Vers 2.16

नासतो विद्यते भावो नाभावो विद्यते सतः ।

उभयोरपि दृष्टोऽन्तस्त्वनयोस्तत्त्वदर्शिभिः ॥

2.16

Transliteratie

nāsato vidyate bhāvo nābhāvo vidyate sataḥ |

ubhayorapi dṛṣṭo'ntastvanayostattvadarśibhiḥ ||

Door Sanskrit System · Machineconcept · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3

Vertaling

The unreal hath no being; there is non-being of the real; the truth about both has been seen by the knowers of the Truth (or the seers of the Essence).

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Woord voor woord

not
of the unreal
is
being
not
non-being
is
of the real

of both
also
seen
the final truth
indeed
of these
by seers of truth

Door Sanskrit System · Machineconcept · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08

Uitleg

This is one of the most philosophically dense lines in the Gita. What is unreal (asat) never comes into being, and what is real (sat) never stops being. Those who see the truth (tattva) have understood the boundary between the two. Different schools interpret sat and asat differently, as the self and the body, as the unchanging and the changing, or as the one reality and its appearances. In the dialogue, the verse gives a principle: Arjuna should not grieve over what by nature passes, nor fear for what by nature remains.