Chapter 2: Sānkhya Yoga – Yoga of Contemplation on Self: Verse 27
जातस्य हि ध्रुवो मृत्युर्ध्रुवं जन्म मृतस्य च ।
तस्मादपरिहार्येऽर्थे न त्वं शोचितुमर्हसि ॥
jātasya hi dhruvo mṛtyur-dhruvaṃ janma mṛtasya ca
tasmād-aparihārye’rthe na tvaṃ śocitum-arhasi – 2.27
For one born, death is certain. For one died, birth is also sure. Over this unpreventable plight, therefore, you ought not to grieve.
Chapter 2: Sānkhya Yoga – Yoga of Contemplation on Self - Verse 27
Ma Gurupriya
See how emphatically does Krishna speak: “Arjuna, think of the matter in a simple, straightforward manner. Even if the Soul is ceaselessly getting born and equally dying, one should only accept it as its nature, characteristic. It would then mean that death will follow birth and birth will follow death, making both events mutual, complementary. They are like the two sides of a coin. Either cannot but lead to the other. The two fulfil each other.
“Therefore, anyone born has to die, and the dead has to be born. As births are umerous, countless, deaths also will be. Who will get born where, and who will die where, cannot be ascertained.
“Suffice it to say then that birth and death, which are but complements, cannot be tampered with. Allow both to be in their place and role. Where is the question of grieving over either? Discretion demands you remain stable and poised over the unpreventable.”
