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Brahman Aatmaa Nityo Avyayah Shuddha Sanskrit Text with English Translation

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आत्मा नित्योऽव्ययः शुद्ध Aatmaa Nityo Avyayah Shuddha जन्माद्याः षडिमे भावा दृष्टा देहस्य नात्मनः ।फलानामिव वृक्षस्य कालेनेश्वरमूर्तिना ॥ ७.७.१८ ॥Janma-[A]adyaah Ssadd-Ime Bhaavaa Drssttaa Dehasya Na-[A]atmanah |Phalaanaam-Iva Vrkssasya Kaalene[a-I]shvara-Muurtinaa || SB 7.7.18 || Meaning:(Prahlada telling his companions in the school of Shukracharya) आत्मा नित्योऽव्ययः शुद्ध एकः क्षेत्रज्ञ आश्रयः ।अविक्रियः स्वदृग् हेतुर्व्यापकोऽसङ्‌‌ग्यनावृतः ॥ ७.७.१९ ॥Aatmaa Nityo[ah-A]vyayah Shuddha Ekah Kssetrajnya Aashrayah |Avikriyah Svadrg Hetur-Vyaapako-[A]sanggy[i]-Anaavrtah || SB 7.7.19 || Meaning:SB 7.7.19 - 1 and SB 7.7.19 - 2: Aatmaa is:[1] [Nitya] (Eternal)[2] [Avyaya] (Undecaying)[3] [Shuddha] (Pure)[4] [Eka] (One without a second)[5] [Kshetragna] (Knower of the Kshetra of...

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आत्मा नित्योऽव्ययः शुद्ध

Aatmaa Nityo Avyayah Shuddha

जन्माद्याः षडिमे भावा दृष्टा देहस्य नात्मनः ।
फलानामिव वृक्षस्य कालेनेश्वरमूर्तिना ॥ ७.७.१८ ॥
Janma-[A]adyaah Ssadd-Ime Bhaavaa Drssttaa Dehasya Na-[A]atmanah |
Phalaanaam-Iva Vrkssasya Kaalene[a-I]shvara-Muurtinaa || SB 7.7.18 ||

Meaning:
(Prahlada telling his companions in the school of Shukracharya)

आत्मा नित्योऽव्ययः शुद्ध एकः क्षेत्रज्ञ आश्रयः ।
अविक्रियः स्वदृग् हेतुर्व्यापकोऽसङ्‌‌ग्यनावृतः ॥ ७.७.१९ ॥
Aatmaa Nityo[ah-A]vyayah Shuddha Ekah Kssetrajnya Aashrayah |
Avikriyah Svadrg Hetur-Vyaapako-[A]sanggy[i]-Anaavrtah || SB 7.7.19 ||

Meaning:
SB 7.7.19 – 1 and SB 7.7.19 – 2: Aatmaa is:
[1] [Nitya] (Eternal)
[2] [Avyaya] (Undecaying)
[3] [Shuddha] (Pure)
[4] [Eka] (One without a second)
[5] [Kshetragna] (Knower of the Kshetra of Body-Mind)
[6] [Aashraya] (Foundation and Support of everything)
[7] [Avikriya] (Unchanging)
[8] [Svadrik] (Self-Aware)
[9] [Hetu] (Cause of everything)
[10] [Vyapaka] (All-Pervading)
[11] [Asangi] (Unattached)

एतैर्द्वादशभिर्विद्वानात्मनो लक्षणैः परैः ।
अहं ममेत्यसद्भ‍ावं देहादौ मोहजं त्यजेत् ॥ ७.७.२० ॥
Etair-Dvaadashabhir-Vidvaan-Aatmano Lakssannaih Paraih |
Aham Mame[a-I]ty[i]-Asad-Bhaaavam Deha-Adau Mohajam Tyajet || SB 7.7.20 ||

Meaning:
SB 7.7.20 – 1: By (meditating on) these twelve characteristics of Aatmaa, which are transcendental (i.e. describes the transcendental plane beyond Body-Mind complex); a Vidvan (Learned and Wise person) …
SB 7.7.20 – 2: … should give up the false feeling of I and mine (i.e. feeling of attachment) in relation to Body etc. (i.e. Body and its worldly associations), which are born of delusion.

स्वर्णं यथा ग्रावसु हेमकारः क्षेत्रेषु योगैस्तदभिज्ञ आप्नुयात् ।
क्षेत्रेषु देहेषु तथात्मयोगैरध्यात्मविद् ब्रह्मगतिं लभेत ॥ ७.७.२१ ॥
Svarnnam Yathaa Graavasu Hemakaarah Kssetressu Yogais-Tad-Abhijnya Aapnuyaat |
Kssetressu Dehessu Tathaa-[Aa]tma-Yogair-Adhyaatma-Vid Brahma-Gatim Labheta || SB 7.7.21 ||

SB 7.7.21 – 1: As a Hemakara (Goldsmith, here Gold-extractor) obtains Gold (hidden) within the Field (Kshetra) of Stones, by means of Yoga (i.e. Connection) appropriate to that Field, through his expert knowledge,
SB 7.7.21 – 2: Similarly, an Adhyatma-vid (knower of Spiritual Science) can obtain the transcendental perception of Brahman (Supreme Consciousness), within the Field (Kshetra) of Body (Body-Mind complex) through Aatma-Yoga (Yoga of Aatmaa).

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