Chapter 2
Sāṅkhya (साङ्ख्य)
Kṛṣṇa (कृष्ण) answers. The self is not the body. Action is a right, not a claim on the fruit.
Summary
Chapter 2 is the answer that carries the book. The self is not born and does not die. What dies is the body. For the warrior, his own dharma is the fight in front of him. Action is his, the fruit is not. The last part describes the person of steady insight, who is not shaken by the pairs.
नेपालीमा
अध्याय २ पुस्तकलाई बोकेको जवाफ हो। आत्मा जन्मिँदैन र मर्दैन। मर्ने त शरीर हो। क्षत्रियका लागि आफ्नो धर्म सामुन्नेको लडाइँ हो। कर्म उहाँको हो, फल होइन। अन्तिम भागले स्थिर प्रज्ञ भएको मानिसको वर्णन गर्छ, जसलाई द्वन्द्वले हल्लाउँदैन।
1–10 Sañjaya (सञ्जय), श्रीभगवान् Śrī Bhagavān, Arjuna (अर्जुन) · The friend refuses the collapse
Summary
Kṛṣṇa (कृष्ण) refuses the collapse. This faintness does not belong to a noble man and does not lead to heaven. Arjuna answers that he cannot aim at Bhīṣma (भीष्म) and Droṇa (द्रोण). He asks to be taught, and then falls silent. The friend has become the student. The teaching has not started.
नेपालीमा
कृष्णले भत्किनुलाई अस्वीकार गर्नुहुन्छ। यो मूर्छा आर्यलाई सुहाउँदैन र स्वर्गतिर लैजाँदैन। अर्जुन भीष्म र द्रोणमाथि बाण हान्न सक्दिनँ भनी जवाफ दिन्छन्। उनी सिकाइ माग्छन्, अनि चुप लाग्छन्। मित्र विद्यार्थी भएका छन्। उपदेश भने अझै सुरु भएको छैन।
11–30 श्रीभगवान् Śrī Bhagavān · The self
Summary
The self is not the one who dies. Bodies are said to end. The one who dwells in the body is not born and is not killed. Heat, cold, pleasure, and pain come and go and are to be borne. What is real does not cease. The section is the Sāṅkhya (साङ्ख्य) of this chapter, the seeing, before the fight is given back as duty.
नेपालीमा
आत्मा मर्ने होइन। शरीरको अन्त्य हुन्छ भनिन्छ। शरीरमा बस्ने न जन्मन्छ, न मारिन्छ। तातो, चिसो, सुख र दुःख आउँछन् र जान्छन्, तिनलाई सहनुपर्छ। जे वास्तविक छ, त्यो कहिल्यै नाश हुँदैन। यो खण्ड यस अध्यायको साङ्ख्य हो, अर्थात् दृष्टि, लडाइँ कर्तव्यका रूपमा फर्काइनुभन्दा अघिको।
31–38 श्रीभगवान् Śrī Bhagavān · The fight as his own dharma
Summary
The fight is given back as his own dharma. A warrior's door to heaven, in these verses, is a war that comes unasked. Refusing it from fear is the stain, not the fighting. The section speaks to Arjuna's station. It does not generalise the battlefield into a rule for every hearer.
नेपालीमा
लडाइँ उनकै धर्मका रूपमा फर्काइन्छ। यी श्लोकमा क्षत्रियका लागि स्वर्गको ढोका नमागी आइपरेको युद्ध हो। डरले त्यसलाई अस्वीकार गर्नु दाग हो, लड्नु होइन। यो खण्ड अर्जुनको स्थानसँग बोल्छ। यसले रणभूमिलाई हरेक सुन्नेका लागि नियम बनाउँदैन।
39–53 श्रीभगवान् Śrī Bhagavān · The buddhi, and the right to the act
Summary
The buddhi, and the right to the act. The insight declared now is the yoga of the buddhi. Action is yours. The fruit is not a claim. The pairs are what the buddhi has to stand equal toward. The Vedic promises of fruit are set lower than this steadiness. The section is the line the rest of the poem keeps returning to.
नेपालीमा
बुद्धि र कर्ममाथिको अधिकार। अब भनिएको प्रज्ञा बुद्धियोग हो। कर्म तिम्रो हो। फल दाबी गर्ने कुरा होइन। बुद्धिले द्वन्द्वहरूप्रति समान भएर उभिनुपर्छ। फलका वैदिक प्रतिज्ञा यो स्थिरताभन्दा तल राखिन्छन्। यो खण्ड बाँकी कविताले बारम्बार फर्केर आउने पङ्क्ति हो।
54–72 Arjuna (अर्जुन), श्रीभगवान् Śrī Bhagavān · The man of steady insight
Summary
Arjuna asks for the marks of the person of steady insight. Kṛṣṇa (कृष्ण) answers. That person is not shaken by grief or by longing. The senses withdraw, as a tortoise draws in its limbs. Desire hidden in the senses is what wrecks the knowing. The section ends at night for beings and day for the sage, and at the peace that is not a bargain.
नेपालीमा
अर्जुनले स्थिर प्रज्ञ भएको मानिसका चिह्न सोध्छन्। कृष्णले जवाफ दिनुहुन्छ। त्यस्तो व्यक्ति शोक र लालसाले हल्लिँदैन। कछुवाले अङ्ग भित्र तानेझैँ उसका इन्द्रिय फर्कन्छन्। इन्द्रियमा लुकेको इच्छाले ज्ञानलाई भत्काउँछ। यो खण्ड प्राणीका लागि रात र मुनिका लागि दिन भएको कुरामा, र मोलतोल नभएको शान्तिमा टुङ्गिन्छ।