Bhagavad Gita 15: Verse 2.23—2.27: Ending Sorrow with Self Knowledge & Acceptance of the Choiceless

A study of the Bhagavad Gita verse-by-verse. In this class, we study verses 2.23-2.27. In these verses, Bhagavan teaches that You, the Atma, are indestructible, eternal, all-pervading, and motionless. You, the Atma, are never objectifiable by the senses or the mind, and ever changeless. Knowing the nature of the Atma to be thus, one has no reason to grieve. Even if we were to suppose that the Atma is mortal, it is born with the body and dies with the body - one has no reason to grieve, because that which is born is certain to die, and that which dies is certain to be reborn. It would then be a choiceless situation, which has to be accepted. Timeline 0:00 - Guru Vandanam 2:08 - Gita Dhyanam 5:39 - Recap 22:18 Verse 2.23 Continued 24:53 - Verse 2.24 अच्छेद्योऽयमदाह्योऽयमक्लेद्योऽशोष्य एव च । नित्यः सर्वगतः स्थाणुरचलोऽयं सनातनः ॥ २-२४॥ 50:57 - Verse 2.25 अव्यक्तोऽयमचिन्त्योऽयमविकार्योऽयमुच्यते । तस्मादेवं विदित्वैनं नानुशोचितुमर्हसि ॥ २-२५॥ 1:03:46 - Verse 2.26 अथ चैनं नित्यजातं नित्यं वा मन्यसे मृतम् । तथापि त्वं महाबाहो नैवं शोचितुमर्हसि ॥ २-२६॥ 1:09:21 - Verse 2.27 जातस्य हि ध्रुवो मृत्युर्ध्रुवं जन्म मृतस्य च । तस्मादपरिहार्येऽर्थे न त्वं शोचितुमर्हसि ॥ २-२७॥ Satyan Chidambaran is a full-time student of Vedanta and Sanskrit. He has been studying Vedanta under his Guru, Śrī Swami Paramarthananda ji, since 2003. A graduate of IIT Madras in Computer Science and a post-graduate from the University of Michigan, Satyan served at a global software firm in various technical leadership roles for 26 years before leaving the industry in 2019 to pursue his Vedanta and Sanskrit studies full-time. @Advaita-Drishti advaitadrishti.org © 2024 Advaita Drishti. All rights reserved. #advaitavedanta #bhagavadgita #upanishads #vedanta #advaita