Verse 8.20
परस्तस्मात्तु भावोऽन्योऽव्यक्तोऽव्यक्तात्सनातनः ।
यः स सर्वेषु भूतेषु नश्यत्सु न विनश्यति ॥
Transliteration
parastasmāttu bhāvo'nyo'vyakto'vyaktātsanātanaḥ |
yaḥ sa sarveṣu bhūteṣu naśyatsu na vinaśyati ||
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3
Translation
But verily there exists, higher than this Unmanifested, another unmanifested Eternal, which is not destroyed when all beings are destroyed.
From the owner's sheet · +1 more
But beyond that unmanifest there is another, eternal unmanifest being, which does not perish when all beings perish.
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08 · +1 more
Word by word
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08
Explanation
Krishna now points beyond the cycle. Beyond the unmanifest from which worlds arise, there is another unmanifest reality, eternal, which does not perish when all beings perish. The verse distinguishes two levels of the unmanifest: the subtle source of the changing world, which itself takes part in the cycle, and a higher reality untouched by creation and dissolution. This higher being is the true goal, and the next verse names it.
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08