अव्यक्तादीनि भूतानि व्यक्तमध्यानि भारत ।
अव्यक्तनिधनान्येव तत्र का परिदेवना ॥
अव्यक्तनिधनान्येव तत्र का परिदेवना ॥
हिन्दी अनुवाद
हे भारत सभी प्राणी जन्मसे पहले अप्रकट थे और मरनेके बाद अप्रकट हो जायँगे, केवल बीचमें ही प्रकट दीखते हैं । अतः इसमें शोक करनेकी बात ही क्या है ॥
English
All beings are unmanifest before birth and unmanifest after death; they are manifest only in between. Why grieve over that?
श्लोक का अर्थ
All beings are hidden before birth and hidden again after death. Since life is only a brief visible interval, there is no reason for grief.
संदर्भ और टिप्पणी
On the battlefield of Kurukshetra, Arjuna is frozen by grief. Krishna continues his teaching about the body and the true self, saying that all beings are unmanifest before birth and after death, and only briefly visible in between. That makes lamentation over loss misplaced.
आज के संदर्भ में
You are staring at a hospital monitor, waiting for news you cannot control. The shape of a life is changing in front of you. This verse steadies the heart by showing that appearance and disappearance are not the whole story.
सार
Sorrow loosens when you stop treating a passing form as permanent.
शब्दार्थ
अव्यक्तादीनि (unmanifest at the beginning) / भूतानि (beings) / व्यक्तमध्यानि (manifest in the middle) / भारत (O Bharata) / अव्यक्तनिधनान्येव (unmanifest at the end also) / तत्र (there) / का (what) / परिदेवना (lamentation)
यह श्लोक भगवद् गीता अध्याय 2: सांख्य योग — ज्ञान का योग का भाग है, जिसमें कुल 72 श्लोक हैं।
संबंधित विषय: kurukshetra (95 श्लोक)