Satyanarayana Das Babaji ⎹ Bhagavad-Gītā 2.20 ⎹ The Unchanging Experiencer of the Changing Body

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The uniqueness of Vedic scriptures like the Bhagavad-Gītā is that they give us knowledge about the ātmā. The ātmā is the unchanging conscious experiencer of the body, and of the changes the body undergoes, starting with birth and ending with death. The Gītā tells us that the ātmā, which is completely different in nature from ever-changing body and mind, is who you really are.

The six changes the body undergoes are:

1. Jāyate (birth).
2. Asti (existence).
3. Vardhati (growth).
4. Vipariṇāmate (maturation).
5. Apakṣiyate (decay).
6. Nāsyati (destruction, death).

But the ātmā, being completely nonmaterial, is beyond these changes, and therefore unaffected by them.

Bhagavad-Gītā 2.20:

Meaning of each word:

ayam — this [ātmā]; na kadācit — never; jāyate — takes birth; vā — or; mriyate — dies; bhūtvā vā — or having come into being; na bhavitā — it will not become; bhūyaḥ — again; ayam — this [ātmā]; ajaḥ — [is] birthless; nityaḥ — eternal; śāśvataḥ — changeless; purāṇaḥ — [and] primordial; hanyamāne — on the destruction; śarīre — of the body; na hanyate — [the ātmā] is not killed.

Translation:

The self never takes birth, nor does it die, nor having once come into being will it ever be subject to further becoming. It is birthless, eternal, changeless, and primordial. It is not killed when the body is killed.

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