त्वं तु राजन् मरिष्येति पशुबुद्धिमिमां जहि । न जात: प्रागभूतोऽद्य देहवत्त्वं न नङ्क्ष्यसि ॥ २ ॥
tvaṁ tu rājan mariṣyeti paśu-buddhim imāṁ jahi na jātaḥ prāg abhūto ’dya deha-vat tvaṁ na naṅkṣyasi
- tvam
- you
- tu
- but
- rājan
- O King
- mariṣye
- I am about to die
- iti
- thus thinking
- paśu-buddhim
- animalistic mentality
- imām
- this
- jahi
- give up
- na
- not
- jātaḥ
- born
- prāk
- previously
- abhūtaḥ
- nonexistent
- adya
- today
- deha-vat
- like the body
- tvam
- you
- na naṅkṣyasi
- will not be destroyed
O King, give up the animalistic mentality of thinking, “I am going to die.” Unlike the body, you have not taken birth. There was not a time in the past when you did not exist, and you are not about to be destroyed.