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...
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)