Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada

Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan

Previous verse explains that when we understand that there is a doer beyond the modes or nature we can take shelter of Him and go beyond the modes.

Now Krishna describes further elements in it.

Bg 14.20

guṇān etān atītya trīn
dehī deha-samudbhavān
janma-mṛtyu-jarā-duḥkhair
vimukto ’mṛtam aśnute

Synonyms: 

guṇān — qualities; etān — all these; atītya — transcending; trīn — three; dehī — the embodied; deha — the body; samudbhavān — produced of; janma — of birth; mṛtyu — death; jarā — and old age; duḥkhaiḥ — the distresses; vimuktaḥ — being freed from; amṛtam — nectar; aśnute — he enjoys.

Translation: 

When the embodied being is able to transcend these three modes associated with the material body, he can become free from birth, death, old age and their distresses and can enjoy nectar even in this life.

guṇān etān, all these modes 

atītya trīn, atītya means to go beyond 

trīn is three

When one goes beyond the three modes 

dehī deha-samudbhavān,

dehī, the person who is in the body

deha-samudbhavān, so that which is born in the body

janma-mṛtyu-jarā-duḥkhair

So these miseries are born with the body

dehī deha-samudbhavān

with body these miseries come

and 

janma-mṛtyu-jarā-duḥkhair

the miseries of birth death and old age

vimukto ’mṛtam aśnute

One becomes liberated from them and one attains eternity.

So Krishna is telling here when one goes beyond the three modes one goes beyond the miseries like birth, death and old age that are born with the body and one attain liberation and immortality, ’mṛtam aśnute.

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