Sutra Subject: Immortality
It's the individual who gets destroyed. Infinity is indestructible. Being immortal is looking at your infinite nature.~SriSri
there was no moment, no time
when i was not present
and neither were you ever absent
or these warriors of your kin
events and moments, come and go
way beyond them you and me and them
shall continue to be,
present, chasing time all the way upto eternity.
the resident of the body
so continuously on the move
from staying in the frame of an infant
to that of the young to the aged tenant
And when the residence becomes tumble-down
simple! trade it in
for a fresh one, with a shining crown...
( and you dont even have to sign a lease!)
who gets deluded by the shape-move?
not he who lives in the wisdom-groove.
fire and ice...sun and snowflakes
being but temporary handshakes
between the senses and the matter vain
a moment of pleasure and a moment of pain
with a smile as your patient greeting
watch the sensations,
so transient and fleeting!
The ONE who stands unshaken, with temerity
across the flashes of gloom and glee
is he who can and does dissolve
in the present, in the timeless presence
and lives embodying eternity
previous
when i was not present
and neither were you ever absent
or these warriors of your kin
events and moments, come and go
way beyond them you and me and them
shall continue to be,
present, chasing time all the way upto eternity.
the resident of the body
so continuously on the move
from staying in the frame of an infant
to that of the young to the aged tenant
And when the residence becomes tumble-down
simple! trade it in
for a fresh one, with a shining crown...
( and you dont even have to sign a lease!)
who gets deluded by the shape-move?
not he who lives in the wisdom-groove.
fire and ice...sun and snowflakes
being but temporary handshakes
between the senses and the matter vain
a moment of pleasure and a moment of pain
with a smile as your patient greeting
watch the sensations,
so transient and fleeting!
The ONE who stands unshaken, with temerity
across the flashes of gloom and glee
is he who can and does dissolve
in the present, in the timeless presence
and lives embodying eternity
previous
Mahatma Gandhi's verse-by-verse
2.12. For never was I not, nor thou, nor these kings; nor will any of us cease to be hereafter.
2.13.As the embodied one has, in the present body, infancy, youth and age,even so does he receive another body. The wise man is not deceivedtherein.
2.14.O Kaunteya! contacts of the senses with their objects bring cold and heat, pleasure and pain; they come and go and are transient. Endurethem, O Bharata.
2.15.O noblest of men, the wise man who is not disturbed by these, who is unmoved by pleasure and pain, he is fitted for immortality.
Copyright 1934 Mahadev Desai for Mahatma Gandhi
Sanskrit
( Shree bhagavan uvaacha)
na tvevaaham jaatu naa-asam na tvam neme janadhipah
nachaiva na bhavishyama sarve vayamatah param (2.12)
dehinosminyathadehe koumaaram youvanam jaraa
tatha dehantarapraaptirdheerastatra na muhyati (2.13)
maatraasparshastu kounteya sheetoshNa sukhaduhkhada
aagamaapaayeenonityans tantiteekshasva bhaarata (2.14)
yum hi no vyathayantete purusham purusharshabha
samaduhkhasukhamdheeram somrutatvaaya kalpate (2.15)
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Dr. Ramanand Prasad's translation
The Supreme Lord said: You grieve for those who are not worthy ofgrief, and yet speak the words of wisdom. The wise grieve neither for theliving nor for the dead. (2.11)
There was never a time when I, you, or these kings did not exist; norshall we ever cease to exist in the future. (2.12)
Just as the indweller self acquires a childhood body, a youth body, and an oldage body during this life, similarly it acquires another body afterdeath. The wise are not deluded by this. (2.13)
The contacts of the senses with the sense objects give rise to thefeelings of heat and cold, and pain and pleasure. They are transitory and impermanent. Therefore, (learn to) endure them, O Arjuna. (2.14)
Because the calm person, who is not afflicted by these feelings and is steady in pain and pleasure, becomes fit for immortality, O Arjuna.(2.15)
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