| 19. Whoever looks
upon Him as the slayer, and whoever looks upon Him as the slain, both these
know not aright. He slays not, nor is He slain,He who understands the Selfof
whom we are speakingas the agent in the act of slaying, and he who regards
Him as the sufferer in the act of slaying when the body That is to say,
the Lord does not here mean that fighting is absolutely necessary. He has
simply shown that Arjuna had no reason to desist from the fighting in which
he had engaged of himself is slain, neither of these two has understood
the Self aright, for want of discrimination. Those who think I slay or I
am slain when the body is slain, and thus identify the Self with the object
of the consciousness of I, the ego (aham); they do not understand the real
nature of the Self. Being immutable (avikriya). the Self is neither the
agent nor the object of the action of slaying.The Self is immutable How
is the Self immutable ?This is answered by the next verse. |
