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Chapter 2
avykto'yamacintyo'yamavikaryo'yamucyate
tasmadevam viditvainam nanusocitumarhasi
This soul is unmanifest, inscrutable and immutable. Therefore, knowing it as such, you should not grieve. 25
Comment:-
Avyakto'yam:-The soul unlike a body is unmanifest, because it cannot be perceived by any one of the senses.
Acintyo'yam:-Mind and intellect etc., cannot be perceived by senses but they are thinkable. But this soul is inscrutable.
Avikaryo'yamucyate:-The soul is immutable i.e., it does not undergo any change while matter is changing, all the time. The cause of the entire creation is matter. That causative nature (matter) is subject to change. The soul is beyond any change, as it is transcendental.
In the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth verses, Lord Krsna has described the soul, by giving eight adjectives of negation and four adjectives of affirmation. But the fact is that it cannot he described in words, because how can tongue illumine the soul, which is an illuminator of the tongue etc.? Therefore, this realization about the soul is, its real description.
Tasmadevam viditvainam nunusocitumarhasi:-Thus, by knowing (realizing), the soul as uncleavable, incombustible, unmanifest, everlasting and immutable etc., one cannot grieve.
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