Bhagavad Gita - Class 068 - Chapter 02 Slokas 20-21 - Atma is free from 6 changes & non-instigator

Bhagavad Gita - Class 068 - Chapter 02 Slokas 20-21 - Atma is free from 6 modifications and is not an instigator - Class taken on 29 Oct 2023

Chapter 02 - Sankhya Yoga

Sloka 20 (Contd...) - Atma is free from the 6 modifications

Is this sloka also taken from Katoponishad?
Why has the meter been changed for this sloka?

What are the shad vikaaraha (6-fold changes)?

What does asti mean?
What does Jayate mean?
What does Vardhate mean?
What does viparinamate mean?
What does apakshiyate mean?
What does vinashyati mean?

What does Bhagavan say about atma?

What does na jāyatē mean?
What does na mriyatē mean?

What does na bhūtvā mean?
What does na abhavitā bhūyaḥ mean?

What does ajaḥ mean?
What does nityaḥ mean?
What does śāśvataḥ mean?
What does purāṇaḥ mean?

What does na hanyatē mean?

What does Bhagavan negate when he says "na bhūtvā na abhavitā bhūyaḥ"?
What does Bhagavan negate when he says "na jāyatē"?
What does Bhagavan negate when he says "purāṇaḥ"?
What does Bhagavan negate when he says "na hanyatē"?
What does Bhagavan negate when he says "śāśvataḥ"?
What does Bhagavan negate when he says "na mriyatē"?


Sloka 21 - Atma is neither the doer nor the instigator

What are the 2 types of action?
What does kartaḥ mean?
What does kārayitaḥ mean?

How does Bhagavan explain this principle about atma not being the instigator?
Whom does Bhagavan brin to explain atma lakshana?
Why does Adi Sankara consider this sloka as very significant?

How is this sloka both atma lakshana as well as benefit of atma jnana?

What does the word Vēdāḥ mean here?
What are the 4 characteristics of atma that Bhagavan brings here?
What is the rhetorical / exclamatory statement that Bhagavan uses?

How is that an instigator gets 2 sins for any bad deed?

If atma is the witness principle, then what is karta, bhokta & hetu karta?

What are the 2 stages to recognize that I am the atma?

How do we understand the consciousness principle in the first step?
How does the light and hand analogy help in understanding atma-anatma relation?

On what should we drop the claim of "I"?
How do we claim the Consciousness to be "I"?

What are the different ways of negating the body & mind to be "I"?