Chapter 15 — Purushottam Yoga

Verse 16
🕉 Original Sanskrit Shloka

dvāvimau puruşau loke kşaraścakşara eva ch

kşarḥ sarvāņi bhūtāni kūțastho'kşara ucyate

🕉 English Translation

Purusha do tarah ke hain iss shloka mein,

Nashi va avinashi jo hain kahe.

Nashwar yeh prani tu sare samajh,

Hai avinashi jivatma usme bas.

📜 Translation English

In this world perishable and imperishable are the two types of purushas (persons). In it the bodies of beings are called mutable and the soul is called immutable.

💬 Commentary English

See the form of the world by contemplating over it. The form in which the world is seen is not all. Two types of states are clear-perishable and imperishable. Even if there was only the imperishable, attributeless eternal Truth Brahmn, even then there would have been no notion of creation. On the other hand, if there would have been just the perishable and mutable everywhere then too there would have been no existence, support and the existence of creation. That is why the preacher of the Gita's sermon clarifies-

Prior to this also somewhere in the context of higher and lower nature and in the context of field and the knower of the field this state has been described in the Gitaji. What is seen is all perishable. As the imperishable is associated with it that is why the perishable is also active. Real is consciousness; the unreal is not conscient but inert. In it the consciousness of that imperishable essential truth is reflected-

Whatever bodies there are and in whatever the type of births there are, they are all perishable. In itself the body is inert. The states of the body keep changing. Infancy, childhood, adolescence, youth, adult and old age-are the states of the body. None of these state are stable. Every state is perishable! But the soul within is immutable and imperishable. The soul remains as it is. Not just this, at the time of death only the body is destroyed, not the soul. It enters the new body in a similar manner. Here the fact which deserves a thought-whether this all or there is something more than this? See further the high flight of the inspirations from the Gita-

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