Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand 116

Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand Ji

CHAPTER 2 Curiosity About Action वेदाविनाशिनं नित्यं य एनमजमव्ययम्। कथं स पुरुष: पार्थ कं घातयति हन्ति कम्॥21॥ [ “How can he, O Parth, who is conscious of the Soul within as imperishable, permanent, birthless, and immutable, kill or move another to kill?” ] Arjun is addressed as Parth, for he has made a chariot of the earth-made body and is preparing to take a perfect aim at the Supreme Spirit. The man who knows that the embodied Soul is indestructible, permanent, beyond birth, and unmanifest-how can he make others slay or be a slayer himself? Destruction of what is indestructible is impossible. And, being beyond birth, the Self is also never born. So why grieve for the body? This idea is further elaborated in the following verse: