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नासतो विद्यते भावो नाभावो विद्यते सतः। उभयोरपि दृष्टोऽन्तस्त्वनयोस्तत्त्वदर्शिभिः।।2.16।।

nāsato vidyate bhāvo nābhāvo vidyate sataḥ ubhayorapi dṛiṣhṭo ’nta stvanayos tattva-darśhibhiḥ

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 2, Verse 16
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
The unreal has no being; there is no non-being of the real; the truth about both has been seen by the knowers of the truth (or the seers of the essence).

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: the distinction between what is and isn't real functions as an argument against catastrophizing, most of what alarms us doesn't have the permanence we assume.

In life: our anxieties usually treat temporary setbacks like permanent verdicts.

Teaching: before reacting to a crisis, ask plainly whether this is actually as permanent as it feels, or just loud in the moment.

nano
asataḥof the temporary
vidyatethere is
bhāvaḥis
nano
abhāvaḥcessation
vidyateis
sataḥof the eternal
ubhayoḥof the two
apialso
dṛiṣhṭaḥobserved
antaḥconclusion
tuverily
anayoḥof these
tattvaof the truth
darśhibhiḥby the seers

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
2.16 न not? असतः of the unreal? विद्यते is? भावः being? न not? अभावः nonbeing? विद्यते is? सतः of the real? उभयोः of the two? अपि also? दृष्टः (has been) seen? अन्तः the final truth? तु indeed? अनयोः of these? तत्त्वदर्शिभिः by the knowers of the Truth.Commentary -- The changeless? homogeneous Atman or the Self always exists. It is the only solid Reality. This phenomenal world of names and forms is ever changing. Hence it is unreal. The sage or the Jivanmukta is fully aware that the Self always exists and that this world is like a mirage. Through his Jnanachakshus or the eye of intuition? he directly cognises the Self. This world vanishes for him like the snake in the rope? after it has been seen that only the rope exists. He rejects the names and forms and takes the underlying Essence in all the names and forms? viz.? AstiBhatiPriya or Satchidananda or ExistenceKnowledgeBliss Absolute. Hence he is a Tattvadarshi or a knower of the Truth or the Essence.What is changing must be unreal. What is constant or permanent must be real.