Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 4, Verse 9
जन्म कर्म च मे दिव्यमेवं यो वेत्ति तत्त्वतः । त्यक्त्वा देहं पुनर्जन्म नैति मामेति सोऽर्जुन
janma karma ca me divyamevaṃ yo vetti tattvataḥ | tyaktvā dehaṃ punarjanma naiti māmeti so'rjuna
Translation
Whoso knows thus My divine birth and action in truth is not born again on leaving this body; he comes to Me, O Arjuna.
— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri
Word meanings
- janma
- birth
- karma
- action
- ca
- and
- me
- my
- divyam
- divine
- evam
- thus
- yaḥ
- who
- vetti
- knows
- tattvataḥ
- from (in) reality
- tyaktvā
- having abandoned
- deham
- the body
- punarjanma
- again, to birth
- na
- not
- eti
- comes
- mām
- to me
- eti
- comes
- saḥ
- he
- arjuna
- O Arjuna
Śaṅkarācārya's commentary
My birth is an illusion (Māyā). It is Divine, peculiar to Īśvara, not of ordinary nature (aprākṛta). "He comes to Me": He is liberated.