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Բիդջոսոր ջորդ  —  Ա Ա Ա Ա
[Ch. 2]
a learned man, but you do not know that one who is learned—one who knows what is body and what is soul—does not lament for any stage of the body, neither in the living nor in the dead condition. As it will be explained in later chapters, it will be clear that knowledge means to know matter and spirit and the controller of both. Arjuna argued that religious principles should be given more importance than politics or sociology, but he did not know that knowledge of matter, soul and the Supreme is even more important than religious formularies. And, because he was lacking in that knowledge, he should not have posed himself as a very learned man. As he did not happen to be a very learned man, he was consequently lamenting for something which was unworthy of lamentation. The body is born and is destined to be vanquished today or tomorrow; therefore the body is not as important as the soul. One who knows this is actually learned, and for him there is no cause for lamentation, regardless of the condition of the material body.
TEXT 12
नत्वेवाहं जातु नासं न त्वं नेमे जनाधिपाः । न चैव नभविष्यामः सर्वे वयमतः परम् ॥१२॥
na tv evāhaṁ jātu nāsaṁ 
    na tvaṁ neme janādhipāḥ 
    na caiva na bhaviṣyāmaḥ 
    sarve vayam ataḥ param
na —never;  tu —but;  eva —certainly;  aham —I;  jātu —become;  na —never;  āsam —existed;  na —it is not so;  tvam —yourself;  na —not;  ime —all these;  janādhipāḥ —kings;  na —never;  ca —also;  eva —certainly;  na —not like that;  bhaviṣyāmaḥ —shall exist;  sarve —all of us;  vayam —we;  ataḥ param —here-after.
TRANSLATION
Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be.
PURPORT
In the  Vedas , in the  Kaṭha Upaniṣad  as well as in the  Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad , it is said that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the maintainer