Srimad Bhagavadgita-Rahasya OR Karma-Yoga-Sastra -Bal Gangadhar Tilak
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CHAPTER 2.
Translation:-(20) This (Atman) is never born nor does It ever die ; nor is it that It, having (once) existed, will not be again; It is unborn, ever-lasting, immutable, and primeval ; and it is not killed, though the Body is killed. (22) Just as a man, casting off old clothes puts on others and new ones, so the dehi, (that is to say, the Atman, which owns the Body), casting off old bodies, becomes united with others and new bodies. Description:-[This simile of clothes is in ordinary use. In another place in the Mahabharata, the illustration has been given of leaving one house (sala), and going to another house[1] ; and one American writer has expressed the same idea by giving the illustration of putting on a new cover on a book. The same argument is here applied to the Body, which was applied above in the 13th stanza to the states of infancy, youth, and old age. ] Translation:-(23) Weapons do not cut It (that is, the Atman) ; fire does not burn It ; so also does water not moisten It : the wind does not dry It up.
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References And Context
- ↑ San. 15. 56