Speaker: Śrī Kṛṣṇa
परस्तस्मात्तु भावोऽन्योऽव्यक्तोऽव्यक्तात्सनातनः ।
यः स सर्वेषु भूतेषु नश्यत्सु न विनश्यति ॥२०॥
paras tasmāt tu bhāvo 'nyo
'vyakto 'vyaktāt sanātanaḥ
yaḥ sa sarveṣu bhūteṣu
naśyatsu na vinaśyati
Word for word (synonyms)
- paraḥ
- transcendental
- tasmāt
- from that
- tu
- but
- bhāvaḥ
- nature
- anyaḥ
- another
- avyaktaḥ
- unmanifest
- avyaktāt
- from the unmanifest
- sanātanaḥ
- eternal
- yaḥ
- that
- saḥ
- which
- sarveṣu
- all
- bhūteṣu
- manifestation
- naśyatsu
- being annihilated
- na
- never
- vinaśyati
- annihilated
Translation
Yet there is another nature, which is eternal and is transcendental to this manifested and unmanifested matter. It is supreme and is never annihilated. When all in this world is annihilated, that part remains as it is.
Purport
Kṛṣṇa's superior spiritual energy is transcendental and eternal. It is beyond all the changes of material nature, which is manifest and annihilated during the days and nights of Brahmā. Kṛṣṇa's superior energy is completely opposite in quality to material nature. Superior and inferior nature are explained in the Seventh Chapter.
What this verse teaches
One attains Kṛṣṇa’a abode, the eternal and indsutructible spiritual world, by ananya-bhakti and never returns to this world.
Śrīla Prabhupāda lectures 2
- Bhagavad-gītā 8.15–20 1966-10-31 · New York
- Bhagavad-gītā 8.20–22 1966-11-02 · New York
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