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Chapter 2. Contents of the Gita Summarized TEXT 23 nainam chindanti sastrani
SYNONYMS  na--never;
enam--this
soul; chindanti--can cut to pieces; sastrani--all weapons;
na--never; enam--unto this soul; dahati--burns;
pavakah--fire;
na--never; ca--also; enam--unto this soul; kledayanti--moistens;
apah--water; na--never;
sosayati--dries; marutah--wind.
TRANSLATION The soul
can never be cut into pieces by any weapon, nor can he be burned by fire,
nor moistened by water, nor withered by the wind.
PURPORT All kinds of
weapons, swords, flames, rains, tornadoes, etc., are unable to kill the
spirit soul. It appears that there were many kinds of weapons made of earth,
water, air, ether, etc., in addition to the modern weapons of fire. Even
the nuclear weapons of the modern age are classified as fire weapons, but
formerly there were other weapons made of all different types of material
elements. Firearms were counteracted by water weapons, which are now unknown
to modern science. Nor do modern scientists have knowledge of tornado weapons.
Nonetheless, the soul can never be cut into pieces, nor annihilated by
any number of weapons, regardless of scientific devices.
Nor was
it ever possible to cut the individual souls from the original Soul. The
Mayavadi, however, cannot describe how the individual soul evolved from
ignorance and consequently became covered by illusory energy. Because they
are atomic individual souls (sanatana) eternally, they are prone
to be covered by the illusory energy, and thus they become separated from
the association of the Supreme Lord, just as the sparks of the fire, although
one in quality with the fire, are prone to be extinguished when out of
the fire. In the Varaha Purana, the living entities are described
as separated parts and parcels of the Supreme. They are eternally so, according
to the Bhagavad-gita also. So, even after being liberated from illusion,
the living entity remains a separate identity, as is evident from the teachings
of the Lord to Arjuna. Arjuna became liberated by the knowledge received
from Krsna, but he never became one with Krsna.
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