Bhagavad Gita -Srila Prabhupada 68

Shrimad Bhagavad Gita As It Is -Shri Shrimad A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

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Contents of the Gita Summarized
Chapter 2: Verse-26

atha cainam nitya-jätam
nityam vä manyase mrtam
tathäpi tavm mahä-bäho
nainam socitum arhasi[1]

TRANSLATION

If, however, you think that the soul [or the symptoms of life] is always born and dies forever, you still have no reason to lament, O mighty-armed.


PURPORT

There is always a class of philosophers, almost akin to the Buddhists, who do not believe in the separate existence of the soul beyond the body. When Lord Krsna spoke the Bhagavad-gita, it appears that such philosophers existed, and they were known as the lokäyatikas and vaibhasikas. Such philosophers maintain that life symptoms take place at a certain mature condition of material combination. The modern material scientist and materialist philosophers also think similarly. According to them, the body is a combination of physical elements, and at a certain stage the life symptoms develop by interaction of the physical and chemical elements. The science of anthropology is based on this philosophy. Currently, many pseudo religions—now becoming fashionable in America—are also adhering to this philosophy, as well as to the nihilistic nondevotional Buddhist sects.


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References

  1. atha=if, however; ca=also; enam=this soul; nitya-jätam=always born; nityam=forever; vä=either; manyase=you so think; mrtam=dead; tathä api=still; tvam=you; mahä-bäho=O mighty-armed one; na=never; enam=about the soul; socitum=to lament; arhasi=deserve.

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