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श्री भगवानुवाच बहूनि मे व्यतीतानि जन्मानि तव चार्जुन। तान्यहं वेद सर्वाणि न त्वं वेत्थ परन्तप।।4.5।।

śhrī bhagavān uvācha bahūni me vyatītāni janmāni tava chārjuna tānyahaṁ veda sarvāṇi na tvaṁ vettha parantapa

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 4, Verse 5
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
The Blessed Lord said, "Many births of Mine have passed, as well as of thine, O Arjuna; I know them all, but thou knowest not, O Parantapa (scorcher of foes)."

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: Krishna answers that both of them have had many births, he remembers all of them, Arjuna does not, the difference isn't in the number of lives but in the memory and awareness carried through them.

In life: two people can have lived through similarly formative experiences, yet one carries clear lessons forward and the other doesn't retain them.

Teaching: focus less on how much you've been through and more on how consciously you're carrying forward what it taught you.

śhrī-bhagavān uvāchathe Supreme Lord said
bahūnimany
meof mine
vyatītānihave passed
janmānibirths
tavaof yours
chaand
arjunaArjun
tānithem
ahamI
vedaknow
sarvāṇiall
nanot
tvamyou
vetthaknow
parantapaArjun, the scorcher of foes

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
4.5 बहूनि may? मे My? व्यतीतानि have passed away? जन्मानि births? तव thy? च and? अर्जुन O Arjuna? तानि them? अहम् I? वेद know? सर्वाणि all? न not? त्वम् thou? वेत्थ knowest? परन्तप O Parantapa.Commentary You have no intuitional knowledge. The eye of wisdom has not been opened in you on account of your past actions. So your power of vision is limited and therefore you do not know your previous births. But I know them because I am omniscient.