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Chapter 14
Attainment of His Being, as described in the preceding verse and attainment of immortality, described in this verse, are one and the same.
In verses 7/29, 13/8 and 14/20, there is mention only of old age, there is no mention of childhood and youth. Why? The reason is, that a person does not suffer so much, in these two stages, as he suffers in old age, because in old age he becomes feeble and has not much physical power.
At the time of death, also he suffers a lot of afflictions. But, he who rises above the three guns, becomes free from the pain of birth, death and old age forever.
He, who realizes the true nature of the self, is not reborn. During his life he will pass through the stages of old age and death, but these will not give him pain.
A man (the self), by his identification with a body is reborn, and assumes the body's old age and pain etc., in him. The body is evolved, out of the three modes. A transcendental great person, being free from the three modes, becomes free from all the pains, which he bore, because of his assumed identification, with the body.
Therefore, every person should realize his transcendental self, before death. When he transcends the three guns (modes), he is freed from all the sufferings, of old age and death, and he realizes his immortality, and is not reborn.
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