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4.9 Knowing my birth and my work Krishna speaks

जन्म कर्म च मे दिव्यमेवं यो वेत्ति तत्त्वतः
त्यक्त्वा देहं पुनर्जन्म नैति मामेति सोऽर्जुन

janma karma cha me divyam evaṁ yo vetti tattvataḥ
tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti so ’rjuna

One who truly knows my birth and my work as they are, on leaving the body is not born again, but comes to me.

Explanation

Knowing the birth and the work as they are.

tattvataḥ — truly, as it is. Such a one, leaving the body, is not born again.

Which makes 4.6's contradiction the thing to be understood rather than a difficulty to be excused. What liberates is grasping how something unborn can act in time.

Word by word

janma
birth
karma
activities
cha
and
me
of mine
divyam
divine
evam
thus
yaḥ
who
vetti
know
tattvataḥ
in truth
tyaktvā
having abandoned
deham
the body
punaḥ
again
janma
birth
na
never
eti
takes
mām
to me
eti
comes
saḥ
he
arjuna
Arjun