TEXT 23

VERZ 23

Devanagari

नैनं छिन्दन्ति शस्त्राणि नैनं दहति पावकः ।
न चैनं क्ल‍ेदयन्त्यापो न शोषयति मारुतः ॥ २३ ॥

Text

Besedilo

nainaṁ chindanti śastrāṇi
nainaṁ dahati pāvakaḥ
na cainaṁ kledayanty āpo
na śoṣayati mārutaḥ

Synonyms

na — never; enam — this soul; chindanti — can cut to pieces; śastrāṇi — weapons; na — never; enam — this soul; dahati — burns; pāvakaḥ — fire; na — never; ca — also; enam — this soul; kledayanti — moistens; āpaḥ — water; na — never; śoṣayati — dries; mārutaḥ — wind.

na – nikoli; enam – to dušo; chindanti – lahko razseka na koščke; śastrāṇi – orožje; na – nikoli; enam – to dušo; dahati – sežge; pāvakaḥ – ogenj; na – nikoli; ca – tudi; enam – to dušo; kledayanti – zmoči; āpaḥ – voda; na – nikoli; śoṣayati – posuši; mārutaḥ – veter.

Translation

The soul can never be cut to pieces by any weapon, nor burned by fire, nor moistened by water, nor withered by the wind.

Duše ni mogoče razsekati z nobenim orožjem. Ogenj je ne more sežgati, voda je ne more zmočiti, veter pa ne izsušiti.

Purport

All kinds of weapons – swords, flame weapons, rain weapons, tornado weapons, 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. Fire weapons 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.

Duše ne more ubiti nobeno orožje – ne meč, ne ognjeno, dežno, orkansko ali kakšno drugo orožje. Poleg sodobnega ognjenega orožja so včasih obstajala tudi številna orožja iz zemlje, vode, zraka, etra itd. Sodobno jedrsko orožje prav tako spada med ognjeno orožje, včasih pa so poznali tudi orožje iz raznih drugih materialnih elementov. Ognjenemu orožju so se zoperstavljali z vodnim orožjem, ki ga sodobna znanost ne pozna. Sodobni znanstveniki ne poznajo niti orkanskega orožja. Duše kljub vsem znanstvenim izumom z nobenim orožjem ni mogoče razsekati na koščke ali uničiti.

The Māyāvādī cannot explain how the individual soul came into existence simply by ignorance and consequently became covered by the illusory energy. Nor was it ever possible to cut the individual souls from the original Supreme Soul; rather, the individual souls are eternally separated parts of the Supreme Soul. Because they are atomic individual souls eternally (sanātana), 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 a fire, although one in quality with the fire, are prone to be extinguished when out of the fire. In the Varāha Purāṇa, the living entities are described as separated parts and parcels of the Supreme. They are eternally so, according to the Bhagavad-gītā 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 Kṛṣṇa, but he never became one with Kṛṣṇa.

Māyāvādīji ne morejo dokazati svoje teorije, po kateri naj bi individualna duša nastala preprosto zaradi nevednosti in naj bi jo zato prekrila slepilna energija. Prav tako ni mogoče, da bi bile individualne duše kdaj odrezane od izvorne Vrhovne Duše, saj so večno Njeni individualni deli. Ker so večno (sanātana) atomske individualne duše, se zlahka zgodi, da jih prekrije slepilna energija in da postanejo zato ločene od Vsevišnjega Gospoda, kakor ognjene iskre, ki so kvalitativno sicer enake ognju, hitro ugasnejo, če so ločene od ognja. V Varāha Purāṇi so živa bitja opisana kot individualni sestavni delci Vsevišnjega. To je njihov večni položaj, kar pravi tudi Bhagavad-gītā. Ko se živo bitje reši iluzije, je še zmeraj individualna oseba, kar je razvidno iz nauka, ki ga je Gospod posredoval Arjuni. Arjuna je s pomočjo znanja, ki ga je dobil od Kṛṣṇe, dosegel osvoboditev, vendar on in Kṛṣṇa nikoli nista postala eno.