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Gita Madhurya -Swami Ramsukhdas
Chapter II
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Why is the soul not killed, O Lord? The soul is neither born nor killed. It is unborn. eternal, everlasting and primeval. It is not killed when the body is slain.(20) What will happen by knowing this? He who knows this soul to be imperishable, eternal and free from birth and decay, how can he cause anyone to be killed or kill anyone?(21) O Lord, if the soul is not killed, then who is killed? O brother, it is the body which is killed. As a man, discarding worn-out clothes, puts on new ones, likewise the embodied soul casting off worn-out bodies enters into others that are new. (22) When the soul enters the new body, is there any difference in it? No, there is no difference because weapons cannot cut it nor can fire burn it; water cannot drench it, nor can wind dry it.(23) Why can't it be cut, burnt, drenched and dried? It can't be cut, burnt, drenched and dried because it is eternal, omnipresent, immovable, constant and everlasting. This soul is unmanifested, unthinkable and immutable. Therefore, knowing it as such, you should not grieve.(24-25) |
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