Yathora

The Gita · Chapter 15

Bhagavad Gita 15.16

द्वाविमौ पुरुषौ लोके क्षरश्चाक्षर एव च।क्षरः सर्वाणि भूतानि कूटस्थोऽक्षर उच्यते॥

dvāv imau puruṣhau loke kṣharaśh chākṣhara eva cha kṣharaḥ sarvāṇi bhūtāni kūṭa-stho ’kṣhara uchyate

Translation

There are two Energies in this world, the destructible and the indestructible; the destructible is all beings, the unchanging is called the indestructible.

What it means

There are two spirits in the world: the perishable and the imperishable; all beings are the perishable, the unchanging is the imperishable. Sastri (Advaita) names the imperishable as the Lord's Maya-power, the seed of the changing; one tradition's identification, not cross-tradition verified.

Try this today

The two categories: everything that changes, and the changeless amid it.

Something to reflect on

What in my world changes, and what amid it never has?

Read it in Yathora
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Translation by Annie Besant (1905, public domain). The meanings are original to Yathora, drawn from Shankara’s commentary.