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    "devanāgarī": "न जायते म्रियते वा कदाचिन् नायं भूत्वा भविता वा न भूयः | अजो नित्यः शाश्वतो ऽयं पुराणो न हन्यते हन्यमाने शरीरे",
    "iast": "na jāyate mriyate vā kadācin nāyaṃ bhūtvā bhavitā vā na bhūyaḥ | ajo nityaḥ śāśvato 'yaṃ purāṇo na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre",
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          "sense": "इति पुनरुक्तमित्याशङ्क्य नेदं भगवद्वाक्यं किन्तूक्तार्थे सम्मतित्वेन मन्त्रवर्णोऽयमुदाह्रियत इत्याह अत्रे ति",
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          "sense": "इत्यादिनोत्पत्त्यस्तित्वनाशरूपा विकारा अन्ये चात्मनिषिद्धाः",
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          "sense": "स जन्मानन्तरमस्तित्वं भजते नतु",
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      "commentator": "Rāmānujācārya"
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      "english_rendering": "Madhva notes pointedly that this verse carries the weight of a Vedic mantra (mantra-varṇa), directly echoing Kaṭha Upaniṣad, and he uses it to demarcate the jīva from Īśvara: the jīva shares the predicate 'unborn and deathless' with Hari, but only because Hari wills it so, not by any intrinsic identity. The phrase 'nāyaṃ bhūtvā bhavitā' — it was not the case that this self was born to exist and will later cease — is glossed by appeal to śruti-smṛti that Īśvara's own consciousness (avilipta-avabodha-ātmā) is undiminished across space, time, state, and cause; the jīva reflects that deathlessness derivatively, sustained always by Hari's independent will (svatantra-icchā). The body is struck (hanyamāne śarīre) but the self, precisely because it inhabits a form that is Hari's ordered creation, is never struck — the dependent but real distinction of jīva and Brahman is the stable ground of that protection.",
      "commentator": "Madhvācārya"
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      "english_rendering": "Vallabha reads this verse as Kṛṣṇa citing Kaṭha śruti as the authoritative witness (pramāṇa-bhūtā Kāṭaka-śruti) for the point already established — the six modifications (ṣaḍ-vikāra) of birth, existence, and destruction are excluded from ātman root and branch. The summary word aja (unborn) gathers the whole negation: what has never been absent from Kṛṣṇa's presence cannot be 'born into' it, and what dwells in Kṛṣṇa's own bliss (ānanda) as a mode of that bliss cannot be extinguished. In Puṣṭi-mārga the practical force is total: the devotee who truly tastes the ātman's indestructibility ceases to regard even bodily death as a rupture in the flow of Kṛṣṇa's līlā (divine play-grace), because the real self was already and always held within that play.",
      "commentator": "Vallabhācārya"
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      "english_rendering": "Śrīdhara works systematically through all six vikāra (modifications named by Yāska and the Nairu​ktas — birth, existence, growth, transformation, decay, death) and shows how the verse eliminates them one by one: 'na jāyate' cancels birth; 'na mriyate' cancels death; 'nāyaṃ bhūtvā bhavitā' cancels post-birth existence as a separate achievement, because the ātman was already self-existent (svataḥ sad-rūpa) before any body arose; nitya cancels growth; śāśvata (perpetually present) cancels decay; purāṇa cancels transformation, since 'ancient yet ever new' means no new form is ever acquired by accretion. He then gathers the whole into the refrain: the verse was stated to support na hanyate — the self is not struck — and each negation lands back there; the bhakta who holds this truth stands unmoved when the body falls.",
      "commentator": "Śrīdhara Svāmī"
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      "english_rendering": "Madhusūdana frames the verse as supplying the reason (hetu) for the claim in the prior verse — why ātman is neither agent of slaying nor object of slaying — and he lavishes technical care on the Pāṇinian grammar of 'na bhūtvā' to seal the argument against Kātyāyana's objection, citing Śabara's verdict that 'Kātyāyana is a proponent of non-existence' (asad-vādī hi Kātyāyanaḥ). The structure he identifies is: 'na jāyate mriyate vā' as the thesis (pratijñā); 'nāyaṃ bhūtvā bhavitā' as its logical support (upapādana); 'ajo nityaḥ' as the summation (upasaṃhāra). His synthesis of Advaita and bhakti appears in the coda: this utterly changeless (kūṭastha-nitya) ātman, free from even the subtlest upacaya or apacaya, is precisely the ātman that Kṛṣṇa reveals to Arjuna as himself — so knowing the deathlessness of ātman is inseparable from knowing the deathlessness of the one who speaks it.",
      "commentator": "Madhusūdana Sarasvatī"
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    "If the six modifications (ṣaḍ-bhāva-vikāra) — birth, existence, growth, transformation, decay, death — apply only to the body and never to ātman, what exactly is grief grieving over, and is grief itself a vikāra of the body-mind rather than of the self?",
