Chapter 2 -TEXT 23

nainam chindanti sastrani nainam dahati pavakah na cainam kledayanty apo na sosayati marutah

SYNONYMS

na—never; enam—this soul; chindanti—can cut to pieces; sastrani— weapons; na—never; enam—this soul; dahati—burns; pavakah—fire; na— never; ca—also; enam—this soul; kledayanti—moistens; apah—water; na— never; sosayati—dries; marutah—wind.

TRANSLATION

The soul can never be cut to pieces by any weapon, nor burned by fire, nor moistened by water, nor withered by the wind.

PURPORT

All kinds of weapons—swords, flame weapons, rain weapons, tornado weapons, etc.—are unable to kill the spirit soul. It appears that there were many kinds of weapons made of earth, water, air, ether, etc., in addition to the modern weapons of fire. Even the nuclear weapons of the modern age are classified as fire weapons, but formerly there were other weapons made of all different types of material elements. Firearms were counteracted by water weapons, which are now unknown to modern science. Nor do modern scientists have knowledge of tornado weapons. Nonetheless, the soul can never be cut into pieces, nor annihilated by any number of weapons, regardless of scientific devices.

Vasant