Word meanings
- veda
- knows
- avināśinam
- imperishable
- nityam
- eternal
- yaḥ
- who
- enam
- this
- ajam
- unborn
- avyayam
- immutable
- katham
- how
- saḥ
- that
- puruṣaḥ
- person
- pārtha
- Parth
- kam
- whom
- ghātayati
- causes to be killed
- hanti
- kills
- kam
- whom
Translations
Whoever knows it to be indestructible, eternal, unborn, and inexhaustible, how can that person slay, O Arjuna, or cause to be slain?
He who knows the Spirit to be indestructible, immortal, unborn, and always the same, how should he kill or cause to be killed?
O Partha, he who knows this One as indestructible, eternal, birthless, and undecaying—how can that person kill, or cause to be killed, whom?
हे पृथानन्दन! जो मनुष्य इस शरीरीको अविनाशी, नित्य, जन्मरहित और अव्यय जानता है, वह कैसे किसको मारे और कैसे किसको मरवाये?Commentary
The enlightened sage who knows the immutable and indestructible Self through direct cognition or spiritual Anubhava (experience) cannot do the act of slaying. He cannot cause another to slay also.