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Janma

जन्म

नपुंसकलिङ्ग (neutro) · जन् धातु (jan — nascer) + मनिन् प्रत्यय

janma

Metaphysics

AI translation

Birth; beginning of a bodily existence

Janma is the arising of a body-mind from actions accumulated in previous lives (sañcita-karma). In Vedānta's view, ātman is neither born nor dies — janma belongs to the body-mind complex (sthūla+sūkṣma-śarīra). The succession of janmas is saṃsāra. When knowledge burns ignorance, the prārabdha in progress exhausts without new janmas — this is jīvanmukti/videhamukti.

Occurrence in the corpus

॥ २६ ॥ 【भाष्यम्】 अथ इति अभ्युपगमार्थः एनं प्रकृतमात्मानं नित्यजातं लोक प्रसिद्ध्या प्रत्यनेकशरीरोत्पत्ति जातो जात इति मन्यसे तथा प्रतितत्तद्विनाशं नित्यं वा मन्यसे मृतं मृतो मृत इति तथापि तथाभावेऽपि आत्मनि त्वं महाबाहो एवं शोचितुमर्हसि जन्मवतो जन्म नाशवतो नाशश्चेत्येताववश्यम्भाविनाविति

|| 26 || 【bhāṣyam】 atha iti abhyupagamārthaḥ enaṃ prakṛtamātmānaṃ nityajātaṃ loka prasiddhyā pratyanekaśarīrotpatti jāto jāta iti manyase tathā pratitattadvināśaṃ nityaṃ vā manyase mṛtaṃ mṛto mṛta iti tathāpi tathābhāve'pi ātmani tvaṃ mahābāho evaṃ śocitumarhasi janmavato janma nāśavato nāśaścetyetāvavaśyambhāvināviti

Bhagavad Gītā Bhāṣya
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Vishva Vidya. "Janma (जन्म)." Vishva Vidya — Vedanta, January 1, 2026. https://vedanta.com.br/en/glossary/janma.

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