    "The verse echoes Kaṭha Upaniṣad 1.2.18 almost verbatim: does the repetition function as Vedic citation-evidence (pramāṇa) within the Gītā's own argument, and what does it mean for BG 2.20 to be simultaneously scripture and commentary on prior scripture?",
    "Śaṅkara insists that 'purāṇa' (ancient) means the self acquires no new form through accretion (avayava-āgama) — yet bodies clearly grow and shrink. What exactly is the boundary between self and the aggregated body-mind through which growth passes without touching the self?",
    "Rāmānuja reads 'apūrvavad anubhāvya' — the eternal self is always experienced as utterly novel. How can something unchanging be perpetually fresh, and what does this demand of the quality of attention brought to practice?",
    "Madhva limits the jīva's deathlessness to Hari's sustained will: if the self's immortality is dependent (paratantra), in what sense is the soldier on the battlefield truly protected, as opposed to being maintained at Hari's pleasure?",
    "The verse ends with 'hanyamāne śarīre' — 'when the body is being struck.' The present participle is continuous, not a completed event. What does it mean that the self's indestructibility is demonstrated precisely in the middle of destruction, not after it?",
    "All six schools treat immortality as a metaphysical fact about ātman. Does knowing this fact change anything practically, or must it be realized rather than merely understood — and what is the difference between those two?"
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    "advaita": "When you receive a diagnosis, a rejection, or a loss and feel that 'you' have been diminished — pause and ask: which part of you was actually struck? The career, the body, the reputation can all decay; the witness watching all of it has never once grown smaller. Śaṅkara's point is not consolation but precision: locate the one who is aware of the loss, and you will find it untouched. Train that recognition in small moments before you need it in large ones.",
    "viśiṣṭādvaita": "Rāmānuja says the self is 'ancient yet ever freshly experienced.' Take this into your relationships: the person you have known for decades is not a fixed object your mind has fully catalogued. The ātman in them — and in you — is always presenting itself as if for the first time. Bringing genuine curiosity rather than habit-driven familiarity to the people you love is not sentimentality; it is accurate perception of what they actually are.",
    "dvaita": "Madhva's insistence that the jīva's deathlessness is sustained by Hari's will, not the jīva's own power, cuts against the anxiety of self-reliance. When you are exhausted and feel like your inner resources are depleted, his teaching says: the very fact that you are still aware, still here, is not your achievement — it is held. Act with full effort, but release the terror of collapse; the ground is not yours to maintain.",
    "śuddhādvaita": "Vallabha reads bodily death as no rupture in Kṛṣṇa's līlā. Applied practically: the next time a chapter of your life closes — a job ends, a relationship dissolves, a phase of health changes — resist the story that the real story has been interrupted. The self that moves through these chapters is not diminished by their ending. You can grieve the form while remaining steady in the formless continuity that carries you through it.",
    "bhakti": "Śrīdhara walks through six specific modifications and eliminates each one from ātman. This is a usable contemplative exercise: in a moment of reactivity — anger, jealousy, pride — name which of the six is operating in the body-mind (growth of ego, decay of confidence, transformation of mood) and ask whether the one noticing the reaction is itself reacting. The noticing awareness does not grow when you are proud or shrink when you are ashamed. Returning to that repeatedly is the practice.",
    "advaita-bhakti": "Madhusūdana identifies thesis, support, and summation inside a single verse — a structure of argument that is also a structure of realization: first claim, then evidence, then rest. When you face a fear about death — your own or someone else's — try working that same three-step sequence inward: state the claim ('what I am cannot be destroyed'), find your own evidence from direct experience (awareness was present before this body grew strong and will be present as it weakens), then let understanding settle rather than forcing it. The goal is not intellectual victory over fear but the genuine rest that comes when the argument lands all the way down."
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  "primary_meaning": "This self is never born and never dies; it did not spring into being and will not cease. Unborn, eternal, ancient, it is not killed when the body is killed."
}