Chapter 2: Sānkhya Yoga – Yoga of Contemplation on Self: Verse 19
य एनं वेत्ति हन्तारं यश्चैनं मन्यते हतम् ।
उभौ तौ न विजानीतो नायं हन्ति न हन्यते ॥
ya enaṃ vetti hantāraṃ yaścainaṃ manyate hatam
ubhau tau na vijānīto nāyaṃ hanti na hanyate – 2.19
Whoever knows this Soul as killer and whoever knows It as killed, both of them do not know the truth. The Soul neither kills nor can be killed.
Chapter 2: Sānkhya Yoga – Yoga of Contemplation on Self - Verse 19
Ma Gurupriya
The difference between the imperishable Soul and the perishable body has been made clear. In the war and the resultant deaths, bodies alone are involved, not the Soul, which dwells in the bodies.
War is orderly for the fighting community. To perceive it as disorderly is wrong. Let bodies fight other bodies and fall dead. The process involves bodies alone, not their animating presence, the ‘I’.
Do not ascribe bodily fighting to the Self, which is distinct from the body. If anyone regards the indestructible ‘I’ as killing or getting killed, it will be to denounce the unborn and unaffected nature of the ‘I’. That will be absolutely wrong, untrue.
The war is righteous for Arjuna. Deluded mind alone views it as not. This is the time for Arjuna to drop the lower view and imbibe the higher one, says Krishna.
