Verset 2.12

न त्वेवाहं जातु नासं न त्वं नेमे जनाधिपाः ।

न चैव न भविष्यामः सर्वे वयमतः परम् ॥

2.12

Translittération

na tvevāhaṃ jātu nāsaṃ na tvaṃ neme janādhipāḥ |

na caiva na bhaviṣyāmaḥ sarve vayamataḥ param ||

Par Sanskrit System · Brouillon automatique · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3

Traduction

Nor at any time indeed was I not, nor thou, nor these rulers of men, nor verily shall we ever cease to be hereafter.

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Mot à mot

not
indeed
ever
I
at any time
not
was
nor
you
nor
these
kings

not
and
indeed
not
shall be
all
we
from now
onward

Par Sanskrit System · Brouillon automatique · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08

Explication

Krishna declares that neither he, nor Arjuna, nor the assembled kings ever began to exist, and none will cease to exist. The verse uses plural forms, which some traditions read as affirming many eternal selves and others read as speaking from the ordinary viewpoint before pointing to a single reality. Either way, the point in the dialogue is the same: the people Arjuna fears to kill are not reduced to their bodies. Their existence extends before and beyond this battle, so death cannot be the absolute loss Arjuna imagines.