Bhagavad Gita Bhashya (Sri Madhvacharya) 2.20
Bhagavad Gita Bhashya (Sri Madhvacharya) 2.20 · 2 · Verse 20
Sanskrit Original
।।2.20।।अत्र मन्त्रवर्णोऽप्यस्तीत्याह न जायत इति। नचेश्वरज्ञानवद्भूत्वा भविता। तद्धि तदैक्षत छां.उ.6।2।3देशतः कालतो योऽसाववस्थातः स्वतोऽन्यतः। अविलुप्तावबोधात्मा इत्यादिश्रुतिस्मृतिसिद्धम्। कुतः अजादिलक्षणेश्वरसरूपत्वात्। शाश्वतः सदेकरूपः। पुरं देहमणतीति पुराणः। तथापि न हन्यते हन्यमानेऽपि देहे।
Here the word ‘mantra‑letter’ is also present: ‘He does not take birth.’ Nor does the Lord, like one who merely attains knowledge, become born. This is corroborated by scriptural statements about time and circumstance: from place and time and condition this state arises; the undiminished one is the conscious self, etc., established by śruti and smṛti. Why? Because the Lord is characteristically unbegun and sovereign. He is eternally of one form. The Purāṇa says formerly He wore a body. Even so, he is not destroyed when the body is destroyed.