Bhagavad Gita 2.11
Chapter 2, verse 11 · śrībhagavān uvāca
Meaning
Krishna says: you grieve for those who need no grief, yet you talk as if you were wise. Those who truly see do not mourn the dead, nor the living.
The Sanskrit
अशोच्यानन्वशोचस्त्वं प्रज्ञावादांश्च भाषसे ।
गतासूनगतासूंश्च नानुशोचन्ति पण्डिताः ॥ ११ ॥
aśocyān anvaśocas tvaṃ prajñāvādāṃś ca bhāṣase
gatāsūn agatāsūṃś ca nānuśocanti paṇḍitāḥ
Say it
uh-sho-chyaan un-vuh-sho-chus tvum prug-nyaa-vaa-daamsh chuh bhaa-shuh-say
guh-taa-soon uh-guh-taa-soomsh chuh naa-noo-sho-chun-ti pun-di-taah
Word by word
- aśocyān
- those not to be grieved for
- anvaśocaḥ tvam
- you have grieved / you grieve for
- prajñā-vādān ca
- and words that sound wise
- bhāṣase
- you speak
- gata-asūn
- those whose life-breath has gone (the dead)
- agata-asūn ca
- and those whose life-breath has not gone (the living)
- na anuśocanti
- do not grieve over
- paṇḍitāḥ
- the wise / the learned
Read it in context: verses 2.9–12“I will not fight”, and Krishna begins to teachWith the story so far, commentary, and today's lesson: Wise-sounding words are not the same as seeing clearly
Another translation and audio recitation: verse 2.11 on holy-bhagavad-gita.org.
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