बहूनि मे व्यतीतानि जन्मानि तव चार्जुन।तान्यहं वेद सर्वाणि न त्वं वेत्थ परन्तप॥
bahūni me vyatītāni janmāni tava cārjunatānyahaṃ veda sarvāṇi na tvaṃ vettha parantapa
शब्दार्थ
व्याख्या अभी अंग्रेज़ी में उपलब्ध है। हिन्दी व्याख्या एक-एक अध्याय करके जोड़ी जा रही है।
श्लोक कहता है
Krishna said: Many births have gone past for me, Arjuna, and for you. I know all of them. You do not.
सरल शब्दों में
The answer starts with a symmetry and ends with a difference.
You have had many births too, he says. The strange part is not that Krishna has a past. It is that Arjuna has one.
And then the line that separates them: tāni ahaṁ veda sarvāṇi, na tvaṁ vettha — I know them all. You do not.
आपने इसे कहाँ महसूस किया है
Someone tells you about the year you were two. They remember it completely and you were entirely there for it. Both facts are true and only one of you was keeping records.
और गहराई में
The symmetry is the generous part of this verse and the asymmetry is the point.
Both have many births behind them, so the difference between Krishna and Arjuna is not that one of them has a longer story. It is memory. One carries it across; the other does not.
That is the Gita's account of what separates the divine from the embodied here — not power, not distance, but continuity of awareness. The forgetting is what makes a birth feel like a beginning.
It also quietly reframes Chapter 2. The argument there was that the self does not end. This verse adds that it also does not remember, which is why the argument had to be made at all. If we carried it over, nobody would need convincing.
And there is something kind in tava ca — and yours. Krishna includes Arjuna in the same long history before drawing the distinction. Whatever is being claimed here, it is not that Arjuna is a different order of thing.