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Bhagavad Gita · 15.16 · The Yoga of the Supreme Divine Personality·16 of 20

द्वाविमौ पुरुषौ लोके क्षरश्चाक्षर एव चक्षरः सर्वाणि भूतानि कूटस्थोऽक्षर उच्यते

dvāv imau puruṣhau loke kṣharaśh chākṣhara eva cha

kṣharaḥ sarvāṇi bhūtāni kūṭa-stho ’kṣhara uchyate

Sanskrit recitation

The supreme person · 15.12–15.20 · Teaching

Translation

Two Purushas there are in this world: the perishable and the imperishable. All beings are perishable, and the Kutastha—the unchanging—is called the imperishable.

Meaning

Now the Lord describes the three aspects of the divine existence. One is the individual soul called the perishable, the second is the imperishable or the Maya Sakti of the Lord and the third is the Purushottama or the Supreme Being.The perishable comprises the whole world of changing forms. From Brahma down to the tiny blade of grass, all movable and immovable objects, all that can be thought of by the mind, all that is made up of the five elements, all that is changing, all that has names and forms, all that appears to the naked eye and what is described as the body and the modifications of the field, in the thirteenth chapter, are Kshara or the perishable. Kshara is the changing one. It is the everchanging form of matter which is inert or insentient. Akshara is the changeless.In Samsara there are two categories arranged in two separate groups of beings, called Purushas, as they are the limiting adjuncts of the Purusha. Maya Sakti, the illusory power of the Lord, is the seed from which the perishable being takes its birth. It is the seat of all the latent impressions of desires, actions, etc., of various perishable creatures. Maya Sakti is the Akshara Purusha. The unmanifest condition is generally described as deep ignorance or sleep for there is neither consciousness nor unconsciousness. It is only a potential state

After Swami Sivananda

The supreme person· 15.12–15.20

Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.

Word-by-word
cha
and
eva
even
dvau
two
imau
these
loke
in creation
uchyate
is said
bhūtāni
beings
puruṣhau
beings
sarvāṇi
all
kṣharaḥ
the perishable
akṣharaḥ
the imperishable
kūṭa-sthaḥ
the liberated

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