Chapter 2: Sānkhya Yoga – Yoga of Contemplation on Self: Verse 12
न त्वेवाहं जातु नासं न त्वं नेमे जनाधिपा: ।
न चैव न भविष्याम: सर्वे वयमत: परम् ॥
na tvevāhaṃ jātu nāsaṃ na tvaṃ neme janādhipā:
na caiva na bhaviṣyāma: sarve vayam-ata: param – 2.12
There was no time when I was not, you were not, or these kings were not. Nor shall all of us ever cease to be.
Chapter 2: Sānkhya Yoga – Yoga of Contemplation on Self - Verse 12
Ma Gurupriya
Krishna imbues the true identity of man. Everyone is ‘existence’, which cannot be otherwise. Either you are for ever, or you are not at all. Existence-cum-non-existence cannot be. A thing does not change its original nature.
Krishna points: “Hear Me well. There was no time when I was not. This is true of you as well as these venerable persons. As now, we were present earlier, we will also be in future. None will ever be absent. To be present means to be ever so. Existence is unbroken.”
Everyone says ‘I am’. What does ‘I’ denote? Not the body,mind, intellect or ego. For, they are all ‘mine’. ‘Mine’ cannot be ‘I’, the Subject. Whatever is ‘mine’ is an object.
‘Am’ denotes existence, presence. What exists is the ‘I’, not the body, the object, a ‘mine’. Discern the difference by truthful introspection. This is S¡´khya, Upanishadvidy¡, the Soul-knowledge, gained only by repeated introspection. Everyone says ‘I’, but none reflects upon it tenaciously!
