Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 6, Verse 43
तत्र तं बुद्धिसंयोगं लभते पौर्वदेहिकम् । यतते च ततो भूयः संसिद्धौ कुरुनन्दन
tatra taṃ buddhisaṃyogaṃ labhate paurvadehikam | yatate ca tato bhūyaḥ saṃsiddhau kurunandana
Translation
There he gains touch with the knowledge that was acquired in the former body and strives more than before for perfection, O son of the Kurus.
— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri
Word meanings
- tatra
- there
- tam
- that
- buddhisaṃyogam
- of Buddhi, the conjunction
- labhate
- obtains
- paurvadehikam
- belonging to the previous body
- yatate
- strives
- ca
- and
- tataḥ
- thence
- bhūyaḥ
- again
- saṃsiddhau
- in perfection
- kurunandana
- of the Kurus, O rejoicer
Śaṅkarācārya's commentary
More than before: with greater vigour than that with which he strove in the former birth.