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परस्तस्मात्तु भावोऽन्योऽव्यक्तोऽव्यक्तात्सनातनः। यः स सर्वेषु भूतेषु नश्यत्सु न विनश्यति।।8.20।।

paras tasmāt tu bhāvo ’nyo ’vyakto ’vyaktāt sanātanaḥ yaḥ sa sarveṣhu bhūteṣhu naśhyatsu na vinaśhyati

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 8, Verse 20
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
But verily, there exists higher than this Unmanifested, another Unmanifested Eternal, which is not destroyed even when all beings are destroyed.

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Why: but beyond this unmanifest, there is another unmanifest, eternal existence, which does not perish when all beings perish, naming something that persists even beyond the large cyclical pattern just described.

In life: beneath even your biggest life cycles, career phases, relationship chapters, health seasons, something more essential about who you are tends to persist across all of them.

Teaching: try to identify what in you has actually remained constant across your biggest life cycles and changes so far, that constant thread is worth deliberately strengthening.

paraḥtranscendental
tasmātthan that
tubut
bhāvaḥcreation
anyaḥanother
avyaktaḥunmanifest
avyaktātto the unmanifest
sanātanaḥeternal
yaḥwho
saḥthat
sarveṣhuall
bhūteṣhuin beings
naśhyatsucease to exist
nanever
vinaśhyatiis annihilated

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
8.20 परः higher? तस्मात् than that? तु but? भावः existence? अन्यः another? अव्यक्तः unmanifested? अव्यक्तात् than the unmanifested? सनातनः Eternal? यः who? सः that? सर्वेषु all? भूतेषु beings? नश्यत्सु when destroyed? न not? विनश्यति is destroyed.Commentary Another unmanifested in the ancient or eternal Para Brahman Who is distinct from the Unmanifested (Avyakta or Primordial Nature)? Who is of ite a different nature. It is superior to Hiranyagarbha (the Cosmic Creative Intelligence) and the Unmanifested Nature because It is their cause. It is not destroyed when all the beings from Brahma down to the ants or the blade of grass are destroyed. (Cf.XV.17)