The untruth sustains not
the feelings so dynamic
nor can the static lack
support truth and life...
Only the one who sees beyond the opposites
of feeling and unfeeling,
of change and stagnation
of desire and resistance,
of faith and doubt,
of darkness and light,
can get to the wisening insight.
realise the endlessness
of that which is
here and there
pervading the whole universe-seen and unseen
of this indivisible oneness,
neither mutation nor mutilation
is a possibility...
the bodies will dissolve
and disintegrate anyway
while the life inside remains forever
unfathomable, indestructible...infinite...
hence stand up and fight O mighty one...
the feelings so dynamic
nor can the static lack
support truth and life...
Only the one who sees beyond the opposites
of feeling and unfeeling,
of change and stagnation
of desire and resistance,
of faith and doubt,
of darkness and light,
can get to the wisening insight.
realise the endlessness
of that which is
here and there
pervading the whole universe-seen and unseen
of this indivisible oneness,
neither mutation nor mutilation
is a possibility...
the bodies will dissolve
and disintegrate anyway
while the life inside remains forever
unfathomable, indestructible...infinite...
hence stand up and fight O mighty one...
Mahatma Gandhi's verse-by-verse
2.16. What is non-Being is never known to have been, and what is Being is never known not to have been. Of both these the secret has been seen by the seers of the Truth.
2.17. Know that to be imperishable whereby all this is pervaded. No one can destroy that immutable being.
2.18. These bodies of the embodied one who is eternal, imperishable and immeasurable are finite. Fight, therefore, O Bharata.
Copyright 1934 Mahadev Desai for Mahatma Gandhi
Sanskrit
( Shree bhagavan uvaacha)
Naasato vidyate bhaavo naabhaavo vidyate satah
ubhayorapi drushTontastvanayostattvadarshibhih(2.16)
avinaashi tu tadviddhi yena sarvamidamtatam
vinaashamavyayasyaasya na kashchitkartumarhati (2.17)
antavanta ime deha nityasyoktashareereeNah
anaasheeno aprameyasya tasmaadyuddhyasva bhaarata(2.18)
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Ramanand Prasad's version...
There is no nonexistence of the Sat (or Atma) and no existence of the Asat. The reality of these two is indeed certainly seen by the seers of truth. (2.16) (Sat exists at all times -- past, present, and future. Atma is called Sat. Asat is a notion that does not exist at all (like the horn of a rabbit, or the water in a mirage). The one that has a beginning and an end is neither Sat nor Asat. The body is neither Sat nor Asat, or both Sat and Asat, because, it has a temporary existence. Mithya is the one that appears Sat at first sight, but is really Asat. Body, like the universe or Jagat, is called Mithya.)
Know That, by which all this (universe) is pervaded, to be indestructible. No one can destroy the indestructible (Atma) . (2.17)
Bodies of the eternal, imperishable, and incomprehensible soul are said to be perishable. Therefore, fight, O Arjuna. (2.18)
From Jyoti Anand
Jo pal pal badal raha hai, woh kaise rahega hamesha,
hamesha to satya hi rahta hai, kal aaj aur kal, waise ke vaisa,
bhavanaon ko dekho , woh badal rahi hai pal pal,
isiliye mann tik nahi pa raha ek hi jabaab per,
to kya phir yeh bhavanaonke khel ko 'sat' samzoge ??
jara bhavnaonke us paar dekho, jaha koi achhi ya buri baat nahi,
na sthiti hai, na gati,
na pana hai , na khona ,
na maaya hai na shanka,
na abhav hai na prabhav
to tum dekh paoge,
jo tha, hai, rahega,
jaisa tha, vaisehi shudh, poorna,
vyakt, avyakta dono main,
jiska na janma hai na mrityu hai,
jo janewala hai woh to sirf sharir hai,
'sat'ko dekhoge to jaanoge,
sabhi jagah..
sirf 'hai'....yeh 'hai' hi 'sat' hai,
fir dar kis ke khone ka?
kaunse 'jai' aur 'parajay'ka?
kaunse 'sahi' aur 'galat' ka?
utho, aur apna 'sharir karma' karo..
(Kshtriya ka sharir paya hai, uska dhrm nibhao)
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