Devanagari
गच्छ कामं मयापृष्टो मयि संन्यस्तकर्मणा ।
जित्वा सुदुर्जयं मृत्युममृतत्वाय मां भज ॥ ३८ ॥
Verse text
gaccha kāmaṁ mayāpṛṣṭo
mayi sannyasta-karmaṇā
jitvā sudurjayaṁ mṛtyum
amṛtatvāya māṁ bhaja
Synonyms
gaccha
—
go
;
kāmam
—
as you wish
;
mayā
—
by Me
;
āpṛṣṭaḥ
—
sanctioned
;
mayi
—
to Me
;
sannyasta
—
completely surrendered
;
karmaṇā
—
with your activities
;
jitvā
—
having conquered
;
sudurjayam
—
insurmountable
;
mṛtyum
—
death
;
amṛtatvāya
—
for eternal life
;
mām
—
unto Me
;
bhaja
—
engage in devotional service .
Translation
Now, being sanctioned by Me, go as you desire, surrendering all your activities to Me. Conquering insurmountable death, worship Me for eternal life.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
You have requested me, so then depart when you please. Having conquered unconquerable death by offering your activities to me, you should worship me for immortality.
Just as you are asking to go, I am asking you to stay. It would be harsh for me to tell you to go, and even if you stay here your desire will be fulfilled. If you are determined to go, then go as you wish. Worship me for immortality. This recalls the śruti text avidyayā mṛtum tīrtvā vidyayāmṛtam aśmute: by karma cross over obstacles, and by knowledge attain eternal life. (Iśopaniṣad) Or, you will not have birth again because of my association, since you will have attained a position as my associate, having birth only in the sense that Rāma and Kṛṣṇa take birth, though they are without death.
Purport
The purpose of Sāṅkhya philosophy is stated herein. If anyone wants real, eternal life, he has to engage himself in devotional service, or Kṛṣṇa consciousness. To become free from birth and death is not an easy task. Birth and death are natural to this material body.
Sudurjayam
means “very, very difficult to overcome.” The modern so-called scientists do not have sufficient means to understand the process of victory over birth and death. Therefore they set aside the question of birth and death; they do not consider it. They simply engage in the problems of the material body, which is transient and sure to end.
Actually, human life is meant for conquering the insurmountable process of birth and death. That can be done as stated here.
Māṁ bhaja:
one must engage in the devotional service of the Lord. In
Bhagavad-gītā
also the Lord says,
man-manā bhava mad-bhaktaḥ:
“Just become My devotee. Just worship Me.” But foolish so-called scholars say that it is not Kṛṣṇa whom we must worship and to whom we must surrender; it is something else. Without Kṛṣṇa’s mercy, therefore, no one can understand the Sāṅkhya philosophy or any philosophy which is especially meant for liberation. Vedic knowledge confirms that one becomes entangled in this material life because of ignorance and that one can become free from material embarrassment by becoming situated in factual knowledge. Sāṅkhya means that factual knowledge by which one can get out of the material entanglement.