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Chapter 2
Link:-In the nineteenth verse, Lord Krsna told Arjuna that soul neither slays, nor is slain. In the twentieth verse, He explained how it is not slain. Now, in the next verse, He explains how it does not slay.
vedavinasinam nityam ya enamajamavyayam
katham sa purusah partha kam ghatayati hanti kam
O Partha, How can, a man who realises this soul to be imperishable, eternal and free from birth and decay, slay, anyone or cause anyone to be slain? 21
Comment:-
Vedavinasinam nityam ye enamajamavyayam katham sa purusah partha kam ghatayati hand kam:-The man, who realizes this soul to be imperishable, eternal and free from birth and decay, can have no inclination to slay, anyone or cause anyone, to be slain. He is free from egoism i.e., he has no feeling of an agent in him, and so actions do not taint him.
Here, Lord Krsna has explained that the soul is free from six kinds of modifications (i.e.) to be born, to exist, by the term 'Aja', to change, to grow hy the term 'nitya, to decay by the tern "avyayam' and to perish by the term 'avinas?
Now, a question arises, If the Lord by the terms 'na hanyate hanyamane sarire' and 'kam ghatayati hanti kam' had merely to tell Arjuna that the soul is neither a doer nor an object of action then why he used words 'not a slayer' or 'not a slain' for the soul. The answer is that the theme is of a war, so it is necessary to say so. But He means, that the soul, is neither the agent (doer), nor the object of action. Therefore, one while discharging duty, should not grieve, while slaying anyone or causing anyone to be slain, but should discharge one's duty, in accordance with the ordinance of scriptures.
Appendix:-A thing which is produced (born) certainly perishes, it has not to be perished (destroyed). But the thing which is not born, never perishes. We passed through eighty four lac forms of bodies but no body stayed with us and we didn't stay with any body; but we remained the same and apart. Those bodies didn't possess this power of discrimination but only this human body has been endowed with it. If we don't realize it, we disregard the discrimination bestowed upon us by God.
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