𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 (𝟮𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱)

 

ॐ 

असतो मा सद्गमय। 

तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय। 

मृत्योर्मा अमृतं गमय।

 ॐ शांतिः शांतिः शांतिः

𝔹𝕙𝕒𝕘𝕧𝕒𝕕𝕘𝕚𝕥𝕒

सर्वमेतदृतं मन्ये यन्मां वदसि केशव |

न हि ते भगवन्व्यक्तिं विदुर्देवा न दानवा: || 10.14||

O Krishna, I totally accept everything You have told me as the Truth. O Lord, neither gods nor the demons can understand Your true personality.

Listening attentively to Shree Krishna’s divine opulence and unlimited supremacy in brief, Arjun’s thirst for hearing more has increased. Wanting Shree Krishna to further describe his glories, he wishes to assure the Lord that he is fully convinced. By using the word yat, Arjun means that whatever Shree Krishna has said to him from the seventh to the ninth chapters, he holds as true. He asserts that all Shree Krishna has stated is factual and not any metaphorical description. He addresses Shree Krishna as Bhagavān, or the Supreme Lord. “Bhagavān is he who possesses these six opulences to the infinite extent—strength, knowledge, beauty, fame, opulence, and renunciation.” The devatās (celestial gods), dānavas (demons), mānavas (human beings) all have finite abilities to understand. They cannot comprehend the full identity of Bhagavān.

𝕍𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕜𝕒𝕔𝕙𝕦𝕕𝕒𝕞𝕒𝕟𝕚

अनादित्वमविद्यायाः कार्यस्यापि तथेष्यते ।

उत्पन्नायां तु विद्यायामाविद्यकमनाद्यपि ॥ 

प्रबोधे स्वप्नवत्सर्वं सहमूलं विनश्यति ।

अनाद्यपीदं नो नित्यं प्रागभाव इव स्फुटम् ॥ 198-199ll

Avidya or Nescience and its effects are likewise considered as beginningless. But with the rise of Vidyā or realisation, the entire effects of Avidya, even though beginningless, are destroyed together with their root – like dreams on waking up from sleep. It is clear that the phenomenal universe, even though without beginning, is not eternal – like previous non-existence. 

 

Avidyā (ignorance) is beginningless, and so are all its effects.

But the moment true knowledge arises, this beginningless ignorance instantly disappears — just as the entire dream world collapses the moment one wakes up.

Whatever is beginningless is not eternal; like prior non-existence, it ends the moment truth is known.