amuṣya kṣantum arhasi
amuṣya kṣantum arhasi
The Lord said: Here is Indra who stopped the hundredth horse sacrifice. You should forgive Indra, since he is asking forgiveness from you.
He (amuṣya) is asking forgiveness from you (ātmānam).
|| 4.20.3 ||
sudhiyaḥ sādhavo loke
naradeva narottamāḥ
nābhidruhyanti bhūtebhyo
yarhi nātmā kalevaram
O King! The most intelligent devotees, the best of humans, do not harm other living beings because they know those bodies are not the soul.
This is because (yarhi) the body is not the soul. How is it possible to be violent towards other living entities, since one should not identify them as bodies?
|| 4.20.4-5 ||
puruṣā yadi muhyanti
tvādṛśā deva-māyayā
śrama eva paraṁ jāto
dīrghayā vṛddha-sevayā
ataḥ kāyam imaṁ vidvān
avidyā-kāma-karmabhiḥ
ārabdha iti naivāsmin
pratibuddho 'nuṣajjate
If persons such as you are bewildered by the Lord’s māyā, the only result is labor. The man in knowledge, after realizing that this body arises from actions due to desire arising from ignorance, by long service to wise elders, is not attached to the body.
“But identification with the body arises from illusion, which is created by the Lord’s māyā.” If persons are so bewildered, all their endeavors are useless. Realization arises from removing māyā, by service to elders. The wise know that this body has arisen by actions out of desire, through ignorance.
|| 4.20.6 ||
asaṁsaktaḥ śarīre 'sminn
amunotpādite gṛhe
apatye draviṇe vāpi
kaḥ kuryān mamatāṁ budhaḥ
What wise person, unattached to this body, will have attachment for house, children and wealth, arising from the body?
|| 4.20.7 ||
ekaḥ śuddhaḥ svayaṁ-jyotir
nirguṇo 'sau guṇāśrayaḥ
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