Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Verses 15-20 from the Eighth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. This series of talks unfolds the highest truths of Vedanta through the study of "The song of God".

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 8, Verse 15:

मामुपेत्य पुनर्जन्म दुःखालयमशाश्वतम् ।

नाप्नुवन्ति महात्मानः संसिद्धिं परमां गताः ॥ 15 ॥

māmupetya punarjanma duḥkhālayamaśāśvatam

nāpnuvanti mahātmānaḥ saṃsiddhiṃ paramāṃ gatāḥ

🔴Having attained Me, these MAHATMAS (great souls) do not again take birth, which is the house of pain and is non-eternal, they having reached the Highest Perfection , MOKSHA.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 8, Verse 16:

आब्रह्मभुवनाल्लोकाः पुनरावर्तिनोऽर्जुन ।

मामुपेत्य तु कौन्तेय पुनर्जन्म न विद्यते ॥ 16 ॥

ābrahmabhuvanāllokāḥ punarāvartino’rjuna

māmupetya tu kaunteya punarjanma na vidyate

🔴Worlds upto the world-of -BRAHMAJI are subject to rebirth O Arjuna; but he who reaches Me O Kaunteya has no birth.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 8, Verse 17:

सहस्रयुगपर्यन्तमहर्यद् ब्रह्मणो विदुः ।

रात्रिं युगसहस्रान्तां तेऽहोरात्रविदो जनाः ॥ 17 ॥

sahasrayugaparyantamaharyad brahmaṇo viduḥ

rātriṃ yugasahasrāntāṃ te’horātravido janāḥ

🔴Those people who know (the length of) the day- of-BRAHMA which ends in a thousand YUGAS (aeons) , and the night which (also) ends in a thousand YUGAS (aeons) , they know day-and-night.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 8, Verse 18:

अव्यक्ताद् व्यक्तयः सर्वाः प्रभवन्त्यहरागमे ।

रात्र्यागमे प्रलीयन्ते तत्रैवाव्यक्तसंज्ञके ॥ 18 ॥

avyaktād vyaktayaḥ sarvāḥ prabhavantyaharāgame

rātryāgame pralīyante tatraivāvyaktasaṃjñake

🔴From the unmanifested all the manifested proceed at the coming of the day ; at the coming of night they dissolve verily in that alone which is called the unmanifest.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 8, Verse 19:

भूतग्रामः स एवायं भूत्वा भूत्वा प्रलीयते ।

रात्र्यागमेऽवशः पार्थ प्रभवत्यहरागमे ॥ 19 ॥

bhūtagrāmaḥ sa evāyaṃ bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate

rātryāgame’vaśaḥ pārtha prabhavatyaharāgame

🔴This same multiple of beings are being born again and again, and are dissolved (into the unmanifest) ; helplessly, O Partha, at the coming of night and they come forth again at the coming of day.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 8, Verse 20:

परस्तस्मात्तु भावोऽन्योऽव्यक्तोऽव्यक्तात्सनातनः ।

यः स सर्वेषु भूतेषु नश्यत्सु न विनश्यति ॥ 20 ॥

parastasmāttu bhāvo’nyo’vyakto’vyaktātsanātanaḥ

yaḥ sa sarveṣu bhūteṣu naśyatsu na vinaśyati

🔴But verily there exists, higher than that unmanifest (AVYAKTA) , another Unmanifested, which is Eternal, which is not destroyed when all beings are destroyed.

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