SELF”

Sri Veda Vyasaji

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Tuesday, 05 Dec 2023 07:30.

Post - 43

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Slogam - 21: The Subject Aspect of Action

1 Veda avinaashinam nityam = One who knows that he is indestructible and eternal –

2 ya enam ajam avyayam; = that his Self is unborn and inexhaustible (deathless);

3 katham sah purushah Paartha = how can that man, O Paartha,

4 kam ghaatayai hanta kam. = be a cause to slay Him, or be slain by Him?

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This Slogam tells us that the Self cannot be the Subject of an action either.

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1&4 

From the point of view of the subject, the same knowledge of the Self as given. 

in the previous verse (i.e. It being indestructible, eternal, unborn and unceasing) is put forth. 

as a reason for the subject not to be considered as the cause of slaying or as the one who is 

slain. Another way to look at this is that the subject cannot kill nor be killed, because the 

subject is also the Self.

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This Slogam absolves both Krishna as well as Arjuna. Krishna is not guilty of being the 

cause of Arjuna’s acts of killing, and Arjuna himself is not guilty of doing the killing.

The reason for these deductions is that the Self does not die. No dying of the Self is 

taking place, so how can there be any killing!

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Next

Slogam - 22, “Old Clothes” Need to be Changed

To be continued

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