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Chapter 2
Sankhya Yoga
20. (The Jiva) is neither born nor does it ever die, nor having (once) come to be, cease to be again. Unborn, eternal, permanent and primeval. Be is not slain when the body is slain.
Bhashya :- Sri Krishna shows show on the authority of scriptures that awareness of the Lord is not born nor does it cease to be, in the normal sense of the words. In all situations, time and also in stages it is never subject to change, nor is it the knowledge of the self is subject to destruction, the statement having been established even by the scriptures. How? Due to the attributes like being unborn etc having been the related to the Lord. शाश्वत: तदैकरूप: - permanent means remaining in the same form without any change. पुरं देहं अणति इति पुराण: means the one (Jiva) who acquires another पुर: or देह:. Therefore, the Jiva is not killed even when the body is killed.
Tatparya Nirnaya :- Jiva and the Lord both are by scriptures established having been referred thus: neither born nor dying, this Supreme Person. भूत्वा i.e. becoming, remains as though ever in existence, though does not come to be born by being associated with body. Death is largely understood to mean the separation (of the Jiva) from the body. No one associates death to (any positive state like) the things like pot etc. Since for the Lord there is no destruction of the form, there cannot be said to be death for Him.The Jiva is also unborn and eternal. Otherwise (all creation) will be merely a repetition. (Jiva is) also permanent. But Jiva never does exist with any independent form of its own. (Jiva has) limited power, limited knowledge, dependent on external power and incomplete in itself. Contrary to that do the attributes of the Lord, who is all powerful, a11 knowing. These are natural attributes of these two. There is no other change in them. Therefore, great people call both of them to be 'shaashvata' - permanent. Thus, in Maha Vishnu Puraana. Because the Jiva goes अणित through many bodies पुर, it is known as पुराण:
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