Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2, Verse - 26

Day in and day out

Atha chainam Nithya Jatam Nithyam va manyase mritam
Tathapi thwam maha baho nainam shochitumarhasi
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Translation: Even if you think that the self is born everyday and dies every day too, oh mighty Armed one, even then it is not proper for you to mourn.
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The one self or consciousness within all of us is immortal. On the contrary, even if you think that it is born everyday and dies everyday, it is not right for you to mourn, oh mighty armed Arjuna, says Sri Krishna. - Swahilya Shambhavi (swahilya.soulmate@gmail.com).

Bhagavad Gita - Chapter 2: Verses 24-25

Cannot be cleaved, know this
Acchedyoyam Adahyoyam Akledyoshoshya Eva Cha
Nithyas Sarvagatah Sthanuhu Achaloyam Sanathanaha
(chapter -2, Verse 24)
Avyakthoyam Achinthyoyam Avikaryoyamuchyathe
Tasmadeva Vidithvainam Nanushochitumarhasi
(chapter -2, Verse 25)

The consciousness cannot be cleaved, it cannot be burnt, cannot be made wet, nor can it be dried. It is eternal and everywhere. It cannot be moved. It is motionless and has always existed and will ever exist. Consciousness is not any manifestation of thought, words or actions. It cannot be conceived by the mind. Sri Krishna says that "it is said that it cannot be modified." He then tells Arjuna, "Therefore, having known that this consciousness is the eternal truth of everything and person, one should not mourn in this manner," (referring to his sorrow over having to kill his cousins, friends and teachers in the war.) - Swahilya Shambhavi (swahilya.soulmate@gmail.com)

Bhagavad Gita - Chapter 2, verse - 23

Nothing can hurt or maul

Nainam Chindanti Shasthrani Nainam Dahati Pavakaha
Nachainam Kledayanthyapaha Nashoshayati Marutaha
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A weapon can pass through a body and damage it. But swirl a knife through space and nothing happens to the space. A lighted fire can burn paper or other material things, but it cannot burn the space in which it burns. Water has the capacity to turn things wet, but it cannot wet the space through which it flows. The air can dry things it comes in contact with. Though it moves in space, it cannot dry it by any chance. The consciousness that we call God is like the space and subtler than that too. Nothing touches it, though it is present in everything. - Swahilya Shambhavi (swahilya.soulmate@gmail.com)

Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2 Verse - 22

Know the Invincible

Veda Vinashinam Nithyam Ya Enam Ajam Avyayam
Katham Sa Purushah Partha Kamghatayati Hanti Kam
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For the one who knows his essential being called consciousness which is indestructible, eternal, unborn and of one contiguous piece, how can such a person kill or be killed.
Sri Krishna is a mastermind here who simply draws from the whole universal truth and philosophy to achieve his aim of getting Arjuna to fight. So verse after verse, he goes into the depths of consciousness and points out to him that every creation is covered by the same consciousness and contains the same consciousness. So there is no difference here between the killer and the killed.

Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2 Verse 17

Indestructible

Avinashi tu tad viddhi Yena Sarvamidam Tatam
Vinashamavyayasyasya Nakaschit kartum Arhati
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Sri Krishna calls the Supreme Reality as Avinashi - that which cannot be destroyed. This indestructible reality pervades through everything. One cannot destroy this unified field which is one whole by any means.
Even as Arjuna is worried about killing another in the war to come, Sri Krishna imparts the Supreme wisdom here that no one can in truth kill or destroy anyone else, because the essence of every being is indestructible and can neither be cut or cleaved.
Take for instance a martial artiste breaking a pile of granite stones with his fist. The essence of the martial artiste's being is space and the stones also are placed in space. Even if the stores are destroyed, nothing ever happens to the space through which this punch is delivered. Sri Krishna goes a step deeper to point out that the essence of ll being is the immutable and indestructible consciousness which can neither be hurt nor killed.
- Swahilya Shambhavi.
(Patanjali Yoga Sutra, Vignana Bhairava Tantra, Tirumandiram, swahilya.soulmate@gmail.com)

The Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2 Verse - 16

The Real is and Unreal is not

Nasato Vidyate Bhavaha Nabhavo Vidyate Sataha

Ubhayorapi Drishtonthaha Twanayos Tathwa Darshibhihi

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The wise people know the difference between the real and the unreal. Everything that one can see, touch, smell, hear, taste and think about is unreal. Unreal means it is of a changing nature and not permanent. The unreal knows no existence. The real - consciousness, awareness has never been non-existent.

The seers of the truth have seen the end of these two, real and unreal.

Now what is the relevance of knowing the real and the unreal. What the mind sees, that it becomes. If it is constantly watching people, emotions, temporary situations, the mind also gets scattered with the changes in all that it sees, as Arjuna's mind was lost in the fleeting moments of the war. On the other hand, if the mind is trained to see the real, permanent existence of consciousness, it is fully available in the present moment and not subject to the vagaries of changing events and situations. Such a mind is fully available for any task to be done in the present moment as it sees the totality and becomes the total in the present. - Swahilya Shambhavi.

(For more see links: Patanjali Yoga Sutra, Vignana Bhairava Tantra, Tirumandiram, swahilya.soulmate@gmail.com)

Bhagavad Gita - Chapter 2: Verse 12

Unborn Undying Existing Forever

Natwevaham Jatu Nasham Nathwam Neme Janadhipaha

Nachaiva Na Bhavishyamaha Sarve Vayamatah Param

Sri Krishna steps up on a philosophical accelerator here to drive deep into the existence of being - consciousness and the impermanence of name and form. He tells Arjuna that there was no time when he did not exist. There was no time when Arjuna did not exist. There was no time when all the rulers lined up in the enemy camp did not exist. Not only in the past, but even from now onwards will none of them cease to exist.

Sri Krishna siezes the momentary lull in Arjuna's moaning to raise him to the highest level of consciousness in just this one verse by saying that the essence of himself, Arjuna and all the kings and others in the army is the one consciousness that had always existed and will continue to exist. So what Arjuna imagines he's going to kill in the battle, is the deathless Supreme Being. He simply had no reason to worry or feel sorry, but just do his duty in the present moment.

(A Gitopadesham painting in a Naperville home at Illinois. The picture of Krishna teaching the Bhagavad Gita to Arjuna in the battlefield of Kurukshethra has inspired many a painter and sculptor to recreate the image.) - Swahilya Shambhavi.

(Patanjali Yoga Sutra, Vignana Bhairava Tantra, Tirumandiram, Maha Shivaratri, Satsang in Chicago, Himalayas, swahilya.soulmate@gmail.com)