The Perspective.

 ...And The Parlance.

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Chapter 2 Verses 12 to 27

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With special reference to, and the focus on the concept of suicide. 

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First the verses :

अध्याय २ --

आत्मा की निजता और नित्यता :

The Immortal and The Eternal :

आत्मन् / The  Self :

न त्वेवाहं जातु नासं न त्वं नेमे जनाधिपाः।।

न चैव न भविष्यामः सर्वे वयमतः परम्।।१२।।

देहिनोऽस्मिन्यथा देहे कौमारं यौवनं जरा।।

तथा देहान्तरप्राप्तिर्धीरो तत्र न मुह्यति।।१३।।

नित्य-अनित्य, विषयों, विषय-भोगों और संसार की अनित्यता का विवेक और तितिक्षा :

The Unreal, Temporal and transient and the Real Intransient.

मात्रास्पर्शास्तु कौन्तेय शीतोष्णसुखदुःखदाः।।

आगमापायिनोऽनित्या तांस्तितिक्षस्व भारत।।१४।।

यं हि न व्यथयन्त्येते पुरुषं पुरुषर्षभ।।

समदुःखसुखं धीरं सोऽमृतत्वाय कल्पते।।१५।।

सत् और असत:

What Exists and what appears to exist :

नासतो विद्यते भावो नाभावो विद्यते सतः।।

उभयोरपि दृष्टोऽन्तस्त्वनयोस्तत्त्वदर्शिभिः।।१६।।

देह की नश्वरता और देही की नित्यता :

The body is perishable while the one who possesses the body - the consciousness is imperishable.

अविनाशी तु तद्विद्धि येन सर्वमिदं ततम्।।

विनाशमव्ययस्यास्य न कश्चित्कर्तुमर्हति।।१७।।

अन्तवन्त इमे देहा नित्यस्योक्ताः शरीरिणः।। 

अनाशिनोऽप्रमेयस्य तस्माद्युध्यस्व भारत।।१८।।

"पता न होना और पता नहीं है" - यह भी पता न होना :

Not knowing the not-knowing!

In-attention to / of the ignorance! 

य एनं वेत्ति हन्तारं यश्चैनं मन्यते हतम्।।

उभौ तौ न विजानीतो नायं हन्ति न हन्यते।।१९।।

आत्मा का नित्य, सनातन, और शाश्वत स्वरूप :

Indestructible, imperishable, ever-existing Timeless Reality of the Self :

न जायते म्रियते वा कदाचिन्नायं भूत्वाऽभविता वा न भूयः।।

अजो नित्यः शाश्वतोऽयं पुराणो न हन्यते हन्यमाने शरीरे।।२०।।

वेदाविनाशिनं नित्यं य एनमजमव्ययम्।।

कथं स पुरुषः पार्थ कं घातयति हन्ति कम्।।२१।।

Transition from one life to the another / the next : Reincarnation :

वासांसि जीर्णानि यथा विहाय नवानि गृह्णाति नरोऽपराणि।।

तथा शरीराणि विहाय जीर्णान्यन्यानि संयाति नवानि देही।।२२।।

नैनं छिन्दन्ति शस्त्राणि नैनं दहति पावकः।।

न चैनं क्लेदयन्त्यापो न शोषयति मारुतः।।२३।।

अच्छेद्योऽयमदाह्योऽयमक्लेद्योऽशोष्य एव च।।

नित्यः सर्वगतः स्थाणुरचलोऽयं सनातनः।।२४।।

अव्यक्तोऽयमचिन्त्योऽयमविकार्योऽयमुच्यते।।

तस्मादेवं विदित्वैनं नानुशोचितुमर्हसि ।।२५।।

विकल्प  / Alternatively :

अथ चैनं नित्यजातं नित्यं वा मन्यसे मृतम्।।

तथापि त्वं महाबाहो नैव शोचितुमर्हसि।।२५।।

Why? If you take yourself to be this person who was born, has been given a name, and has a history, biography, and is eventually  going to die, then also you need not grieve!

Because :

जातस्य हि ध्रुवो मृत्युर्ध्रुवं जन्म मत्स्य च।।

तस्मादपरिहार्येऽर्थे न त्वं शोचितुमर्हसि।।२७।।

The many "selves" :

There is the body which thinks not, 

There is the mind that appears to think,

There is yet another thought : "I am".

Sometimes we think "I am this body" for example when we need to refer to oneself, -- like when we say :

"I am going,  coming, I am here, I was there, at some other place, I am sick, tired, child, old, young", etc.

And at times we refer to oneself according to the state of the mind - like when we say :

"I am happy, worried, excited, depressed or anxious etc."

Then again we tend to think :

"I am skilled, intellectual, scholar, erudite, knowledgeable, ..."

Obviously I never undergo any change and we do know this reality without any effort whatsoever.

So there is a stream of thoughts that emerge and subside moment to moment.

So the thought : "I was born and shall die," is but a thought like so many different, other and various thoughts.

"I want to die, I will kill myself" - are even so thoughts only that emerge out from and then submerge into the source unknown to them. This source is ever so unborn and immortal  deathless underlying principle, the Reality, - The consciousness which is sentience with reference to the body, thought and the mind.

So the question of suicide or killing oneself is just ridiculous, absurd and senseless.

But if interested, earnest eager to know, one can sure sunk deep and enquire about what us "the death"? Is not it a only a meaningless superficial word!

No one can ever kill oneself, nor be get killed by someone else.

Though, as it appears, we see others die, and overwhelmed by the thought of death, think "I too shall die at some point in time." That is but an assumption only. Neither through the experience, logic, nor the example, we could prove it! Even if we really die, how could we affirm "I am dead"

We simply neither know nor understand what is death, and we just imagine, form a mental image of death, and think "I will die, or will kill myself"

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