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तत्र तं बुद्धिसंयोगं लभते पौर्वदेहिकम्। यतते च ततो भूयः संसिद्धौ कुरुनन्दन।।6.43।।

tatra taṁ buddhi-sanyogaṁ labhate paurva-dehikam yatate cha tato bhūyaḥ sansiddhau kuru-nandana

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 6, Verse 43
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
Then he comes into contact with the knowledge acquired in his former body and strives even more for perfection, O Arjuna.

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: there, one regains the understanding developed in the previous life, and strives further from that point toward perfection, describing a kind of carried-forward progress rather than starting entirely from zero again.

In life: skills and understanding you've built once tend to come back faster the second time you return to them, even after a long gap.

Teaching: if you're returning to a practice or skill you'd previously abandoned, trust that some of the earlier progress is still there beneath the surface, waiting to be reactivated rather than rebuilt from scratch.

tatrathere
tamthat
buddhi-sanyogamreawaken their wisdom
labhateobtains
paurva-dehikamfrom the previous lives
yatatestrives
chaand
tataḥthereafter
bhūyaḥagain
sansiddhaufor perfection
kuru-nandanaArjun, descendant of the Kurus

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
6.43 तत्र there? तम् that? बुद्धिसंयोगम् union with knowledge? लभते obtains? पौर्वदेहिकम् acired in his fomer body? यतते strives? च and? ततः than that? भूयः more? संसिद्धौ for perfection? कुरुनन्दन O son of the Kurus.Commentary When he takes a human body again in this world his previous exertions and practice in the path of Yoga are not wasted. They bear full fruit now? and hasten his moral and spiritual evolution.Our thoughts and actions are left in our subconscious minds in the form of subtle Samskaras or impressions. Our experiences in the shape of Samskaras? habits and tendencies are also stored up in our subconscious mind. These Samskaras of the past birth are revivified and reenergised in the next birth. The Samskaras of Yogic practices and meditation and the Yogic tendencies will compel the spiritual aspirant to strive with greater vigour than that with which he attempted in the former birth. He will endeavour more strenuously to get more spiritual experiences and to attain to higher planes of realisation than those acired in his previous birth.