Bhagavad Gita 4.5-6

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Sri:

Sri Lakshminrisimha Parabrahmane Namaha

Sri Ramanujaya Namaha

Sri Nigamantha Mahadesikaya Namaha

 

SRIMAD BHAGAVAD GITA

- translation by Sri.V.N.Gopala Desikan

 

Chapter IV

slOkA 5

Translation :

KrishnA said : ArjunA , many births have gone of Mine

and of you too. ArjunA (destroyer of foes) , I know

all of them ; you do not know.

 

Commentary :

KrishnA : I have passed through many births earlier.

You ArjunA , have also undergone many births.I know

all of them . But you do not know your previous births.

So all My births are real.

 

slOkA 6

Translation : Although I am unborn and have indestructible

nature and although I am the Lord of all beings; I take

birth out of My own free will, abiding in My own nature.

 

Commentary : I am indeed not born. In other words, I am

not born, due to any past karmAs, like you and other

beings. But I take birth out of My own free will and

desire.

When I, the Lord of all beings , so take births,

I retain My essential nature. I have all My essential

qualities present , like knowledge, valour and so on.

In this way, I take births in the forms of devA, man etc.

Here ' mAyA ' means (the Lord's) wisdom or

knowledge. MAyA does not mean illusion here. So the

Lord take births, out of His own knowledge i.e. out of

His own free will.

 

adiyen,

senthil

 

(Courtesy : Sri Visishtadvaita Research Centre)