BG 2.30
Bhagavad Gītā · Sāṅkhya YogaAnuṣṭubh (śloka)देही नित्यमवध्योऽयं देहे सर्वस्य भारत | तस्मात्सर्वाणि भूतानि न त्वं शोचितुमर्हसि ||२-३०||
dehī nityamavadhyo.ayaṃ dehe sarvasya bhārata . tasmātsarvāṇi bhūtāni na tvaṃ śocitumarhasi ||2-30||
Linguistic facts
Anuṣṭubh (śloka) · 16+16 syllables
scansion (laghu/guru)
14 words analyzed
- देहीdehī← दिह्nominal · nominative singular masculine
- नित्यम्nityam← नित्यnominal · accusative singular masculine
- अवध्यस्avadhyas← अवधाnominal · nominative plural masculine
- अयम्ayam← इnominal · accusative singular masculine
- देहेdehe← दह्verb · perfect third singular passive (√dah)
- सर्वस्यsarvasya← सर्वnominal · genitive singular masculine
- भास्bhās← भूnominal · nominative singular masculine
- रतrata← रम्nominal · vocative singular masculine
- तस्मात्सर्वाणिtasmātsarvāṇiunknown
- भूतानिbhūtāni← भूnominal · nominative plural neuter
- नna← नnominal · vocative singular neuter
- त्वम्tvam← त्वnominal · accusative singular masculine
- शोचितुम्śocitum← शुच्indeclinable
- अर्हसिarhasi← अर्ह्verb · present second singular active (√arh)
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Translations
2.30 This, the Indweller in the body of everyone, is ever indestructible, O Arjuna; therefore, thou shouldst not grieve for any creature.
source ↗8 more attributed translations
O descendant of Bharata, he who dwells in the body can never be slain. Therefore you need not grieve for any living being.
2.30. O descendant of Bharata ! This embodied One in the body of every one is for ever incapable of being slain. Therefore you should not lament over all beings.
2.30 Be not anxious about these armies. The Spirit in man is imperishable.
2.30 Dehi etc. On these grounds, the permanent destruction-lessness of the Self [is established].
2.30 The self within the body of everyone such as gods etc., must be considered to be eternally imperishable, though the body can be killed. Therefore, all beings from gods to immovable beings, even though they possess different forms, are all uniform and eternal in their nature as described above. The ineality and the perishableness pertain only to the bodies. Therefore, it is not fit for you to feel grief for any of the beings beginning from gods etc., and not merely for Bhisma and such others.
2.30 Because of being partless and eternal, ayam, this dehi, embodied Self; nityam avadhyah, can never be killed, under any condition. That being so, although existing sarvasya dehe, in all bodies, in trees etc., this One cannot be killed on account of Its being allpervasive. Since the indewelling One cannot be killed although the body of everyone of the living beings be killed, tasmat, therefore; tvam, you; na arhasi, ought not; socitum, to grieve; for sarvani bhutani, all (these) beings, for Bhisma and others. Here [i.e. in the earlier verse.] it has been said that, from the standpoint of the supreme Reality, there is no occasion for sorrow or delusion. (This is so) not merely from the standpoint of the supreme Reality, but
2.30 The self in the body, O Arjuna, is eternal and indestructible. This is so in the case of the selves in all bodies. Therefore, it is not fit for you to feet grief for any being.
2.30 O descendant of Bharata, this embodied Self existing in everyone's body can never be killed. Therefore you ought not to grieve for all (these) beings.
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